Harald Ringstorff
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| Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | |
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In office 3 November 1998 – 6 October 2008 |
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| Deputy | Helmut Holter |
| Preceded by | Berndt Seite |
| Succeeded by | Erwin Sellering |
| Minister of Justice of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | |
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In office 3 November 1998 – 19 September 2000 |
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| Prime Minister | Harald Ringstorff |
| Preceded by | Rolf Eggert |
| Succeeded by | Erwin Sellering |
| Minister of Economics and Affairs of European Union of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | |
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In office 8 December 1994 – 6 May 1996 |
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| Prime Minister | Bernd Seite |
| Preceded by |
Herbert Helmrich (Affairs of European Union) Conrad-Michael Lehment (Economics) |
| Succeeded by |
Rolf Eggert (Affairs of European Union) Jürgen Seidel (Economics) |
| Vice Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | |
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In office 8 December 1994 – 6 May 1996 |
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| Prime Minister | Bernd Seite |
| Preceded by | Klaus Gollert |
| Succeeded by | Hinrich Kuessner |
| President of Federal Council | |
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In office 1 November 2006 – 31 October 2007 |
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| President | Horst Köhler |
| Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
| Preceded by | Peter Harry Carstensen |
| Succeeded by | Ole von Beust |
| Member of the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | |
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Assumed office 26 October 1990 |
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| Prime Minister |
Alfred Gmolka (1990-1992) Bernd Seite (1992-1998) Harald Ringstorff (1998-2008) Erwin Sellering (ab 2008) |
| Member of Volkskammer | |
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In office 18 March 1990 – 2 October 1990 |
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| President |
Manfred Gerlach Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (acting since 6 April 1990) |
| Prime Minister |
Hans Modrow Lothar de Maizière (since 12 April 2010) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 September 1939 Wittenburg, Mecklenburg |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | SPD |
Harald Ringstorff (born 25 September 1939 in Wittenburg, Mecklenburg) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and was the 3rd Minister President of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. He headed a coalition government of the SPD and PDS (since 2007 the Left Party, Die Linke) from 1998 until 2006, and subsequently headed a coalition between the SPD and CDU. He was the 61st President of the Bundesrat in 2006/07.
After his Abitur and military service, Ringstorff studied Chemistry at the . He received his Ph.D. in 1969. Afterwards he worked as a chemist for the Rostock dockyards. From 1987 to 1990 he was director of the branch office of the VEB Kali-Chemie ("people's enterprise for potash chemistry").
In 1989 Ringstorff was a founding member of the Social Democratic Party in the GDR and a member of the freely elected Volkskammer of 1990. From 1990 to 2003 he was chairman of the SPD in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Since 1990 Ringstorff has been a member of the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern where he served as parliamentary leader of the SPD from 1990–1994 and 1996-1998. In between he was Minister for Economic and European Affairs and vice-minister-president in a coalition government with the CDU under minister-president Berndt Seite (CDU).
In 1998, the SPD agreed to form a coalition with the PDS (now Left Party), a move controversial within the party. Ringstorff was elected minister-president. His coalition government was re-elected in 2002. After the elections of 2006, he decided to switch to a coalition with the CDU, which would have a more comfortable majority in parliament.
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