Dirk Niebel
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Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development Germany |
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| Assumed office 28 October 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul |
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| Born | March 29, 1963 Hamburg, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | FDP |
| Website | dirk-niebel.de |
Dirk Niebel (born March 29, 1963) is a German politician. He is since 2009 Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development. From 2005 to 2009, he was secretary general of the FDP.
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[edit] Background
Niebel was born in Hamburg. After his Fachhochschulreife (college entrance qualification) in 1983, Niebel lived for one year in a Kibbutz in Israel. Later he served for eight years as an airborne infantry officer in the Bundeswehr in Calw. As of February 2007, he is Hauptmann of the reserve. He then studied at the German College of Public Administration in Mannheim and finished his studies in 1993 as Diplom-Verwaltungswirt (similar to a Master of Public Administration degree). From 1993 to 1998, he worked at an employment bureau in Sinsheim, a part of the Federal Employment Office of Heidelberg.
Niebel is married and has three sons.
[edit] Political career
In 1977, Niebel joined the Junge Union, and in 1979, the CDU. He left both in 1981.
In 1990, he joined the FDP and was co-founder of the Heidelberg division of the Junge Liberale. Since 2003, Niebel has been a member of the Federal Board of the FDP and of the curatorship of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. On May 5, 2005, the Federal Board elected him secretary general of the FDP with 92.4 % of the votes.
Niebel has been a member of the Bundestag since 1998. From 2002 to 2005, he was chairman of the State group of Baden-Württemberg in the parliamentary group of the FDP. Since 1998, he has been the speaker of the parliamentary group on Labor Policy. In addition to this, Niebel has been a member of the group of German-Israeli parliament members since 1998.
From 2000 till 2010, Niebel has been vice president of the Deutsch-Israelische Gesellschaft (German Israeli Society).
[edit] Main Viewpoint
Niebel advocates a radical reform of the Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit). According to him, it should only manage and pay out the Unemployment insurance. [1]
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[edit] Notes
- This article incorporates information from the revision as of February 21, 2007 of the equivalent article on the German Wikipedia.
