Eduard Rossel

Eduard Rossel Ergartowitsch (Russian Эдуард Эргартович Россель, scientific transliteration Eduard Rossel Ėrgartovič '; born October 8, 1937 in Bor in Gorky ) is a Russian politician of German origin and was from 1995 to 2009 governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast. He is a member of the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian parliament.

Rossel is one of the most influential and well-known local politician in Russia and has a rather worse political relationship with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. He was regarded as ungovernable governor ( ungovernable head of government).

On 26 April 2008, he was honored in Ludwigsburg with the Medal of Merit of the State of Baden -Wuerttemberg.

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