Pascal Kober

Pascal Kober (born 3 July 1971) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg since 2017.[1]

Pascal Kober
Pascal Kober in 2020
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2017
Personal details
Born (1971-07-03) 3 July 1971
Sindelfingen, West Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partyFDP
Alma materAugustana Divinity School

Life

Born in Sindelfingen, Baden-Württemberg, Kober grew up in Böblingen and studied Protestant theology at the universities of Tübingen, Kiel and Neuendettelsau.

Career

Kober is pastor of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg and was a member of the Bundestag from 2009 to 2013,[2] representing the Reutlingen district. During that time, he served on the Committee on Labour and Social Affairs and the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid. In addition to his committee assignments, he was part of the German-American Parliamentary Friendship Group and the German-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group.

Kober retired from politics with the federal elections in 2013 and worked as a military chaplain at the Bundeswehr's Stetten am kalten Markt and Pfullendorf sites from March 2014.[3] In 2015 and 2016 he went on two foreign missions to Mali,[4] as part of the European Union Training Mission in Mali (EUTM Mali) in Bamako and the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) in Gao.

Kober was elected deputy state chairman of the FDP in Baden-Württemberg on 5 January 2015 in Stuttgart, serving under the leadership of chairman Michael Theurer.

Kober became a member of the Bundestag again in the 2017 German federal election. Since January 2018, he has been a member of the Committee for Labour and Social Affairs. He is also his parliamentary group's spokesperson on social policy.

References
  1. "Pascal Kober | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  2. Lohre, Matthias (2010-09-07). "Liberaler Abgeordneter Pascal Kober: Der Pfarrer und die FDP". Die Tageszeitung: taz (in German). ISSN 0931-9085. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  3. Finkenwirth, Angelika (2017-06-16). "FDP: Militärseelsorger mit politischen Ambitionen". Die Zeit (in German). ISSN 0044-2070. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  4. "FDP-Abgeordneter Kober: "Gott hat es so gefügt"". pro Medienmagazin - Das Christliche Medienmagazin pro informiert aus einer anderen Perspektive. (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-15.
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