Christian Ahrendt (born 7 May 1963 in

Lübeck Lübeck (; Low German also ), officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (german: Hansestadt Lübeck), is a city in Northern Germany. With around 217,000 inhabitants, Lübeck is the second-largest city on the German Baltic coast and in the stat ...

) is a German lawyer and

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as Vice President of the Federal Court of Auditors since 2013.

Political career

From

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to 2013, Ahrendt was a member of the German

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. In parliament, he served on the Committee on Internal Affairs from 2005 until 2009. He was his parliamentary group's spokesperson on legal affairs. In the negotiations to form a

coalition government A coalition government is a form of government in which political parties cooperate to form a government. The usual reason for such an arrangement is that no single party has achieved an absolute majority after an election, an atypical outcome in ...

of the FDP and the Christian Democrats ( CDU together with the Bavarian

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) following the 2009 federal elections, Ahrendt was part of the FDP delegation in the working group on transport policy, led by

Hans-Peter Friedrich Hans-Peter Friedrich (born 10 March 1957) is a German politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since 1998. Under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel, he served as Federal ...

and Patrick Döring.Koalitionsverhandlungen: Wen Union und FDP zum Feilschen schicken
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'', October 6, 2009.

References

External links

Official website

1963 births Living people Politicians from Lübeck University of Hamburg alumni Members of the Bundestag for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Members of the Bundestag 2009–2013 Members of the Bundestag 2005–2009 Members of the Bundestag for the Free Democratic Party (Germany) {{Germany-FDP-politician-stub