Wolfgang Gerhards
Wolfgang Gerhards (* 1. December 1949 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a German politician of the SPD . From 1998 to 2005 he worked as a minister in various departments in the states of Saxony-Anhalt , Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia .
Gerhards studied law at the Universities of Bochum , Gießen and Bonn . After his first state examination, he was in the legal preparatory service in the district of the Higher Regional Court of Cologne from 1975 to 1979 . From 1977 to 1978 he was also a research assistant at the Institute for Public Law at the University of Bonn. After his second state examination in 1979, Gerhards worked as an administrative judge at the Cologne Administrative Court and at the Higher Administrative Court for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in Münster .
Joined the SPD in 1985, in 1988 he became a public law officer in the SPD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag . From 1991 to 1994 he was permanent representative of the Minister for Federal Affairs and Europe and representative of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate at the federal level. In 1994 he took up the post of head of the State Chancellery of Saxony-Anhalt. A year later he became deputy federal manager of the SPD.
From 1998 to 2002, Gerhards was Finance Minister of the State of Saxony-Anhalt . On November 12, 2002, he was appointed Minister of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia as the successor to Jochen Dieckmann ( Steinbrück Cabinet ). Gerhards resigned from this office on June 24, 2005, as he did in Saxony-Anhalt, following a change of power to a CDU / FDP coalition.
See also
1945–52: Werner Bruschke | Richard Kunisch | Ernst Lorenz
Since 1990: Werner Münch | Wolfgang Böhmer | Joachim Kupfer | Wolfgang Schaefer | Wolfgang Gerhards | Karl-Heinz Paqué | Jens Bullerjahn | André Schröder | Michael Richter
Eduard Kremer (1946) | Artur Sträter (1946–1947, 1948–1950, 1962–1966) | Gustav Heinemann (1947–1948) | Rudolf Amelunxen (1950–1958) | Otto Flehinghaus (1958–1962) | Franz Meyers (1966) | Friedrich Vogel (1966) | Josef Neuberger (1966–1972) | Diether Posser (1972-1978) | Inge Donnepp (1978–1983) | Dieter Haak (1983–1985) | Rolf Krumsiek (1985–1995) | Fritz Behrens (1995–1999) | Reinhard Rauball (1999) | Jochen Dieckmann (1999–2002) | Wolfgang Gerhards (2002–2005) | Roswitha Müller-Piepenkötter (2005–2010) | Thomas Kutschaty (2010–2017) | Peter Biesenbach (since 2017)
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| SURNAME | Gerhards, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), Member of the State Parliament, Minister of Justice |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 1, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mülheim an der Ruhr |