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Pascal Kober | |
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 Pascal Kober in 2020 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 2017–2025 | |
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| Born | (1971-07-03)3 July 1971 (age 54) |
| Political party | FDP |
| Alma mater | Augustana Divinity School |
Pascal Kober (born 3 July 1971) is a Germanmilitary chaplain and politician of theFree Democratic Party (FDP) who has served as a member of theBundestag from the state ofBaden-Württemberg from 2009 to 2013 and again from 2017 to 2025.[1]
In addition to his parliamentary work, Kober has been serving as the Commissioner for the Victims of Domestic Terrorist Activities at theFederal Ministry of Justice in thegovernment ofChancellorOlaf Scholz since 2022.[2]
Born inSindelfingen,Baden-Württemberg, Kober grew up in Böblingen and studiedProtestant theology at the universities ofTübingen,Kiel, andNeuendettelsau.
Kober is pastor of theEvangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg and was a member of the Bundestag from 2009 to 2013,[3] representing theReutlingen district. During that time, he served on the Committee on Labour and Social Affairs and theCommittee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid. In addition to his committee assignments, he was part of the German-American Parliamentary Friendship Group and the German-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group.
Kober retired from politics with the federal elections in 2013 and worked as amilitary chaplain at theBundeswehr's Stetten am kalten Markt and Pfullendorf sites from March 2014.[4] In 2015 and 2016 he went on two foreign missions toMali,[5] as part of theEuropean Union Training Mission in Mali (EUTM Mali) inBamako and theUnited Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) inGao.
Kober was elected deputy state chairman of the FDP in Baden-Württemberg on 5 January 2015 in Stuttgart, serving under the leadership of chairmanMichael Theurer.
Kober became a member of the Bundestag again in the2017 German federal election. From January 2018, he was a member of the Committee for Labour and Social Affairs. He is also his parliamentary group's spokesperson on social policy. In November 2018, Kober initiated a cross-party interest group on horses.[6]
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD), theGreen Party and the FDP following the2021 German elections, Kober was part of his party's delegation in the working group onsocial policy, co-chaired byDagmar Schmidt,Sven Lehmann andJohannes Vogel.[7]
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