Johannes Vogel (politician)

Johannes Vogel (born 29 April 1982) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2009 until 2013 and since 2017.[1]

Johannes Vogel
Vogel in 2023
Chief Whip of the FDP in the Bundestag
Assumed office
7 December 2021
LeaderChristian Dürr
Preceded byMarco Buschmann
Deputy Leader of the Free Democratic Party
Assumed office
14 May 2021
Serving with Wolfgang Kubicki and Nicola Beer
LeaderChristian Lindner
Preceded byKatja Suding
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2017
In office
2009–2013
Personal details
Born (1982-04-29) 29 April 1982
Wermelskirchen, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political partyFDP
Alma materUniversity of Bonn

Early life and education

In 2001 Vogel graduated from high school. After his civil service as a paramedic in Wermelskirchen, he studied political science, history, and public law at the University of Bonn from 2002. He completed his studies in 2009 with the Magister Artium (M.A.).

Political career

From 2005 until 2010, Vogel served as chairman of the Young Liberals. He first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2009 German federal election.[2] From 2009 until 2013, he served on the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs on the Parliamentary Advisory Board on Sustainable Development.

From 2014, Vogel worked with the Federal Employment Agency (BA). That same year, he became the Secretary General of the FDP in North Rhine-Westphalia, under the leadership of its chairman Christian Lindner. In this capacity, he managed the party's campaign ahead of the 2017 state elections. Following the elections, Vogel was responsible for labour and social affairs in the negotiations between Armin Laschet's CDU and the FDP on a coalition agreement.[3]

In the 2017 national elections, Vogel was re-elected to the Bundestag. He has since been a member of the Committee for Labour and Social Affairs and a substitute member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.[4][5] He chairs the FDP parliamentary group's working group on labour and social affairs and serves as the group's spokesman for labour market and pension policy.[6]

In addition to his committee assignments, Vogel is part of the German-Chinese Parliamentary Friendship Group. In 2020, he joined the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.[7]

In 2019, Vogel took a leave of absence to be a John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow at Harvard University's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.[8]

At the FDP's national convention in May 2021, Vogel was elected by delegates as one of three deputies of chairman Christian Lindner, succeeding Katja Suding.[9]

Since 2022, Vogel has also been serving on the Committee on the Election of Judges (Wahlausschuss), which is in charge of appointing judges to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.[10]

Other activities

References
  1. "Johannes Vogel | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  2. "Abgeordnete". Fraktion der Freien Demokraten im Deutschen Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  3. Ex-FDP-Landeschef Pinkwart bei Koalitionsverhandlungen Die Welt, 22 May 2017.
  4. "German Bundestag - Labour and Social Affairs". German Bundestag. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  5. "German Bundestag - Foreign Affairs". German Bundestag. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  6. "Fachpolitische Sprecher". Fraktion der Freien Demokraten im Deutschen Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  7. Member Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.
  8. Johannes Vogel Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.
  9. Till Hoppe (11 May 2021), Johannes Vogel: Auf dem Sprung an die Parteispitze der FDP Handelsblatt.
  10. Mitglieder mehrerer Gremien gewählt Bundestag, 27 January 2022.
  11. Advisory Board Deutsche Renten Information (DRI).
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