Axel Viehweger

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Axel Viehweger (born November 27, 1952 in Waldenburg (Saxony) ) is a former German politician ( LPDP , FDP ). He was Minister for Construction, Urban Development and Housing in the GDR in Lothar de Maizière's cabinet .

Life

Viehweger attended the Extended High School (EOS) and passed the Abitur . He joined the LDPD in 1970 . From 1973 to 1978 he studied power engineering and nuclear physics at the Technical University of Dresden and was then a scientific assistant at the Institute for Energy. From 1984 to 1985 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Energy in Dresden . He received his doctorate in 1985 on the subject of " A contribution to the determination of 'favorable' hydraulic operating regimes for hot water district heating networks in the event of accident conditions or scheduled shutdowns " to the title of Dr.-Ing.

politics

Viehweger was from 1979 to 1986 a member of the Dresden-West district assembly and until 1990 Dresden city ​​councilor for energy. From 1981 to 1985 he was chairman of the Dresden-West urban district association of the LDPD and until 1990 chairman of the Dresden-Stadt district association. Since February 1990 he was a member of the Presidium of the Federation of Free Democrats and later a member of the FDP . From April to September 1990, Viehweger was Minister for Construction, Urban Development and Housing in Lothar de Maizière's cabinet . He resigned after the results of the Volkskammer examination committee and the allegations of cooperation with the Ministry for State Security under the code name "Jens Grabowski" and the recommendation for immediate resignation on September 28, 1990, but remained the top candidate of the FDP Saxony for the state election on October 14, 1990 . During the first legislative period, from 1990 onwards, he was a member of the Saxon state parliament , into which he was drawn via the state list of the FDP. According to a report in the Sächsische Zeitung of November 13, 1990, Viehweger left his state parliament mandate "at the request of the FDP state parliamentary group and after a conversation with the FDP federal chairman Graf Lambsdorff " until the Stasi allegations against him had been clarified. On November 4, 1991 Viehweger was expelled from the FDP parliamentary group. Thereupon he resigned from the FDP and belonged to the state parliament for the remainder of the legislative period until 1994 as a non-attached member.

Viehweger was a member of the board of the Association of Saxon Housing Cooperatives until December 31, 2019.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ License to print money . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 1991, pp. 32-34 ( online - 1 July 1991 ).
  2. ^ Dorit Pries: Stasi employees in German parliaments? checking the members of parliament for cooperation with the state security service of the former GDR. 2008, ISBN 3-8258-0593-X . P. 51 in the Google Book search
  3. ^ Dorit Pries: Stasi employees in German parliaments? checking the members of parliament for cooperation with the state security service of the former GDR. 2008, ISBN 3-8258-0593-X . P. 52 in Google Book search
  4. ↑ Daily entries for November 1991
  5. ↑ Steps to the Lean State: The State of Saxony under the reign of its "King" Biedenkopf
  6. ↑ Traces in the snow: MPs in East German state parliaments who have been burdened with the Stasi refuse to return their seats . In: Der Spiegel . No. 48 , 1991, pp. 103-107 ( Online - Nov. 25, 1991 ).
personal data
SURNAME Viehweger, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (LDPD, FDP), Minister for Building, Urban Development and Housing of the GDR (1990), Member of the State Parliament
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldenburg