Alexander Graf Lambsdorff
| Alexander Graf Lambsdorff | |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
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Assumed office 2004 |
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Alexander Graf Lambsdorff 5 November 1966 Cologne, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Political party |
 German:Free Democratic Party  EU:Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe |
| Alma mater |
University of Bonn, Georgetown University |
Alexander Sebastian Léonce von der Wenge Lambsdorff (born 5 November 1966 at Cologne), known as Alexander Graf Lambsdorff ("Alexander, Count Lambsdorff"), is a German politician and former diplomat. He has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEPP) since 2004, representing the liberal Free Democratic Party of Germany. He was elected Vice-President of the European Parliament in 2014. A member of the noble Lambsdorff family, he holds an Imperial Russian comital title.
Of Prussian Westphalian ancestry, his family's comital title was granted in 1817 by Alexander I of Russia. His father, Count Hagen Lambsdorff (born 1935), is a former German Ambassador to the Czech Republic and Latvia and his uncle, Count Otto Lambsdorff (1926–2009), was a West German politician and Cabinet Minister from 1977 until 1982.
Lambsdorff grew up in Hamburg, Brussels, and Bonn, attending the Catholic Academic High School Aloisiuskolleg at Bonn-Bad Godesberg until 1985, before going up to the University of Bonn. From 1991 until 1993 Lambsdorff studied at Georgetown University on a Fulbright Scholarship graduating as a MA in History and an MS in Foreign Service (1993). After diplomatic training, he served on the German Policy Planning Staff (together with Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, his contemporary and now fellow FDP MEP) before becoming director of the Bundestag office of former German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel, after the FDP left government in 1998.
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