Ulrich Fickel

Ulrich Fickel (born April 18, 1941 in Mühlhausen ) is a German educator and former politician ( LDPD , later FDP ).

Life and work

After attending the extended secondary school, Fickel completed a university course, which he completed with the examination for a qualified specialist teacher and with the doctorate to become a Dr. rer. nat. finished. He then worked as a teacher trainer at the Erfurt / Mühlhausen University of Education .

Political party

Fickel joined the LDPD in 1966 and was district chairman of his party in Mühlhausen from 1981 to 1989 . After the political change in the GDR , the LDPD merged with the FDP ; Fickel was elected deputy state chairman of the FDP Thuringia . From 1997 to 2013 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom .

MP

In the first state election in the re-established state of Thuringia on October 14, 1990, Ulrich Fickel was elected to third place in the state list of the Thuringian FDP and was a member of the Thuringian state parliament from October 25, 1990 to November 9, 1994 .

minister

On November 8, 1990, Fickel was appointed Minister for Science and Art in the state government of the Free State of Thuringia led by Prime Minister Josef Duchač and was also a member of the successor government led by Prime Minister Bernhard Vogel ; at the same time he held the office of Deputy Prime Minister. After the FDP failed to return to the state parliament in the 1994 state elections , Fickel left the government on November 30, 1994 and was replaced as Minister of Science by Gerd Schuchardt . He then withdrew from active politics.

literature

• Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Fickel, Ulrich . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .