Lencke Wischhusen

Lencke Wischhusen (born 6 September 1985 in Bremen) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and businessperson. She was the top candidate of the FDP Bremen at the 2015 and the 2019 Bremen state election.

Lencke Wischhusen
Wischhusen on 26 May 2019
Member of the Bürgerschaft of Bremen
Assumed office
2015
Personal details
Born (1985-09-06) 6 September 1985
Bremen, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political partyFree Democratic Party

Education and early career

Wischhusen took her final degrees in 2004 at Ökumenisches Gymnasium zu Bremen and became a businesswoman. She has been working at the plastic-packaging company of her parents (W-Pack GmbH) since 2008, and became general manager in 2010.

From 2012, Wischhusen served as the chairperson of industry organization Bundesverband Junger Unternehmer (BJU).[1]

Between 2014 and 2015, Wischhusen appeared alongside Vural Öger, Jochen Schweizer, Frank Thelen and others in the first two seasons of Die Höhle der Löwen, a VOX reality television format featuring entrepreneurs pitching their business ideas in order to secure investment finance from a panel of venture capitalists.

Political career

On 15 November 2014 the FDP Bremen voted for Wischhusen to become top candidate for the 2015 Bremen state election.[2] After gaining 6.8 percent of votes and therefore entering the city-state parliament, she joined the FDP and their youth organization Junge Liberale ("Young Liberals") on 10 May 2015.[3]

In her capacity as Member of the State Parliament of Bremen, Wischhusen is a member on the Budget and Finance Committee, the Controlling Committee and the Committee on Gender Equality. She also serves as chairwoman of the Audit Committee.[4]

In November 2016, Wischhusen announced that she run for a parliamentary seat in the 2017 national election.[5] She was a FDP delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2017.

Other activities

Personal life

On 24 June 2014, Lencke Wischhusen married the businessman Philippe Steiner and took his surname. After her divorce in 2019 she took her birth name again.[6]

References
  1. Lencke Wischhusen wird Nachfolgerin von Marie-Christine Ostermann. Geschäftsführerin eines Bremer Verpackungsunternehmens wird neue Bundesvorsitzende. Archived 17 February 2013 at Archive.today Pressemitteilung. 24 November 2012
  2. Ralf Michel: Lencke Wischhusen neue Spitzenkandidatin. Bremens Liberale wollen "das Ding rocken". In: Weser-Kurier.de, 15 November 2014
  3. Twitter-Statusmeldung vom 10. Mai 2015; @FDPBremen
  4. Lencke Steiner Bürgerschaft of Bremen.
  5. Sebastian Rösener (8 November 2016), Lencke Steiner will in den Bundestag Bild.
  6. Bloethe, Holger (20 November 2019). "FDP-Lencke heißt wieder Wischhusen: „Dieser Name ist Heimat für mich"". Bild.de. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
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