Horst Maschler

Horst Maschler (* 1933 in Leuven (Silesia) ) is a German metallurgist and politician ( SPD ).

biography

Maschler is a graduate engineer. After studying iron and steel science at the Humboldt University in Berlin , he worked under Eduard Maurer at the Hennigsdorf Institute of Iron Research . He received his doctorate in 1975 with an economics thesis at the Bergakademie Freiberg . In 1989 he received the National Prize of the GDR (2nd class) for the technological and technical development of a process for the effective production of crude steel in an oxygen converter with increased scrap input.

In 1990 Maschler joined the newly founded SPD and sat for them in the Oranienburg district council. In the state elections in Brandenburg in 1990 , he won the direct mandate in the constituency of Oranienburg II. However, he resigned his state parliament mandate prematurely on March 11, 1992 in order to take up a management position in the Brandenburg State Audit Office . His successor in the state parliament was Barbara Tietze .

After resigning from his state parliament mandate, he was Vice President of the State Audit Office of Brandenburg until 1995 and then President Eberhard Fricke's successor until the end of November 1998 . Maschler was the first president of a state audit office in the new federal states with an East German vita.

Web links

• Horst Maschler in the Brandenburg Parliamentary Documentation
• Article in the Berliner Zeitung on the appointment of Horst Maschler as President of the Court of Auditors