Rainer Rund

Rainer Rund (born August 1, 1941 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

Rund studied history and political science in Heidelberg and Lausanne. After his state examination, he was a teacher at the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium in Ludwigshafen am Rhein from 1971 to 1981. From 1991 until the administrative reform in late 1999 he was the last President of the Government of the governmental district Rheinhessen-Pfalz .

Rund was involved in a large number of associations on a voluntary basis, such as the Historical Association of the Palatinate, as the district association chairman of the Red Cross and the Green District of Ludwigshafen. From 1992 to 2005 he was chairman of the Palatinate Forest Association .

politics

From 1971 to 1981, Rund was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament . From 1972 to 1991 he led the SPD district Ludwigshafen-Frankenthal and from 1979 also the Ludwigshafen city association. In 1981 he was elected head of cultural affairs for the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein and in 1985 he was elected mayor and thus deputy mayor Werner Ludwig . For a long time he was considered to be Ludwig's successor, but when he was appointed regional president in 1991, he renounced all party offices.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Palatinate Forest Association Frankfurt am Main ( Memento from December 15, 2004 in the Internet Archive )

literature

• Peter Ruf: Ludwigshafen deputy in the state parliament, Reichstag and Bundestag . Ludwigshafen 1993, ISBN 3-924667-20-9
• City archive of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein (ed.): History of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein: Vol. 2., From the end of the First World War to the present . Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2003, ISBN 3-924667-35-7