Peter Kunert

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Peter Kunert (born October 12, 1949 in Querfurt ) is a German politician ( FDP ). He was state chairman of the FDP Saxony-Anhalt and long-time mayor of the city of Querfurt.

Life

Kunert, son of a middle-class family and a trained businessman , studied engineering economics for heavy mechanical engineering at the Roßwein engineering school in Saxony and was employed in a chemical assembly plant. After his father's death, he took over his parents' furniture commissioning business, which he ran until 1989. In the early 1970s he joined the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD) and became LDPD district chairman in December 1989, and later district chairman of the newly founded Free Democratic Party of the GDR in Querfurt. In the municipal elections in the GDR in 1990 he was elected mayor of Querfurt, initially exercising this office on a voluntary basis, from autumn 1990 onwards as a full-time employee.

State politics

After Gerd Brunner resigned as state chairman of the FDP Saxony-Anhalt on August 9, 1991 , Peter Kunert was elected as the new state chairman at an extraordinary party congress on September 7, 1991.

A few months before the state election in 1994, Wolfgang Rauls tried to replace Peter Kunert as chairman of the FDP Saxony-Anhalt, but this failed. This was preceded by a dispute between the left-liberal state chairman, who rejected the election of Prime Minister Christoph Bergner and announced his departure from the coalition, and the parliamentary group, which Christoph Bergner elected as the new Prime Minister despite the vote of the state executive. Peter Kunert, supported by Hans-Dietrich Genscher , rejected a coalition statement in favor of the CDU and declared the possibility of joining a traffic light coalition . To prevent this, the right-wing liberal wing of the party sent Rauls into the fight for the state chairmanship. Rauls failed, however, with 120 to 154 votes.

For the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt in 1994 , the FDP ran with Kunert as the top candidate. The party lost almost ten percentage points and failed at the five percent hurdle . After the election, Kunert resigned as state chairman; his successor was Bruno Menzel .

In 1994 the Magdeburg public prosecutor's office initiated an investigation against Kunert to investigate whether he had obtained personal advantages in his office. In June 1990, a few days before monetary union, Kunert bought a house in a prime location from the city council for 32,000 East Marks. The property on the market square has 300 square meters of retail space and three apartments.

Local politics

From June 1990 to March 2015 he was mayor of the city of Querfurt , making him the longest- serving full-time mayor in Saxony-Anhalt.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The portrait . In: Neue Zeit , December 2, 1993, p. 2.
  2. ↑ Peter Kunert new FDP leader in the country . In: Volksstimme of September 9, 1991.
  3. ↑ Surprising career began four months ago . In: Neue Zeit , September 10, 1991, p. 23.
  4. ↑ Horst-Hennek Rohlfs, Ursula Schäfer: Yearbook of the Federal Republic of Germany , Edition 12, 1993, ISBN 9783423056182 , p. 440.
  5. ↑ Liberals are striving for land consolidation within the party . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 28, 1994; Party convention confirms Kunert as state chairman.
  6. ↑ FDP - the breakdown troops , in: TAZ June 24 1994th
  7. ↑ Bargain for Kunert , in: Der Spiegel 8/94 of February 21, 1994.
personal data
SURNAME Kunert, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), mayor
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Querfurt