Rainer Ortleb

Rainer Ortleb, 1990

Rainer Ortleb (right) at an event in Dresden on the GDR local elections in May 1990, accompanied by Wolfgang Mischnick (with pocket square)

Rainer Ortleb (born June 5, 1944 in Gera ) is a German politician ( LDPD / FDP ). From 1990 to 1991 he was Federal Minister for Special Tasks and from 1991 to 1994 Federal Minister for Education and Science .

Life

education and profession

After graduating from high school in Radebeul in 1962 , Ortleb did military service in the National People's Army of the GDR and undertook a career as a reserve officer (last rank: Lieutenant dR). He studied mathematics in Dresden , which he graduated in 1969 as a qualified mathematician. In 1971 he was promoted to Dr. rer. nat. PhD . In 1977 he was a senior scientific assistant at the Technical University of Dresden . There he headed an NVA reservist collective for several years. His habilitation for Dr.-Ing. habil. took place in 1983 with the work module terminal in dialog systems. Since 1984 he has been a lecturer for information processing systems at the University of Rostock . In September 1989 he was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Rostock and was professor for technical system application software from 1992 to 1998.

Party career

In 1968 Ortleb became a member of the LDPD . In November 1976 Ortleb rose to the secretariat of the LDPD district executive in Dresden. In 1978 he was elected LDPD district chairman in Rostock and a little later he was elected to the LDPD board of the Rostock district . In 1982 he also became chairman of the LDPD district council Dresden-Süd. At the LDPD party congresses in Weimar in 1977 and 1987, he praised the defense of the GDR in NVA uniform. In this context he explained, among other things: "My first argument is, visible to everyone, the uniform ... The consistency of training the art of war is imposed on us every day by the imperialist act."

In February 1990, a LDPD special party conference elected him as the new party chairman of the GDR party, renamed LDP . After the merger with the FDP, he was state chairman in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from 1991 to 1994 . In 1997 he became the FDP chairman in Saxony , making him the only FDP politician to head two different state associations of the party.

He resigned from office in Saxony because of the poor performance of the FDP in the 1999 state elections , for which he ran as a top candidate. After the differences over support for the election of Dresden's Lord Mayor Ingolf Roßberg within the FDP district association of Dresden, where he campaigned for support for his election, Ortleb resigned from the FDP in 2001.

In the 2009 Bundestag election, Ortleb called for the election of the Left Party . On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, he gave an interview to the right-wing conservative weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit , in which, among other things, he called for a more nationally liberal orientation of the FDP.

Member of Parliament

Ortleb was elected to the first freely elected people 's chamber of the GDR in the Dresden constituency in 1990 . There he was the chairman of the FDP parliamentary group. He was then one of the 144 elected members of the Volkskammer who became a member of the German Bundestag on October 3, 1990 . He was a member of the German Bundestag until 1998. In the Bundestag elections in December 1990 and 1994 , Ortleb entered the Bundestag via the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state list .

Public offices

On October 3, 1990, he was appointed to the cabinet of Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl as Federal Minister for Special Tasks . From January 18, 1991, Ortleb headed the Federal Ministry of Education and Science . On February 3, 1994, he resigned from office for health reasons.

Other engagement

From 1991 to 1995 he was Deputy Chairman of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation . He was then a member of the Foundation's Board of Trustees until 1998.

family

Rainer Ortleb is married, has two children and lives in Dresden.

See also

• Cabinet Kohl III
• Cabinet Kohl IV

literature

• Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Ortleb, Rainer . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Christoph Wunnicke: Rainer Ortleb. In: The block parties of the GDR. Continuities and Transformation 1945–1990. Berlin 2014 (= series of publications by the Berlin State Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former GDR , Volume 34), pp. 93–95. ( PDF; 434 kB )

Web links

Commons : Rainer Ortleb  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography at the German Bundestag
• CV Rainer Ortlebs
• Political career (Article by Ditfurth)
• Entry on Rainer Ortleb in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Bent CVs . In: Der Spiegel . No. 34 , 1993, pp. 44-53 ( online ).
2. ^ Entry on Rainer Ortleb in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
3. ↑ Hostage of the New . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 1991, pp. 23 and 25 ( online ).
4. ↑ Words of choice. In: die-linke.de. Archived from the original on August 29, 2009 ; accessed on September 25, 2009 (for the 2009 Bundestag election). 
5. ↑ Moritz Schwarz: "I am happy and grateful!" In: Junge Freiheit . Retrieved January 17, 2019 (interview with Rainer Ortleb; issue 46/09). 
6. ↑ Jürgen Leinemann : The disease policy . In: Der Spiegel . No. 6 , 1994, pp. 20 and 21 ( online ).
7. ↑ Rainer Woratschka: Alcohol Addiction in Politics - A lot has to happen before something happens. In: tagesspiegel.de. July 14, 2011, accessed January 17, 2019 .