Michael Georg Link
Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office

Minister of State Michael Georg Link

Minister of State Michael Georg Link

Minister of State Michael Georg Link

Curriculum vitae

Born in Heilbronn/Neckar on 6 February 1963; Lutheran.

Elly Heuss Knapp Grammar School in Heilbronn. Military service in the 364th tank battalion, Külsheim. Studied at the universities of Augsburg, Lausanne/Switzerland and Heidelberg.

Translator for Russian and French. 1995 to 2005 research assistant in the German Bundestag, (study commission on German unity, assistant to Dr Klaus Kinkel, specialist adviser in the FDP working group on international politics).

Member of the executive committee of the Europa-Union, member of the German Council on Foreign Relations,  the German Association for Eastern European Studies, the Southeast Europe Association, the German Atlantic Association, the Workers' Samaritan Federation and active in the hospice movement in Germany.

1986 joined the FDP, 1989 to 1995 treasurer and deputy federal chair of the Young Liberals, since 2003 member of the FDP executive committee in Baden-Württemberg, since 2006 treasurer of the FDP in Baden-Württemberg.

Member of the German Bundestag since 2005.

Since  2012
Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office
Commissioner for Franco-German Cooperation