Gero Clemens Hocker | |
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 Hocker in 2013 | |
| Member of theBundestag forLower Saxony | |
| In office 24 October 2017 – March 2025 | |
| Constituency | FDP List |
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| Born | (1975-06-30)30 June 1975 (age 50) |
| Political party | Free Democratic Party |
| Alma mater | University of Bremen |
Gero Clemens Hocker (born 30 June 1975) is a German economist and politician of theFree Democratic Party (FDP) who served as a member of theBundestag from the state ofLower Saxony from 2017 to 2025.[1]
In addition to his parliamentary work, Hocker briefly served asParliamentary State Secretary in theFederal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure under ministerVolker Wissing in thecoalition government ofChancellorOlaf Scholz from September to November 2024.[2]
Hocker graduated from high school in 1994 and subsequently completed his basic military service. From 1995 to 1998 he trained as a bank clerk at the Sparkasse Bremen.
After his training, Hocker worked in the marketing department. He also studied economics at the University of Bremen from 1998 to 2003. During his studies he completed various internships in Australia, China and New York. He then worked as an investment consultant at Nordwestfinanz Bremen until 2006. From 2007 until 2008, he was a personal advisor toCarsten Maschmeyer.[3]
From 2009 to 2017 Hocker served as a member of theState Parliament of Lower Saxony. From 2012 to 2018 he was Secretary General of the FDP Lower Saxony, under the leadership of chairmanStefan Birkner. In April 2018 he was elected to the state executive committee as an assessor.
In the 2017 federal election, Hocker ran for election in the Osterholz - Verden constituency and was elected to the Bundestag via the FDP's Lower Saxony state list. In parliament, he served on the Committee on Food and Agriculture. He was also his parliamentary group's spokesman for agriculture and nutrition.[4]
On 17 January 2019, Hocker was elected President of the German Fisheries Association.[5]
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD), theGreen Party and the FDP following the2021 German elections, Hocker was part of his party's delegation in the working group on agriculture and nutrition, co-chaired byTill Backhaus,Renate Künast andCarina Konrad.[6]
In 2023, Hocker was one of the candidates to succeedStefan Birkner as chair of the FDP in Lower Saxony;[7] in an internal vote at a party convention, he ultimately lost againstKonstantin Kuhle.[8]
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