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Matthias Platzeck was born on 29 December, 1953 in Potsdam, East Germany (now Germany), is a German politician. Discover Matthias Platzeck's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

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Occupation Politician · Environmental Hygienist
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 29 December 1953
Birthday 29 December
Birthplace Potsdam, East Germany (now Germany)
Nationality Germany

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Who Is Matthias Platzeck's Wife?

His wife is Ute Bankwitz (m. 1978-1984) Jeanette Jesorka (m. 2007)

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Wife Ute Bankwitz (m. 1978-1984) Jeanette Jesorka (m. 2007)
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Matthias Platzeck Net Worth

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1953

Matthias Platzeck (born 29 December 1953) is a German politician.

1960

After attending Polytechnic Secondary School in Potsdam from 1960 to 1966, he went through Extended Secondary School in Kleinmachnow.

1972

Following his Abitur in 1972 and military service he studied biomedical cybernetics at the Technische Universität Ilmenau from 1974 onward.

1979

After his diploma in 1979, Platzeck worked at the institute for hygiene in Karl-Marx-Stadt (today Chemnitz) in 1979–1980 and the general hospital in Bad Freienwalde from 1980 to 1982.

1982

From 1982 to 1990 he was head of the department for environmental hygiene at the agency for hygiene in Potsdam.

1988

Platzeck co-founded ARGUS, a Potsdam environmental organization, with and at the initiative of Carola Stabe in April 1988.

1989

In April 1989, he joined the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany but left it shortly thereafter.

He represented ARGUS at the founding of the Grüne Liga association of local environmental organizations in East Germany in November 1989.

During the political "Wende" of 1989–1990 that led to German Reunification he was their speaker at the East German Round Table talks.

1990

From February to April 1990 he represented the oppositional radical Green Party as Minister without Portfolio in the last non-elected but legitimate government of the GDR.

Platzeck was elected member of the Volkskammer in 1990 for the Green Party and was parliamentary secretary of the joined faction of Greens and Bündnis 90 (Alliance 90).

After German reunification, he was one of 144 members of the Volkskammer co-opted to the Bundestag.

He did not run for a full term in the 1990 German federal election.

In October 1990 Platzeck became a member of the Landtag of Brandenburg for Bündnis 90 (Alliance 90).

He was Minister for the Environment in a coalition government with the SPD and FDP from 1990 to 1994, when the coalition broke up.

Platzeck caused controversy in August 2010 when he called the reunification of Germany on 3 October 1990 an Anschluss, the word used by Adolf Hitler to defend the Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938.

In response, Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected Platzeck's choice of words and argued that reunification was precisely what east Germans had wanted, not a process forced upon them.

1993

Rejecting the merger of his party with the West German Green Party he did not join the new party Bündnis 90/Die Grünen in 1993.

1994

After the break of the Brandenburg coalition in 1994 Platzeck left his faction and remained Minister for the Environment under Minister-president Manfred Stolpe.

1995

Instead, he became a member of the SPD on 6 June 1995.

1997

He became popular nationwide for organizing public support for the affected population during a flood of the Oder river in 1997.

1998

In 1998 he was elected mayor of Brandenburg's capital Potsdam and rejected the offer of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder to join the federal cabinet as Minister for Transport.

2000

In 2000 Platzeck was elected chairman of the SPD in Brandenburg and in 2002 he succeeded Manfred Stolpe as Minister-president.

2002

He was Minister President of Brandenburg from 2002 to 2013 and party chairman of the SPD from November 2005 to April 2006.

2004

He was re-elected to the Landtag (state parliament) in 2004.

With the SPD as strongest political force he could continue his coalition with the CDU.

He served as President of the Bundesrat in 2004/05.

2005

When Franz Müntefering resigned as party chairman of the SPD because of internal conflicts, Platzeck was elected party chairman on 15 November 2005 with an overwhelming majority of 99.8 percent.

2006

In January, February and April 2006 Platzeck suffered three severe hearing losses.

Due to his ill health he resigned from his post as chairman on 10 April 2006, only five months after becoming chairman.

2013

On 29 July 2013 Platzeck announced his resignation from his office in August for health reasons.

Platzeck was born in Potsdam, the son of a physician and a medical-technical assistant.

2015

Both in 2015 and 2016, Platzeck and Bodo Ramelow were appointed as unpaid arbitrators for negotiations between Deutsche Bahn and the German Train Drivers' Union (GDL).

2016

In 2016, he also served as unpaid arbitrator for negotiations between German airline Lufthansa and its flight attendants' union.

2018

From 2018 until 2019, Platzeck co-chaired the German government's so-called coal commission, which is tasked to develop a masterplan before the end of the year on how to phase-out coal and create a new economic perspective for the country's coal-mining regions.

2019

In 2019, Platzeck was appointed by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community to chair the committee that oversaw the preparations for the 30th anniversary of German reunification.

2020

In late 2020, Platzeck was appointed as arbitrator in a conflict between Charité and the United Services Trade Union (ver.di); negotiations were successfully concluded by February 2021.

Following her election as Governing Mayor of Berlin in September 2021, Franziska Giffey mandated Platzeck with helping to end a six-weeks long strike of Vivantes Hospital Group employees.

Platzeck was nominated by his party as delegate to the Federal Conventions for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2022.

In addition, Platzeck holds a variety of paid and unpaid positions, including the following: