Gerald Ullrich

Gerald Ullrich (born 23 December 1962 in Schmalkalden) is a German electronics engineer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as a member of the German Bundestag from 2017 to 2025.

Early life and career Ullrich obtained an intermediate school-leaving certificate at a polytechnic school in 1979. Then he trained as an electrician for three years, before he studied at Hermsdorf Technical College for Electrical Engineering and Ceramics from 1983 to 1986. After he completed the 18 months of compulsory military service in the National People's Army of the German Democratic Republic he worked for one year as an engineer and from 1989 to 1990 as a project manager of a large-scale project. Shortly after the Peaceful Revolution he founded a family-run plastics processing company, which he managed until 2017.

Political career In 2014 Ullrich joined the FDP. He is member of the executive committee of the FDP in Thuringia since 2014 and its deputy chairman since 2016. He is also chairman of the FDP Schmalkalden-Meiningen county branch since 2015 and Chairman of the Thuringia branch of the Liberal Association of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses since 2016.