Gerhard Botz

Gerhard Botz ( born September 15, 1955 in Rudolstadt ) is a German politician ( SPD).

Life and career

After graduation in 1974 at an Extended Upper School (EOS) in Rudolstadt Botz made ​​from military service with the NVA and started in 1976 a study of Meliorationswesens and plant production at the University of Rostock, which he finished in 1981 as a graduate engineer for melioration. Subsequently, he was until 1990 a research associate at the Institute for forage production Paulinenaue the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the GDR. Then he was in 1991 briefly EC speaker in the Thuringian Ministry of Agriculture. From January to 2005 Botz worked as a research assistant at the Thuringian State Institute of Agriculture.

Gerhard Botz is married and has two children.

Party

In December 1989, Botz was a member of the newly formed Social Democratic Party of the GDR. Botz belongs since 1992 to the SPD Regional Executive in Thuringia and was from 1994 to 2002 deputy chairman.

Member of Parliament

From March to October 1990 was Botz at the first freely elected People's Chamber of the GDR. Botz was also one of the 144 elected by the People's Chamber of Deputies, which has been a member of the German Bundestag on 3 October 1990. However, after the federal election in 1990, he retired already in December 1990, initially out of the Bundestag from.

Botz was then from 1991 to 1994 as an observer to the European Parliament, and was from 1994 to 1999 he was admitted to the European Parliament.

Then was Gerhard Botz 1999-2004 Member of the Landtag of Thuringia.

From 2005 to 2009 he was again a member of the German Bundestag. He was as directly elected representative of the constituency Sonnenberg - drawn Saale- Orla-Kreis in the German Bundestag - Saalfeld- Rudolstadt. In the 2005 federal election he reached here 30.2% of the primary vote.