Günther Krause

Günther Krause
Günther Krause in 1990
Minister of Transport
In office 18 January 1991 – 6 May 1993
Prime Minister	Helmut Kohl
Succeeded by	Matthias Wissmann
Personal details
Born	(1953-09-03) 3 September 1953 (age 63) Halle
Political party	Christian Democratic Union
Alma mater	Wismar University of Technology, Business and Design

Günther Krause (born 3 September 1953) is a German engineer, academic, politician and businessman. He was the Germany's minister of transport from 1991 to 1993.

Krause is a native of Gustrow near Mecklenburg, East Germany. He was born on 3 September 1953 in Halle. He received PhD in engineering from Wismar University of Technology, Business and Design in 1987.

Krause joined the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of East Germany in 1975. He worked as an engineer on computerized planning in housing in . In 1982, he began to work at his alma mater, Wismar Technology University and was promoted to the professorship in computer science. Then he became the CDU state chairman from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. He served as state secretary and the chief unity negotiator for East Germany's only freely elected government headed by Lothar de Maizière. Krause was also senior advisor to Maizière. The Unification Treaty was signed by West German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schauble and Krause on 31 August 1990.

Following the reunification of West and East Germany Krause served at the Bundestag and in its committee on research and technology. He was appointed minister of transport on 18 January 1991 in the Helmut Kohl's fourth cabinet. He was the most prominent eastern German politician in the government and one of the three ministers from East Germany in addition to Angela Merkel (CDU; Minister for Women and Youth) and Rainer Ortleb (FDP; Minister of Education). Krause resigned from the office on 6 May 1993 after his alleged involvement in scandals, and was replaced by Matthias Wissmann, another CDU member. Krause was the eighth minister to quit the Kohl cabinet in the past 13 months.