Rolf Merker

Rolf Merker, 1989

Rolf Merker (born May 5, 1936 in Burgsteinfurt , † March 20, 2002 in Lemgo ) was a German politician ( FDP ).

Life

Merker attended business school, completed his apprenticeship as a printer and, after passing his exam, became a master printer in 1959/60. He was the managing partner of Dremer Druck Drexhage and Merker GmbH and Co. KG in Lemgo. After leaving the Bundestag, Rolf Merker became managing director of the Klingenberg Brothers printing company in Detmold in 1984 .

Merker was unknowingly skimmed off as a “contact person” under the name “Mars” until 1983 by the economist and temporary prorector of the Karl Marx University Leipzig , Horst Stein, for the MfS .

Political activity

Merker joined the FDP in 1963. Among other things, he was co-founder of the district association of the German Young Democrats in Lemgo, district chairman of the FDP Lippe and since 1966 a member of the district board of the FDP Ostwestfalen-Lippe. From 1976 to 1986 he was a member of the state board of the FDP North Rhine-Westphalia .

Between 1978 and 1983 he was a successor member of the German Bundestag . During his time as a member of parliament, he mainly dealt with the restructuring of the Deutsche Bundespost and the Bundesbahn. Another focus was transport policy.

Documents about Merker's parliamentary activities and that of his predecessor Alfred Ollesch are in the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach .

Web links

Commons : Rolf Merker - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 557.

Individual evidence

↑ Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records : The German Bundestag 1949 to 1989 in the files of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR. Expert opinion to the German Bundestag in accordance with Section 37 (3) of the Stasi Records Act, BStU, Berlin 2013, p. 181 f. ( PDF; 12.6 MB ).

personal data
SURNAME	Merker, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH	May 5, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Burgsteinfurt
DATE OF DEATH	March 20, 2002
Place of death	Lemgo

[1] Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records : The German Bundestag 1949 to 1989 in the files of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR. Expert opinion to the German Bundestag in accordance with Section 37 (3) of the Stasi Records Act, BStU, Berlin 2013, p. 181 f. ( PDF; 12.6 MB ).