Wolfgang Gerhardt

Wolfgang Gerhardt ( born December 31, 1943 in Helpershain ) is a German politician ( FDP).

He was from 1987 to 1991 Hessian Minister of State for Science and Art, from 1998 to 2006 chairman of the FDP parliamentary group and from 1995 to 2001 FDP Federal Chairman. Since 2006 he has been CEO of the liberal Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom.

Gerhardt is a member of the European Group of the Trilateral Commission (October 2011).

Education and work

Gerhardt was born in 1943 as the son of a professional soldier. His father died in 1944. Gerhardt grew up with his mother on a farm. After graduation in 1963 at the Albert Schweitzer School Alsfeld Gerhardt graduated from 1963 to 1969 a study of the educational sciences, German and Politics at the University of Marburg. In 1970, there he obtained his PhD on the educational policy of the FDP in 1945 at Leonhard Froese Dr. phil. He then worked as head of the regional office of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Hannover. At the same time he first was until 1978 personal assistant and is currently Head of the Minister's Office of the Hesse State Minister of the Interior.

Party

Gerhardt is a member of the FDP since 1965. From 1982 to 1995 he was state chairman of the FDP Hesse and member of the FDP Federal Executive. In 1985 he was appointed Deputy Chairman in 1995 then as a successor to the then Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel, national chairman of the FDP. This office he retained until May 2001, when he made it to the intra-party criticism of the previous Secretary-General Guido Westerwelle.

In the event of a government involvement after the 2005 federal election Wolfgang Gerhardt was provided for the Office of the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs.

In June 2010 he was elected a member of the program committee, which was to develop a new FDP program until 2013.

Member of Parliament

He was 1978-1982, 1983-1987 and 1991-1994 Member of the Hesse Landtag. Here he was from 1983 to 1987 and from 1991 to 1994 Chairman of the FDP parliamentary group.

From 1994 to 2013 he was a member of the German Bundestag. After the 1998 election he was elected as the successor of Hermann Otto Solms chairman of the FDP parliamentary group on 5 October 1998.

With the start of the Merkel government on 22 November 2005 Gerhardt took over the post of opposition leader. This office he gave to the party leader Guido Westerwelle on 1 May 2006.

Gerhardt is always drawn on a state list of Hesse in the German Bundestag. In the general election of 2013 he did not run.

Public offices

On April 24, 1987, he was Hessian Minister for Science and Art, representative of the Land Hessen at the federal and at the same time Deputy Prime Minister Walter Wallmann.

After the CDU - FDP coalition had lost its majority in the state elections in 1991, he resigned from the government on 5 April 1991.

Family

Gerhardt is married and has two children.

Honors

  • 2008: Reinhold Maier medal Reinhold Maier Foundation
  • 2011: Wilhelm- Leuschner- medal

Quotes

"We have from the sleeping car out! " ( Gerhardt 2005 on the red-green reform policy in the FDP party conference )

" Not the state grants citizens freedom, but the citizens of the state restrictions on their rights. " ( March 29, 2006 in the Bundestag / Note: This quote is originally from the "Wiesbaden principles " from the year 1997)

Publications

  • (Ed. ): The power of freedom. Past, present and future of liberalism, Hohenheim -Verlag, Stuttgart [ua ] 2008, ISBN 978-3-89850-165-1.
  • Thomas Dehler in the Bundestag, in: Museum of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany (ed.): Thomas Dehler and his policies, Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-87584-721-0, pages 83-90.
  • It is. We have all chances Edition Ferenczy at Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-2883-3.
  • The Euro -DM market. Market participants, formation of interest rates and monetary policy importance; a study from the perspective of the Federal Republic of Germany, the publishing world archive, Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-87895-255-4. ( Publications of the HWWA Institute for Economic Research, Hamburg)
  • The education policy discussion in the FDP from 1945-1951, University of Marburg in 1971. (Dissertation)
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