CV

• Born on 22 April 1970 in Landau in der Pfalz.

• 1989
  Abitur (university entrance qualification) at Staatliches Gymnasium, Bad Bergzabern

• 1989 to 1994
  Studied law at Saarland University in Saarbrücken and at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, first state examination in law

• 1996
  Second state examination in law in Mainz

• 1997
  Doctorate at the University of Münster

• 1997 to 1999
  Judge and public prosecutor in Zweibrücken and Landau in der Pfalz

• 2000 to 2004
  Personal assistant to the Minister of Justice of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Herbert Mertin

• 2001
  Appointed judge at Landau in der Pfalz District Court

• 2004 to 2013
  Member of the Bundestag

• 2009 to 2011
  Chair of the Bundestag Finance Committee

• since 2011
  Chair of the FDP Rhineland-Palatinate

• 2011 to 2013
  Deputy Chair of the FDP parliamentary group in the Bundestag

• since 2013
  Member of the Executive Committee of the FDP

• since 2013
  Lawyer

• 2016 to 2021
  Member of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament, Deputy State Premier and Minister for Economic Affairs, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate

• 2020 to 2021
  Secretary General of the FDP

• since 2021
  Member of the Bundestag

• since December 2021
  Federal Minister for Digital and Transport