Matthias Wissmann

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Matthias Wissmann (born April 15, 1949 in Ludwigsburg ) is a German lobbyist and politician. Since October 21, 2016, he has been President of the Organization Internationale des Constructeurs d'Automobiles (OICA) for two years . The former CDU politician was Federal Minister for Research and Technology in 1993 and Federal Minister for Transport from 1993 to 1998 . He is a member of the European group of the Trilateral Commission . Since October 2018 he has been a senior advisor to the Franco-German private bank Oddo BHF .

education and profession

After graduating from the Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium in Ludwigsburg in 1968, Matthias Wissmann studied law , economics and politics at the universities of Tübingen and Bonn , which he completed in 1974 with the first and 1978 with the second state examination . From 1978 he was a partner in the law firm Frank, Grub and Wissmann. He has been admitted to the bar since 1980 .

Political party

Wissmann has been a member of the CDU since 1968. Here he had been involved in the Junge Union from 1965 , of which he was national chairman from 1973 to 1983. From 1975 to May 2007 he was a member of the CDU federal executive committee . From 1976 to 1982 he was also President of the European Union of Young Christian Democrats (EUJCD). From 1985 to 2001 he was chairman of the CDU North Württemberg and member of the presidium of the CDU Baden-Württemberg . From October 1991 to May 2007 he was deputy state chairman of the CDU Baden-Württemberg. From 1998 to 2000 he was federal treasurer of the CDU. He is assigned to the Andean Pact , a rope team within the CDU.

MP

Wissmann, 1978

He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1976 until his resignation on May 31, 2007 . From 1981 to 1983 he was chairman of the Enquête Commission on Youth Protest in the Democratic State and from 1983 to 1993 economic policy spokesman for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group . From November 1998 to October 2002 Wissmann was chairman of the Committee on Economics and Technology and from November 2002 to the end of May 2007 he was chairman of the Committee on EU Affairs .

Wissmann always moved into the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Ludwigsburg constituency . In the 2005 Bundestag election , he achieved 46.3% of the first votes . After he waived his mandate, there was no successor , since in Baden-Württemberg three overhang mandates obtained by the CDU were not allowed to be filled.

Public offices

On the occasion of a cabinet reshuffle, he was appointed Federal Minister for Research and Technology on January 21, 1993 in the Federal Government led by Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl . After Günther Krause's resignation , however, he was given the office of Federal Minister of Transport on May 13, 1993 . After the 1998 Bundestag election , he left the federal government on October 26, 1998.

In 1997 it became known that Wissmann, as the Federal Minister of Transport at the time, had repeatedly used the Federal Ministry of Defense's readiness to fly for obviously private purposes. He had his golf equipment with him on trips to supposedly important meetings in Switzerland and Italy.

During his tenure as Federal Minister of Transport, among other things, the rail reform as well as the modernization and construction of traffic routes in East Germany and the planning of the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport fell . In 1993 Wissmann emerged as an advocate of the Transrapid . In 1997, Wissmann was less optimistic about the realization of the maglev train, which was supposed to run on the Berlin - Hamburg route, and opposed a “Transrapid at any price”. In the same year, against the background of the empty state coffers, Wissmann presented plans for the construction, operation and financing of important road projects by private investors .

Change to business

Wissmann in conversation with VW CEO Matthias Müller , 2017

Wissmann works as a partner in the Berlin office of the international law firm WilmerHale with a focus on "Liberalization and deregulation of markets and branches of industry with the resulting strategic and legal consequences".

Wissmann is a member of the advisory boards of Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Karlsruhe ( EnBW ) and Rolls-Royce plc . London and the Supervisory Board of Seeburger AG Bretten. He has been a member of the Lufthansa Supervisory Board since 2008 .

Among other things, the lobby control initiative criticized the fact that Wissmann became president of the Association of the Automotive Industry on June 1, 2007 when he left the German Bundestag , i.e. in an area that he had politically supported. He also represents the interests of the automotive industry as Vice President of the Pro Mobility lobbying association .

In August 2010, Wissmann positioned himself as one of 40 signatories of the Energy Policy Appeal , a lobbying initiative of the four major electricity companies to promote the extension of the service life of German nuclear power plants.

In autumn 2017, Matthias Wissmann, in his role as a lobbyist for the automotive industry, intervened with officials of the European Union to influence their CO 2 emission targets for cars. The preliminary draft provided for a reduction in emissions of 25 to 30 percent, according to press research, Wissmann promoted 20 percent.

As Wissmann's successor, Bernhard Mattes took over the office of President of the Association of the Automotive Industry on March 1, 2018 .

Since October 2018, he has been a senior advisor to the Franco-German private bank Oddo BHF , based in Frankfurt am Main , where he will also switch to the supervisory board from March 2019.

Wissmann is also chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Saxony International School (SIS) in Glauchau .

Awards

In 1996 he received the Great Gold Medal of Honor on Ribbon for Services to the Republic of Austria , and in 1997 the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

On April 25, 2009, Wissmann received the Baden-Württemberg State Medal of Merit .

On October 13, 2009, he was awarded the insignia of a Knight of the Legion of Honor on behalf of the President of the French Republic .

Publications

Wissmann has published various books, including:

  • as editor with Wulf Schönbohm: For a humane society. For the program thinking of the young generation (= Ullstein books. No. 3652). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1976, ISBN 3-548-13652-4 .
  • as editor: Marktwirtschaft 2000. Building blocks for a humane industrial society (= co-responsibility. Vol. 2). Sinus-Verlag, Krefeld 1983, ISBN 3-88289-302-8 .
  • As editor: get in instead of getting out. Stories, experiences, perspectives. Thienemann, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-522-13670-5 .
  • as editor: German Perspectives. Our way to the year 2000. Universitas, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-8004-1237-3 .
  • as editor: Mission statement for tomorrow too. The social market economy. Theses on shaping Germany and Europe. Wirtschaftsverlag Langen-Müller / Herbig, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7844-7388-1 .

Cabinets

Private

Wissmann is a Roman Catholic and unmarried. A remark by the SPD politician Ingrid Matthäus-Maier in the Bundestag in 1998 that Wissmann was "a proven specialist in the coexistence of men and women" was seen by many as an outing and gave rise to speculation and public discussion about his sexual orientation, but also critical discussion of the admissibility and limits of third-party outings.

Wissmann has been involved in Vietnam aid for over three decades. Wissmann played field hockey for HC Ludwigsburg for years in the major league and from 1969 to 1974 in the Bundesliga and is still closely associated with hockey today.

criticism

In March 1989, a court issued a penalty order against Wissmann for DM 10,800 for campaign funding in violation of tax law. He had a criminal record.

Wissmann is listed as one of 33 people in the Black Book Autolobby , a black book published by Greenpeace in April 2016 on the interdependencies between politics and the automotive industry on a German and European level. He criticized his change from the former transport minister to the chief lobbyist of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) in 2007 . Wissmann made a significant contribution to giving vehicle manufacturers considerably more time to produce low-emission cars. A petition to the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Angela Merkel , in which he successfully advocated less strict rules on CO 2 emissions from cars, attracted attention in 2013 .

Web links

Commons : Matthias Wissmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Trilateral Commission (PDF; 466 kB), trilateral.org, accessed November 19, 2012
  2. ^ FOCUS Online: Matthias Wissmann (CDU) . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed on September 14, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Transrapid: SYMBOL WITH MANY QUESTIONS . In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 1994 ( online - 21 February 1994 ).
  4. ↑ Transrapid questioned. In: welt.de . January 15, 1997, accessed April 12, 2020 .
  5. ^ Ex-Transport Minister Wissmann becomes a car lobbyist . Lobby control March 26, 2007.
  6. ^ Markus Balser, Alexander Mühlauer: Lobby maneuvers at the last minute Sueddeutsche Zeitung of November 2, 2017.
  7. ↑ https://www.vda.de/de/presse/Pressemmeldung/20180130-bernhard-mattes- Follow-matthias-wissmann-als-vda-pr- siden.html
  8. ↑ bam: Matthias Wissmann changes to the private bank Oddo BHF. In: Spiegel Online . October 11, 2018, accessed April 12, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Scientific Advisory Board. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .
  10. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  11. ^ German Bundestag: Plenary Protocol 14/6 of November 13, 1998
  12. ↑ Ingrid Matthäus-Maier : What is public, what is private? In: welt.de . November 13, 1998, accessed April 12, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Cordt Schnibben: The Terror of Intimacy . In: Der Spiegel . No. 50 , 1998 ( online - Dec. 7, 1998 ).
  14. ↑ Stefan Berg, Klaus Brinkbäumer, Jürgen Dahlkamp, ​​Per Hinrichs, Sebastian Knauer, Cordula Meyer, Andreas Ulrich and Christoph Schult: Das rosa Rathaus . In: Der Spiegel . No. 35 , 2003 ( online - Aug. 25, 2003 ).
  15. ↑ Politics and love - Politicians are people too RP Online, April 17, 2004
  16. ↑ I want to save my soul - why managers are socially committed CIO, July 27, 2009
  17. ↑ Heads of Business: Matthias Wissman , wiwo.de, accessed July 18, 2012
  18. ↑ Car lobby prevents clarification of the emissions scandal greenpeace.de, April 19, 2016, accessed on October 14, 2016.
  19. ↑ Greenpeace publishes black book on car lobbyists morgenpost.de, April 19, 2016, accessed on October 14, 2016.
  20. ^ Car lobbyist Wissmann wrote a petition to Merkel spiegel.de, May 21, 2013, accessed on October 14, 2016
  21. ↑ Greenpeace denounces the car lobby at manager-magazin.de, April 19, 2016, accessed on October 14, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Wissmann, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lobbyist and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigsburg