Eberhard Brecht

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Eberhard Brecht (1990)

Eberhard Brecht (born February 20, 1950 in Quedlinburg ) is a German politician of the SPD . He was a member of the People's Chamber in 1990 and the German Bundestag from 1990 to 2001 and since October 2019. From 2001 to 2015 he was Lord Mayor of Quedlinburg.

Life

Eberhard Brecht, a great-grandson of the former mayor Gustav Brecht , was born in Quedlinburg in 1950 and attended the community school there between 1956 and 1964 and the extended secondary school from 1964 to 1968, which he graduated with the Abitur . He then studied physics in Leipzig . He completed his studies with a degree in physics. From 1973 to 1976 he was employed as a research assistant at the Central Institute for Molecular Biology of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Berlin-Buch , and from 1976 to 1990 as a research assistant at the Central Institute for Genetics and Crop Plant Research of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Gatersleben . In 1982 he was promoted to Dr. rer. nat. PhD.

Until 1989 he was non-party. In September 1989 he joined the New Forum and was involved as a co-initiator of the civil rights movement in Quedlinburg. In December 1989 he joined the SPD . He was a member of the first freely elected People's Chamber from March 18 to October 2, 1990. In the elections for the first all-German Bundestag in 1990, he was able to move into the German Bundestag , to which he was a member until June 30, 2001.

In 2001 Eberhard Brecht was elected Lord Mayor of Quedlinburg and confirmed in his office on March 2, 2008. On June 30, 2015, Brecht retired for reasons of age and therefore did not stand for election on March 22, 2015.

In the 2017 federal election , he ran in the Harz constituency and placed fifth on the state list , but failed to make it into the Bundestag. On October 25, 2019, he replaced Burkhard Lischka in the Bundestag. For this he gave his mandate in the district council of the Harz district.

Brecht is married and has three children. In 2008 he was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A treasure for the city's history mz-web.de, August 5, 2010
  2. ↑ How Eberhard Brecht wants to work in the Bundestag mz-web.de, September 28, 2019
  3. ^ German Bundestag - biographies of the members of parliament. Retrieved February 25, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Brecht, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdV, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Quedlinburg