Wolfgang Roth (politician, 1941)

Wolfgang Roth (2012)

Wolfgang Roth (1973)

Wolfgang Roth (born January 26, 1941 in Schwäbisch Hall , † July 4, 2021 in Bonn ) was a German economist, manager and politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

After graduating from high school, Roth studied economics in Tübingen and at the Free University of Berlin , where he held the office of AStA chairman and that of Berlin state chairman in the Association of German Student Associations (VDS) in 1964 . He finished his studies in 1968 with a degree in economics.

Roth worked from 1968 to 1970 as a research assistant at the municipal science center of the German Association of Cities in Berlin and then worked as a commercial clerk at Neue Heimat in Hamburg until 1973 . Later he was a member of the supervisory and administrative boards of various banks and companies. From 1993 to 2006 he was Vice President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) in Luxembourg . On July 4, 2021, Wolfgang Roth died in Bonn at the age of 80.

Political party

Roth joined the SPD in 1962 and was initially involved in the Social Democratic University Association . From 1969 to 1972 he was deputy and finally from 1972 to 1974 federal chairman of the Jusos . From 1973 to 1979 and from 1982 to 1991 he was a member of the party executive committee of the SPD.

MP

Roth was elected to the German Bundestag for the first time in 1976 via the state list of the SPD Baden-Württemberg . There he was the economic policy spokesman for the SPD and from 1981 to 1991 deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. After being appointed Vice President of the European Investment Bank, Wolfgang Roth resigned from the Bundestag on September 2, 1993.

Awards

• 2001: Order of the White Double Cross 2nd class
• 2004: Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Works

• as editor: Local politics for whom? Work program of the Young Socialists (= Fischer pocket books. Information about the time 1272). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1971, ISBN 3-436-01514-8 .
• as editor: Investment control. Results of a discussion between young entrepreneurs and social democrats on the problem of the market and steering (= Rororo. Rororo currently 4000). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1976, ISBN 3-499-14000-4 .
• as editor: Tomorrow's economy - today's fears? Thank you for Helmut Lenders . Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1980, ISBN 3-7663-0473-9 .
• Humane economic policy. The social democratic alternative. Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-7663-0534-4 .
• The way out of the crisis. Outlines of a socio-ecological market economy. Kindler, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-463-40031-6 .

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Roth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Roth in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mourning for Wolfgang Roth: Former Pforzheim member of the Bundestag has died. In: pz-news.de. July 5, 2021, accessed July 5, 2021 . 
2. ↑ Alfons Pieper: On the death of Wolfgang Roth. Juso boss and banker - a respected social democrat. blog-der- Republik.de, July 4, 2021, accessed July 5, 2021 .