Wolfgang GERHARDT

Chairman of the Board of Directors Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation, Leader of the Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP) (1995 – 2001)

1970 - 1978 - Personal adviser of the Minister of Interior in Hesse

1978 - 1994 - Member of the state parliament (Landtag) in Hesse

1983 - 1987 – Chairman of the FDP-state parliamentary group

1987 - 1991 - Minister for Science and Art in Hesse, Deputy Prime Minster of Hesse

1988 - President of the permanent conference of the ministers for education and cultural affairs of the federal states in Germany

1982 - 1995 Chairman of the German Free Democratic Party Hesse

1985 - 1995 Deputy Chairman of the FDP

1991 - 1994 Chairman of the FDP-state parliamentary group

1994 - 2013 Member of Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag)

1995 - 2001 Leader of the FDP

October 1998 Chairman of the FDP-parliamentary group to April 2006

2002 - 2012 Vice-President of Liberal International

Since May 2006-05-08 Chairman of the Board of Directors of Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation