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Ulla Ihnen | |
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 Ulla Ihnen in 2019 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 2017–2021 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1956-01-06)6 January 1956 (age 69) |
| Political party | FDP |
| Alma mater | University of Göttingen |
Ulla Ihnen (born 6 January 1956) is a German politician of theFree Democratic Party (FDP) who served as a member of theBundestag from the state ofLower Saxony from 2017 to 2021.[1]
Having grown up in Wittmund, Ihnen graduated from Mariengymnasium Jever and studied law from 1974 onwards at theUniversity of Göttingen. She completed her legal clerkship after the first state examination. After the second state examination she worked as a lawyer in Wittmund from 1983 to 1985.
In autumn 1985 Ihnen took up a position at theDeutsche Bundesbank. In 1988 she moved to the State Ministry for Federal and European Affairs of Lower Saxony. At the end of 1989 she moved to Brussels on a professional basis as a national expert at theEuropean Commission. At the end of 1991 she was entrusted with the establishment and management of the Office of the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern at the European Union in Brussels. In 1997 she was elected First County Councillor in the district of Uelzen. Further activities in the Lower Saxony state administration followed.
In January 2012, ministerStefan Birkner appointed her State Secretary in Lower Saxony's State Ministry for Environment, Climate Protection and Energy. With the change of government following the2013 elections she was put into temporary retirement.
Ihnen has been a member of the FDP since 1977.
Ihnen became member of the Bundestag in the2017 German federal election. She was a member of the Budget Committee and the Audit Committee. In this capacity, she served as her parliamentary group'srapporteur on the annual budget of theFederal Ministry of Food and Agriculture from 2018.
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