Ulrich Lechte

Ulrich Lechte (born 26 August 1977) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2017.

When the FDP left the Bundestag in 2013, Lechte moved to a company in the renewable energy sector in 2014 as assistant to the management and head of controlling.

Lechte joined the FDP and its youth organization, the Young Liberals, in 1998.

In 2019, Lechte unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Daniel Föst for the leadership of the FDP in Bavaria.

[2] Since then, he has been serving as one of three deputy chairpersons of the FDP in Bavaria under the leadership of successive chairs Föst and Martin Hagen.