Stefan Naas (born 23 November 1973) is a German politician from the Free Democratic Party. From 2009 to 2018 he served as

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of the city of

Steinbach (Taunus) Steinbach is a town in the Hochtaunuskreis that borders Frankfurt am Main to the east. Other neighbouring towns are Oberursel, Kronberg im Taunus and Eschborn. It is in the German state of Hesse. Geography Location Steinbach lies at a height of 1 ...

. He has been a member of the

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since January 2019 .

Early life

Stefan Naas was born in

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and grew up in

. After attending the local Geschwister-Scholl elementary school and graduating from the in

Kronberg im Taunus Kronberg im Taunus is a town in the Hochtaunuskreis district, Hesse, Germany and part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main Regional Authority, Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area. Before 1866, it was in the Duchy of Nassau; in that year the whole Duchy was ab ...

in 1993, he first completed an

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at a bank. From 1995 to 2000 he studied

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at the

Goethe University Frankfurt Goethe University (german: link=no, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealt ...

. He completed his second state exam at the same time as his doctorate in 2004. The subject of the dissertation was the . Until his election as mayor in Steinbach in

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, Naas worked as a government councillor in the tax office in Frankfurt, and from 2006 to 2008 at the Hessian Ministry of Finance. From 2008 to 2009 he worked in the office of the Hessian Economics Minister as a parliamentary and cabinet secretary.

Political career

Naas was first elected to the local council in his hometown of Steinbach (Taunus) in 1993. In 2001, he was elected to the district council of the Hochtaunus district. In the Steinbach mayoral election in 2009, Naas prevailed in the run-off against his challenger Michael Dill ( CDU) with 62.7%. When he was re-elected in 2015, he received 87.1% of the vote. In the

Frankfurt Rhein-Main Regional Authority The Regional Authority of Frankfurt Rhein-Main is the cooperation body of the administratively fragmented Frankfurt am Main urban area and the common authority for Frankfurt am Main and its 75 neighboring communities. It manages and coordinates t ...

, he has been a member of the association chamber since 2007, was chairman of the FDP group from 2008 to 2011, chairman of the independent group from 2011 to 2018 and has served on the regional board since 2019. In the Hochtaunus district, Naas is the chairman of the district parliamentary group. In addition, he has chaired the

Rhine-Main The Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region, often simply referred to as Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Frankfurt Rhine-Main area or Rhine-Main area (German: ''Rhein-Main-Gebiet'' or ''Frankfurt/Rhein-Main'', abbreviated FRM), is the second-largest metropolitan re ...

FDP district association since 2014. Since 1 November 2016, he has been the leader of the FDP parliamentary group in the . In the

2018 Hessian state election The 2018 Hessian state election was held on 28 October 2018 to elect the members of the Landtag of Hesse. The outgoing government was a coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and The Greens led by Minister-President Volker Bouffier. ...

, Naas won a mandate as a member of the

in fourth place on the state list of the FDP. In his parliamentary group, he is spokesman for economic, industrial, labour market policy and housing, as well as spokesman for art and culture and spokesman for infrastructure. On 20 July 2022, he was nominated by the state executive of the FDP as the top candidate in the 2023 Hessian state election.

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Kandidatenportrait zur Landtagswahl 2018
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Naas, Stefan Living people 1973 births Free Democratic Party (Germany) politicians 21st-century German politicians Members of the Landtag of Hesse Goethe University Frankfurt alumni Mayors of places in Hesse People from Hochtaunuskreis People from Frankfurt