Nicola Beer

Nicola Beer
Secretary General of the Free Democratic Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 2013
Personal details
Born	Nicola Beer (1970-01-23) 23 January 1970 Wiesbaden, West Germany (now Germany)
Political party	German: Free Democratic Party EU: Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
Alma mater	University of Frankfurt

Nicola Beer (born 23 January 1970 in Wiesbaden) is a German Politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP).

Political career

Beer became member of the FDP in 1991.

In the cabinets of minister-presidents Roland Koch and Volker Bouffier, Beer served as State Secretary for European Affairs at the Hessian State Ministry of Justice between 2009 and 2012. Between 2012 and 2014 she was State Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs in Hesse.

Beer was a FDP delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2004, 2009, 2010 and 2012.

In late 2013, incoming FDP chairman Christian Lindner nominated Beer for the office of Secretary General; on 7 December 2013 she got elected (with 84,3% of all votes. At the political convention of the FDP on 15 May 2015 she got reelected with 88,4% of all votes.

Other activities

• Association of Private Higher Education Institutions (VPH), Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2015)
• Heraeus Bildungsstiftung, Member of the Advisory Board
• Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Member of the Board of Trustees
• Museum of World Cultures, Member of the Board of Trustees
• World Vision Deutschland, Member
• ZDF, Member of the Television Council (2015-2016)

Literature

• Beer, Nicola, Internationales Biographisches Archiv 36/2012 from 4 September 2012, in Munzinger-Archive (Beginning of the article available for free)

Weblinks

• Nicola Beers Homepage (German)
• CV at the FDP-parliamentary group in Hesse
• Nicola Beer on Parliamentwatch