Rudolf Dreßler

Rudolf Dreßler
Dreßler, 2018
German Ambassador to Israel
In office 1 September 2000 – 31 August 2005
Preceded by	Theodor Wallau
Succeeded by	Harald Kindermann
Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
In office 28 April 1982 – 1 October 1982
Chancellor	Helmut Schmidt
Minister	Heinz Westphal
Preceded by	Hermann Buschfort
Succeeded by	Wolfgang Vogt
Member of the Bundestag for Wuppertal I
In office 4 November 1980 – 31 August 2000
Preceded by	Adolf Scheu
Succeeded by	Ulrich Kelber
Personal details
Born	(1940-11-17)17 November 1940 Wuppertal, Gau Düsseldorf, Germany
Died	8 January 2025(2025-01-08) (aged 84)
Political party	Social Democratic Party (1969–2025)
Occupation	Politician typesetter Journalist
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Rudolf Dreßler at AfA-Bundeskongress 2008 in Kassel

Rudolf Dreßler (17 November 1940 – 8 January 2025) was a German politician and diplomat.

Life and career

Dreßler grew up in Sprockhövel and went to school in Wuppertal. He was an apprentice at a printer company and worked then for different newspapers. Since 1969 Dreßler was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). From 1969 to 1981 he was a member of the work council of the newspaper Westdeutsche Zeitung (WAZ). From 1974 to 1983 he was a member of the Printing and Paper Union. From 1980 to 2000 Dreßler was a member of German Bundestag.^[citation needed]

In 1982, Dreßler became Parliamentary State Secretary at Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. On 11 November 1997, he had a car accident near Bonn.[1] From 2000 to 2005 Dreßler was German ambassador in Israel.[2]

In February 2023, Dreßler was one of the first signatories of a petition initiated by Sahra Wagenknecht and Alice Schwarzer calling for an end to military support for Ukraine in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Dreßler married three times and had two children.[3] He died on 8 January 2025, at the age of 84.[4]

Awards

• 1988: Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

References

1. »Schröder war schon immer respektabel«. in: Der Spiegel 14/1998, 30 March 1998
2. RP-Online vom 18. August 2000 gemäß dpa: Nach Kritik an Äußerungen über Jerusalems Status – Kontroverse um Dreßler beendet eingesehen am 28. Mai 2009
3. "Rudolf Dreßler". Der Spiegel. 10 October 1999. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
4. Der ehemalige SPD-Bundespolitiker Rudolf Dreßler ist tot. wz.de, 9 January 2025. Retrieved 9 January 2025 (in German).

External links

• Rudolf Dreßler at IMDb
• Literature by and about Rudolf Dreßler in the German National Library catalogue
• Ein Parteitag muss den Richtungskampf beenden – interview i Freitag Nr. 25/2008