Ulla Ihnen

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Ulla Ihnen
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Ulla Ihnen in 2019
Member of the Bundestag
In office
20172021
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Born (1956-01-06) 6 January 1956 (age 66)
Wittmund, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political party FDP
Alma mater University of Göttingen

Ulla Ihnen (born 6 January 1956) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Lower Saxony from 2017 to 2021. [1]

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Early life and career

Having grown up in Wittmund, Ihnen graduated from Mariengymnasium Jever and studied law from 1974 onwards at the University of Göttingen. She completed her legal clerkship after the first state examination. After the second state examination she worked as a lawyer in Wittmund from 1983 to 1985.

In autumn 1985 Ihnen took up a position at the Deutsche Bundesbank. In 1988 she moved to the State Ministry for Federal and European Affairs of Lower Saxony. At the end of 1989 she moved to Brussels on a professional basis as a national expert at the European Commission. At the end of 1991 she was entrusted with the establishment and management of the Office of the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern at the European Union in Brussels. In 1997 she was elected First County Councillor in the district of Uelzen. Further activities in the Lower Saxony state administration followed.

In January 2012, minister Stefan Birkner appointed her State Secretary in Lower Saxony's State Ministry for Environment, Climate Protection and Energy. With the change of government following the 2013 elections she was put into temporary retirement.

Political career

Ihnen has been a member of the FDP since 1977.

Ihnen became member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election. She was a member of the Budget Committee and the Audit Committee. In this capacity, she served as her parliamentary group's rapporteur on the annual budget of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture from 2018.

Other activities

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References

  1. "Ulla Ihnen | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  2. Governance Nuclear Waste Disposal Fund.
  3. Wahlvorschläge für Kuratorium des Kenfo Bundestag, press release of 27 April 2022.
  4. Board of Trustees Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).
  5. Broadcasting Council - Members from Lower Saxony Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR).