Horst Rehberger

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Horst Rehberger, 2019

Horst Rehberger (born October 10, 1938 in Karlsruhe ) is a German lawyer and politician ( FDP ).

Life

education and profession

As the son of a Reichsbahnrat, Rehberger grew up in Mülheim an der Ruhr , where he attended elementary school and the classical grammar school from 1945. In the meantime he was a student at the state high school in Speyer ; In 1958 he passed the Abitur at the Bismarck High School in Karlsruhe . From 1958 to 1963 he studied law and political science in Heidelberg and Berlin . He was then a with the distinction magna cum laude rated thesis on "The DC circuit of Baden 1932/33" at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg for doctor of law doctorate . From 1967 to 1970 he worked as a lawyer in Karlsruhe. Later he was deputy judge at the constitutional court of the Saarland and most recently worked again as a lawyer in Saarbrücken and Magdeburg .

Political career

Horst Rehberger (far left, 1990)

Rehberger joined the German Young Democrats in 1957 and joined the FDP in 1959. He was elected full-time mayor of the city of Karlsruhe in 1970 and re-elected in 1978. During this time, as the responsible mayor, he was instrumental in promoting the development of the Karlsruhe light rail system into the Karlsruhe model . Between 1984 and 1985 he was Saarland Minister for Economics, Transport and Agriculture in the Zeyer III cabinet . From 1984 to 1990 he was state chairman of the FDP Saarland . From 1985 to 1990 he was a member of the state parliament in Saarland and chairman of the FDP / DPS parliamentary group there. In 1990 he became Saxony-Anhalt Minister for Economics and Technology ; he had to give up this position to Rainhard Lukowitz (FDP) in the course of the 1993 salary affair .

Between May 16, 2002 and April 23, 2006, Rehberger was again Saxony-Anhalt Minister of Economics and Labor and, from June 18, 2002, he was also Deputy Minister-President in the Böhmer I cabinet . The focus of his work here was on the establishment of new companies, especially in the fields of genetic engineering, the chemical industry and solar energy (e.g. Q-Cells ). In addition, he was committed to the expansion of tourism, u. a. with the establishment of the Romanesque Road or the reopening of the Brocken Railway .

From 1997 to 2016 he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation . Rehberger has been honorary chairman of the FDP regional association of Saxony-Anhalt since 2006 .

In addition, Rehberger is a member of various cultural, business-related and social institutions and organizations: Among other things, he acts as chairman of the Forum Grüne Vernunft association , which supports advocates and initiatives for green genetic engineering .

In October 2019, Rehberger pleaded for closer cooperation with the AfD , including a government coalition at state level. He demanded that "the times in which the AfD was only marginalized and denounced must come to an end." He considers a future coalition with the AfD "possible if agreement can be reached on issues."

Publications

  • The coordination of the state of Baden in 1932/1933. C. Winter Universitätsverlag, Heidelberg 1966, DNB 362116490 (dissertation).
  • On the way - Political paths of a liberal. Lindemanns Bibliothek, Karlsruhe 2009, ISBN 978-3-88190-531-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Organization. Constitutional Court of the Saarland , accessed on September 16, 2012 .
  2. ↑ a b As "Mister ten percent" in the annals of the Saar-FDP. Pfälzischer Merkur , August 1, 2009, accessed on November 6, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Press information On the way Horst. (PDF; 67 kB) (No longer available online.) Infoverlag.de, formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 16, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.infoverlag.de
  4. ^ Magdeburg Industrial Club. Archived from the original on February 11, 2013 ; Retrieved September 16, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Sabrina Gorges: Harz Brocken Railway celebrates its anniversary. Braunschweiger Zeitung , September 13, 2011, accessed on September 16, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Imprint. Green Reason Forum, accessed on December 28, 2015 .
  7. ^ Michael Bock, Volksstimme Magdeburg: Ex-Minister for Coalition with the AfD. Retrieved December 22, 2019 .


personal data
SURNAME Rehberger, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), Member of the State Parliament, Economics Minister of Saxony-Anhalt
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe