Alexander Graf Lambsdorff

Alexander Sebastian Léonce of the Wenge Graf Lambsdorff ( born November 5, 1966 in Cologne ) is a German politician ( FDP). Since 2001, he serves on the national board of his party, he has been since the 2004 European elections as Member of Parliament and Chairman of the FDP group there. He is the leading candidate of his party for the European elections in 2014.

Life

Origin and family

Alexander Graf Lambsdorff comes from the Uradelsgeschlecht Lambsdorff and is the son of the Ambassador Hagen Graf Lambsdorff and a nephew of the former Federal Minister Otto Graf Lambsdorff. He is married and has two children.

Study and career

His school days spent Graf Lambsdorff in Hamburg, Brussels and Bonn and graduated from high school in 1985, at Aloisiuskolleg in Bad Godesberg. From 1985 to 1987 he trained as a reserve officer in the armored reconnaissance. In 1987, he joined the FDP, where he belongs to the district association Bonn.

After undergraduate studies in Bonn, he continued his studies at Georgetown University in Washington, DC as a Fulbright scholar continued. There he earned his Master in Modern European History in 1993 with a thesis on the cooperation of fascist groups in Europe in the 1920s. The Master of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, he acquired the same year, with a focus on trade and financial issues.

After graduating, he completed internships at the consulting firm McKinsey and the European Commission. For the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, he worked in 1994/95 on a project for local self-government in Tallinn, Estonia. From 1995 he was trained as a diplomat and was from 1997 the Planning Staff of the Federal Foreign Office operates. 1998/99 he was the office manager at Klaus Kinkel, the German Bundestag. From 2000 to 2003 Graf Lambsdorff worked in the press office of the German Embassy in Washington, DC. Starting in summer 2003, he was in the political department of the Foreign Office worked and country manager for Russia.

In addition to his professional activities held Graf Lambsdorff various party offices of the FDP at local, district and regional level. In May 2000, he ran unsuccessfully for the Bonn FDP for the Landtag of North Rhine -Westphalia. In the same year he teamed up with Guido Westerwelle internet Provincial Association of FDP ( fdp -lv -net ), which he chaired until 2005. He was also vice chairman of the Federal Advisory Committee on International Politics and responsible as Head of the European Affairs Committee of the BFA for the European political program of the FDP. He was a member of the FDP Federal Board 2001. In 2006, he was the initiator and founding member of the German European Security Association, whose board he is today.

Member of the European Parliament

In the 2004 European elections Graf Lambsdorff was elected to the European Parliament and then gave his place at the Foreign Office on. In Parliament, like all FDP members of the newly formed Alliance of Liberals and Democrats, he joined for Europe ( ALDE). He was also Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection and substitute member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and in the Subcommittee on Security and Defence. He was a member of the European Parliament delegation for relations with the United States and deputy member of the Delegation for relations with Japan, and Deputy Chairman of the FDP delegation in the European Parliament. Graf Lambsdorff, head of the EU election observation missions in 2007 in Kenya, Bangladesh, 2008 and 2010 in Guinea.

In the European elections in Germany in 2009 he was re-elected at # 2 on the list behind FDP Silvana Koch -Mehrin. He was then First Deputy Chairman of the ALDE Group and member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and substitute member of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence. He is also a member of the delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China and a deputy in the delegations to the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC ) EU and Turkey and in Joint Parliamentary Assembly ACP - EU.

Following the resignation of Silvana Koch -Mehrin from their positions as FDP delegation, and as Vice President of the European Parliament Graf Lambsdorff announced his intention to stand as her successor in these offices. In fact, he was elected the new head of the delegation, however, this office in 2012 to pass to Alexander Alvaro under an agreement. As part of the criticism of the conduct of Foreign Minister Westerwelle in Libya conflict Graf Lambsdorff was touted as his successor.

Graf Lambsdorff, a member of the European Union Parliamentarians European Parliament. He is also a founding member of the German - Turkish Foundation ( DTS) in Hamburg and the Atlantic Initiative, a Member Association of the Federation of German -American Clubs ( VDAC ).

On January 19, 2014, he was elected to the European Congress for top candidates of FDP in the European elections in Germany 2014.

Writings

  • Transatlantic Relations after EMU: The Maastricht Debate 1992 /3 System.
  • Barriers to Trade and Investment in the U.S.. , 1994.
  • The Future of Transatlantic Relations. In 1999.
  • A Constitution for Europe. 2003rd (PDF file, 1.55 MB)
  • Europe's memory. 2004th ( PDF, 8 KB)
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