Andreas Kniepert

Andreas Kniepert (born April 11, 1950 in Löbau ) is a German engineer and politician ( FDP ).

Life and work

After graduating from high school in Löbau in 1968, Kniepert initially worked as a mechanic. He then took up a degree in process engineering, which he completed with the examination to become a graduate engineer and a doctorate in engineering. finished. From 1974 to 1995 he worked as a research assistant at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the University of Architecture and Construction in Weimar . Here he obtained the academic degree Dr.-Ing. habil.

Andreas Kniepert has been married since 1986 and has two sons.

politics

After the political change in the GDR , Kniepert became a member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). From 1990 to 1994 and from 1999 to 2002 he was regional chairman of the Liberals in Thuringia . In 1990 he was elected to the Thuringian state parliament, to which he was a member until 1994. Here he was chairman of the FDP parliamentary group. In the 1999 state elections , he ran in the constituency Weimar I - Weimarer Land II

Kniepert was elected as a member of the federal executive committee at the unification party congress of the FDP in Hanover in August 1990 and was re-elected at the following party conventions in 1992 and 1993 . At the 1995 party congress , he no longer stood as a candidate and thus resigned from the board.

In the federal election in 2002 he was a candidate for the FDP in the Eichsfeld - Nordhausen - Kyffhäuserkreis constituency .

literature

• Short biography about:  Kniepert, Andreas . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .