Reinhard Keller

Reinhard Keller (born April 6, 1945 in Hohenstein-Ernstthal ) is a German politician . He was a member of the DSU until 1993 , after which he acted without a party .

Life

After high school and an apprenticeship as a concrete worker, he studied in Dresden and graduated in 1970 with a degree in structural engineering. He worked as an assistant at the TU Dresden and head of department at the Institute for Steel Construction.

Political career

During the GDR era, Keller joined the DSU in 1990 and was also active in local politics in the same year: as building department, city councilor and second mayor of Dresden. From June 1991 to April 1993 he was federal chairman of the DSU. Differences about the point in time of western expansion - Keller only wanted western expansion in agreement with the CSU  - prompted him to leave the party in May 1993. However, he continued his local political activities and stood in 1994 as an OB candidate for the DSU and the Free Citizens in Dresden. Keller is married and has two daughters. In 2012, Keller had to answer to court for subsidy fraud from 2005, but the proceedings were discontinued against payment of a monetary requirement of 3,000 euros.

literature

• André Freudenberg: Freedom-conservative small parties in reunified Germany . Engelsdorfer Verlag, January 18, 2013, p. 130 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alexander Schneider: Expensive signatures. In: sz-online.de. May 18, 2012, archived from the original on November 17, 2015 ; accessed on May 6, 2019 .