Federal Association of Liberal Students Groups

The Federal Association of Liberal Students Groups (German: Bundesverband Liberaler Hochschulgruppen; short: LHG) is a student association in the Federal Republic of Germany supporting liberal political issues.

Federal Association of Liberal Students

Formation	December 17, 1987; 37 years ago (1987-12-17)
Headquarters	Reinhardtstraße 14, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Location	Berlin
Membership	49 groups (as of Jan. 2024)
Chairman	Jan-Lukas Gescher
Website	www.liberale-hochschulgruppen.de

The LHG was established in 1987, by a combination of 40 student groups, as a successor association of several liberal student associations, including the center-left Social Liberal Student Association (SLH), the Young Liberals Student Association (JuLi-Hochschulgruppen), and the Liberal Students' Initiative (LSI).^{[citation needed]}

The LHG is considered the first comprehensive federal association of liberal students in Germany since the breakup of the Liberal Students' Alliance (LSD), once associated with the FDP in 1969.^{[citation needed]}

The LHG is a full member of the European Liberal Youth (LYMEC), which itself is tied to the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party in the European Union.^[1]

Consisting of currently 49 member groups, LHG is one of the largest German student association.^[2] Since its January 2024 convention in Bonn, the federal chairman is Jan-Lukas Gescher.^[3]

Former chairpersons

• Inka Goos-Richter (1987–89)
• Peter Kuhlmeier (1989)
• Lukas Werner (1989–91)
• Beate Engelhardt (1991–92)
• Christian Etzrodt (1992)
• Bernd-Alfred Bartels (1992–94)
• Knut Wuhler (1994–95)
• Carl Sonnenschein (1995–96)
• Gunnar Pietsch (1996–97)
• Britta Paulekat (1997–1998)
• Sandra von Münster (1998–2000)
• Raoul Michael Koether (2000–02)
• Marcel Luthe (2002–04)
• Martin Hörig (2004–06)
• Götz Galuba (2006–07)
• Daniel George (2007–09)
• Johannes Knewitz (2009–11)
• Kristina Kämpfer (2011-12)
• Josephine Dietzsch (2012-2014)
• Julia Buschhorn (2014-2015)
• Sascha Lucas (2015-2015)
• Alexander Schopf (2015-2016)
• Johannes Dallheimer (2016-2019)
• Lukas Tiltmann (2019-2020)
• Tabea Gandelheidt (2020-2022)
• Benjamin Kurtz (2022-2024)
• Jan-Lukas Gescher (since January 2024)