Carina Konrad

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Carina Konrad
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Carina Konrad in 2019
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2017
Personal details
Born (1982-09-19) 19 September 1982 (age 39)
Simmern, West Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partyFDP
Children3

Carina Konrad (born 19 September 1982) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2017.[1]

Early life and career[]

Konrad completed her studies with a degree in agricultural engineering (FH). She runs a farm with arable farming and cattle breeding with her family in Bickenbach in the Hunsrück.

From the 2016 state elections until she moved to the Bundestag, she worked as chief of staff to Marco Weber in the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Political career[]

Konrad became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 elections, representing the Mosel/Rhein-Hunsrück district. In parliament, she serves as deputy chair of the Committee on Food and Agriculture. She is also a deputy member of the Committee for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. She is the spokesperson for viticulture policy of the FDP parliamentary group in the Bundestag.[2]

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democrats (SPD), the Green Party and the FDP following the 2021 federal elections, Konrad led her party's delegation in the working group on agriculture and nutrition; her co-chairs from the other parties were Till Backhaus and Renate Künast.[3]

Since 2021, Konrad has been serving as one of six deputy chairpersons of the FDP parliamentary group under the leadership of its chairman Christian Dürr, where she oversees the group's activities on sustainability and infrastructure.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ "Carina Konrad | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  2. ^ "Fachpolitische Sprecher". Fraktion der Freien Demokraten im Deutschen Bundestag (in German). Archived from the original on 2020-01-28. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  3. ^ Andreas Apetz and Thomas Kaspar (October 22, 2021), Ampel-Koalition: Alle Verantwortlichen, AGs und Themen im Überblick Frankfurter Rundschau.
  4. ^ Constanze von Bullion, Henrike Roßbach and Mike Szymanski (7 December 2021), Berliner Personalien: Neue Gesichter, unerwartete Namen Süddeutsche Zeitung.

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