Volker Hauff

Volker Hauff
Hauff in 2008
Federal Minister of Transport
In office 6 November 1980 – 1 October 1982
Preceded by	Kurt Gscheidle
Succeeded by	Werner Dollinger
Federal Minister of Research and Technology
In office 16 February 1978 – 4 November 1980
Preceded by	Hans Matthöfer
Succeeded by	Andreas von Bülow
Personal details
Born	(1940-08-09) 9 August 1940 (age 84) Backnang, Nazi Germany
Political party	Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)

Volker Hauff (born 9 August 1940) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

Since 1959, Hauff has been a member of the SPD. From 1969 to 1989 he was a member of the Bundestag.

Hauff served as Federal Minister of Research and Technology from 1978 to 1980, Federal Minister of Transport from 1980 to 1982 and Mayor of Frankfurt am Main from 1989 to 1991. He is a descendant of the Swabian poet Wilhelm Hauff.^[1]

• German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE), Member (2001-2010, appointed ad personam by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder)

• Energie-Wende. Von der Empörung zur Reform. Mit den neuesten Gutachten zum Ausstieg aus der Kernenergie (in German), vol. 3853, München: Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Knaur, 1986, ISBN 3-426-03853-6
• Global denken, lokal handeln. Ein politisches Fazit (in German), Köln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1992, ISBN 3-462-02164-8
• als Herausgeber mit Günther Bachmann (2006), Unterm Strich. Erbschaften und Erblasten für das Deutschland von morgen. Eine Generationenbilanz (in German), München: Oekom Verlag, ISBN 3-86581-041-1

• Biography at Friedrich Ebert Foundation

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