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Lukas Köhler (born 22 August 1986) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2017.[1]
Lukas Köhler | |
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Member of the Bundestag | |
Assumed office 2017 | |
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Born | München, West Germany | 22 August 1986
Political party | FDP |
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Born in München, Bavaria, Köhler passed his Abitur examination in Monheim am Rhein in 2005 and, after completing his mandatory civilian service, studied philosophy in Munich with a Baccalaureate degree and in London with a master's degree. From 2011 to 2015 he completed his dissertation at the Munich School of Philosophy. He then took over the management of the Center for Environmental Ethics and Environmental Education there.
Köhler joined the Young Liberals and the FDP in 2011. From 2014 to 2017, he served as state chairman of the Young Liberals of Bavaria.
Since the 2017 elections, Köhler has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag. He is a member of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, where he serves as his parliamentary group’s spokesman for climate policy.[2] He is also member of the Parliamentary Advisory Board on Sustainable Development and a deputy member of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid.
From 2019, Köhler joined forces with Danyal Bayaz on bringing together fellow parliamentarians from the FDP and the Green Party to explore options for a so-called Jamaica coalition government.[3]
In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democrats (SPD), the Green Party and the FDP following the 2021 federal elections, Köhler led his party's delegation in the working group on environmental policy; his co-chairs from the other parties were Matthias Miersch and Oliver Krischer.[4]
Since 2021, Köhler has been serving as one of six deputy chairpersons of the FDP parliamentary group under the leadership of its chairman Christian Dürr.[5]
Since 2023, Köhler has been serving as deputy chair of the FDP in Bavaria, under the leadership of co-chairs Katja Hessel and Martin Hagen.[6][7]
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