Ralf Donner

Ralf Ulrich Donner (born August 29, 1959 in Magdeburg ) is a German geodesist and politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). From 1990 to 1994 he was a member of the Saxon state parliament .

Life

Donner attended the extended secondary school in the GDR and graduated from high school. From 1980 to 1985 he studied geodesy at the TU Dresden and then worked there as a scientific assistant . He later worked as a research assistant at the Central Institute for Earth Physics in Potsdam and, from June 1990, again at the TU Dresden. In 1989 he did his doctorate with the topic “ Contributions to the integration of remote sensing data in geographic information systems ” as a Dr.-Ing.

At the chair for mine surveying and geodesy of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg , where he works as a private lecturer , he completed his habilitation in 2008 with a thesis on the visual interpretation of remote sensing data .

politics

Donner worked as a cultural organizer in the FDJ group from 1973 to 1984 and was co-founder of the Democracy Initiative 90, a predecessor party of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, in 1989 and 1990. In 1990 Donner was elected to the Saxon state parliament via the state list of his party, to which he belonged until the end of the first legislative period in 1994. He was vice chairman of the Constitutional and Legal Committee.

On May 26, 1997 he was awarded the Saxon Constitutional Medal by Landtag President Erich Iltgen .

literature

• Klaus-Jürgen Holzapfel (Ed.): Saxon State Parliament: 1st electoral period, 1990–1994; People's Handbook . NDV Neue Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt , Rheinbreitbach 1991, ISBN 3-87576-265-7 , p. 26. (as of May 1991)