Conrad-Michael Lehment

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Conrad-Michael Lehment (born February 5, 1945 in Rostock ) is a German engineer, entrepreneur and politician ( LDPD , later FDP ).

Life and work

Lehment was born the son of a beverage manufacturer. After graduating from high school in Rostock in 1963 , he first trained as a brewer and maltster. In 1965 he began studying fermentation technology, which he completed in 1970 with an engineering degree. He then worked as a technical manager in his father's beverage company until 1974. After the expropriation of the company, he took over the management until 1989. In the mid-1990s, parts of the previously expropriated company were awarded to him.

Political party

Lehment had been a member of the LDPD since 1970 . After the political change in the GDR , he joined the FDP in August 1990 . In 1994/95 he was deputy state chairman of the FDP Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

MP

From March 18, 1990 to October 2, 1990, Lehment was a member of the first freely elected GDR People's Chamber and was there parliamentary manager of the BFD faction. He was one of the 144 members of the Volkskammer elected who became members of the German Bundestag on October 3, 1990 . He then belonged to the German Bundestag until the end of the legislative period.

Public offices

Lehment was Deputy Chairman of the Rostock District Council in 1989/90 . On October 27, 1990, he was appointed Minister of Economic Affairs to the government of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania led by Prime Minister Alfred Gomolka and since 1992 has also been a member of the subsequent government led by Prime Minister Berndt Seite . During Lehment's tenure, the Greifswald nuclear power plant was shut down and the decision to build the A 20 Baltic Sea motorway was made . After the FDP's defeat in the state elections in October 1994, he left the government on December 9, 1994.

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