Ralph Jimmy Schulz[1] (22 October 1968 – 25 November 2019) was a German technology executive and politician of the Free Democratic Party who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria from 2009 to 2013 and again from 2017 until his death in 2019.

Prior to politics, Schulz founded and sold an internet service provider called Cyber Solutions GmbH.

After finishing school, he spent one year as an exchange student at the University of Texas at Austin.

[4] In 2000, he joined the Free Democratic Party and began running in local elections in Hohenbrunn.

He served only one term as the Free Democrats failed to reach the five percent threshold in the 2013 election, costing it all of its seats.