Dietmar Rieth

Dietmar Rieth

Dietmar Rieth (born February 3, 1958 in Kinheim ) is a German politician of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party .

Life and career

After graduating from secondary school in 1972, Rieth learned the profession of electrical installer in Wittlich (Eifel). After obtaining his technical college entrance qualification in 1978, he began studying electrical power engineering at the Koblenz University of Applied Sciences , which he successfully completed in 1982 with a degree in engineering. In the same year he took up a job as a sales engineer at the converter and transformer works (WTW) in Wirges , three years later he switched to the Neuwied public utility company , where he was responsible as a planning engineer for energy supply. In addition, he was fire chief at the Neuwied fire department. After his time as a member of the state parliament, he was a member of the board of a small stock corporation and managing director of various limited liability companies, responsible for project development, the processing of wind farm projects that had already started, and support for wind farms that had already been implemented, as well as a consultant for energy-related issues. He has been the owner of the Mittelrhein Energy Agency since 2005, and has held a 90% stake since 2009 after being converted into a GbR. Since January 1st, 2017 he is the sole owner of the company Dietmar Rieth [Energieagentur Mittelrhein], which as legal successor of the GbR is responsible for all previous services and offers further new services in the area of ​​the safety of electrical systems as a VDS expert.

Rieth is the father of two children.

politics

In 1988 Rieth became a member of the Greens, in 1992 he took over the post of spokesman in the Neuwied district association . For several years he was a member of the Neuwied City Council and sat on various advisory boards and committees. From 1991 to 2001 he was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament , in which from 1993 he held the office of deputy chairman of the Greens. In the state parliament he was responsible for the political areas of energy, economic, media and nuclear policy as well as the partnership with Rwanda . He was also the coordinator of the “Energy Policy Advice” at the federal level from 1993 to 2001. Rieth is currently calling for a rethinking of local government reform with the ex-politician Alfred Beth (CDU) , who is also from Kinheim .

Social Commitment

Since 2008 member of the state board of the Rhineland-Palatinate Rwanda partnership association. For his services to the partnership between the Republic of Rwanda and the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Dietmar Rieth received the certificate of honor from the Ministry of the Interior and for Sport and the Association Partnership Rhineland-Palatinate eV Here he is particularly committed to mutual constructive knowledge transfer. Since 2009 he has been a member of the board of directors of the German Energy Consultant Network (DEN eV); since 2010 state spokesman for DEN eV Rhineland-Palatinate; since autumn 2015 Rwanda Investment Promoter, on behalf of the Rwandan government and partner of the Rwandan embassy. Since 2016 he has been a member of the board of the "Association of Former Members of the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate".

Special award

Dietmar Rieth has been the recipient of the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon since November 2002, awarded by Federal President Johannes Rau on the proposal of Prime Minister Kurt Beck .

Web links

Commons : Dietmar Rieth  - Collection of Images

• Biography about Dietmar Rieth on the website of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament ( Memento from April 25, 2001 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ EMC experts
2. ↑ Vision: New community under the Hochmosel bridge. In: Trierischer Volksfreund . (Online edition), July 24, 2013.
3. ↑ Board of the partnership association Rhineland-Palatinate Rwanda
4. ^ Rwanda Revue.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 01/2008.  
5. ^ Rwanda Revue.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 01/2016.  
6. ↑ Imprint Deutsches Energieberaternetzwerk (DEN eV) ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Partner of the Rwandan embassy from: Homepage of the Rwandan embassy from December 6, 2015.
8. ^ Homepage Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate