Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann

Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann
Strack-Zimmermann in 2024
Chair of the Committee on Security and Defence of the European Parliament
Assumed office
27 January 2025
DeputyChristophe Gomart
Preceded byNathalie Loiseau
Member of the European Parliament
Assumed office
16 July 2024
Preceded byNicola Beer
ConstituencyGermany
Chair of the Defence Committee
In office
15 December 2021  12 June 2024
DeputyHenning Otte
Preceded byWolfgang Hellmich
Succeeded byMarcus Faber
Deputy Leader of the
Free Democratic Party
In office
8 December 2013  26 April 2019
Leader
Preceded byHolger Zastrow
Succeeded byNicola Beer
Member of the Bundestag
for North Rhine-Westphalia
In office
24 October 2017  15 July 2024
Preceded bymulti-member district
Succeeded byFabian Griewel
ConstituencyFree Democratic Party List
Personal details
Born
Marie-Agnes Jahn

(1958-03-10) 10 March 1958
Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany (now Germany)
Political partyFree Democratic Party
(1990–)
Children3
Alma materLudwig Maximilian University of Munich (Dr. phil.)
Occupation
  • Politician
  • Publishing Representative
Awards
Central institution membership
  • 2023–present: Guest member, FDP Party Executive Committee Presidium
  • 2019–present: Full member,
    FDP Party Executive Committee

Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (née Jahn, born 10 March 1958) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since July 2024.

Before that Strack-Zimmermann served as Member of the German Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2017 to 2024. In parliament, she chaired the Defence Committee. From 2008 to 2014, she served as First Mayor of Düsseldorf, thereby acting as deputy to the Lord Mayor.