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Wolfgang Kubicki (born 3 March 1952) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP) who has been vice chairman of the FDP in Germany since December 2013.
Kubicki was a member of the Bundestag from 1990 to 1992 and again from 2017 to 2025. He served as Vice President of the Bundestag from 2017 to 2025. From 1992 to 1993 and from 1996 to 2017 he served as chairman of the FDP group in the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament.
From 1987 to 1989, he was chairman of the Rendsburg-Eckernförde FDP district association. He relinquished this office after his election as state chairman in September 1989. In September 1993, Kubicki resigned as state chairman in the wake of the Schönberg Landfill Affair. As state chairman, Kubicki was also a member of the Liberals' federal executive committee. He has done so again since 1997. He was also his party's top candidate in state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 1992, 2000, 2005, 2009, 2012 and 2017.
Kubicki lobbied since 2000 for Guido Westerwelle to be elected federal chairman of the FDP and to become parliamentary party leader of the FDP parliamentary group in the Bundestag. Westerwelle thus pushed Wolfgang Gerhardt out of both positions at the time. In mid-December 2010, Kubicki publicly advocated for Westerwelle's replacement as party leader of the FDP in May 2011. He compared the situation of the FDP with the late phase of the GDR and blamed the party leadership for the poll results below 5%. He said that the FDP was not in a good position to be replaced.
In the 2012 state election, the FDP, with Kubicki as its top candidate, received a result of 8.2 percent of the second votes. While this was a significant loss compared to the 2009 state election, when 14.9 percent was achieved, it was still the second-best election result achieved in Schleswig-Holstein. Previously, the FDP had been eliminated from six state parliaments. Therefore, the result was considered an extraordinary success, which was mainly attributed to Kubicki and labeled the "Kubicki effect". In polls, he achieved 54 percent approval of the electorate of Schleswig-Holstein (compared to 18 percent for Philipp Rösler) and 63 percent saw large differences between the state and federal FDP. Although Kubicki had never been sparing with criticism of his own party's federal policies, he already emphasized in the ZDF election broadcast that this result, which was perceived as an election victory, was precisely also a success for the federal party. In doing so, he clearly countered putsch rumors against the chairman of the federal FDP Philipp Rösler that had previously arisen in public even before the end of the election evening. In August 2012, Kubicki announced his intention to run as the top candidate for the Schleswig-Holstein FDP in the 2013 federal election.
At the 2013 FDP federal party convention, Kubicki succeeded then-Development Minister Dirk Niebel, who was eliminated in the first round of voting, as an assessor on the federal presidium. Kubicki then won in a fight vote against Health Minister Daniel Bahr. The Extraordinary Party Congress of the FDP in December 2013 elected Kubicki as 1st Deputy to the new party leader Christian Lindner with 89.87% of the vote. The 2015 FDP Federal Party Congress confirmed Kubicki in this position with 94.2% of the vote, and the 2017 FDP Federal Party Congress with 92.29%.
Kubicki is a member of the FDP's Executive Committee.
Kubicki is a member of the advisory board of the German-Arab Society.
In March 2024, Kubicki declared that he would vote in favor of the delivery of Taurus KEPD 350 cruise missiles to Ukraine.
Kubicki has publicly declared that he has violated against the lockdowns set by the federal government himself.
In November 2021, Kubicki called the chairman of the World Medical Association, Frank Ulrich Montgomery the "Saddam Hussein of the medical profession." Montgomery had previously sharply criticized the FDP's Corona policy. After strong criticism, Kubicki apologized to Montgomery. In the speech in which he attacked Montgomery, he also criticized Corona management in parts of southern Germany. He also claimed that Markus Söder was putting his own career ambitions ahead of protecting the public, calling Söders regulations to be out of character and "humanly pathetic."
In December 2021, he positioned himself against general mandatory vaccination against Covid-19 and formulated a motion against it with other FDP deputies. Kubicki sees the general vaccination requirement as unconstitutional and called it a serious breach of trust. In addition, he stated that many supporters of compulsory vaccination seemed to be primarily concerned with revenge and retaliation against the unvaccinated. As a result, he was also criticized within the party.
In early 2022, Kubicki called on Bavarian Minister President Markus Söder to resign, accusing him of misleading the public regarding the role of the unvaccinated in the infection process. Söder had previously spoken of a "pandemic of the unvaccinated" and in mid-November 2021 had referred to figures according to which the incidence among vaccinated persons was 110, but that among unvaccinated persons was 1469. It later became known that this calculation added people with unknown vaccination status to the unvaccinated group, potentially overestimating the role of the unvaccinated.
However, Kubicki is said to have concealed his contact with Hilmer. At the beginning of 1993, the State Audit Office of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern criticized the "miserable conduct of negotiations" by the Mecklenburg Ministry of the Environment and estimated that the state had suffered damages of 100 million marks as a result of "gagging contracts." The Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state parliament convened a committee of inquiry to clarify the allegations and later sued Kubicki for damages. Kubicki resigned from the chairmanship of the FDP and the parliamentary group in Kiel in 1993. However, the Federal Court of Justice ruled in Kubicki's favor in the legal dispute, which had lasted for years.
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