10 Facts About Rainer Ortleb

Rainer Ortleb was born on 5 June 1944 and is a German academic and politician.

Rainer Ortleb successfully completed his schooling in 1962 and undertook military service with the National People's Army until 1964, then signing up as an army reserve officer.

Rainer Ortleb studied Mathematics at Dresden, obtaining his first degree in 1963 and his doctorate in 1971.

Rainer Ortleb moved north in 1984, to Rostock University where he lectured on information systems processing, was appointed an associate professor in 1989, and where he worked from 1992 to 1998 as Professor for Technical Systems Applications Software.

Rainer Ortleb joined the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany in 1968.

Rainer Ortleb subsequently held various positions within the LDPD, joining the regional party secretariat for Dresden in 1976.

In 1999 Rainer Ortleb resigned from his party chairmanship in Saxony following poor performance in a regional election for which his name had been at the top of the FDP candidate list.

Rainer Ortleb, representing the Dresden constituency, was one of 21 Liberal Democrats who now entered the National Assembly where he led the Liberal group.

Rainer Ortleb was one of the 144 deputies in the chamber who on 3 October 1990, as part of the German reunification process, became members of the Bundestag of the reunited Germany.

On 3 October 1990 Rainer Ortleb was one of the formerly East German political leaders to join the cabinet of the newly reunified Germany, under Federal Chancellor Kohl.