Heinz Riesenhuber

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Heinz Friedrich Ruppert Riesenhuber (born December 1, 1935 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German politician ( CDU ). From 1976 to 2017 he was a member of the German Bundestag . As the oldest member of the 17th (2009–2013) and 18th German Bundestag (2013–2017), he acted as age president .

From 1982 to 1993 he was Federal Minister for Research and Technology .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1955 at the humanistic Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main, Riesenhuber studied natural sciences (major in chemistry ) and economics , which he completed in 1961 as a chemist . During his studies he received a scholarship from the Cusanuswerk Episcopal Study Fund . From 1962 to 1965 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. In 1965 he received his doctorate in natural sciences (Dr. rer. Nat.) With his work on lattice disturbances in microcrystalline FePO 4 .

From 1966 to 1982 he worked for Metallgesellschaft AG, Frankfurt / Main, in this context from 1966 for Erzgesellschaft mbH (from 1968 as managing director), and from 1971 to 1982 as technical managing director of Synthomer Chemie GmbH . From 1994 to 2002 he was Co-President of the German-Japanese Cooperation Council for High Technology and Environmental Technology DJR, Bonn. Since 1995 he has been an honorary professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. From 2006 to 2018 he was President of the German Parliamentary Society .

Riesenhuber is a member of boards of directors and advisory boards of German and foreign companies and institutes, including

He is also chairman of the Hessian Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, Frankfurt.

In August 2018, Riesenhuber was appointed to the Council for Digital Ethics by the Hessian state government .

Heinz Riesenhuber lives in Frankfurt-Unterliederbach . He is married and has two sons, one of whom is Maximilian Riesenhuber (* 1970), and two daughters. Riesenhuber made the bow tie his trademark.

Political party

He has been a member of the CDU since 1961. From 1965 to 1969 he was state chairman of the Junge Union in Hessen . Since 1965 he has been a member of the state executive committee and since 1968 of the presidium of the CDU in Hesse. From 1973 to 1978 he was chairman of the CDU district association in Frankfurt am Main. Since 1979 he has been chairman of the CDU district association FrankfurtRheinMain (formerly Untermain).

From 1977 to 1982 he was chairman of the CDU Federal Committee on Energy and Environment. He is a board member of the Economic Council of the CDU Germany.

MP

Heinz Riesenhuber, Member of the Bundestag, in conversation at the fence of the Federal Chancellery in Bonn, 1995

From 1976 to 2017 Riesenhuber was a member of the German Bundestag and with over 40 years in the history of this parliament, after Wolfgang Schäuble and Richard Stücklen, the member with the third longest membership. From 1980 to 1982 he was energy policy spokesman for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group . From November 2001 to October 2002 he was Chairman of the Committee on Economics and Technology.

In spring 2006, Riesenhuber was elected President of the German Parliamentary Society to succeed Elke Leonhard (SPD) .

Heinz Riesenhuber was elected to the German Bundestag in 1976 and 1980 via the Hesse state list . After that, he always moved into the Bundestag as a directly elected member, initially for the constituency of Frankfurt am Main I - Main-Taunus-Kreis , and since 2002 for the constituency of Main-Taunus . In the 2009 Bundestag election , he achieved 47.5 percent of the first votes in his constituency . As the oldest member of parliament, he held the position of senior president of the 17th German Bundestag. In the 2013 federal election , he received 52.5% of the first votes. In the 18th German Bundestag he also assumed the role of senior president.

Riesenhuber was a member of the Committee for Economic Affairs and Energy in the 18th electoral term and, in addition to his parliamentary diet, earned a . a. as chairman of the advisory board of an environmental and waste disposal company in level 7 above 75,001 euros per year. Riesenhuber stopped running for the Bundestag in 2017, and the CDU's direct candidate in the Main-Taunus constituency has been Norbert Altenkamp since then .

Federal Minister for Research and Technology

Heinz Riesenhuber as Federal Research Minister, 1987

On October 4, 1982 Riesenhuber was as Federal Minister for Research and Technology in by Chancellor Helmut Kohl led government appointed. In a cabinet reshuffle, he left the cabinet on January 21, 1993. During his time the Transrapid and the Growian were promoted .

Honors

Honorary doctorates :

Awards:

Cabinets

Web links

Commons : Heinz Riesenhuber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Friedrich Ruppert Riesenhuber - WHO'S WHO biography. Retrieved February 23, 2017 .
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ↑ Cabinet meeting with a focus on “Digitization” . In: egovernment.hessen.de . August 20, 2018 ( hessen.de [accessed August 29, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Bundestag publishes additional income: Most of the additional wage earners in the Union faction - Inland - FAZ
  5. ^ Research on a leash (Why Minister Heinz Riesenhuber left) , Die Zeit , January 29, 1993 No. 05
  6. ^ State party conference in Rotenburg / Fulda. In: CDU-Fuldatal.de. May 17, 2017, accessed July 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Riesenhuber, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riesenhuber, Heinz Friedrich Ruppert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main