Gunter Fritsch

Gunter Fritsch (2013)

Gunter Fritsch (born October 5, 1942 in Landsberg an der Warthe , Brandenburg province ) is a German politician ( SPD ). He is a former state minister. D. and was President of the Brandenburg State Parliament . He is also state chairman of the German War Graves Commission eV in Brandenburg.

Life

The flight from the Red Army in 1945 ended for Gunter Fritsch and his family in Tabarz / Thür. Forest . Only in 1947 did she return to Brandenburg and settle in Tempelberg (then the district of Lebus ) near Fürstenwalde / Spree . Since 1949 Fritsch attended elementary school. In 1957 the family moved to Müncheberg . From 1961 to 1964 he completed vocational training as a car fitter and passed his high school diploma. Because of his evangelical faith , he refused to use the weapon and was a construction soldier with the NVA . From 1967 to 1990 he worked initially as a laboratory mechanic and later as a development engineer at the Central Institute for Optics and Spectroscopy of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . Working, he studied from 1967 to 1974 in distance education at the Technical University of Dresden and graduated with a Diploma - Engineering for high-frequency technology from.

From May 2007 to January 2008 he was married to the pediatrician Christa-Maria Engst, a non-party member of the SPD parliamentary group, until her death in Brandenburg an der Havel . They met during their shared hobby of mountaineering in Saxon Switzerland , then lost sight of each other and met again in 2004 after 40 years.
He has two children from his first marriage.

politics

Gunter Fritsch has been a member of the SPD since 1990 and belongs to the Müncheberg local association. From 1990 to 1993 he was a city councilor in Müncheberg. From October 1993 to 1997 he was a member of the district council of the Märkisch-Oderland district . From October 2003 to October 2004 he was again a member of the district council of Märkisch-Oderland. From September 2008 to July 2012 he was a member of the city council of Brandenburg an der Havel and a member of the committee for finance and real estate.

In the state elections in September 1999 he was elected for the first time as a member of the Brandenburg state parliament and was also chairman of the SPD parliamentary group and the main committee until October 2004. In the 2004 state elections, he was able to re-enter the Brandenburg state parliament via the state list. After the state elections in Brandenburg in 2014 , he left the state parliament. From October 2004 to October 2014 he was President of the State Parliament.

Since 1990, he first district administrator of the district Strausberg and after the Administrative Reform 1993-1997 district administrator of the district Oderland . From 1997 to 1999 Gunter Fritsch was Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forests in the State of Brandenburg .

Since July 8, 2000 he has been deputy chairman of the Brandenburg regional association of the SPD.

Others

• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Sparkasse Märkisch-Oderland Foundation
• Chairman of the Brandenburg State Tourism Association V.
• Member of the board of trustees of the Brandenburg State Stud Foundation Neustadt / Dosse
• Representative of the Landtag in the Conference of the European Regional Legislative Parliaments (CALRE)
• Chairman of the Friends of Airfield Eggersdorf 1936 e. V. (FFE 36)

literature

• Short biography for:  Fritsch, Gunter . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Commons : Gunter Fritsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gunter Fritsch - Official Website (offline)
• Brandenburg Parliamentary Documentation - Database query formulator from the Brandenburg State Parliament