Rolf Frick

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Rolf Frick (born September 16, 1936 in Chemnitz ; † December 31, 2008 ) was a German university professor and politician ( FDP ).

Life

Rolf Frick was born in 1936 as the son of a publishing director. Due to his father's Nazi past, he initially received no direct admission to the Abitur in the GDR . Instead, he completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter, attended evening courses and continued his education at correspondence schools. He then studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Karl-Marx-Stadt . He passed the exam as an engineer for Printing and the exam as a diploma in mechanical engineering before he in 1978 with a thesis on the systematic heuristic entitled integration of industrial design in the product development process to Dr. sc. techn. PhD. In the following years he worked as a skilled worker, student, vocational school teacher, assistant, senior assistant and lecturer. Finally he received a chair as a full professor for design methodology at the University of Industrial Design in Halle, Burg Giebichenstein .

Frick was initially a member of the LDPD and joined the FDP during the political transition in the GDR. From 1990 to 1994 he was a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt , where he was chairman of the committee for culture and media in 1990/91. On July 4, 1991, he was appointed Minister for Science and Research to the government of the state of Saxony-Anhalt led by Prime Minister Werner Münch . Since December 15, 1993, as Minister of Science, he was also a member of the subsequent government headed by Prime Minister Christoph Bergner . After the FDP's defeat in the state elections, he left the state government on July 21, 1994.

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SURNAME Frick, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor and politician (FDP), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 2008