Roland Richwien

Roland Richwien (born February 8, 1955 in Mühlhausen ) is a German politician and political official ( CDU ). From 1994 to 1997 he was a member of the German Bundestag and from 1997 to 2014 State Secretary in several departments in the Free State of Thuringia .

Career

Richwien completed an apprenticeship as a precision optician from 1971 to 1973 . After completing his basic military service in the National People's Army , he attended the College of Precision Engineering in Jena from 1976 to 1979 , from which he graduated as a graduate engineer for precision engineering. He then served as until 1990 vocational teachers at the vocational school of the VEB Carl Zeiss Jena operates.

In 1990 Richwien joined the CDU. From 1990 to 1994 he was mayor of the municipality of Zöllnitz , from 1992 to 1994 as CDU district chairman in the district of Jena , then as deputy CDU district chairman in the newly founded Saale-Holzland district .

In the federal election in 1994 , Richwien won the direct mandate in the federal election district 302 (Jena - Rudolstadt - Stadtroda). On November 4, 1997, however , he resigned his mandate to take up the post of State Secretary in the Thuringian Ministry of Economics and Infrastructure (renamed the Ministry of Economics, Labor and Infrastructure in 1999). In 2004, Richwien moved to the newly founded Thuringian Ministry of Construction and Transport (renamed the Ministry of Construction, State Development and Media in 2008).

A renewed candidacy in the federal election 2009 in the federal constituency 194 (Gera - Jena - Saale-Holzland-Kreis) was unsuccessful: Richwien was defeated by the candidate of the party Die Linke , Ralph Lenkert , while seven other constituencies were won by CDU applicants and thus the CDU - State list on which Richwien was placed 5 was not used. Therefore, after the Thuringian state election in 2009, he continued his career as State Secretary, this time in the Thuringian Ministry of Agriculture, Forests, Environment and Nature Conservation . After the CDU was not involved in the state government for the first time after the state elections in 2014 , Roland Richwien resigned from the state service on December 5, 2014.

Web links

• Biography at the German Bundestag