Jürgen Hardt, MdB
Transatlantic Coordinator at the Federal Foreign Office
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Since May 2014, Jürgen Hardt serves as Federal Foreign Office Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation in the Field of Intersocietal Relations, Cultural and Information Policy. In this role, Jürgen Hardt is a full member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, a full member of the Committee on the Affairs of the European Union, member of the working group on municipal affairs of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group, member of the group representing employees' interests within the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group, and member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Moreover, since 2009, Jürgen Hardt is a member of the German Bundestag, and since September 2015, serves as the Foreign Policy Spokesman of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag.
Hardt served as a naval officer in the Bundeswehr for four years and studied economics in Heidelberg and Cologne from 1986 to 1993.