Gerald Ullrich

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Gerald Ullrich
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Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office
2017
Personal details
Born (1962-12-23) 23 December 1962 (age 61)
Schmalkalden, East Germany
(now Germany)
Political party The Free Democratic Party
Childrentwo
OccupationPolitician / Electronics engineer

Gerald Ullrich (born 23 December 23 1962 in Schmalkalden) is a German electronics engineer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2017. [1]

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Early life and career

Ullrich obtained an intermediate school-leaving certificate at a polytechnic school in 1979. Then he trained as an electrician for three years, before he studied at Hermsdorf Technical College for Electrical Engineering and Ceramics from 1983 to 1986. After he completed the 18 months of compulsory military service in the National People's Army of the German Democratic Republic he worked for one year as an engineer and from 1989 to 1990 as a project manager of a large-scale project. [2] Shortly after the Peaceful Revolution he founded a family-run plastics processing company, which he managed until 2017. [3]

Political career

In 2014 Ullrich joined the FDP. He is member of the executive committee of the FDP in Thuringia since 2014 and its deputy chairman since 2016. [4] He is also chairman of the FDP Schmalkalden-Meiningen county branch since 2015 and Chairman of the Thuringia branch of the Liberal Association of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses since 2016. [2]

Member of the Bundestag, 2017–present

Ullrich became a member of the German Bundestag in the 2017 federal elections, representing the constituency Suhl – Schmalkalden-Meiningen – Hildburghausen – Sonneberg alongside Frank Ullrich. He has since been serving on the Committee on European Affairs, the Committee on Petitions and as substitute member on the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy. On the Committee on European Affairs, he is his parliamentary group's rapporteur on climate protection and serves since November 2019 also as coordinator of his parliamentary group.

In addition to his committee assignments, Ullrich has been serving as deputy chairman of the German-Portuguese-Spanish Parliamentary Friendship Group. [2]

other activities

Ullrich is founder chairman of the Floh-Seligenthal business association.

Personal life

Ullrich is Protestant, married, has two sons and lives in Floh-Seligenthal. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Heigel, Thomas (15 October 2017). "Im Genscherhaus lag das Starterpaket bereit" . insuedthueringen.de (in German). Freies Wort. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 "German Bundestag - Gerald Ullrich". German Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 8 September 2019.
  3. ↑ "Die Stromkunden werden zur Kasse gebeten" . insuedthueringen.de (in German). Freies Wort. 23 October 2018. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  4. ↑ Heigel, Thomas (9 July 2015). "Gerald Ullrich führt die FDP im Landkreis" . inthueringen.de (in German). Freies Wort. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  5. ↑ "Der Spritzgießer im Bundestag". k-profi.de (in German). September 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
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