Volker Wissing

Wissing was born 1970 in the German town of Landau in der Pfalz and studied law at the Saarland University.[1]

Wissing achieved a law degree and worked as a for some time as a judge before he entered professional politics.[2]

Wissing entered the FDP in 1998. He became a member of the German Bundestag in 2004 when he took the seat of Marita Sehn who had died in a car accident. From 2004 until 2013, he served on the Finance Committee; he chaired the committee from 2009 until 2013. From 2011 until 2013, he also served as one of his parliamentary group's deputy chairpersons, under the leadership of chairman Rainer Brüderle.

In the negotiations to form a coalition government of the FDP and the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) following the 2009 federal elections, Wissing was part of the FDP delegation in the working group on financial policy and taxes, led by Thomas de Maizière und Hermann Otto Solms.[3]

On the state level, Wissing became chairman of the party’s branch in Rhineland-Palatinate in 2011 succeeding Rainer Brüderle. [4] He led the Free Democratic Party back into the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate in the 2016 state election. After coalition negotiations Wissing became Deputy Minister President and Minister for Economics, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture in Malu Dreyer's second cabinet.

In 2020 FDP leader Christian Lindner nominated Wissing to serve as General Secretary of the party, succeeding Linda Teuteberg. Subsequently Wissing announced his switch for state politics to the federal arena, announcing his candidacy for the Bundestag in the 2021 federal election. On 24 November 2021, he was nominated by the Federal Executive Committee of the FDP for the post of Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure in the designated federal government.

• German-Jordanian Society, Member of the Parliamentary Advisory Board[5]
• Association of German Foundations, Member of the Parliamentary Advisory Board (2005-2013)