Harald Ringstorff

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Harald Ringstorff
Harald Ringstorff Jun07.jpg
Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
In office
3 November 1998 – 6 October 2008
Preceded by Bernd Seite
Succeeded by Erwin Sellering
Minister of Justice of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
In office
3 November 1998 – 19 September 2000
Prime Minister Harald Ringstorff
Preceded by Rolf Eggert
Succeeded by Erwin Sellering
Minister of Economics and Affairs of European Union of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
In office
8 December 1994 – 6 May 1996
Prime Minister Bernd Seite
Preceded by Herbert Helmrich (Affairs of European Union)
Conrad-Michael Lehment (Economics)
Succeeded by Rolf Eggert (Affairs of European Union)
Jürgen Seidel (Economics)
Vice Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
In office
8 December 1994 – 6 May 1996
Prime Minister Bernd Seite
Preceded by Klaus Gollert
Succeeded by Hinrich Kuessner
President of Federal Council
In office
1 November 2006 – 31 October 2007
President Horst Köhler
Chancellor Angela Merkel
Preceded by Peter Harry Carstensen
Succeeded by Ole von Beust
Member of the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Assumed office
26 October 1990
Prime Minister Alfred Gmolka (1990-1992)
Bernd Seite (1992-1998)
Harald Ringstorff (1998-2008)
Erwin Sellering (ab 2008)
Member of Volkskammer
In office
18 March 1990 – 2 October 1990
President Manfred Gerlach
Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (acting since 6 April 1990)
Prime Minister Hans Modrow
Lothar de Maizière (since 12 April 2010)
Personal details
Born 25 September 1939
Wittenburg, Mecklenburg
Nationality German
Political party SPD
File:Harald Ringstorff 2008-04-17.jpg
Harald Ringstorff in April 2008

Harald Ringstorff (born 25 September 1939 in Wittenburg, Mecklenburg) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and was minister-president of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.[1] He headed a coalition government of the SPD and PDS (since 2007 the Left Party, Die Linke) from 1998 until 2006, and subsequently headed a coalition between the SPD and CDU. He was the President of the German Bundesrat, serving for the term 2006/07.

After his Abitur and military service, Ringstorff studied Chemistry at the University of Rostock. He received his Ph.D. in 1969. Afterwards he worked as a chemist for the Rostock dockyards. From 1987 to 1990 he was director of the branch office of the VEB Kali-Chemie ("people's enterprise for potash chemistry").[2]

In 1989 Ringstorff was a founding member of the Social Democratic Party in the GDR and a member of the freely elected Volkskammer of 1990. From 1990 to 2003 he was chairman of the SPD in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.[2]

Since 1990 Ringstorff has been a member of the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern where he served as parliamentary leader of the SPD from 1990–1994 and 1996-1998. In between he was Minister for Economic and European Affairs and vice-minister-president in a coalition government with the CDU under minister-president Berndt Seite (CDU).[2]

In 1998, the SPD agreed to form a coalition with the PDS (now Left Party), a move controversial within the party. Ringstorff was elected minister-president. His coalition government was re-elected in 2002. After the elections of 2006, he decided to switch to a coalition with the CDU, which would have a more comfortable majority in parliament.

On 6 August 2008 Ringstorff let it be known that he wished to resign as minister-president because of his age. On 6 October he was succeeded in the office by Erwin Sellering.[1][3]

External links

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References

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