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Stefan Ruppert | |
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 Stefan Ruppert in 2015 | |
| Chairman of theFree Democratic Party inHesse | |
| In office 2014–2021 | |
| Deputy | Lasse Becker Bettina Stark-Watzinger |
| Preceded by | Jörg-Uwe Hahn |
| Succeeded by | Bettina Stark-Watzinger |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 2017 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1971-07-02)2 July 1971 (age 54) |
| Political party | FDP |
| Alma mater | Goethe University Frankfurt |
Stefan Ruppert (born 2 July 1971 inFrankfurt) is a German lawyer and former politician of theFree Democratic Party (FDP) who served as a member of theBundestag from the state ofHesse from 2009 until 2013 and from 2017 until 2020.[1] He chaired the FDP in Hesse from 2014 to 2021.[2][3]
After graduating from the bilingual (German/French) branch of the draught school in Frankfurt am Main in 1991, Ruppert did community service with theGerman Red Cross (DRK) in the field of geriatric care.
From 1992 Ruppert studied law, political science and history at theGoethe University Frankfurt and took his first state examination in 1997. In 2001, he received his doctorate with his dissertation on Canon Law and the Kulturkampf and was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal. In 2003 he completed the second state examination in law after a two-year academic work at theFederal Constitutional Court.
Ruppert joined the FDP in 1990. In the 2009 federal elections, he entered the German Bundestag via the Hesse state list. He was a member of the Committee on Internal Affairs and his parliamentary group’s spokesperson on churches and religious communities.[4] Due to the FDP's failure to reach the five percent hurdle in the 2013 federal elections, he left the Bundestag.
Ruppert became a member of the Bundestag again in the2017 German federal election.[5] There he was parliamentary manager of the FDP parliamentary group until January 2020.[6]
From 2018 until 2020, Ruppert was part of a cross-party working group on a reform of Germany’selectoral system, chaired byWolfgang Schäuble.[7]
In 2020, Ruppert joined the board ofB. Braun.[8]
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