Andreas Krautscheid

Andreas Krautscheid, General Manager of the Association of German Banks

Andreas Krautscheid (born February 11, 1961 in Wissen ) is a German manager and politician ( CDU ). He was a member of the German Bundestag , the Bundesrat and the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia . There Krautscheid was first State Secretary and then from 2007 to 2010 a member of the Rüttger Cabinet as Minister for Federal Affairs, Europe and the Media . In 2010 he was Secretary General of the North Rhine-Westphalian CDU . In March 2011 he switched to the Association of German Banks .

Life

education and profession

After graduating from the Siegtal-Gymnasium in his home town of Eitorf in 1979 and after completing military service, Krautscheid began studying law and political science at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn as a scholarship holder of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung . In 1988 he passed the first state examination in law . In 1988/89 he worked in the Federal Office for Community Service . From 1989 to 1991 a trainee training followed in Cologne , Dresden and London , in 1992 the second state examination in law and admission to the bar. A little later, Krautscheid joined a law firm in Bonn.

From 1992 to 1994 he worked as deputy spokesman for the CDU in Germany in the Konrad-Adenauer-Haus in Bonn under the then CDU federal chairman Helmut Kohl and general secretary Peter Hintze .

After working as a member of the Bundestag from 1994 to 1998, he switched to business. From 1999 to 2002 Krautscheid was group spokesman for the building materials company Readymix AG (today CEMEX Germany ), and from 2000 to 2002 lecturer for media law at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn / Rhein-Sieg . From 2002 he headed political communication at Deutsche Telekom in Bonn, and from 2005 to 2006 he was employed at T-Systems .

From 2006 to 2010 Krautscheid was a member of the government of North Rhine-Westphalia in various functions. In 2010 he acted as Secretary General of the CDU NRW and was (until 2011) a member of the state parliament.

From March 1, 2011 until the end of 2017, Krautscheid was a member of the executive board of the Association of German Banks in Berlin ; since from 1 January 2018 it is - together with Christian Ossig - General Manager of the Banking Association and member of the Board .

Minister in Rüttger's cabinet

From 2006 to October 23, 2007, Krautscheid was a member of the government in North Rhine-Westphalia under Prime Minister Jürgen Rüttgers as a government spokesman for the state government and state secretary for media.

On October 24, 2007, Krautscheid became Minister for Federal Affairs, Europe and the Media of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (initially under the name of Minister for Federal and European Affairs), succeeding Michael Breuer , who resigned from this office after becoming President of the Rhenish Savings Banks and Giro Association was elected. In March 2010, Krautscheid for his part gave up the ministerial office and was elected as the successor to Hendrik Wüst as the new Secretary General of the CDU NRW .

Political party

Krautscheid joined the Junge Union in 1976 and the CDU in 1980. In 1988 he joined the Christian Democratic Workforce (CDA). From 1992 to 1994 he was deputy spokesman for the CDU in Germany.

At the local level he was elected deputy district chairman of the CDU Rhein-Sieg in 1992, and from 1998 to 2010 he was party chairman. Krautscheid was also a long-time member of the CDU Mittelrhein district board and a temporary member of the state board.

As a result of the sponsorship affair of the North Rhine-Westphalian CDU, General Secretary Hendrik Wüst resigned from his position in February 2010. The state chairman and prime minister Rüttgers then proposed Krautscheid as his successor. Initially in office on a provisional basis, Krautscheid was officially elected as the new general secretary of the state CDU at the CDU state party conference on March 20, 2010 in Münster with 99.5 percent of the valid votes cast.

After the CDU's electoral defeat in the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2010 , he played an important role in the question of who will be the new CDU state and parliamentary group chairman; he was also considered a possible candidate for both positions, but renounced each in favor of Karl-Josef Laumann (parliamentary group chairman) and Armin Laschet , whose bid for party chairmanship he supported. After Laschet clearly defeated Federal Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen in a member survey about the CDU state chairmanship , he no longer proposed Krautscheid, but Oliver Wittke as general secretary. Accordingly, Krautscheid resigned from his office on November 6, 2010 at the state party conference of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia. Shortly afterwards, Krautscheid announced his complete withdrawal from all party offices and the move to business.

MP

From 16 October 1994 to 27 September 1998, he worked for the federal election district Rhein-Sieg-Kreis I as a directly elected representative of a member of the German Bundestag . During this time he was a member of the defense committee , deputy member of the foreign affairs committee and chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the subcommittee on human rights and humanitarian aid. In the following election period he was defeated by Uwe Göllner , the SPD candidate .

In the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2010 , he was elected to the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia for the state electoral district Rhein-Sieg-Kreis I , to which he belonged from June 9th. As announced on November 10, 2010, he resigned his mandate on February 28, 2011 to become Deputy General Manager of the Association of German Banks . The former President of the State Parliament, Regina van Dinther, succeeded him in the State Parliament.

Others

Krautscheid is a member of the CDU and CDA , the Atlantikbrücke , the German Society for Foreign Policy , the German-British Society , the German-American Lawyers Association, the German Parliamentary Society , the Innovators Club of the German Association of Cities and Towns , the Economic Council the CDU , the Federal Committee on Economics, Jobs and Taxes of the CDU and at Amnesty International . He is a member of the board of trustees of the Institute for Media Policy (IfM) and the Institute for European Politics . Krautscheid is an advisory board member of Quadriga University . He is chairman of the advisory board of Bank-Verlag .

Private life

Andreas Krautscheid is married and has two children (twins). He is a member of 1. FC Köln .

Web links

Commons : Andreas Krautscheid  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Andreas Krautscheid at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Andreas Krautscheid. Chief Executive and Member of the Board of Directors. Association of German Banks, accessed on November 21, 2018 . 
2. ^ Krautscheid new CDU General Secretary faz.net, February 23, 2010: accessed on August 21, 2016.
3. ↑ North Rhine-Westphalia: State CDU elects Krautscheid as Secretary General Spiegel Online, March 20, 2010, accessed on August 21, 2016.
4. ↑ faz.net from August 6, 2010: Triumvirate in the West faz.net from August 6, 2010: accessed on August 21, 2016.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Krautscheid changes to the banking association ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Rheinische Post Online, November 11, 2010, accessed on August 21, 2016. 
6. ↑ see web link Landtag NRW and Regina van Dinther at the Landtag NRW. accessed on August 21, 2016.
7. ↑ Institute for Media and Communication Policy
8. ↑ Curators of the Institute for European Politics , accessed on September 7, 2016.
9. ^ Chairman of the advisory board at Bank-Verlag. Management. Retrieved November 21, 2018 .