Linda Teuteberg | |
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 Teuteberg in 2018 | |
| General Secretary of the Free Democratic Party | |
| In office 26 April 2019 – 19 September 2020 | |
| Leader | Christian Lindner |
| Preceded by | Nicola Beer |
| Succeeded by | Volker Wissing |
| Leader of theFree Democratic Party inBrandenburg | |
| In office 30 November 2019 – 18 December 2021 | |
| General Secretary | Anja Schwinghoff |
| Deputy | Martin Neumann Jeff Staudacher |
| Preceded by | Axel Graf Bülow |
| Succeeded by | Zyon Braun |
| Member of theBundestag forBrandenburg | |
| In office 24 October 2017 – 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Heinz Lafermann(2013) |
| Constituency | Free Democratic Party List |
| Member of theLandtag of Brandenburg | |
| In office 21 October 2009 – 8 October 2014 | |
| Preceded by | multi-member district |
| Succeeded by | multi-member district |
| Constituency | Free Democratic Party List |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Linda Merschin (1981-04-22)22 April 1981 (age 44) |
| Spouse | Björn Teuteberg |
| Residence | Potsdam |
| Alma mater | University of Potsdam |
| Occupation |
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| Website | linda-teuteberg |
Linda Teuteberg (néeMerschin; born 22 April 1981) is a German lawyer and politician of theFree Democratic Party (FDP). Serving as a member of theBundestag since2017, she was elected as General Secretary of the FDP on 26 April 2019 and thereby became part of the party's leadership around chairmanChristian Lindner.[1] Lindner asked for and received her resignation effective 19 September 2020.[2]
Teuteberg was born Linda Merschin on 22 April 1981 inKönigs Wusterhausen,East Germany and grew up in Görsdorf bei Storkow,Storkow, Brandenburg as the daughter of a teacher and an engineer. She graduated from the Katholischen Gymnasium Bernhardinum inFürstenwalde and, on a scholarship from theStudienstiftung, studiedjurisprudence and economics at theUniversity of Potsdam.[citation needed]
Teuteberg joined theYoung Liberals in 1998 and became a member of FDP in 2000.
Teuteberg was elected to theLandtag of Brandenburg on27 September 2009 on the state list and was supported byHans-Dietrich Genscher. Teuteberg served for five years. She participated in the2012 German presidential election on 18 March 2012.[citation needed]
During her time in the state parliament, Teuteberg served on the Committee on Legal Affairs, the Committee on the Election of Judges and the Enquete Commission on the "consequences of theSED dictatorship and the transition to a democratic constitutional state in the Land of Brandenburg", and was alao a deputy member of the budget, finance, economy, European affairs and development policy committees. She was also her parliamentary group's spokesperson for legal and media affairs. She did not seek re-election in2014.[3]
From 2014 until 2017, Teuteberg worked at theFederal Ministry of Education and Research.[citation needed]
In an internal vote in November 2016, Teuteberg defeatedAxel Graf Bülow [de] with 57% of votes to become the FDP lead candidate (German:Spitzenkandidatin) in Brandenburg for the2017 German federal election.[4] The FDP won 7.1% of thesecond votes (9.2% in Teuteberg's constituency) in Brandenburg.[5] Teuteberg won 7.5% of the first votes.[6]
From September 2017, Teuteberg was a member of the German Bundestag, where she served on the Committee on Internal Affairs. She was also her parliamentary group's spokesperson on migration policy.
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD), theGreen Party and the FDP following the2021 federal elections, Teuteberg was part of her party's delegation in the working group on migration and integration, co-chaired byBoris Pistorius,Luise Amtsberg andJoachim Stamp.[7]
On the state level, the focus of Teuteberg's political work was the processing of the SED dictatorship and the reparation of the injustice caused in the GDR and the advocacy of a liberal economic policy. Teuteberg opposes the fact that municipal enterprises can compete with private companies and operate economically. Teuteberg campaigned for theUniversity of Potsdam, which was to lose its law school according to plans of the Brandenburg state government.[citation needed]
Amid the emergence of theSARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in Germany in late 2021, Teuteberg was one of 22 members of the FDP parliamentary group who advocated against the introduction of a COVID-19 vaccine mandate.[16]
On July 19 2025, Teuteberg called for defundingUNRWA.[17]
Teuteberg is married to Björn Teuteberg, a member of the Potsdam city council. She is a member of theEvangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia.
