Benjamin Strasser | |
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 Benjamin Strasser in 2018 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 2017–2025 | |
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| Born | (1987-02-09)9 February 1987 (age 38) Weingarten,West Germany (now Germany) |
| Political party | FDP |
| Alma mater | University of Konstanz |
Benjamin Strasser (born 9 February 1987) is a German lawyer and politician of theFree Democratic Party (FDP) who served as a member of theBundestag from the state ofBaden-Württemberg from 2017 to 2025, representing theRavensburg district.[1]
In addition to his parliamentary work, Strasser served asParliamentary State Secretary in theFederal Ministry of Justice in thecoalition government ofChancellorOlaf Scholz from 2021 to 2024.[2][3]
Strasser attended the Realschule at the St. Konrad educational centre and the Wirtschaftsgymnasium in Ravensburg. After graduating from high school, he studied law at theUniversity of Konstanz. He completed his legal studies in 2012 with the first state examination in law.
After his legal clerkship at the Regional Court of Stuttgart, which he completed with the second state examination in 2014, Strasser worked as a parliamentary advisor to Ulrich Goll in theState Parliament of Baden-Württemberg. In this function he was also responsible for the parliament's inquiry into theNational Socialist Underground (NSU). Since 2016 he has been a lawyer in Ravensburg.
Strasser became a member of the Bundestag in the2017 German federal election.[4] He is a member of the Committee on Internal Affairs.[5] In this capacity, he serves as his parliamentary group’srapporteur on theemergency services, including theFederal Police, theFederal Criminal Police Office (BKA) andemergency medical services, among others. In 2020, he became his parliamentary group’s spokesperson on religion and the fight againstantisemitism.[6]
In addition to his committee assignments, Strasser co-chaired the German-Austrian Parliamentary Friendship Group and was a member of the German-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group.
Amid a 2020 controversy about the FDP’s relationship with theAlternative for Germany (AfD), Strasser was appointed byChristian Lindner to chair the parliamentary group’s task force on developing strategies againstright-wingpopulism.[7]
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD), theGreen Party and the FDP following the2021 federal elections, Strasser was part of his party's delegation in the working group onhomeland security, civil rights and consumer protection, co-chaired byChristine Lambrecht,Konstantin von Notz andWolfgang Kubicki.[8]
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