Knut Sandler

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Knut Sandler (center) with Manfred Stolpe and Rainer Siebert (1990)

Knut Sandler (born October 12, 1943 in Potsdam ) is a German engineer and politician ( FDP ).

Life

Sandler initially worked as a diesel locomotive fitter in Potsdam until 1963. He then took up studies at the Technical University of Dresden , which he finished in 1968 with an examination as a graduate engineer. From 1968 to 1979 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Agricultural Engineering in Potsdam-Bornim , and received his doctorate in 1976 in Dresden as Dr.-Ing. and worked from 1979 to 1988 as head of department at the Central Institute for Earth Physics in Potsdam. After his habilitation (Dr.-Ing.habil.) In 1988 at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Berlin, he worked until 1990 as a department head at the research center for high pressure research in Potsdam. During his research he was able to register several patents. Today (2008) he is chairman of the supervisory board of Potsdamer Wohnungsbaugenossenschaft eG

Knut Sandler has been married since 1968 and has one son.

politics

Sandler joined the FDP in 1990 and was state chairman of the Free Democrats in Brandenburg in 1990/91. From 1990 to 1992 he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Economics, Medium-Sized Enterprises and Technology of the State of Brandenburg.