Stefan Ruppert

Stefan Ruppert (born February 2) is a German lawyer and former politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hesse from 2009 until 2013 and from 2017 until 2020.[1] He chaired the FDP in Hesse from 2014 to 2021.[2][3]

Stefan Ruppert
Stefan Ruppert in 2015
Chairman of the Free Democratic Party
in Hesse
In office
2014–2021
DeputyLasse Becker
Bettina Stark-Watzinger
Preceded byJörg-Uwe Hahn
Succeeded byBettina Stark-Watzinger
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2017
Personal details
Born (1971-07-02) 2 July 1971
Frankfurt, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political partyFDP
Alma materGoethe University Frankfurt

Early life and career

After graduating from the bilingual (German/French) branch of the draught school in Frankfurt am Main in 1991, Ruppert did community service with the German Red Cross (DRK) in the field of geriatric care.

From 1992 Ruppert studied law, political science and history at the Goethe University Frankfurt and took his first state examination in 1997. In 2001, he received his doctorate with his dissertation on Canon Law and the Kulturkampf and was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal. In 2003 he completed the second state examination in law after a two-year academic work at the Federal Constitutional Court.

Political career

Ruppert joined the FDP in 1990. In the 2009 federal elections, he entered the German Bundestag via the Hesse state list. He was a member of the Committee on Internal Affairs and his parliamentary group’s spokesperson on churches and religious communities.[4] Due to the FDP's failure to reach the five percent hurdle in the 2013 federal elections, he left the Bundestag.

Ruppert became a member of the Bundestag again in the 2017 German federal election.[5] There he was parliamentary manager of the FDP parliamentary group until January 2020.[6]

From 2018 until 2020, Ruppert was part of a cross-party working group on a reform of Germany’s electoral system, chaired by Wolfgang Schäuble.[7]

Life after politics

In 2020, Ruppert joined the board of B. Braun.[8]

Other activities
  • Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2021)[9]
  • Hermann Kunst Foundation for the Promotion of New Testament Textual Research, Member of the Board of Trustees[10]

References
  1. "Stefan Ruppert | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  2. Ralf Euler (9 February 2014), Hessen-FDP wählt neue Spitze: Ruppert erinnert an liberales Lebensgefühl Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
  3. Ewald Hetrodt (24 December 2019), Neue FDP-Spitze in Hessen: Ruppert für Stark-Watzinger Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
  4. Hessen, F. D. P. (26 August 2015). "Dr. Stefan Ruppert". fdp-hessen.de (in German). Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  5. "FDP-Chef Stefan Ruppert verlässt die Politik und tritt einen Vorstandsposten in der Wirtschaft an". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). 17 December 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  6. KG, Gießener Anzeiger Verlags GmbH & Co. "Dr. Stefan Ruppert verlässt die Politik - Usinger Anzeiger". www.usinger-anzeiger.de (in German). Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  7. Robert Roßmann (January 20, 2019), Kleiner, feiner, weiblicher Süddeutsche Zeitung.
  8. Tobias Rösmann (17 December 2019), Wechsel zum Pharmaunternehmen: Hessischer FDP-Chef geht in die Wirtschaft Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
  9. Naumann-Stiftung wählt Jürgen Morlok zum Ehrenvorsitzenden und beruft neue Kuratoriumsmitglieder Friedrich Naumann Foundation, press release of 2021.
  10. Board of Trustees Hermann Kunst Foundation for the Promotion of New Testament Textual Research.
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