Biography

High school diploma at the European School Luxembourg. MA Political Science at the University of Heidelberg.

Owner of an advertising agency.

Member of the Europa-Union Berlin, the Gottsdorf Volunteer Fire Department, the German-Israeli Society. V., the German-Tajik Society e. V., from Free Democratic Welfare Association. V., in the German-Turkish advisory board of TÜSIAD (Association of Turkish Industrialists and Entrepreneurs), Junior Advisory Board of the Humboldt Institution for Transatlantic Issues at the Humboldt University Berlin, the German-Vietnamese Society e. V., supporting member Young Liberals, JULIS and Young European Federalists e. V. (JEF); President of the German Group of Liberal International and the Liberal Movement for a United Europe. V. (DGLI).

Member of the FDP since 1989, local chairman of the FDP Zehlendorf from 1999 to 2004, member of the Berlin state executive committee since 1995, deputy state chairman since 2000 and state chairman of the FDP Berlin since 2004, member of the FDP federal executive committee since 2001; since 2005 Vice President of the European Liberal Democratic Party (ELDR).

Member of the Bundestag since 2002; Spokesperson for the FDP parliamentary group for European policy.
- IMDb mini biography by: Christian_Wolfgang_Barth