Overview

• Christian Dürr, expected to become FDP chair at the mid-May congress, has announced plans to propose Nicole Büttner as the party's new Generalsecretary.
• Büttner, founder and managing director of the AI company Merantix Momentum, brings two decades of FDP membership and entrepreneurial expertise to the role.
• Outgoing chair Christian Lindner and Secretary General Marco Buschmann will formally step down at the upcoming federal party congress.
• Dürr aims to modernize the FDP leadership by combining experienced figures with non-career politicians like Büttner to appeal to a broader electorate.
• The leadership overhaul follows the FDP's failure to re-enter the Bundestag in February, prompting a strategic and personnel realignment.