Hartmut Ebbing | |
|---|---|
 Ebbing in 2020 | |
| Member of the Bundestag | |
| In office 2017–2021 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 May 1956 |
| Party | FDP |
| Children | 3 |
| Occupation | Auditor and tax consultant |
Hartmut Ebbing (born 13 May 1956) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Berlin from 2017 to 2021. [1]
After graduating from the Beethoven Gymnasium in Lankwitz in 1975, Ebbing completed a bank apprenticeship and then studied business administration at the Technische Universität Berlin and the University of Illinois, USA. He completed this in 1984 with a degree in business administration.
Parallel to his studies, Ebbing worked for Berliner Bank. From 1984 to 1991, he worked for the auditing company KPMG in Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg and Berlin and also passed the tax advisor and auditor exams during this time. Since 1992 Ebbing has been a self-employed business consultant and tax auditor.
Ebbing joined the FDP in 1995. He became member of the Bundestag in the 2017 elections. During his time in parliament, he served as his parliamentary group's spokesperson on cultural affairs. [2]
In November 2020, Ebbing announced that he would not stand in the 2021 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term. [3]
On February 19, 2025, Ebbing was sentenced by the Tiergarten District Court to ten months' imprisonment, suspended on probation, for four counts of acquiring and possessing child pornography and eleven counts of distributing it. The verdict, which pertains to actions taken between September 2021 and summer 2023, became legally binding on March 19, 2025. [4] In February 2026, it was revealed that the Braunschweig Public Prosecutor's Office had filed charges against Ebbing for the sexual abuse of a seven-year-old boy. Ebbing, through his lawyer, denied the accusation. [5] {{Infobox officeholder
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