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'''Linda Teuteberg''' is a [[German]] [[lawyer]] and [[politician]].
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'''Linda Teuteberg''' is a [[German]] [[lawyer]] and [[politician]] of the [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|Free Democratic Party]] (FDP). A member of the [[Bundestag]] since [[2017]], she was elected as General Secretary of the FDP on 26 April 2019 and thereby became part of the party's leadership around chairman [[Christian Lindner]].<ref>[https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/linda-teuteberg-zur-neuen-fdp-generalsekretaerin-gewaehlt-16159046.html FAZ.net]</ref>
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In 2019, Teuteberg was awarded the an award by the magazine ''Politik & Kommunikation'' as "Rising Star of the Year".<ref>https://www.politikaward.de/best-of-2019/</ref> She attended the [[2019 Bilderberg conference]].
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Lindner asked for and received her resignation effective 19 September 2020.<ref>https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/lindner-laesst-teuteberg-fallen-a-bbe16fb6-805c-405c-9f15-f5e7f2c0b390</ref>
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==Early life and education==
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Teuteberg was born Linda Merschin on 22 April 1981 in [[Königs Wusterhausen]], [[East Germany]] and grew up in Görsdorf bei Storkow, [[Storkow, Brandenburg]] as the daughter of a teacher and an engineer. She graduated from the Katholischen Gymnasium Bernhardinum in [[Fürstenwalde]] and, on a scholarship from the [[Studienstiftung]], studied [[jurisprudence]] and economics at the [[University of Potsdam]].
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==Political career==
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Teuteberg joined the Young Liberals in 1998 and became a member of [[FDP]] in 2000.
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She was elected to the [[Landtag of Brandenburg]] on 27 September 2009 on the state list and was supported by [[Hans-Dietrich Genscher]]. Teuteberg sat for five years.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20180306023544/http://www.pnn.de/potsdam/214082/</ref>
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During her time in the state parliament, Teuteberg sat on the Committee on Legal Affairs, the Committee on the Election of Judges and the Enquete Commission on the "consequences of the [[East Germany|SED dictatorship]] and the transition to a democratic constitutional state in the Land of Brandenburg", and was also a deputy member of the budget, finance, economy, European affairs and development policy committees. She was also her parliamentary group's spokesperson for legal and media affairs.
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When Teuteberg was preparing for a second law degree in the autumn of 2012, the head of the FDP, [[Gregor Beyer]], claimed that Teuteberg was not fulfilling her duties as a member of parliament to a sufficient extent.<ref>Jan Treibel: Die FDP: Prozesse innerparteilicher Führung 2000–2012. Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden, 2014, S. 216.</ref> Teuteberg rejected the accusations.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20121105040406/http://www.maerkischeallgemeine.de/cms/beitrag/12417786/62249/FDP-Abgeordnete-Ich-habe-meine-Arbeit-im-Landtag.html</ref>
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She did not seek re-election in [[2014]].<ref>[http://www.pnn.de/potsdam/214082/ ''Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten'' 9 September 2009.]</ref>
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From 2014 until 2017, Teuteberg worked at the [[Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany)|Federal Ministry of Education and Research]].
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===Member of the German Bundestag, 2017–===
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In an internal vote in November 2016, Teuteberg defeated [[Axel Graf Bülow]] with 57% of votes to become the FDP lead candidate in Brandenburg for the 2017 German federal election.<ref>http://www.fdp-brandenburg.de/2016/11/19/liberale-starten-in-den-bundestags-wahlkampf/</ref> The FDP won 7.1% of the second votes (9.2% in Teuteberg's constituency) in Brandenburg.<ref>Der Bundeswahlleiter: [https://bundeswahlleiter.de/bundestagswahlen/2017/ergebnisse/bund-99/land-12.html ''Bundestagswahl 2017 –&nbsp;Ergebnisse für Brandenburg''] (retrieved 25 September 2017)</ref> Teuteberg won 7.5% of the first votes.<ref>Der Bundeswahlleiter: [https://bundeswahlleiter.de/bundestagswahlen/2017/ergebnisse/bund-99/land-12/wahlkreis-61.html ''Bundestagswahl 2017 –&nbsp;Ergebnisse für den Wahlkreis 061''] (retrieved 25 September 2017)</ref>
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Since September 2017, Teuteberg has been a member of the German Bundestag, where she sits on the Committee on Internal Affairs. She is also her parliamentary group's spokesperson on [[migration policy]].
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In the negotiations to form a so-called [[traffic light coalition]] of the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|Social Democratic Party]] (SPD), the [[Alliance 90/The Greens|Green Party]] and the FDP following the [[2021 German federal election|2021 federal elections]], Teuteberg was part of her party's delegation in the working group on migration and integration, co-chaired by [[Boris Pistorius]], [[Luise Amtsberg]] and [[Joachim Stamp]].<ref>[https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/ampel-koalition-das-sind-die-verhandlungsteams-von-spd.1939.de.html?drn:news_id=1316022 Ampel-Koalition: Das sind die Verhandlungsteams von SPD, Grünen und FDP] ''[[Deutschlandfunk]]'', October 27, 2021.</ref>
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==Political positions==
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On the state level, the focus of Teuteberg's political work was "the processing of the SED dictatorship and the reparation of the injustice caused in the GDR" and the advocacy of a [[liberal economic policy]].<ref>http://www.badische-zeitung.de/deutschland-1/viele-jahre-lang-keine-versoehnung--47498984.html</ref>
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In late 2021, Teuteberg was one of 22 members of the FDP parliamentary group who advocated against the introduction of a forced [[COVID-19 vaccine mandate]].<ref>Martin Polansky (17 December 2021), [https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/debatte-impfpflicht-107.html Debatte um Impfpflicht: Kubicki hofft auf Unterstützer] ''[[Tagesschau (German TV series)|Tagesschau]]''.</ref>
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In February 2024, she wanted a large increase in expenditure on [[armaments]] and the [[military]].<ref>https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/deutschland/lanz-trump-drohung-nato-militaerbuendnis-teuteberg-fdp-100.html</ref>
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==Other activities==
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* [[Federal Agency for Civic Education]] (BPB), Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2022)<ref>[https://www.bpb.de/die-bpb/ueber-uns/organisation/51246/das-kuratorium-der-bpb/ Board of Trustees] [[Federal Agency for Civic Education]] (BPB).</ref>
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* [[Ludwig Erhard Foundation]], Member of the Board (since 2020)<ref>Tanja Kewes (29 November 2020), [https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/nach-tichys-rueckzug-neustart-bei-der-ludwig-erhard-stiftung-zwei-junge-frauen-neben-roland-koch-neu-im-vorstand/26669610.html Neustart bei der Ludwig-Erhard-Stiftung: Zwei junge Frauen neben Roland Koch neu im Vorstand] ''[[Handelsblatt]]''.</ref>
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* ''Bündnis für Demokratie und Toleranz'', Member of the Advisory Board<ref>[http://www.buendnis-toleranz.de/ueberuns/Beirat/ Advisory Board] ''Bündnis für Demokratie und Toleranz''.</ref>
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* [[Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship]], Member of the Board of Trustees<ref>[https://www.bundesstiftung-aufarbeitung.de/de/stiftung/gremien Foundation Bodies] [[Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship]].</ref>
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* ''[[Gegen Vergessen – Für Demokratie]]'', Member of the Board<ref>[https://www.gegen-vergessen.de/verein/vorstand/ Board] ''[[Gegen Vergessen – Für Demokratie]]''.</ref> 
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* [[Karl Hamann Foundation]], Member of the Board of Trustees<ref>[https://www.karlhamannstiftung.de/content/kuratorium Board of Trustees] Karl Hamann Foundation.</ref>
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* Quadriga Hochschule Berlin, Member of the Advisory Board on Politics and Public Affairs<ref>[https://www.quadriga-hochschule.com/quadriga-netzwerk/beiraete/beirat-politik-public-affairs/ Advisory on Politics and Public Affairs] Quadriga Hochschule Berlin.</ref>
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* Since May 2022, Teuteberg has been a member of the Education and Democracy Commission of the [[non-profit]] [[Hertie Foundation]].<ref>https://www.ghst.de/hertie-kommission/</ref>
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* [[Stephanus-Stiftung]], Member of the Board of Trustees<ref>[https://www.stephanus.org/stiftung/organisation/kuratorium/ Board of Trustees] Stephanus-Stiftung.</ref>
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* Teuteberg is a member of the advisory board of [[ProSiebenSat.1 Media]] since February 2022<ref>https://www.politik-kommunikation.de/personalwechsel/teuteberg-in-beirat-von-prosiebensat-1-media-berufen/</ref>.
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* She is and vice-president of the [[Deutsche Gesellschaft]], an association founded in [[1990]] for the promotion of politics, cultural and social relations in [[Europe]].<ref>https://www.deutsche-gesellschaft-ev.de/ueber-uns/verein/vorstand-kuratorium.html</ref>
  
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Person.png Linda Teuteberg   IMDB WebsiteRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(lawyer, politician)
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BornLinda Merschin
22 April 1981
Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Potsdam
ReligionProtestant
SpouseBjörn Teuteberg
PartyFree Democratic Party
German politician who attended the 2019 Bilderberg, at age 38, as General Secretary of the Free Democratic Party

Employment.png General Secretary of the Free Democratic Party

In office
26 April 2019 - 19 September 2020

Linda Teuteberg is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). A member of the Bundestag since 2017, she was elected as General Secretary of the FDP on 26 April 2019 and thereby became part of the party's leadership around chairman Christian Lindner.[1]

In 2019, Teuteberg was awarded the an award by the magazine Politik & Kommunikation as "Rising Star of the Year".[2] She attended the 2019 Bilderberg conference.

Lindner asked for and received her resignation effective 19 September 2020.[3]

Early life and education

Teuteberg was born Linda Merschin on 22 April 1981 in Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany and grew up in Görsdorf bei Storkow, Storkow, Brandenburg as the daughter of a teacher and an engineer. She graduated from the Katholischen Gymnasium Bernhardinum in Fürstenwalde and, on a scholarship from the Studienstiftung, studied jurisprudence and economics at the University of Potsdam.

Political career

Teuteberg joined the Young Liberals in 1998 and became a member of FDP in 2000.

She was elected to the Landtag of Brandenburg on 27 September 2009 on the state list and was supported by Hans-Dietrich Genscher. Teuteberg sat for five years.[4]

During her time in the state parliament, Teuteberg sat on the Committee on Legal Affairs, the Committee on the Election of Judges and the Enquete Commission on the "consequences of the SED dictatorship and the transition to a democratic constitutional state in the Land of Brandenburg", and was also a deputy member of the budget, finance, economy, European affairs and development policy committees. She was also her parliamentary group's spokesperson for legal and media affairs.

When Teuteberg was preparing for a second law degree in the autumn of 2012, the head of the FDP, Gregor Beyer, claimed that Teuteberg was not fulfilling her duties as a member of parliament to a sufficient extent.[5] Teuteberg rejected the accusations.[6]

She did not seek re-election in 2014.[7]

From 2014 until 2017, Teuteberg worked at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Member of the German Bundestag, 2017–

In an internal vote in November 2016, Teuteberg defeated Axel Graf Bülow with 57% of votes to become the FDP lead candidate in Brandenburg for the 2017 German federal election.[8] The FDP won 7.1% of the second votes (9.2% in Teuteberg's constituency) in Brandenburg.[9] Teuteberg won 7.5% of the first votes.[10]

Since September 2017, Teuteberg has been a member of the German Bundestag, where she sits on the Committee on Internal Affairs. She is also her parliamentary group's spokesperson on migration policy.

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the FDP following the 2021 federal elections, Teuteberg was part of her party's delegation in the working group on migration and integration, co-chaired by Boris Pistorius, Luise Amtsberg and Joachim Stamp.[11]

Political positions

On the state level, the focus of Teuteberg's political work was "the processing of the SED dictatorship and the reparation of the injustice caused in the GDR" and the advocacy of a liberal economic policy.[12]

In late 2021, Teuteberg was one of 22 members of the FDP parliamentary group who advocated against the introduction of a forced COVID-19 vaccine mandate.[13]

In February 2024, she wanted a large increase in expenditure on armaments and the military.[14]

Other activities


 

Event Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/201930 May 20192 June 2019Switzerland
Montreux		The 67th Bilderberg Meeting
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References

  1. ↑ FAZ.net
  2. ↑ https://www.politikaward.de/best-of-2019/
  3. ↑ https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/lindner-laesst-teuteberg-fallen-a-bbe16fb6-805c-405c-9f15-f5e7f2c0b390
  4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180306023544/http://www.pnn.de/potsdam/214082/
  5. ↑ Jan Treibel: Die FDP: Prozesse innerparteilicher Führung 2000–2012. Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden, 2014, S. 216.
  6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20121105040406/http://www.maerkischeallgemeine.de/cms/beitrag/12417786/62249/FDP-Abgeordnete-Ich-habe-meine-Arbeit-im-Landtag.html
  7. ↑ Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten 9 September 2009.
  8. ↑ http://www.fdp-brandenburg.de/2016/11/19/liberale-starten-in-den-bundestags-wahlkampf/
  9. ↑ Der Bundeswahlleiter: Bundestagswahl 2017 – Ergebnisse für Brandenburg (retrieved 25 September 2017)
  10. ↑ Der Bundeswahlleiter: Bundestagswahl 2017 – Ergebnisse für den Wahlkreis 061 (retrieved 25 September 2017)
  11. ↑ Ampel-Koalition: Das sind die Verhandlungsteams von SPD, Grünen und FDP Deutschlandfunk, October 27, 2021.
  12. ↑ http://www.badische-zeitung.de/deutschland-1/viele-jahre-lang-keine-versoehnung--47498984.html
  13. ↑ Martin Polansky (17 December 2021), Debatte um Impfpflicht: Kubicki hofft auf Unterstützer Tagesschau.
  14. ↑ https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/deutschland/lanz-trump-drohung-nato-militaerbuendnis-teuteberg-fdp-100.html
  15. ↑ Board of Trustees Federal Agency for Civic Education (BPB).
  16. ↑ Tanja Kewes (29 November 2020), Neustart bei der Ludwig-Erhard-Stiftung: Zwei junge Frauen neben Roland Koch neu im Vorstand Handelsblatt.
  17. ↑ Advisory Board Bündnis für Demokratie und Toleranz.
  18. ↑ Foundation Bodies Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship.
  19. ↑ Board Gegen Vergessen – Für Demokratie.
  20. ↑ Board of Trustees Karl Hamann Foundation.
  21. ↑ Advisory on Politics and Public Affairs Quadriga Hochschule Berlin.
  22. ↑ https://www.ghst.de/hertie-kommission/
  23. ↑ Board of Trustees Stephanus-Stiftung.
  24. ↑ https://www.politik-kommunikation.de/personalwechsel/teuteberg-in-beirat-von-prosiebensat-1-media-berufen/
  25. ↑ https://www.deutsche-gesellschaft-ev.de/ueber-uns/verein/vorstand-kuratorium.html
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