Roland Resch (politician)

Roland Resch (born November 24, 1951 in Graefenthal , Saalfeld district , Thuringia , GDR ) is a German engineer , conservationist and politician (formerly Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). From 1992 to 1994 he was Minister of Education of Brandenburg , then until 1998, alongside Sylvia Voss, state chairman of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Brandenburg . After leaving the party, he became active on the list of the Greens as a local politician.

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1970, which was combined with professional training as a Reichsbahner, Resch studied Catholic theology at the universities in Halle and Erfurt until 1972 . He then worked briefly as a jumper at the Deutsche Reichsbahn . In 1973 he began studying at the “Justus von Liebig” chemistry engineering school in Magdeburg , which he completed in 1976 with an examination as an engineer for water management. He worked as an engineer at VEB water supply and wastewater treatment (WAB) in Templin and in 1979 changed to VEB WAB in Neubrandenburg in the same function . In 1983 he became a member of the civil engineering project planning group in agriculture.

From 1987 to 1991 Resch held a part-time position in nature conservation. Since 1995 he has been involved in the development of the Uckermärkische Seen Nature Park near Lychen , which he was in charge of from 1997 to 2017.

Roland Resch is married and has two daughters. He is married to the television presenter Carla Kniestedt , lives in Lychen and runs a restaurant and café in a historic mill there.

politics

Resch was a member of the FDJ during the GDR . During the political change he was one of the founders of the Greens in Brandenburg . In 1990 he was elected as a representative of the Templin Green Party to the district council of the Templin district, where he initially took on the functions of environmental department and deputy district administrator. 1991/92 he served as district administrator of the district. During this time he switched to Alliance 90 .

On December 16, 1992, Resch was appointed Minister for Education, Youth and Sports to the government of the State of Brandenburg led by Prime Minister Manfred Stolpe . He became the successor of Marianne Birthler , who resigned on October 29, 1992 in protest against Manfred Stolpe's involvement in the Stasi. After the formation of a single SPD government, he resigned from the office of education minister on October 11, 1994. He was then elected, together with Sylvia Voss, to be the equal board spokesman for the Greens in Brandenburg. In October 1999 Resch resigned from the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party.

After that, Resch was a non-party member of the district council with the mandate of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party and until 2014 chairman of the district council of the Uckermark district . In 2010, Resch ran as a non-party candidate for the office of district administrator in the Uckermark after an attempt by the SPD, CDU and FDP failed at the end of 2009 to prevent direct election of the district administrator because a referendum enforced the direct election.

See also

• Cabinet Stolpe I

literature

• Munzinger : Internationales Biographisches Archiv 10/1995 from February 27, 1995

Web links

• Short biography at the State Environment Agency Brandenburg
• Parliamentary documentation Brandenburg (the exact data set must be determined using the search function)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gunda Bartels: Deceleration in the Uckermark. Why Berliners are drawn to Lychen. Der Tagesspiegel, July 24, 2017, accessed on March 22, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung: Resignations in the state board of the Greens , October 30, 1999
3. ^ Uckermark district: The district council of the Uckermark district , accessed on October 18, 2009