Rainer Ortleb
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Rainer Ortleb Bundesminister a. D. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Leader of the Liberal Democratic Party | |||||||||||||||||||||
In office 10 February 1990 – 11 August 1990 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Manfred Gerlach | ||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Position abolished Otto Graf Lambsdorff (as Leader of the Free Democratic Party) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Minister of Education and Research | |||||||||||||||||||||
In office 12 January 1991 – 4 February 1994 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Chancellor | Helmut Kohl | ||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Jürgen Möllemann | ||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Karl-Hans Laermann | ||||||||||||||||||||
Minister for Special Affairs | |||||||||||||||||||||
In office 3 October 1990 – 17 January 1991 Serving with Hans Klein, Rudolf Seiters, Lothar de Maizière, Sabine Bergmann-Pohl, Günther Krause, Hansjoachim Walther | |||||||||||||||||||||
Chancellor | Helmut Kohl | ||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Position established | ||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Position abolished | ||||||||||||||||||||
Leader of Die Liberalen group in the Volkskammer | |||||||||||||||||||||
In office 5 April 1990 – 2 October 1990 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Position established | ||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Wolfgang Mischnick (as Leader of the Free Democratic Party in the Bundestag) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Dresden University of Technology (Dr. rer. nat. ) (Dr.-Ing. habil.) | 5 June 1944||||||||||||||||||||
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Rainer Ortleb (born 5 June 1944) is a German academic and politician.
From October 1990 he served under Helmut Kohl as a Federal Minister for Special Affairs in Germany's first post-reunification government. In the next government, between 1991 and 1994, he served as Federal Minister of Education and Research.[1][2]
Life
Early years
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Following the merger of the LDP with the FDP Rainer Ortleb became regional party chairman in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern between 1991 and 1994. In 1997 he became the FDP regional party chairman in Saxony, becoming in the process the only FDP politician to be a regional party chairman successively in two different regions.
In 1999 Ortleb resigned from his party chairmanship in Saxony following poor performance in a regional election for which his name had been at the top of the FDP candidate list. Two years later, following differences within the party over support for Ingolf Roßberg as the party's (successful) candidate as mayor of Dresden, Ortleb resigned from the party in 2001.
In the 2009 election Ortleb gave his support to "Die Linke", the successor to East Germany's old ruling SED (party).[1] In November 2009 he gave a wide-ranging press interview celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, in which he called for a reorientation of his former party, the FDP.[8]
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On 3 October 1990 Rainer Ortleb was one of the formerly East German political leaders to join the cabinet of the newly reunified Germany, under Federal Chancellor Kohl. Initially he served as a Minister without portfolio, but following the national election two months later, on 19 January 1991, Ortleb was appointed Minister for Science and Training in succession to Jürgen Möllemann.[1] On 3 February 1994 he resigned from his ministerial position on health grounds.[9][10]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Helmut Müller-Enbergs. "Ortleb, Rainer * 5.6.1944 Vorsitzender des Bundes Freier Demokraten, Bundesminister für Bildung u. Wissenschaft". Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur: Biographische Datenbanken. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
- ^ a b Publisher-editor Rudolf Augstein (10 September 1999). "Porträt: Rainer Ortleb (FDP): Dünnhäutiger Liberaler". Der Spiegel (online). Retrieved 30 November 2014.
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has generic name (help) - Christian v. Ditfurth (23 August 1993). "Verbogene Lebensläufe: Der Historiker Christian v. Ditfurth über die unaufhaltsamen Karrieren aktiver FDP-Politiker". Der Spiegel(online). Retrieved 30 November 2014.
- ^ a b "Ortleb, Rainer Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. rer. nat". University of Rostock (Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium). Retrieved 30 November 2014.
- Christian v. Ditfurth (August 1993). "Verbogene Lebensläufe: Das ostdeutsche Erbe der FDP (full-length version)". Christian v. Ditfurth, Berlin. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
- ^ "Mein erstes Argument ist, für jeden sichtbar, die Uniform...Die Konsequenz, die Kriegskunst zu trainieren, wird uns täglich von der imperialistischen Tat aufgezwungen."
- ^ Publisher-editor Rudolf Augstein (11 November 1991). "FDP - Geisel der Neuen: Bei den Liberalen setzen sich zunehmend alte Kader aus den ehemaligen Blockparteien durch". Der Spiegel (online). Retrieved 30 November 2014.
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has generic name (help) - ^ Moritz Schwarz (8 November 2009). ""Ich bin froh und dankbar!": Interview mit Rainer Ortleb". Junge Freiheit. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
- ^ Jürgen Leinemann [in German] (7 February 1994). "Minister: Die Krankheit Politik: SPIEGEL-Reporter Jürgen Leinemann über Rainer Ortlebs Scheitern und Bonner Lebenslügen". Der Spiegel (online). Retrieved 30 November 2014.
- Tagesspiegel, Berlin (online). Retrieved 30 November 2014.