- Heinz Riesenhuber
Infobox_Politician
name = Heinz Riesenhuber
birth_date = birth date|1935|12|1|mf=y
birth_place =Frankfurt
office = Minister of Scientific Research
term_start =1982
term_end =1993
predecessor =
successor =
party = CDU
occupation =Chemist Heinz Riesenhuber (born
December 1 ,1935 ) is a German politician (CDU) and was minister in the cabinets ofHelmut Kohl from 1982 until 1993.Life and Education
Riesenhuber received his high school diploma (
Abitur ) in 1955 inFrankfurt am Main . He studied economics and chemistry until 1961. Afterward, he worked for four years as a researcher in the department of chemistry at theJohann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität and earned aDoctorate degree in chemistry in 1965.From 1966 to 1982 he worked for
Metallgesellschaft AG, Frankfurt/Main. Within the Metallgesellschaft Group he was CEO for the subsidiary "Erzgesellschaft mbH" (from 1968), and 1971 to 1982Chief technical officer of "Synthomer Chemie GmbH", an other subsidiary.Political career
Riesenhuber became a member of the CDU in 1961. Between 1965 and 1969 he was head of the youth organization of CDU (
Junge Union ) inHesse . He was chairman of CDU Frankfurt from 1973 to 1978. In 1979 he was elected as a chairman of CDU district Untermain.Since 1976, he served as member of the federal German legislature, the
Bundestag . On October 4, 1982, he was appointed Minister of Scientific Research. He served as such until January 21, 1993.Honors
Riesenhuber earned a
Honorary degree Dr. h.c. from
*Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot (Israel)
* University of Krakau (Poland)
*University of Surrey (England)
*University of Göttingen , 1997Trivia
His personal brand is his
Bow tie . He always wears such a tie. In his Political campaigns for the Bundestag he used aposter showing only a bow tie in the German national colours: Black, red and gold. Neither his name nor his party was mentioned but everybody in his constituency recognized Riesenhuber.References
* [http://www.bundestag.de/mdb//bio/R/riesehe0.html Biography on the Website of the German Bundestag]
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