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Yvonne Gebauer (born August 2, 1966 in Cologne as Yvonne Leirich) is a German politician (FDP). She has been a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Landtag since the 2012 election and, since 2017, Minister for Education and School of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in the Laschet cabinet.
Origin, education and private
Born and raised in Cologne, Yvonne Gebauer attended Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium in Cologne-Ostheim, where she graduated from high school in 1985. She is the daughter of Wolfgang Leirich, who was from 1975 to 1987 school deputy of the city of Cologne. It was followed by training as a paralegal until 1987, in this profession she worked until 1989 in Cologne. From 1989 to 1992 she was employed for an FDP deputy in the Bundestag in Bonn. From 1994, Yvonne Gebauer managed a boarding house until she became self-employed in the real estate industry in 2004.
Yvonne Gebauer is married, mother of a son and lives in Cologne.
Party
Gebauer joined the FDP in 1982 as a 16-year-old high school student. From 1999 to 2004 Yvonne Gebauer was an expert resident in the Committee for suggestions and complaints of the city of Cologne. Gebauer has chaired the local FDP district association since 2015. On 19 November 2017 she handed over the chairmanship of the FDP Cologne to Lorenz Deutsch.
Deputy
Yvonne Gebauer was from 2004 to 2012 member of the Council of the City of Cologne and since then school policy spokeswoman for the Cologne FDP Council Group.
In the NRW state elections 2010 and 2012 she joined the constituency Cologne V as a direct candidate, where she received 4.6% and 5.3% of the first votes. In the state election 2012, she finally moved on the list place 12 in the state legislature. In the state election 2017 she won again on the state list of the FDP a mandate. In this election, she ran in the state constituency of Cologne IV and reached 8.3% of Erststimmen.
Minister
After the formation of the black-yellow state government under Armin Laschet Gebauer Minister of Education and School of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (see Cabinet Laschet). She is the first school minister since the founding of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia without a university degree.