Jürgen Hardt

Jürgen Hardt
Personal details
Born ( 1963 -05-30) 30 May 1963
Hofheim am Taunus, Hesse, Germany
Political party Christian Democratic Union

Jürgen Hardt (born 30 May 1963) is a German politician. He is a Christian Democratic Union member of the Bundestag.

Biography

After obtaining Abitur 1982 in Königstein im Taunus,[1] Hardt served as a naval officer in the Bundeswehr for four years and studied economics in Heidelberg and Cologne from 1986 to 1993. From 1992 to 2001 Hardt worked for the federal office of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag, including as head of the CDU secretary-general’s office from 1995 to 1998. From 2001 to 2009 he was a senior manager at Vorwerk, a family business in Wuppertal.[1]

CDU

At the convention of the CDU at 15 November 2010 in Karlsruhe

Hardt was Federal chairman of the Association of Christian Democratic Students (RCDS) from 1987 to 1989 and from 2004 to 2009 member of Wuppertal city council and chairman of its economics committee.[1]

Since 2003 he is chairman of the Wuppertal county branch of the CDU and since 2005 deputy chairman of the Bergisches Land district branch of the CDU.[1]

Bundestag

During his first speech in the German Bundestag on 26 February 2010

Hardt was first elected to the Bundestag in the 2009 federal election, representing Solingen – Remscheid – Wuppertal II. He is a member of the Bundestag's defence committee,[2] the Committee on the Affairs of the European Union [3] and of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.[1] Hardt defended his seat in parliament by winning the majority of votes in his electoral district in the 2013 election.

Federal Government

In April 2014 he succeeded Philipp Mißfelder as Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Jürgen Hardt, Lebenslauf" (in German). Jürgen Hardt. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
  2. ↑ "Verteidigungsausschuss" (in German). Bundestag. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
  3. ↑ "Ausschuss für die Angelegenheiten der Europäischen Union" (in German). Bundestag. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
  4. ↑ German MFA press release
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