Christoph Brandt (politician)

Christoph Brandt (born August 22, 1938 in Schneidemühl ; † November 5, 2011 ) was a German politician ( CDU ). He was a member of the last, freely elected People's Chamber of the GDR (1990) and a member of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament (1991–1998).

Life

Brandt attended elementary school and advanced high school in Bad Doberan , where he passed his Abitur in 1958 . After an apprenticeship as an electrician, he attended the Wismar engineering school and became an engineer for marine electronics in 1968. Brandt studied information technology with a degree in engineering. From 1975 to 1990 he was department head for technology at VEB Kombinat Getreidewirtschaft Rostock .

Brandt joined the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) in 1968 , where he held various functions. After the reunification he was deputy district chairman in Bad Doberan and in 1994 became a member of the CDU regional executive committee. Brandt was a member of the city council in 1989/90 and of the district council of Bad Doberan in 1994. From March to October 1990 he was a member of the last people's chamber in the GDR. On June 4, 1991, he replaced Heinrich Schlingmann in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament, to which he was a member until October 1998. He was also the deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group.

From 2004 to 2007 Brandt was chairman of the Bad Doberan Memorial Association.

Brandt was a Protestant, married and the father of two children.

literature

• Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Landtag, manual, 1st electoral period . Neue Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt, Rheinbreitbach 1992, ISBN 3-87576-295-9 , p. 19.

Web links

• Biography of Christoph Brandt . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : The members of the 10th People's Chamber of the GDR (Volkparl)