Matthias Rößler
Erich Matthias Roessler ( born January 14, 1955 in Dresden ) is a German politician ( CDU). He is since 1990 a member of the Saxon State Parliament and was from 1994 to 2004 first as a cult and later as a science and art Minister Member of the Saxon government. Since 2009 he has been President of the Saxon Landtag.
Life
The son of a self-employed gardener master from Cossebaude attended school in his native village. As the son of a large family, he was in spite of the visit of the Christian doctrine and refusal of entry into the socialist youth organizations at the high school Advanced Romain Rolland, Romain Rolland today -Gymnasium Dresden, delegated, where he graduated from high school in 1973 took off. Despite a high school average of 1.0 him to receive a ethnological studies was due to its "wrong" belief denied and suggested a technical degree. According to serve his compulsory military service in the National People's Army, he took in 1975 at the Dresden University of Technology to study Mechanical Engineering at, from which he graduated in 1979 with a diploma. He then worked as a research assistant at the University of Transportation in Dresden. There he received his doctorate in 1983 with the theme Experimental investigations of characteristic flow phenomena in a special straight grating in highly turbulent flow onto Dr.- Ing. in the field of flow technology and model. After a residency at the traffic high school he was from 1985 to 1990 development engineer and head of a research group in the Combine locomotive / electric works Hennigsdorf. At the same time he worked since 1989 at the Academy of Sciences on topics of basic research. He is the owner of some unused patents and author of several scientific publications.
In the German patriotism discussion, he made his name as editor of the volume " Unity and justice and freedom - German patriotism in Europe".
Matthias Roessler 's Evangelical Lutheran denomination, married since 1979 and has two sons. He lives in the Dresden district Cossebaude.
Policy
Roessler joined in 1989 the opposition movement in Democratic Awakening. He took over functions in the central party leadership in Berlin and was a science policy spokesman of the party. At the same time he was a member of the State Executive Committee of Saxony, whom he represented at the Round Table of the Dresden District. In 1990 he was involved as a representative structure of the Working Group on Science and Education of the Joint Commission Saxony / Baden- Württemberg major role in the formation of the Ministry of Culture, the Free State of Saxony. In October 1990 he joined the Democratic Awakening on the CDU, for he belongs to the Saxon parliament since 1990. He retired as each directly elected Member ( Constituency 40 - Meissen 2 ) in the state parliament. He was one of the initiators of establishing the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism in Dresden, in the totalitarian structures and their impact on man and society are explored.
From September 1994 to April 2002 was Roessler Saxon State Minister of Education, in which office he held until 1996 was also Chairman of the German sports Ministerial Conference of 1995. Of 18 April 2002 to 10 November 2004 he was Minister of State for Science and Art. After the state election in 2004 he was no longer included in the Saxon Cabinet.
From 1 December 2006 to October 14 2007 Matthias Roessler was a member of the Board of Directors of Landesbank Sachsen.
2008-2009 Roessler served as vice chairman and also of fiscal 2006 to 2009, spokesman of the CDU faction in the Parliament of Saxony. From 2004 to 2009 he was chairman of the Commission of Inquiry " demographics " in the Saxon parliament and a member of the Policy Commission of the CDU Germany. In Hamburg, he led a study commission on the reform of the school system. He is also a deputy member and representative of the German Diet in the Federalism Commission of the Federation and the Länder for the reorganization of the financial relationships.
On September 16, 2009, he was nominated by the Saxony CDU parliamentary group to succeed the retiring from the Saxon Landtag Landtag President Erich Iltgen and voted on September 29 with 82 votes of the 132 MPs in this office.
Honors
On May 26, 2005, he was the Saxon constitution medal was awarded by the then parliament president Erich Iltgen for the " participation of the Broad -Saxon education policy ". Since his election to the Landtag president he is an ex officio carrier of the Saxon Order of Merit.
Writings
- We did not want other GDR. In: Eckhard Jesse: Peaceful Revolution and German unit - Saxon civil rights take stock. Ch links, Berlin 2006, pp. 196-209, pp. 266-168, ISBN 978-3-86153-379-5.
- Green pastures - a visible sign of improved quality of life In: (Dagmar Schipanski / Bernhard Vogel ): Thirty Theses on German Unity Herder, Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-451-30342-5.
- Patriotism, nation and social cohesion in: (Matthias Roessler): Unity and justice and freedom - German patriotism in Europe Herder, Freiburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-451-23032-5.