Oliver Luksic

Oliver Luksic ( born October 9, 1979 in Saarbrücken ) is a German politician ( FDP). Many years he was Chairman of the Young Liberals Saar and has since January 8, 2011 state chairman of the Saar liberals. In 2009 he was elected for the FDP in the Bundestag.

Luksic is Protestant, married and has one daughter.

Education and work

After graduating from the German - French high school Saarbrücken in 2000 and his community service Luksic studied political science and economics at the Grande école IEP in Paris and European Studies at King's College London. This He finished his studies with a Master 's degree. Since 2006 he has been working as a freelance business consultant, particularly in the area of ​​internationalization of SMEs operate.

Career in the FDP

Oliver Luksic occurred in 2000, the FDP and the Young Liberals. Since then he has held various positions within the party. So Luksic was elected in 2002 to the national chairman of the Young Liberals ( JuLis ) Saar. Since 2002 he leads the FDP local chapter of his home town Heusweiler and there is since 2004 leader of the FDP fraction council. On June 13, 2008 Oliver Luksic was elected deputy state chairman of the FDP Saar.

On the Country Representative Assembly of the Saarland FDP for the parliamentary elections in 2009, 6 December 2008 Luksic was elected top candidate on the national list. He went to as a direct candidate for his parliamentary constituency 298 ( St. Wendel ). In the federal election on September 27, 2009 Oliver Luksic was chosen over the national list of the FDP Saar in the German Bundestag. He was a regular member of the Committee on the Affairs of the European Union and the Committee on Transport, Building and Urban Development. Since May 23, 2012 was Oliver Luksic also transport policy spokesman of the FDP parliamentary group and thus became the successor of Patrick Döring. He is no longer represented in the 18th German Bundestag by the failure of his party at the 5 % threshold in the general election of 2013.

Following the resignation of Christoph Hartmann as state chairman of the Free Democratic Party / Democratic Party Saar he was with the Minister of Health George Weisweiler one of the candidates for the post of chairman. The election took place on 8 January 2011. Luksic was able to clearly prevail with 76.3 % against Weisweiler. His successor as deputy chairman of the former state chairman of the Young Liberals Sebastian Greiber was chosen.

In the state elections in Saarland in 2012, in which he took as the leading candidate, the FDP 1.2 % of the vote, making the party resigned from the parliament.

Memberships

Luksic is a member of the European Union Parliamentarians German Bundestag and Chairman of the German - Belgian -Luxembourg Parliamentary Friendship Group

Luksic represents the FDP on the board of the Network European Movement Germany.

Publications

• Is the euro still be saved. Nomos, 2011 ISBN 978-3-8329-6572-3 ( with forewords by Dr. Theo Waigel and Dr. Guido Westerwelle )
• Is the euro be saved? Between the financial crisis and bankruptcy. In: EU -in- MAIL. No. 11-04, Network European Movement Germany (ed.), Berlin: June 2011, ISSN 2191-8252.