Hans-Jürgen Schultz

This article deals with the German geographer and politician; on the German radio journalist see Hans Jürgen Schultz .

Hans-Jürgen Schultz (born March 6, 1935 in Virchow , Pomerania ) is a German geographer and politician ( LDPD , FDP ). In 1990/91 he was State Minister in Thuringia.

Life and work

Hans-Jürgen Schultz was born on March 6, 1935 as the son of a watchmaker in Virchow and moved to the Second World War in the Soviet zone of occupation over. After graduating from the Extended Oberschule in Neubrandenburg in 1954 , he studied geography, education, biology and mathematics at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald . In 1959 he finished his studies with a diploma in geography. He initially worked as a research assistant at the University of Greifswald and moved to the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in 1960 , where he received his PhD in 1966. rer. nat. doctorate and lectured as senior assistant until 1969.

Schultz worked from 1969 to 1974 as a research assistant at the city administration in Jena , where he dealt with urban and territorial planning. He was then employed as the municipal sector manager for environmental protection, waste management and resource management. From 1982 to 1990 he worked at the research center of the Jena Carl Zeiss Foundation, where he devoted himself to questions of process engineering and energy supply.

politics

Schultz joined the LDPD in 1967 and later became a member of the central board of the bloc party. In addition, he was a member of the LDPD district executive in Jena. After the political change in the GDR , he joined the FDP. On November 8, 1990, he was appointed Minister of State for Economy and Technology in the government of the Free State of Thuringia led by Prime Minister Josef Duchač . During his tenure, he mainly had to deal with the monostructure in the country, including the vehicle production of the Wartburg in the Eisenach automobile plant and the Zeiss works in Jena . In the summer of 1991, the Ministry of Economic Affairs came under criticism from the state parliament opposition after former MfS informants had been exposed there. While Schultz was answering a request at a session of the state parliament on September 12, 1991, the then FDP state chairman Andreas Kniepert announced in a press release that Schultz would resign from his office for health reasons - whereupon he had to resign. He pointed out that his resignation was not related to the personal discussions about the Stasi involvement. The FDP politician Jürgen Bohn was appointed as his successor in office .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Hoffmeister: Liberals were always a Thuringian phenomenon. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung . September 8, 2010, accessed October 5, 2010 . 

See also

• Duchač cabinet

Web links

• Hans-Jürgen Schultz in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)