Oliver Luksic | |
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| Leader of theFree Democratic Party inSaarland | |
| Assumed office 8 January 2011 | |
| Deputy | Helmut Isringhaus Tobias Raab Angelika Hießerich-Peter |
| Preceded by | Christoph Hartmann |
| Member of theBundestag forSaarland | |
| Assumed office 24 October 2017 | |
| Constituency | FDP List |
| In office 27 October 2009 – 22 October 2013 | |
| Constituency | FDP List |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1979-10-09)9 October 1979 (age 46) |
| Political party | Free Democratic Party |
| Alma mater | Sciences Po King's College London |
Oliver Luksic (born 9 October 1979) is a Germanpolitician of theFree Democratic Party (FDP) who has been a Member of theBundestag forSaarland since the2017 elections, after having previously served from 2009 until 2013.
In addition to his parliamentary work, Luksic served asParliamentary State Secretary in theFederal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure in thecoalition government ofChancellorOlaf Scholz from 2018 to 2021.[1][2] In this capacity, he was the Federal Government’s Coordinator for Freight and Logistics.[3]
Luksic was educated atSciences Po andKing's College London.[4]
Luksic served as Member of the GermanBundestag between the2002 and the2013 national elections. In this capacity, he was a member of the Committee on European Affairs and of the Committee on Transport, Building and Urban Development. In 2012, he succeededPatrick Döring as the FDP parliamentary group's spokesperson on transport policy.
In addition to his committee assignments, Luksic served as chairman of the German Parliamentary Friendship Group withBelgium andLuxembourg.
Since 2011, Luksic has been the chairman of the FDP in Saarland. In this capacity, he led the party's campaigns for the Saarland state elections in2012 and2017, both times without winning any seats in the state parliament.
In 2014, Luksic took on a position withMerzig-based Kohlpharma, one of the leading importers of pharmaceuticals in Europe.[5]
Lusksic was re-elected as Member of the German Parliament in the2017 national elections. From 2018 until 2021, he served on the Committee on Transport, Building and Digital Infrastructure. In addition to his committee assignments, he chaired the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations withCroatia andSlovenia. From 2019, he was a member of the German delegation to theFranco-German Parliamentary Assembly.[6]
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of theSocial Democrats (SPD), theGreen Party and the FDP following the2021 federal elections, Luksic led his party's delegation in the working group on mobility; his co-chairs from the other parties wereAnke Rehlinger andAnton Hofreiter.[7]
Luksic lives with his family inHeusweiler.
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