Michael Vesper

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Michael Vesper (2016)

Michael Vesper (born April 6, 1952 in Cologne ) is a German sports official and politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). From 2006 to the end of 2017 he held the position of chairman of the board of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB). Since March 2018 he has been President of the Board for thoroughbred breeding and racing , which the horse racing represents in Germany.

Early career

He attended the Görres-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf. As a schoolboy, Vesper became a member of the Catholic Student Youth , in which he made it to the position of deputy federal director. After graduating from high school in 1970, Vesper studied mathematics and sociology at the University of Cologne and Bielefeld University , which he graduated as a sociologist in 1976 . From 1977 to 1983 he then worked as a research assistant at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University. Here took place in 1982 and his doctorate to Dr. rer. soc. with a dissertation on survival in Namibia: 'Homelands' and the capitalist world system .

Political career

Vesper was one of the founding members of the party Die Grünen in 1979 and was spokesman for the state executive committee of the Greens in North Rhine-Westphalia from 1982 to 1983. From 1983 to 1990 he worked as managing director of the parliamentary group of the Greens . Vesper was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1990 to 1995 . During this time he was also the parliamentary manager of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group . From June 2 to October 24, 2000 he was again a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia . From 2005 he was again member of parliament with candidacy in the parliamentary constituency Bielefeld I . In Düsseldorf he was elected second vice president of the state parliament on June 8, 2005. Because of his move to the DOSB , he resigned his state parliament mandate at the end of September 2006.

In 1995 Vesper was appointed as Minister for Building and Housing as well as Deputy Prime Minister in the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia led by Johannes Rau . He kept these offices under his successor in office, Wolfgang Clement . After the state election in 2000 he was reappointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Urban Development and Housing, Culture and Sport. He kept these functions under Clement's successor Peer Steinbrück . As a result of Wolfgang Clement's move to Gerhard Schröder's cabinet after the federal elections in 2002, Michael Vesper was the Executive Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia from October 21 to November 6, 2002, making him the first Green politician to lead a state government. After the state elections in 2005 , in which the red-green coalition had lost its majority, he left the state government on June 24, 2005.

From March 1999 to December 2006 he was also a member of the Board of Directors of Deutschlandradio, representing the Federal Republic of Germany .

Sports official

Michael Vesper during the clothing of the German athletes for the 2012 Olympics in London
Michael Vesper 2012

On October 1, 2006, Michael Vesper took up his post, initially limited to five years, as General Director of the DOSB . Since the structural reform of the DOSB, which was decided at the general meeting in 2014, he has held the post of CEO. His contract ran until the end of 2017.

He came under fire here shortly before the start of the 2008 Summer Olympics in China. In an interview with ARD , which u. a. was broadcast in the Weltspiegel on August 3, 2008, he said on location in his role as Chef de Mission of the German Olympic team: “In every country in the world, including the Federal Republic of Germany, websites are blocked. With us, it is right-wing extremist sites that are blocked. And of course it is also the case in China that individual pages are blocked. ”This equation sparked a heated discussion, the basic message of which was that one cannot compare the blocking of content relevant to criminal law with restricting the plurality of opinions. Two days before the start of the Games, on August 5, 2008, Vesper expressed his regret about this, withdrew his remarks and spoke of a misunderstanding.

On March 14, 2018 he was appointed President of the Directorate for Thoroughbred Breeding and Races. V. , the umbrella organization of German horse racing.

Honors

In 2004 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the law faculty of the Open University of Hagen . In 2006, Michael Vesper received the Heinz Schmitz Memorial Medal from the North Rhine-Westphalia State Association of the Federation of German Builders, Architects and Engineers for his work as State Building Minister . On August 24, 2012, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia “for his great commitment in politics and for sport” .

family

Michael Vesper is married to Ferdos Forudastan , has four children and lives in Cologne. His brother Stefan Vesper has been the general secretary of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) since 1999 .

Others

Michael Vesper is an avowed fan of the football club DSC Arminia Bielefeld .

See also

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Web links

Commons : Michael Vesper  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Poeter & Michael Vesper: Analysis of development policy statements of the Catholic Church in the Federal Republic of Germany (1971 to 1975) . Thesis. Bielefeld University, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld 1976, Bielefeld University Library (179 pages).
  2. ↑ Michael Vesper: Survival in Namibia: 'Homelands' and the capitalist world system . Zugl. Dissertation, Bielefeld University (1982). Southern Africa Information Center, Bonn 1983, ISBN 3-921614-08-2 .
  3. ↑ Michael Vesper in the Munzinger archive , accessed on July 7, 2011 ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  4. ↑ Questionnaire Michael Vesper. focus.de, November 4, 2002, accessed on February 5, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Michael Vesper's contract extended to 2017 dosb.de March 29, 2016
  6. ↑ Vesper withdraws comparison with censorship . In: Berliner Morgenpost , August 7, 2008.
  7. ↑ New President of the Board of Directors Dr. Michael Vesper presented at the annual press conference . In: German Racing , March 19, 2018, accessed on April 12, 2018.
  8. ^ Association of German Builders, Architects and Engineers: News from the Association ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) , August 30, 2006
  9. ↑ Award of the State Order of Merit on August 24, 2012. State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia, August 24, 2012, archived from the original on August 12, 2016 ; accessed on March 8, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Vespers, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne