Uwe Schrader (politician)

Uwe Schrader (born August 7, 1959 in Oschersleben ) is a German politician ( FDP ) and lobbyist. He was a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt from 2002–2006 and 2008–2011. Schrader is active in several interest groups for genetic engineering in agriculture .

education and profession

After graduating from high school, Uwe Schrader studied biology in Jena from 1980 to 1985 . After studying research (1985-88), he received his doctorate in 1989 . His dissertation dealt with peptides of the casomorphine type. 1988–90 he worked as an assistant at the University of Jena.

From 1990 to 1994 he was an employee or head of the district of Börde and from 1994 to 1999 he worked as a consultant in the Ministry of Economics of Saxony-Anhalt. From 1999 to 2002 he was managing director of the Bioregion Halle-Leipzig GmbH. After leaving the state parliament, he worked as a freelancer from 2011 to 2013. Around 2017 Schrader was head of the energy policy department in the Ministry for the Environment, Agriculture and Energy of the State of Saxony-Anhalt .

Political party

Uwe Schrader was a founding member of the Young Liberal Action (JuliA) in the GDR and joined the FDP in 1990. From 1991 to 2006 he was district chairman and since 2007 deputy chairman of the FDP in the Bördekreis . From 1996 to 2001 he was a member of the FDP state board and headed the FDP state committee for economics and finance.

Public offices

Uwe Schrader was a member of the Bördekreis district council from 2000 to 2006. In 2002 he was elected a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt . In the fourth legislative period he was the economic policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group and chairman of the committee for food, agriculture and forestry. As a member of parliament, he was responsible for the Bördekreis and Halberstadt .

In the Saxony-Anhalt state elections in 2006 , Schrader narrowly missed re-entry on his party's state list . After Karl-Heinz Paqué withdrew from state politics, Uwe Schrader returned to the state parliament as a successor on April 1, 2008. After the 2011 election , he left the state parliament.

Honorary positions

Uwe Schrader is

• Chairman of the SG Germania Wulferstedt e. V.
• Managing Director of InnoPlanta e. V.
• Chairman of the Liberal Initiative Mittelstand Sachsen-Anhalt e. V.
• Board member of the Forum Grüne Vernunft e. V.
• Chairman of EnergieVernunft Mitteldeutschland e. V.

According to the journalist Richard Rickelmann , Schrader is a "tireless champion for the large-scale use of transgenic plants ", to whom the genetic engineering industry owes a lot.

The political activist Jörg Bergstedt claimed in his brochure Organized Irresponsibility in 2010 that Schrader belonged to the “genetic engineering mafia” and a “rope team for misappropriating funds”. The Higher Regional Court of Saarbrücken rejected Schrader's request for an injunction prohibiting Bergstedt from making these statements .

As chairman of the EnergieVernunft Mitteldeutschland association , Schrader is campaigning against Germany's planned exit from coal-based electricity generation and lignite mining in 2038.

Web links

• FDP parliamentary group Saxony-Anhalt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Uwe Schrader: Studies on opioid and non-opioid effects of peptides of the casomorphin type. Dissertation, University of Jena 1989.
2. ↑ Members of the project group "Innovation in the Revier" , Metropolitan Region Central Germany, July 25, 2017.
3. ^ Sophie Elstner: Tree planted - PR campaign against CO2 tax. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , September 27, 2019.
4. ↑ Richard Rickelmann: Deadly Harvest. How the agri-food cartel poisoned us. Econ, Berlin 2012.
5. ↑ Jörg Bergstedt: Hardcore activist Jörg Bergstedt - He is allowed to say “genetic engineering mafia”. In: taz , August 26, 2010.
6. ↑ OLG Saarbrücken, judgment of 25 August 2010 (Az. 5 U 251 / 10-45).
7. ↑ Initiative warns of coal phasing out for the region. In: Welt , April 2, 2019.