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Gerald Ullrich | |
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| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 2017–2025 | |
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| Born | (1962-12-23)23 December 1962 (age 63) |
| Party | The Free Democratic Party |
| Children | two |
| Occupation | Politician / Electronics engineer |
Gerald Ullrich (born 23 December 1962 inSchmalkalden) is a German electronics engineer and politician of theFree Democratic Party (FDP) who served as a member of theGerman Bundestag from 2017 to 2025.[1]
Ullrich obtained an intermediate school-leaving certificate at a polytechnic school in 1979. Then he trained as an electrician for three years, before he studied atHermsdorf Technical College for Electrical Engineering and Ceramics from 1983 to 1986. After he completed the 18 months ofcompulsory military service in theNational People's Army of theGerman Democratic Republic he worked for one year as an engineer and from 1989 to 1990 as a project manager of a large-scale project.[2] Shortly after thePeaceful Revolution he founded a family-run plastics processing company, which he managed until 2017.[3]
In 2014 Ullrich joined the FDP. He is member of the executive committee of the FDP in Thuringia since 2014 and its deputy chairman since 2016.[4] He is also chairman of the FDP Schmalkalden-Meiningen county branch since 2015 and Chairman of the Thuringia branch of the Liberal Association of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses since 2016.[2]
Ullrich became a member of the GermanBundestag in the2017 federal elections, representing the constituencySuhl – Schmalkalden-Meiningen – Hildburghausen – Sonneberg alongsideFrank Ullrich. He served on the Committee on European Affairs, the Committee on Petitions and as substitute member on the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy. On the Committee on European Affairs, he was his parliamentary group'srapporteur on climate protection and served since November 2019 also as coordinator of his parliamentary group.
In addition to his committee assignments, Ullrich served as deputy chairman of the German-Portuguese-Spanish Parliamentary Friendship Group.[2]
Ullrich is founder chairman of the Floh-Seligenthal business association.
Ullrich is Protestant, married, has two sons and lives inFloh-Seligenthal.[5]
