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
PartyIndependent
Other political
affiliations
Free Democratic Party (1990–2001)
Liberal Democratic Party (1968–1990)
Children2
Alma materDresden University of Technology (Dr. rer. nat.) (Dr.-Ing. habil.)
Occupation
  • Politician
  • Academic
  • Mathematician
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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.