Rolf Eggert

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Rolf Eggert (born December 28, 1944 in Krembz ) is a German engineer and politician ( SPD ).

biography

education and profession

Eggert studied after graduating from high school from 1966 to 1969 at the engineering school for seafaring in Wustrow and then worked as an engineer until 1980. From 1969 to 1976 he also completed a distance learning course specializing in information electronics at the University of Rostock . From 1980 to 1986 he worked as a research engineer at the Warnemünde University of Engineering and received his doctorate in 1984 as a Dr.-Ing. and worked from 1986 to 1992 as a research engineer and senior scientific assistant at the Technical University of Wismar . In 1992 he received a chair for control technology at the University of Wismar.

Eggert was appointed President of the State Central Bank in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein on May 1, 2001 . At the same time he became a member of the Central Bank Council of the Deutsche Bundesbank . Since May 1, 2002 he has been President of the Hamburg Central Administration of the Deutsche Bundesbank.

politics

MP

Eggert is a member of the SPD.
After the political change in the GDR , Eggert was a member of the citizenship of the city ​​of Wismar in 1990 . From 1990 to 2001 he belonged to the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and was the legal policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group there until 1994. From 1990 to 1994 he was Vice President of the State Parliament.

Public offices

Eggert was mayor of Wismar in 1990. After the formation of a coalition of CDU and SPD, he was appointed Minister of Justice to the government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania led by Prime Minister Berndt Seite (CDU) on December 9, 1994 . Since May 1996 he has also been Head of Minister for European Union Affairs.

After the formation of a coalition of the SPD and PDS , Eggert took over the management of the Ministry of Economic Affairs in the state government led by Prime Minister Harald Ringstorff (SPD) on November 3, 1998 . Due to his appointment as President of the Landeszentralbank Hamburg, he resigned from the government in April 2001, his successor being Otto Ebnet (SPD).

Awards

In November 2006 Eggert was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with ribbon .

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