Dirk Niebel
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Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development Germany
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In office 28 October 2009 – 17 December 2013 |
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| Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
| Preceded by | Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul |
| Succeeded by | Gerd Müller |
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29 March 1963 Hamburg, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | Free Democratic Party (Germany) |
| Website | dirk-niebel.de |
Dirk Niebel (born 29 March 1963) is a German politician. From 2009 to 2013 he served as Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development. From 2005 to 2009, he was secretary general of the FDP.
Niebel was born in Hamburg on 29 March 1963. After his Fachhochschulreife (college entrance qualification) in 1983, Niebel lived for one year in a Kibbutz in Israel. Later he served for eight years as an airborne infantry noncommissioned officer in the Bundeswehr in Calw. He then studied at the German College of Public Administration in Mannheim and finished his studies in 1993 as Diplom-Verwaltungswirt (similar to a Master of Public Administration degree). In 1982, he spent a summer in the kibbutz Kfar Giladi.
From 1993 to 1998, Niebel worked at an employment bureau in Sinsheim, a part of the Federal Employment Office of Heidelberg.
Niebel is married and has three sons.
In 1977, Niebel joined the Junge Union, and in 1979, the CDU. He left both in 1981.
In 1990, he joined the FDP and was co-founder of the Heidelberg division of the Junge Liberale. Since 2003 Niebel has been a member of the Federal Board of the FDP and of the curatorship of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. On 5 May 2005, the Federal Board elected him secretary general of the FDP with 92.4 percent of the votes.
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