Michael Krapp

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Michael Krapp (born November 22, 1944 in Gera ) is a former German politician ( CDU ). From 1999 to 2004 he was Minister of Education for the Free State of Thuringia .

Career

After studying general and theoretical electrical engineering at the TH Ilmenau from 1963 to 1969, Michael Krapp was an assistant at the Institute for Technical Computer Science at the TH Ilmenau. In 1974 he became a Dr.-Ing. PhD in the field of technical informatics. From 1979 to 1983 he was involved in industrial robot controls and computer architectures in the Robotron combine . In 1982 he qualified as a Dr.-Ing. habil. From 1983 to 1990 Krapp worked as a lecturer at the Institute for Technical Computer Science at the TH (later TU) Ilmenau, and from 2004 as an honorary professor .

In 1982 Krapp joined the GDR CDU . After the German reunification and rebuilding of the country Thuringia he was from 25 October 1990 Member of the Thuringian state parliament (elected in parliament constituency Ilmenau I), but resigned in early 1991 from the state parliament out to the position of Secretary of State and Chief of the Thuringian State perceive .

On October 1, 1999, Krapp was appointed Thuringian Minister of Culture by Prime Minister Bernhard Vogel (CDU) and finally moved back to the Thuringian state parliament with a direct mandate in the constituency of Hildburghausen I in the 2004 state elections . On July 8, 2004, Krapp resigned from the office of minister of education; his state parliament career ended on September 28, 2009 after he lost his direct mandate in the 2009 state elections to Tilo Kummer ( Die Linke ).

Krapp is the chairman of the Thuringian regional association of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elections in the Free State of Thuringia. In: State elections 2004 in Thuringia - final result. Thuringian State Office for Statistics, accessed on November 5, 2019 .
  2. ^ Elections in the Free State of Thuringia. In: State election 2009 in Thuringia - final result. Thuringian State Office for Statistics, accessed on November 5, 2019 .