Wolfgang Kubicki

Wolfgang Kubicki
Member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein
Assumed office
5 May 1992
Member of the Bundestag
In office
20 December 1990  2 August 1992
In office
17 October 2002  9 December 2002
Constituency Schleswig-Holstein List
Personal details
Born (1952-03-03) March 3, 1952
Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany
Political party FDP

Wolfgang Kubicki (born 3 March 1952 in Braunschweig) is a German politician. He is vice chairman of the FDP in Germany since December 2013. From 1992 to 1993 and since 1996 he is faction leader of the FDP in the Landtag, the parliament of Schleswig-Holstein.

Early life and education

After high school diploma in 1970 in Braunschweig Kubicki studied economics at the University of Kiel, where Peer Steinbrück was among his fellow students.[1] He graduated in 1975. After that he worked for a consulting company and from 1978 in a Steuerberater ("tax advisor") office. From 1981 to 1983 he worked as a researcher for the FDP in the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag. He finished a second degree in law, completed while working, at the University of Kiel in 1982 with the first state examination. In 1985 he completed the second state examination and works as a lawyer since.

Political career

Kubicki has been a member of the FDP party since 1971. In 1975 he became chairman of the former FDP youth organisation of Jungdemokraten in Schleswig-Holstein, 1976 he was elected as member of the board of FDP Schleswig-Holstein, later vice chairman until he was elected chairman in 1989. In 1993 he resigned because of a scandal about a waste disposal site, Deponie Schönberg.

Kubicki was MP of the German Bundestag from 1990 to 2 August 1992, when he resigned from the mandate and again from October to 9 December 2002. In May 1992 he was elected MP of the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag and was immediately elected leader of the FDP parliamentary group. In 1992, 2000, 2005, 2009 und 2012 he was leading candidate for the FDP in the Schleswig Holstein state elections. While being in office as state chairman of the FDP and again since 1997 Kubicki is member of the federal executive board of the FDP party in Germany. In 2013 he was elected vice chairman of the FDP.

Kubicki was an FDP delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 1999, 2004, 2009, 2010 and 2012.

Other activities

References

  1. Kubicki flirtet mit Steinbrück, n-tv, in German
  2. Team Intensatec Group.
  3. Wolfgang Kubicki Landtag Schleswig-Holstein.
Party political offices
Preceded by
Jens Ruge
Chairman of the FDP Schleswig-Holstein
1989 – 1993
Succeeded by
Jürgen Koppelin
Preceded by
Wolf-Dieter Zumpfort
Parliamentary Leader of the FDP Schleswig-Holstein
1992 – 1993
Succeeded by
Ekkehard Klug
Preceded by
Ekkehard Klug
Parliamentary Leader of the FDP Schleswig-Holstein
1996 – present
Incumbent
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