Mario Brandenburg

Mario Brandenburg (born 3 October 1983) is a German computer scientist and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2017.[1][2]

Mario Brandenburg
Brandenburg in 2017
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
24 October 2017
ConstituencyFDP List
Personal details
Born (1983-10-03) 3 October 1983
Bad Bergzabern, West Germany
Political partyFree Democratic Party
Children2
Alma materKarlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences

Early life and career

Brandenburg studied business informatics at the University of Applied Sciences in Ludwigshafen and graduated with a master's degree (M.Sc.). Since then he has been employed at the software company SAP, where he first worked in software development, then in consulting and finally in international product sales.

Political career

Brandenburg has been a member of the FDP since 2010. He became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election. He serves as his parliamentary group's spokesperson on technology policy.[3][4]

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the FDP following the 2021 German elections, Brandenburg was part of his party's delegation in the working group on digital innovation and infrastructure, co-chaired by Jens Zimmermann, Malte Spitz and Andreas Pinkwart.[5]

References
  1. "Mario Brandenburg (Südpfalz), FDP". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  2. "Mario Brandenburg | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  3. online, heise. "Netzpolitik in der FDP: Liberale Pläne für das Internet der Zukunft". Technology Review (in German). Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  4. "Fachpolitische Sprecher". Fraktion der Freien Demokraten im Deutschen Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  5. Britt-Marie Lakämper (October 21, 2021), SPD, Grüne, FDP: Diese Politiker verhandeln die Ampel-Koalition Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.



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