Uwe Lühr

Uwe-Bernd Lühr (born March 17, 1949 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German economist and politician ( LDPD , FDP ).

After attending the Goethe High School (1956–1963) and the Adolf Reichwein Extended High School (1963–1967), Lühr studied economics from 1967 to 1971 at the Martin Luther University in Halle. After receiving his degree in economics, he first became an IT organizer in 1971 and, in 1975, group leader at the Halle high-voltage plant construction department.

From 1984 to 1990 Lühr worked in the LDPD as a department head for economic issues in the Halle district board. Between June and December 1990 he was head of the interior department and 1st mayor of the city of Halle. From 1990 to 1998 Lühr was a member of the German Bundestag , including 1991 and from 1993 to 1995 as parliamentary manager of the FDP parliamentary group. From 1991 to 1993 he was also the FDP general secretary and from 1995 to 1998 deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group. In the 1990 Bundestag election in the Halle-Altstadt constituency, Lühr was the last FDP member to date to win a direct seat in a Bundestag election.

From 1997 Lühr was a member of the board of directors of the German Compensation Bank , since 1998 a member of the board of the Federal Foundation to Cope with the SED dictatorship and president of the Halle-Saalkreis-Mansfelder Land district of the German Red Cross . In November 1997 he was also awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with ribbon. After leaving the Bundestag, he worked for Leipziger Messe GmbH . From 2001 he was partner and managing director of the travel agency Lühr & Riemer GmbH, which he founded . From 2003 to 2013 he was head of the Halle regional office of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom and thus responsible for liberal educational work in Saxony-Anhalt and in the Free State of Thuringia .

Web links

• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Uwe-Bernd Lühr in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)