Steffen Reiche (born 27 June 1960) is a German

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, a representative of the

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(SPD).

Biography

Private life

Reiche was born in

Potsdam Potsdam () is the capital and largest city of the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the Havel, River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream of B ...

. After his

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in 1979, he studied

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Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...

. He took a break from studying in 1982/1983 to do an apprenticeship as

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. In 1986 he completed his study and was from 1988 to 1990

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in Christinendorf. Reiche is married and has three daughters.

Political career

Reiche co-founded the Social Democratic Party of East Germany (SDP) in 1989, during the political process of the change (" Wende") 1989/90 that led to German Reunification. He was member of the party executive committee. Also he was member of the first free voted

People's Chamber The Volkskammer (, "People's Chamber") was the supreme power organ of East Germany. It was the only branch of government in the state, and per the principle of unified power, all state organs were subservient to it. The Volkskammer was initial ...

of East Germany, from March 1990 until the German Reunification on 2 October 1990. After the merger of the SDP with the West German SPD, Reiche until 2000 was chairman of the SPD in

Brandenburg Brandenburg, officially the State of Brandenburg, is a States of Germany, state in northeastern Germany. Brandenburg borders Poland and the states of Berlin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony. It is the List of Ger ...

. From 1990 until his resignation in 2005 he was member of the

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. In this time he was from 1994 to 1999 Ministry of Science, Research and Culture and from 1999 to 2004 Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport. From 2005 to 2009, Reiche was a member of the German parliament, the

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, representing

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. He also served as a member of the Parliamentary group board of the SPD.

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External links

Website of Steffen Reiche

1960 births Living people Ministers of the Brandenburg State Government Members of the Bundestag 2005–2009 Members of the Bundestag for Brandenburg Members of the Bundestag for the Social Democratic Party of Germany {{Germany-SPD-politician-stub

Biography

Private life

Political career

See also

References

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