Rainer Brüderle
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| Minister for Economics and Technology | |
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In office 28 October 2009 – 12 May 2011 |
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| Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
| Preceded by | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg |
| Succeeded by | Philipp Rösler |
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22 June 1945 Berlin, Allied-occupied Germany (now Germany) |
| Political party | Free Democratic Party |
| Alma mater | University of Mainz |
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Rainer Brüderle (born 22 June 1945 in Berlin) is a German politician and member of the FDP. He served as Minister of Economics and Transport of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1987–1998. On 28 October 2009, he was appointed Federal Minister for Economics and Technology in the second Merkel cabinet. Following his election in May 2011 as chairman of his party's parliamentary faction, Brüderle resigned as Federal Minister for Economics and Technology.
Rainer Brüderle holds a Diplom in Economics from the University of Mainz. He has been a member of the German Bundestag between 1998 and 2013. At the 2009 election he unsuccessfully contested the Mainz constituency, but was elected to the Bundestag for the Rhineland-Palatinate land list.
In May 2008, Brüderle said, for two-thirds of every gas station bill supported by the State responsibility. He demanded to abolish the road tax in addition to the eco-tax, it is sufficient if "only the real consumption" will be touched by mineral oil from the Treasury. Neither he as economy minister in the federal government since 2009 nor the FDP voiced these demands again.
On 9 June 2010 Brüderle refused a request from Opel Germany to 1.1 billion euro in the form of state aid. On the same day Chancellor Angela Merkel gave Opel vague hope of a bailout stating: "The last word on the future of Opel is still out." "The state is not the better entrepreneur" was a justification Brüderle for his vote. The state aid would have resulted in his opinion, to serious distortions of competition in the industry. However, a government decision, there was not, as General Motors and Opel / Vauxhall in Europe applied for no more state aid .
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