Wolfgang Erler

Wolfgang Erler (born May 17, 1957 in Fussingen ) is a German politician ( CDU ).

Erler attended secondary school and then completed an apprenticeship at Deutsche Bahn. Until 1980 he worked as a federal civil servant at Limburg train station. In 1980 he studied at the Academy of Labor in Frankfurt am Main and in 1981 he became union secretary at the German Railway Workers Union . In 1990 he became the representative of the German Trade Union Confederation for Thuringia, and two years later he was union secretary on the main board of the railway workers' union in Frankfurt am Main.

Erler was also an honorary judge at the Hessian Regional Court in Kassel and was chairman of the administrative board of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk from 1991 to 1992.

Erler became a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) in 1978 and the Christian Democratic workforce a year later . From 1986 to 1990 he was deputy CDU district chairman in Limburg-Weilburg and in 1991 became a member of the federal technical committees for media and economic policy of the CDU. From 1988 to 1990 he was a member of the district council in Limburg-Weilburg.

In 1993, Erler moved up to the Bundestag for Gerhard O. Pfeffermann, a member of the Bundestag who gave up his mandate because he became a permanent state secretary in the Federal Ministry of Post and Telecommunications. Erler was a member of the Committee for Transport from October 1993 and a member of the Committee for Post and Telecommunications from November. At the end of the 1994 electoral term, he left the Bundestag.

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. 190.