Jens Beeck

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Jens Beeck
File:Jens Beeck MdB (2017).jpg
Beeck in 2017
Member of the Bundestag
for Lower Saxony
Assumed office
24 October 2017
Constituency FDP List
Personal details
Born (1969-09-19) 19 September 1969 (age 54)
Münster, West Germany
Political party Free Democratic Party
Occupation Lawyer

Jens Beeck (born 19 September 1969) is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Lower Saxony since 2017.[1][2]

Early life and career

Beeck completed his school education in 1988 with the Abitur. Afterwards he worked in the catering trade in the Black Forest before he began his studies of law. Beeck passed his first state examination in law in 1996.

Beeck then worked as an administrative employee at the Nordhorn employment office and completed his basic military service. After his legal clerkship he completed his second state examination in 2000. Since 2001 Beeck has been working as an independent lawyer with his own law firm.[3]

Political career

Beeck joined the FDP in 1987. He became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 national elections.

In parliament, Beeck has served on the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development (2018–2021), the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs (since 2018) and the Committee on Foreign Affairs (since 2021).[4] He is his parliamentary group's spokesperson for the interests of people with disabilities.[5] In addition to his committee assignments, Beeck is part of the German Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of Central America.

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the FDP following the 2021 federal elections, Beeck was part of his party's delegation in the working group on children, youth and families, co-chaired by Serpil Midyatli, Katrin Göring-Eckardt and Stephan Thomae.[6]

References

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  6. Ampel-Koalition: Das sind die Verhandlungsteams von SPD, Grünen und FDP Deutschlandfunk, 27 October 2021.

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