The FDP cannot do without him – but how much longer with him?

Wolfgang Kubicki

For Kubicki, the FDP is a party that primarily convinces people like him.

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Berlin Wolfgang Kubicki is cold. He is standing in a church in Goslar, next to him is a book table with his books, “Opinion (in) Freedom”, “The Suppressed Freedom” are lying there. People line up to shake his hand.

A woman comes to him, she has not been vaccinated against the corona virus, her whole family has not. “If I may say so, I prevented compulsory vaccination,” says Kubicki. She thanks him. “Stay strong,” she says.

Kubicki, 70 years old, a lawyer by profession, likes that, he is the hero in this story. In recent years he has become one of the most important politicians of the FDP, he has been deputy federal chairman for nine years and has been vice president of the Bundestag since 2017. He has only been in Berlin since then, before that he was chairman of the FDP parliamentary group in the state parliament in Kiel for more than 20 years, a prince in his own kingdom.

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