Peter Röhlinger

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Peter Röhlinger (born February 8, 1939 in Jena ) is a German politician ( FDP ). He was Lord Mayor of the City of Jena from May 22, 1990 to 2006 and was a member of the German Bundestag from 2009 to 2013 .

Private

Röhlinger studied veterinary medicine at the University of Leipzig from 1958 and after graduating in 1964 worked as a veterinarian in a state veterinary practice and soon afterwards as a lecturer and scientist at the college for veterinary medicine in Beichlingen . At the University of Leipzig, he received his doctorate A and B.

Röhlinger is Catholic and has three children.

politics

At the suggestion of the SPD , the major parties agreed in the 1990 election on joint support for the FDP candidate Röhlinger in the election of mayor in Jena. In 1994 and 2000 Röhlinger was re-elected.

Within the FDP Thuringia, Röhlinger held the office of state chairman from December 3, 1994 to March 20, 1999. Röhlinger was a member of the board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom from 2007 to 2014 .

For the 2009 Bundestag election , Röhlinger was elected to the German Bundestag with second place on the Thuringian FDP's state list. As a direct candidate for the FDP in the Bundestag constituency Gera - Jena - Saale-Holzland-Kreis , he received 9.7% of the first votes. He did not run for the 2013 federal election .

On February 26, 2016, Röhlinger was awarded honorary citizenship of the city of Jena in recognition of his services as Lord Mayor.

Individual evidence

  1. Career ( memento of September 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), www.peter-roehlinger.de, accessed on May 16, 2012.
  2. ^ Report of the Ostthüringer Zeitung .

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predecessor Office successor
Martin Otto Lord Mayor of Jena
1990–2006
Albrecht Schröter