Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann

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Person.png Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(politician, deep state operative)
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BornMarie-Agnes Jahn
10 March 1958
Düsseldorf
NationalityGerman
Alma materLudwig Maximilian University of Munich
Member ofBundestag/Members who proposed mandatory Covid jab, Federal Academy for Security Policy, German Atlantic Society
PartyFree Democratic Party
German politician of the Free Democratic Party and proponent of a militarist foreign policy.

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In office
2017 - Present
Preceded byÖzcan Mutlu

Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2017.[1]

She is a proponent of a militarist foreign policy.

Early life and career

Strack-Zimmermann studied journalism, political science and German language and literature at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and graduated with a Master of Arts degree. In 1986, she received her doctorate at the LMU with a thesis entitled Bilder aus Amerika: eine zeitungswissenschaftliche Studie über die USA-Berichterstattung im Zweiten Deutschen Fernsehen (ZDF) (Images from America: a newspaper science study on US reporting on ZDF).

From 1988 to 2008 Strack-Zimmermann worked for the medium-sized Nuremberg youth book publisher Tessloff. Later she was a freelance publishing house representative.

Political career

Career in local politics

From 2008 until 2014, Strack-Zimmermann served as deputy mayor of Düsseldorf, alongside mayor Dirk Elbers.

Deputy Chair of the FDP, 2013–2019

Following the election of Christian Lindner as chairman of the FDP in 2013, Strack-Zimmermann became one of his deputies. She was part of the party's leadership until 2019, when she was succeeded by Nicola Beer.[2]

Member of the German Parliament, 2017–present

Strack-Zimmermann became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election.[3]

During her first term from 2017 to 2021, Strack-Zimmermann served on the Defence Committee and the Committee for Construction, Housing, Urban Development and Local Authorities. During that time, she was her parliamentary group's spokesperson for defence policy and spokesperson for local government policy.[4] Since 2021, Strack-Zimmermann has been serving as chairwoman of the Defence Committee.[5]

In addition to her committee assignments, Strack-Zimmermann has been a member of the German delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly since 2018, where she is part of the Defence and Security Committee, the Political Committee, the Sub-Committee on Transatlantic Defence and Security Cooperation and the Sub-Committee on Transatlantic Relations.[6]

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, Strack-Zimmermann was part of her party's delegation in the working group on foreign policy, defence, development cooperation and human rights, co-chaired by Heiko Maas, Omid Nouripour and Alexander Graf Lambsdorff.[7]

In her capacity as chair of the defense committee, Strack-Zimmermann visited Ukraine shortly after the 2022 Russian invasion with Michael Roth and Anton Hofreiter, the chairs of parliament's foreign relations and European affairs committees respectively.[8]


 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Munich Security Conference/201915 February 201917 February 2019Germany
Munich
Bavaria
The 55th Munich Security Conference, which included "A Spreading Plague" aimed at "identifying gaps and making recommendations to improve the global system for responding to deliberate, high consequence biological events."
Munich Security Conference/202218 February 202220 February 2022Germany
Munich
Bavaria
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