Renata Alt
Renata Alt | |
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Member of the Bundestag for Baden-Württemberg | |
Assumed office 24 October 2017 | |
Constituency | FDP List |
Personal details | |
Born | Skalica, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) | 27 August 1965
Political party | Free Democratic Party |
Renata Alt (born 27 August 1965) is a German chemical engineer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg since 2017.[1]
Early life and career
[edit]Renata (née Formánková) Alt was born in Skalica (western Slovakia). From 1993 until 1994, Alt worked as an economic attaché at the Consulate General of Slovakia in Munich. Since 1994, she has been operating her own consulting firm.
Political career
[edit]Alt became a member of the German Bundestag in the 2017 federal elections, representing the German state of Baden-Württemberg. She has since been serving on the Committee on Foreign Affairs – where she is her parliamentary group's rapporteur on relations with Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, and the Balkans – and on its Sub-Committee for Civilian Crisis Prevention.
Since 2021, Alt has been serving as chairwoman of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid.[2]
In addition to her committee assignments, Alt has been serving as chairwoman of the German Parliamentary Friendship Group for relations with the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, and as deputy chairwoman of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of South-Eastern Europe (Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia) since 2018. Since 2022, she has also been part of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.[3]
Other activities
[edit]- Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future", Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2020)[4]
- Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF), Member of the Supervisory Board (since 2018)[5]
- Walther Rathenau Institute, Member of the Advisory Board[6]
Personal life
[edit]Alt is married to hair stylist Thomas Alt.
References
[edit]- ^ "Renata Alt, FDP". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 4 September 2020.
- ^ Constanze von Bullion, Henrike Roßbach and Mike Szymanski (7 December 2021), Berliner Personalien: Neue Gesichter, unerwartete Namen Süddeutsche Zeitung.
- ^ German Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Bundestag.
- ^ FDP-Kandidaten für Stiftungskuratorium Deutscher Bundestag, press release of 2 July 2020.
- ^ Supervisory Board Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF).
- ^ Board Walther Rathenau Institute.
- Members of the Bundestag for Baden-Württemberg
- Living people
- 1965 births
- Members of the Bundestag 2017–2021
- Members of the Bundestag 2021–2025
- Female members of the Bundestag
- Members of the Bundestag for the Free Democratic Party (Germany)
- Slovak emigrants to Germany
- People from Skalica
- 21st-century German women politicians