Daniel Föst (born 10 August 1976) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the

Bundestag The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet") is the German federal parliament. It is the only federal representative body that is directly elected by the German people. It is comparable to the United States House of Representatives or the House of Common ...

from the state of

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

since 2017.

Early life and career

Föst was born in Schweinfurt. He attended the Rhön-Gymnasium in Bad Neustadt an der Saale, where he passed his school-leaving examination. After an apprenticeship as a salesman in the furniture retail trade in Hamburg, he studied business administration at the

University of Passau The University of Passau (''Universität Passau'' in German) is a public research university located in Passau, Lower Bavaria, Germany. Founded in 1973, it is the youngest university in Bavaria and consequently has the most modern campus in the s ...

. From 1996 to 2005 Föst was head of Marketing & Communication at Opti Wohnwelt. From 2005 to 2006 he worked as a freelancer for various advertising and marketing agencies. From 2006 to 2016, Föst was a self-employed entrepreneur in the field of marketing and start-ups and was a lecturer at the vocational school teacher training course at the

Technical University of Munich The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; german: Technische Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences. Establis ...

Political career

Föst became a member of the Bundestag in the

2017 German federal election Federal elections were held in Germany on 24 September 2017 to elect the members of the 19th Bundestag. At stake were at least 598 seats in the Bundestag, as well as 111 overhang and leveling seats determined thereafter. The Christian Democr ...

, representing the Munich North district. In parliament, he is a member of the Committee for Construction, Housing, Urban Development and Municipalities and the Committee for Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. He also serves as his parliamentary group’s spokesman for building and housing policy. In addition to his committee assignments, Föst co-chairs the German Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the Maghreb States. From 2017 to 2021, Föst served as chairman of the FDP in Bavaria. In the negotiations to form a so-called

traffic light coalition In German politics, a traffic light coalition (german: Ampelkoalition) is a coalition government of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and Alliance 90/The Greens. It is named after the parties' tra ...

of the

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(SPD), the

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and the FDP following the 2021 federal elections, Föst led his party's delegation in the working group on building; his co-chairs from the other parties are

Kevin Kühnert Kevin Kühnert (born 1 July 1989) is a German politician and the General Secretary of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since the 2021 elections, representing Berlin-Tempelhof-Schön ...

and Chris Kühn.Andreas Apetz and Thomas Kaspar (October 22, 2021)
Ampel-Koalition: Alle Verantwortlichen, AGs und Themen im Überblick
'' Frankfurter Rundschau''.

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1976 births Living people Members of the Bundestag for Bavaria Members of the Bundestag 2017–2021 Members of the Bundestag 2021–2025 Members of the Bundestag for the Free Democratic Party (Germany) People from Schweinfurt University of Passau alumni {{Germany-FDP-politician-stub