Jürgen Hardt

Jürgen Hardt (* May 30, 1963 in Hofheim am Taunus ) is a German politician ( CDU).

Life and career

After graduating from high school in 1982 in Königstein im Taunus Hardt was trained in the army to the navy officer and is now Lieutenant of the reserve. After a total of four years in the Navy, he earned a degree in economics in Heidelberg and Cologne, where he graduated in 1993 with a degree in economics.

From 1992 to 1998 Hardt worked in the CDU Federal office as head of Social Policy, then as an office manager at the General Secretary Peter Hintze and then to 2001 as a consultant for European policy for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group.

The last eight years before his election to the German Bundestag, Hardt was a senior executive at Wuppertal Vorwerk family enterprise, most recently as head of corporate communications.

Hardt is Protestant, married and has one daughter.

Party

Hardt joined the CDU in 1981 in a. From 1987 to 1989 he was National Chairman of the ring of Christian Democratic Students. From 2004 to 2009 he was a member of the Council of the city of Wuppertal. Since 2003 he has been chairman of the CDU district Wuppertal since 2005 and Deputy Chairman of the CDU district Bergisch land.

Member of Parliament

Since 2009, Hardt is a member of the German Bundestag. Here he joined the Defence Committee, the Committee on European Union Affairs and the Committee of Inquiry to investigate the events surrounding the raid in Kunduz.

Jürgen Hardt is a directly elected member of the Bundestag constituency Solingen - Wuppertal drafted II in the Bundestag - Remscheid. In the 2009 federal election he reached 39% of the primary vote and sat down with it, inter alia, against the previous direct candidate of the SPD, Jürgen Kucharczyk, by.

Memberships

Hardt is a member of the European Union Parliamentarians German Bundestag and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.