Berndt Seite
{{Short description|German politician}}
{{Expand German|topic=bio|date=December 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Berndt Seite
|image = Berndt Seite (2009) by Guenter Prust.jpg
|office = Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
|president = Richard von Weizsäcker
Roman Herzog
|chancellor = Helmut Kohl
Gerhard Schröder
|term_start = 19 March 1992
|term_end = 3 November 1998
|predecessor = Alfred Gomolka
|successor = Harald Ringstorff
| birth_name = Berndt Seite
| birth_date = {{birth date|1940|4|22}}
| birth_place = Trebnitz, Nazi Germany
| spouse = {{plainlist|
- {{marriage|Annemarie Brandt|1964}}
}}
| party = Christian Democratic Union
| children = 2
}}
Berndt Seite (born 22 April 1940 in Hahnswalde, Trebnitz) is a German politician. He was the 2nd minister president of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern from 1992 to 1998 and the 45th president of the German Bundesrat in 1992.{{Cite web |title=Dr. Berndt Seite - Regierungsportal M-V |url=https://www.regierung-mv.de/Landesregierung/stk/Ministerpraesidentin/Ministerpr%C3%A4sidenten-seit-1990/Dr.-Berndt-Seite/ |access-date=2024-12-24 |website=www.regierung-mv.de}}
Life
Berndt Seite was born in Hahnswalde near Trebnitz in Lower Silesia. He attended primary school in Ihleburg from 1946 to 1954 and then the Pforta state school in Schulpforte, where he graduated from high school in 1958. He then began studying veterinary medicine at the Humboldt University in Berlin, which he completed in November 1963.{{Cite web |title=Berndt Seite - 3 Bücher - Perlentaucher |url=https://www.perlentaucher.de/autor/berndt-seite.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20201127154637/https://www.perlentaucher.de/autor/berndt-seite.html |archive-date=2020-11-27 |access-date=2024-12-24 |website=www.perlentaucher.de |language=de}}
Politics
Page turned to local politics in 1989 and was spokesman for the New Forum in the Röbel district. The following year he left the New Forum and joined the CDU in February 1990. From June 1990 to December 1991 he was district administrator in Röbel, and from October 1991 to March 1992 he was general secretary of the state association of the CDU in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
References
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Category:Presidents of the German Bundesrat
Category:Members of the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Category:Christian Democratic Union of Germany politicians
Category:People from Trzebnica
Category:Politicians from the Province of Silesia
Category:Minister-presidents of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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