Rainer Ortleb

Rainer Ortleb
Bundesminister a. D.
Ortleb in 1990
Leader of the Liberal Democratic Party
In office
10 February 1990 – 11 August 1990
Preceded byManfred Gerlach
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Otto Graf Lambsdorff (as Leader of the Free Democratic Party)
Minister of Education and Research
In office
12 January 1991 – 4 February 1994
ChancellorHelmut Kohl
Preceded byJürgen Möllemann
Succeeded byKarl-Hans Laermann
Minister for Special Affairs
In office
3 October 1990 – 17 January 1991
ChancellorHelmut Kohl
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Leader of Die Liberalen group in the Volkskammer
In office
5 April 1990 – 2 October 1990
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byWolfgang Mischnick (as Leader of the Free Democratic Party in the Bundestag)
Parliamentary constituencies
Member of the Bundestag
for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
(Volkskammer; 1990)
In office
3 October 1990 – 26 October 1998
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded bymulti-member district
Member of the Volkskammer
for Dresden
In office
5 April 1990 – 2 October 1990
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born (1944-06-05) 5 June 1944 (age 80)
Gera, Thuringia, Soviet occupation zone (now Germany)
Political partyIndependent
Other political
affiliations
Free Democratic Party (1990–2001)
Liberal Democratic Party (1968–1990)
Children2
ResidenceDresden
Alma materDresden University of Technology (Dr. rer. nat.) (Dr.-Ing. habil.)
Occupation
  • Politician
  • Academic
  • Mathematician

Rainer Ortleb (born 5 June 1944) is a German academic and politician.

From October 1990 he served under Helmut Kohl as a Federal Minister for Special Affairs in Germany's first post-reunification government. In the next government, between 1991 and 1994, he served as Federal Minister of Education and Research.[1][2]

  1. ^ Helmut Müller-Enbergs. "Ortleb, Rainer * 5.6.1944 Vorsitzender des Bundes Freier Demokraten, Bundesminister für Bildung u. Wissenschaft". Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur: Biographische Datenbanken. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  2. ^ Publisher-editor Rudolf Augstein (10 September 1999). "Porträt: Rainer Ortleb (FDP): Dünnhäutiger Liberaler". Der Spiegel (online). Retrieved 30 November 2014. {{cite web}}: |author1= has generic name (help)