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Matthias Platzeck
Matthias Platzeck (born 29 December 1953) is a German politician. He was Minister President of Brandenburg from 2002 to 2013 and party chairman of the SPD from November 2005 to April 2006.
On 29 July 2013 Platzeck announced that he would resign from his office in August for health reasons.
Early life and education.
Platzeck was born in Potsdam as the son of a physician. Following his Abitur and military service he studied biomedical cybernetics in Ilmenau. After his diploma in 1978 Platzeck worked at the
Cultural Association of the GDR, the only place where assembly was legal, under the scrutiny of the Stasi. In April 1988 she organized the first GDR- wide meeting of environmental groups at the Cultural Association, together with Matthias Platzeck and other members of the ARGUS group in Potsdam. In June 1989, she organized, the 1. Potsdamer Pfingsbergfest, a public gathering at which the Stasi counted 3000 visitors from all over the GDR, together with Wieland Eschenburg and Matthias Platzeck. She used administrative loopholes to circumvent a prohibition of the