Facts:   - chancellor: angela merkel    - signature: signature rainer-bruederle . png    - successor: philipp rösler    - party: free democratic party    - predecessor: karl-theodor zu guttenberg    - office: minister for economics and technology      - term end: 12 may 2011    - term start: 28 october 2009    - birth date: 22 june 1945    - name: rainer brüderle    - image: start der amflora-ernte in mecklenburg-vorpommern 10.jpg    - birth place: berlin , allied-occupied germany -lrb- now germany -rrb-    - alma mater: university of mainz   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of rainer brüderle .
rainer brüderle -lrb- born 22 june 1945 in berlin -rrb- is a german politician and member of the fdp .he served as minister of economics and transport of rhineland-palatinate from 1987 -- 1998 .on 28 october 2009 , he was appointed federal minister for economics and technology in the second merkel cabinet .following his election in may 2011 as chairman of his party 's parliamentary faction , brüderle resigned as federal minister for economics and technology .rainer brüderle holds a diplom in economics from the university of mainz .he has been a member of the german bundestag since the 1998 election .at the 2009 election he unsuccessfully contested the mainz constituency , but was elected to the bundestag for the rhineland-palatinate land list .