1. Andreas Pinkwart previously was the Dean of HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and holder of the Stiftungsfonds Deutsche Bank Chair of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship.
14 Facts About Andreas Pinkwart
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Andreas Pinkwart subsequently studied Economics and Management Science in Munster and Bonn, receiving his Diplom-Volkswirt in 1987.
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Andreas Pinkwart joined the party in 1980, at the age of 19.
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From 1998 onwards a professorship at the University of Siegen followed, where Andreas Pinkwart taught Business Administration with focus on SMEs.
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In 2002, Andreas Pinkwart succeeded Jurgen Mollemann as chairman of the FDP in North Rhine-Westphalia, an office he held until 2010.
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From 2002 to 2005 Andreas Pinkwart was a Member of Parliament, where he was part of the FDP parliamentary group led by Wolfgang Gerhardt.
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Andreas Pinkwart served as his parliamentary group's spokesperson on the Finance Committee between 2002 and 2004 and later as the group's spokesperson on the national budget.
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From 2005 until 2010, Andreas Pinkwart served as State Minister for Innovation, Technology and Research and Deputy Minister-President of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, under the leadership of Minister-President Jurgen Ruttgers.
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At the beginning of 2011 Andreas Pinkwart became a senior research fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at the Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC His research project as fellow focused on the roles of universities as entrepreneurial hubs and engines of innovation in the US and Germany.
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Andreas Pinkwart led his party's delegation in the working group on economic affairs and energy policy; his co-chair of the CDU was Hendrik Wust.
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From 2017 to 2022, Andreas Pinkwart served as State Minister for Economic Affairs, Digitization, Innovation and Energy in the government of Minister-President Armin Laschet.
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Andreas Pinkwart was nominated by his party as delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2022.
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In November 2022, Andreas Pinkwart announced that he would resign his parliamentary seat and leave active politics.
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On energy policy, Andreas Pinkwart is widely regarded to be a critic of the country's energy transition as envisioned by former chancellors Gerhard Schroder and Angela Merkel.