On January 8, the American Council on Germany will host a discussion and dinner with Dr. Volker Wissing, Federal Minister for Digital and Transport and Member of the German Bundestag (FDP) on “From Digitalization to Transportation: Understanding Germany’s Economy”
Price: $95 for dues-paying ACG Members; $125 Non-Members
Dr. Volker Wissing has been the Federal Minister for Digital and Transport since December 2021. He is a Member of the Bundestag for the Free Democratic Party (FDP), representing the Südpfalz. From 2020 to 2021, he served as the Secretary General of the FDP. Previously, he was a member of the state parliament of Rhineland-Platinate and served as Deputy Minister-President of the state and as the Minister for Economic Affairs, Transportation, Agriculture, and Viticulture from 2016 to 2021. Dr. Wissing was a Member of the Bundestag from 2004 to 2013, and served as the Chair of the Bundestag’s Finance Committee from 2009 to 2011 and as the Deputy Chair of the FDP Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag from 2011 to 2013. Since 2013, he has been a member of the FDP’s Executive Committee.
A lawyer by training, Dr. Wissing was a judge and public prosecutor in Zweibrücken and Landau in der Pfalz from 1997 to 1999, and was appointed judge at the district court in Landau in der Pfalz in 2001. He studied Law in Saarbrücken and Freiburg.