Ulrich Lechte (born 26 August 1977) is a German politician of the

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(FDP) who served as a member of the

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from the state of

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from 2017 to 2025.

Early life and career

Lechte was born in Sinsheim, grew up in Neckarbischofsheim, and attended the Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck, Episcopal grammar school with boarding school in Goch from 1988 onwards, where he graduated from in 1996. Afterwards he began studying political science at the

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. Lechte is a business economist (VWA). He worked in sales for four years until he became sales manager and editor of the Regensburg city newspaper in 2001. From 2006 to 2013, he headed the constituency office of Horst Meierhofer, then member of the Bundestag. When the FDP left the Bundestag in 2013, Lechte moved to a company in the renewable energy sector in 2014 as assistant to the management and head of controlling. From 2016 he worked as a consultant for a Düsseldorf law firm.

Political career

Early career

Lechte joined the FDP and its youth organization, the Young Liberals, in 1998. In 2010, he was one of the founding members of the Liberal Gays and Lesbians (LiSL).

Member of the German Parliament, 2017–2025

Lechte became a member of the Bundestag in the

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. In parliament, he was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and served as his parliamentary group's spokesperson on foreign affairs. Between 2017 and 2021, he chaired the Subcommittee on the United Nations, International Organizations and Globalization. In addition to his committee assignments, Lechte was part of the German-Egyptian Parliamentary Friendship Group, the German-Turkish Parliamentary Friendship Group as well as member of the Parliamentary Group of Friends Berlin-Taipei. In 2019, Lechte unsuccessfully challenged incumbent

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for the leadership of the FDP in Bavaria. Since then, he has been serving as one of three deputy chairpersons of the FDP in Bavaria under the leadership of successive chairs Föst and Martin Hagen. In 2023, Lechte co-founded the Cross-Party Parliamentary Group on the Situation of the

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Other activities

* Centre for International Peace Operations (ZIF), Member of the Supervisory Board (since 2022)Supervisory Board
Centre for International Peace Operations (ZIF).

References

External links

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Bundestag biography
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