Reinhard Höppner
Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt
In office
21 July 1994 – 16 May 2002
DeputyHeidrun Heidecke
Gerlinde Kuppe
Preceded byChristoph Bergner
Succeeded byWolfgang Böhmer
Member of the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt
In office
16 May 2002 – 23 April 2006
Preceded bymulti-member district
Succeeded bymulti-member district
ConstituencySocial Democratic Party List
In office
28 October 1990 – 16 May 2002
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byGerhard Ruden
ConstituencyMagdeburg II
Wende politically career
(1990)
Vice President of the Volkskammer
(on proposal of the SPD)
In office
5 April 1990 – 2 October 1990
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Member of the Volkskammer
for Magdeburg
In office
5 April 1990 – 2 October 1990
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born(1948-12-02)2 December 1948
Haldensleben, Saxony-Anhalt, Soviet occupation zone (now Germany)
Died9 June 2014(2014-06-09) (aged 65)
Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Cause of deathCancer
Political partySocial Democratic Party (1990–2014)
Other political
affiliations		Social Democratic Party in the GDR (1989–1990)
SpouseRenate Höppner
Children3
ParentFranz Höppner
ResidenceMagdeburg
Alma materTechnische Universität Dresden (Dr. rer. nat.)
Occupation
  • Politician
  • Mathematician
  • Author
  • Academic

Reinhard Höppner (2 December 1948 – 9 June 2014) was a German politician (SPD)[1] and writer.[2]

Höppner held a Dr. rer. nat. in mathematics.[3]

In 1990, in the first (and last) free election in the assembly's history, he was elected a member of the East German People's Chamber (Volkskammer), becoming the assembly's vice president.[2]

He became the 4th Minister President of Saxony-Anhalt in July 1994[1][4] when, his SPD (party) having failed to secure an outright majority, entered into a minority governing coalition with the Green party.[4] This was controversial at the time because most had expected that the SPD, if denied an overall majority, would govern in coalition with the PDS, successor to the old East German ruling party: together the SPD and PDS would have had an overall majority.[4] The so-called Magdeburg model for a minority SPD/Green coalition that excluded the PDS but nevertheless was tolerated (not voted down) by them was subsequently followed in other regional assemblies.[4] Höppner remained in office until 16 May 2002, when he was succeeded by Wolfgang Böhmer.[5][6]

References

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  1. 1 2 "Reinhard Hoppner". Random House, Inc. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
  2. 1 2 Helmut Müller-Enbergs. "Höppner, Reinhard * 2.12.1948, † 9.6.2014 Vizepräsident der Volkskammer, Ministerpräsident von Sachsen-Anhalt". Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur: Biographische Datenbanken. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  3. ↑ Reinhard Höppner at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. 1 2 3 4 mak/dpa (9 June 2014). "Sachsen-Anhalt: Der ehemalige SPD-Ministerpräsident von Sachsen-Anhalt, Reinhard Höppner, ist in der Nacht zum Montag gestorben. Er erlag einer schweren Krankheit". Der Spiegel (online). Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Böhmer. "wolfgang böhmer". Archived from the original on 11 January 2010. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
  6. ↑ von Matthias Meisner. "SPD-Politiker Reinhard Höppner ist tot" (in German). Tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved 2014-06-09.


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