After completing her Abitur (high school diploma) in 1984 at Friedrich-Wöhler-Gymnasium in Singen, she pursued a degree in Public Administration at the University of Konstanz from 1984 to 1989.[1]
Political career
Since 1982, Homburger has been a member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). In 1984, she also joined the Young Liberals, of which she served as the state chairwoman in Baden-Württemberg from 1988 to 1991.[1]
In September 1990, during the first all-German congress of the merged, all-German youth association of the FDP, Homburger was elected as the Federal Chairwoman of the Young Liberals and held the position until 1993.[5]
From 1993 to 2013, Homburger was a member of the FDP State Executive Committee in Baden-Württemberg. In 1997, she was elected as the deputy state chairwoman and in 2004, succeeding the resigned Walter Döring, she became the chairwoman of the FDP State Association in Baden-Württemberg, a position she retained after being confirmed in 2010.[6][2]
Since 1991, Homburger has been a member of the Federal Executive Board and since 2001, she has also been part of the Presidium of the FDP. She was re-elected in 2005 and 2011. However, on March 10, 2013, during the FDP Federal Party Conference in Berlin, she was voted out of her position as deputy chairwoman of the FDP.
Birgit Homburger was a member of the German Bundestag from 1990 to 2013.[3] From 2009 to 2011, she served as the chairwoman of the FDP parliamentary group in the Bundestag.[3]