Rüdiger May (Author)

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Rüdiger May (born September 16, 1949 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a German political scientist , PR consultant and author . From 1979 to 1989 he was the main department head in the Konrad-Adenauer-Haus .

Life

May studied political science , sociology and economic policy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1975 he was with Hans-Helmuth Knütter at the Bonn seminar for political science with the dissertation The young workforce of the social committees. An example of the investigation of the CDU using the example of a fringe group for Dr. phil. PhD .

He became a member of the CDU in 1968 and was assistant to the CDU Bundestag member Ferdinand Breidbach from 1969 to 1976 . From 1976 to 1979 he was the representative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation's international office in Quito , Ecuador . In 1979 he was poached to Germany by the CDU General Secretary Heiner Geißler . From 1979 to 1989 May was head of the organization department at the Konrad-Adenauer-Haus in Bonn. In 1989 he made his superior Geissler aware of financial irregularities in the CDU headquarters, whereupon his contract was terminated by his successor, Volker Rühe, as head of administration. In 2000 he incriminated former Chancellor Helmut Kohl (CDU) before the investigative committee of the German Bundestag into the CDU donation affair. Kohl said about May as follows: "one of the main agents for Geissler", who tried to "help prepare my fall" in the Bonn media landscape.

After working for KAS, he worked until 1993 as director of industrial policy at the tobacco company Philip Morris in Munich and Brussels. In 1993 he founded the PR company European Public Advertisers . In 2007 he became a managing partner of the Berlinpolis lobbyist group , but left in 2008 due to differences of opinion.

May, who last lived in Tehran in Iran, published several books in the field of travel literature .

Fonts (selection)

  • Where's our money? The (wasting) use of tax money . Econ Verlag, Düsseldorf 1976, ISBN 3-430-16365-X .
  • with Brigitte May: Ecuador and Galapagos Islands. Art and Cultural history, descriptions of places and routes, description of the flora and fauna of the Galapagos Islands, with a city guide to Quito . Goldstadtverlag, Pforzheim 1980, ISBN 3-87269-243-7 .
  • Rallies with and without a car. Suggestions for more leisure fun . Katzmann, Tübingen 1983, ISBN 3-7805-0418-9 .
  • Travel with a kick. A travel planner for individualists . Katzmann, Tübingen 1986, ISBN 3-7805-0429-4 .
  • with Rainer Theilacker: plan and organize business trips. Travel tips for managers (= pocket books for business, volume 50). Sauer, Heidelberg 1988, ISBN 3-7938-7789-2 .
  • Lean politics. A radical cure for the state . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-426-80069-1 .
  • Incredible stories from Colombia , BoD, Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-7322-3745-6

report

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Daniel Dettling (Ed.): The future of civil society. Challenges and perspectives for the state, economy and society. Festschrift for Warnfried Dettling . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-16198-3 , p. 232.
  2. ↑ Ulrike Quadbeck: Karl Dietrich Bracher and the beginnings of Bonn political science . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2008, ISBN 978-3-8329-3740-9 , p. 382.
  3. ↑ Ferdinand Breidbach , Rüdiger May (ed.): The social fig leaf? The social committees in the Union . Econ Verlag, Düsseldorf 1975, ISBN 3-430-11521-3 , p. 325.
  4. ↑ a b Hans Leyendecker , Michael Stiller , Heribert Prantl : Helmut Kohl, power and money . Steidl, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-88243-738-3 , p. 162.
  5. ^ A b c Matthias Krupa : Committee imposes first penalties . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 24, 2000.
  6. ↑ Tina Hildebrandt , Wolfgang Krach: Anyone who is afraid falls down . In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 , 2000, pp. 72-73 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME May, Rudiger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist, PR consultant and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr