Rainer Ortleb

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Rainer Ortleb Bundesminister a. D.
Ortleb in 1990
Leader of the Liberal Democratic Party
In office 10 February 1990 – 11 August 1990
Preceded by	Manfred Gerlach
Succeeded by	Position abolished Otto Graf Lambsdorff (as Leader of the Free Democratic Party)
Minister of Education and Research
In office 12 January 1991 – 4 February 1994
Chancellor	Helmut Kohl
Preceded by	Jürgen Möllemann
Succeeded by	Karl-Hans Laermann
Minister for Special Affairs
In office 3 October 1990 – 17 January 1991 Serving with Hans Klein, Rudolf Seiters, Lothar de Maizière, Sabine Bergmann-Pohl, Günther Krause, Hansjoachim Walther
Chancellor	Helmut Kohl
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Leader of Die Liberalen group in the Volkskammer
In office 5 April 1990 – 2 October 1990
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Wolfgang 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 by Constituency established Succeeded by multi-member district Member of the Volkskammer for Dresden In office 5 April 1990 – 2 October 1990 Preceded by Constituency established Succeeded by Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	(1944-06-05) 5 June 1944 (age 79) Gera, Thuringia, Soviet occupation zone (now Germany)
Political party	Independent
Other political affiliations	Free Democratic Party (1990–2001) Liberal Democratic Party (1968–1990)
Children	2
Residence	Dresden
Alma mater	Dresden University of Technology (Dr. rer. nat.) (Dr.-Ing. habil.)
Occupation	Politician Academic Mathematician

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.^[1][2]