Johannes Vogel (born 29 April 1982) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has served 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

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inha ...

from 2009 until 2013 and since 2017.

Early life and education

In 2001 Vogel graduated from high school. After his civil service as a paramedic in Wermelskirchen, he studied political science, history and public law at the

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine ...

from 2002. He completed his studies in 2009 with the Magister Artium (M.A.).

Political career

From 2005 until 2010, Vogel served as chairman of the Young Liberals. He first became a member of the Bundestag in the

2009 German federal election Federal elections took place on 27 September 2009 to elect the members of the 17th Bundestag (parliament) of Germany. Preliminary results showed that the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union ...

. From 2009 until 2013, he served on the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs on the Parliamentary Advisory Board on Sustainable Development. From 2014, Vogel worked with the

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(BA). That same year, he became the Secretary General of the FDP in North Rhine-Westphalia, under the leadership of its chairman

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. In this capacity, he managed the party's campaign ahead of the 2017 state elections. Following the elections, Vogel was responsible for labour and social affairs in the negotiations between

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's CDU and the FDP on a coalition agreement. In the 2017 national elections, Vogel was re-elected to the Bundestag. He has since been a member of the Committee for Labour and Social Affairs and a substitute member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. He chairs the FDP parliamentary group's working group on labour and social affairs and serves as the group's spokesman for labour market and pension policy. In addition to his committee assignments, Vogel is part of the German-Chinese Parliamentary Friendship Group. In 2020, he joined the

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. In 2019, Vogel took a

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to be a John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow at

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's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. At the FDP's national convention in May 2021, Vogel was elected by delegates as one of three deputies of chairman

, succeeding

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. Since 2022, Vogel has also been serving on the Committee on the Election of Judges (''Wahlausschuss''), which is in charge of appointing judges to the

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Other activities

* Deutsche Renten Information (DRI), Member of the Advisory BoardAdvisory Board
Deutsche Renten Information (DRI). *

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, Member

References

External links

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Bundestag biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vogel, Johannes 1982 births Living people Members of the Bundestag for North Rhine-Westphalia Members of the Bundestag 2021–2025 Members of the Bundestag 2017–2021 Members of the Bundestag 2009–2013 Members of the Bundestag for the Free Democratic Party (Germany)