Manuel Höferlin | |
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.jpg) Manuel Höferlin in 2017 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 2017–2025 | |
| In office 2009–2013 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1973-02-06)6 February 1973 (age 52) |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | FDP |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | University of Mainz |
Manuel Höferlin (born 6 February 1973) is a German politician of theFree Democratic Party (FDP) who served as a member of theBundestag from the state ofRhineland-Palatinate from 2009 to 2013 and from 2017 to 2025.[1]
Höferlin was born in Paris and moved to Harxheim in Rheinhessen at the age of five. In 1992, he graduated from the Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Mainz and subsequently studied law at theUniversity of Mainz. While still a student, he went into business for himself, founded an IT consulting company in 1997 and took a stake in a management consultancy, where he was managing director until early 2009.
In 2005 Höferlin joined the FDP. From 2009 to 2013 he was a member of the Bundestag for the first time, representing theWorms district. During that time, he served on the Committee on Internal Affairs and the Committee on Legal Affairs. Due to the failure of his party to reach the five percent hurdle in the 2013 federal elections, he resigned from the Bundestag.
Höferlin became a member of the Bundestag again in the2017 German federal election. In parliament, he served on the Committee on Internal Affairs and the Committee on the Digital Agenda, which he chaired from 2019 to 2021. He was also his parliamentary group’s spokesman for digital policy (2018–2021)[2] and internal affairs (2021–2025).[3]
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD), theGreen Party and the FDP following the2021 German elections, Höferlin was part of his party's delegation in the working group on digital innovation and infrastructure, co-chaired byJens Zimmermann,Malte Spitz andAndreas Pinkwart.[4]
In November 2024, Höferlin announced that he would not stand in the2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[5]
After leaving parliament, Höferlin joined Frenchinformation technology (IT) services andconsulting companyCapgemini in 2025.[6]
