Wolfgang Gerhardt
Wolfgang Gerhardt (born December 31, 1943 in Helpershain ) is a German politician ( FDP ).
From 1987 to 1991 he was Hessian Minister of State for Science and Art , from 1995 to 2001 federal chairman of the FDP and from 1998 to 2006 chairman of the FDP parliamentary group and thus also opposition leader from November 2005 to April 2006 . From 2006 to 2018 he was chairman of the board of the liberal Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom .
education and profession
After graduating from the Albert-Schweitzer-Schule Alsfeld in 1963, Gerhardt studied educational science , German and politics at the University of Marburg from 1963 to 1969 . In 1970 he received his doctorate there on the educational policy of the FDP after 1945 under Leonhard Froese as Dr. phil. He then worked as the head of the regional office of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Hanover . At the same time, he was initially a personal advisor and finally head of the ministerial office of the Hessian State Minister of the Interior until 1978 .
Political party
Gerhardt has been a member of the FDP since 1965. At first he was involved in university and youth politics, among other things he was state chairman of the Liberal Student Union of Germany and deputy state chairman of the German Young Democrats in Hesse in 1967/68 . From 1982 to 1995 he was state chairman of the FDP Hessen . From 1982 he was a member of the FDP federal executive committee . In 1985 he was first deputy chairman, and in 1995 he was appointed national chairman of the FDP as the successor to then Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel . He held this office until May 2001, when he handed it over to the previous Secretary General Guido Westerwelle after internal party criticism .
Gerhardt was then Deputy President of the Liberal International from 2002 to 2012 .
In the event of participation in government after the 2005 Bundestag election , Wolfgang Gerhardt was earmarked for the office of Federal Foreign Minister .
In June 2010 Gerhardt was elected as a member of the program commission, which was supposed to develop a new FDP program by 2013.
MP
Gerhardt was a member of the Hessian state parliament from 1978 to 1982, from 1983 to 1987 and from 1991 to 1994 . Here he was from 1983 to 1987 and from 1991 to 1994 chairman of the parliamentary group .
From 1994 to 2013 Gerhardt was a member of the German Bundestag . After the federal election in 1998 , he was elected on October 5, 1998 as the successor to Hermann Otto Solms as chairman of the FDP parliamentary group. As such, Gerhardt took over the post of opposition leader when the Merkel government took office on November 22, 2005 . On May 1, 2006, he handed over the chairmanship to the party chairman Guido Westerwelle.
Gerhardt has always entered the German Bundestag via the Hesse state list. He did not run for the 2013 federal election .
Public offices
On April 24, 1987, Gerhardt became Hessian Minister for Science and Art , authorized representative of the State of Hesse at the federal level and at the same time deputy to Prime Minister Walter Wallmann . After the CDU-FDP coalition lost its majority in the 1991 state elections , he left the government on April 5, 1991.
family
Gerhardt was born in 1943 as the son of a professional soldier. His father fell in 1944. He grew up with his mother on a farm. He is married and has two children.
Honors
- 2006: Thomas Dehler Prize
- 2008: Reinhold Maier Medal
- 2011: Wilhelm Leuschner Medal
Quotes
“ We have to get out of the sleeping car! "(Gerhardt on the red-green reform policy at the FDP federal party conference 2005 )
“It is not the state that grants the citizens freedom, but the citizens of the state that restrict their rights. "(On March 29, 2006 in the Bundestag / Note: This quote originally comes from the" Wiesbaden principles "from 1997)
Publications
- (Ed.) The power of freedom. History, present and future of liberalism , Hohenheim-Verlag, Stuttgart [u. a.] 2008, ISBN 978-3-89850-165-1 .
- Thomas Dehler in the Bundestag , in: House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany (Ed.): Thomas Dehler and his politics , Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-87584-721-0 , pp. 83-90.
- It works. We have every chance , Edition Ferenczy by Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-2883-3 .
- The Euro-DM market. Market participants, interest rate formation and significance in terms of monetary policy. A study from the perspective of the Federal Republic of Germany (= publications of the HWWA Institute for Economic Research Hamburg ), Verlag Weltarchiv, Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-87895-255-4 .
- The educational policy discussion in the FDP from 1945-1951 , University of Marburg 1971 ( dissertation ).
literature
- Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 263 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
- Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , pp. 142-143.
Web links
- CV at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
- Biography at the German Bundestag
- Interview with Wolfgang Gerhardt on cicero.de ( Memento from May 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- Wolfgang Gerhardt on parliament watch.de
- Gerhardt, Wolfgang in the Hessian biography
Individual evidence
- ↑ Board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom .
- ↑ Gerhardt is to become Foreign Minister , article from September 5, 2005 on Spiegel Online .
- ↑ One party decides to change: The FDP takes a critical look at the market and takes a liking to the state.
- ↑ Bundestag election 2013 - Gerhardt no longer candidate for the FDP ( Memento from February 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ).
- ^ Wilhelm Leuschner Medal for Dr. Wolfgang Gerhardt ( Memento from May 24, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) from December 1, 2011.
Theodor Heuss (1949) | Hermann Schäfer (1949–1951) | August-Martin Euler (1951–1952) | Hermann Schäfer (1952–1953) | Thomas Dehler (1953–1957) | Max Becker (1957) | Erich Mende (1957–1963) | Knut von Kühlmann-Stumm (1963–1968) | Wolfgang Mischnick (1968–1990) | Hermann Otto Solms (1990–1998) | Wolfgang Gerhardt (1998–2006) | Guido Westerwelle (2006–2009) | Birgit Homburger (2009–2011) | Rainer Brüderle (2011–2013) | Christian Lindner (since 2017)
Vera Rüdiger (1984–1987) | Wolfgang Gerhardt (1987–1991) | Evelies Mayer (1991-1995) | Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt (1995–1999) | Ruth Wagner (1999–2003) | Udo Corts (2003-2008) | Eva Kühne-Hörmann (2009–2014) | Boris Rhein (2014–2019) | Angela Dorn (since 2019)
Georg Ludwig Fertsch (1946–1947) | August-Martin Euler (1947–1956) | Max Becker (1956-1958) | Oswald Adolph Kohut (1958–1961) | Heinrich Kohl (1962–1967) | Wolfgang Mischnick (1967–1977) | Ekkehard Gries (1977–1982) | Wolfgang Gerhardt (1982–1995) | Ruth Wagner (1995-2006) | Jörg-Uwe Hahn (2006–2014) | Stefan Ruppert (since 2014)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gerhardt, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Helpershain |