Bernard Mommer

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There are uncertainties about Mommer's biographical data, e.g. other sources give his date of birth as January 10, 1943. It is also not exactly documented from when to when he held a leading position (supervisory board member or vice-CEO) at PDVSA and was minister; there is also uncertainty as to when his activities in Vienna began. See discussion notes

Bernard Mommer (born May 18, 1943 in southern France ) is a former German sociologist who later took on Venezuelan citizenship. From 2005 he became a member of the supervisory board of the largest oil company in Latin America, Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), under President Hugo Chávez , and was Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Energy and Oil. He is therefore considered an intimate expert on Venezuela's oil industry.

Origin and education

Bernard Mommer is the son of the former Vice President of the Bundestag Karl Mommer ( SPD ). Mommer studied mathematics in Tübingen and received his doctorate there in 1976 as a sociologist on the subject of "The importance of basic rent in petroleum production: analytical history of its development from the beginnings in the USA to the present day international oil crisis" During his studies, he was active in the Socialist German Student Union .

Professional career

In 1970 he emigrated to Venezuela with his then wife Dorothea Melcher. He has taught at various universities, including Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, and in 1989 he found a job with the PDVSA in Venezuela. From 1995 to 1999 he had a research assignment at Oxford University . After Hugo Chávez became President of Venezuela, Mommer was appointed advisor to the Venezuelan oil minister Alí Rodríguez Araque in 1999 and became deputy minister in the energy and oil ministry under Rafael Ramírez from 2005 .

Today Bernard Mommer lives in Vienna, the seat of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). After returning from Venezuela, he was OPEC representative for Venezuela for several years and was managing director of Energy and Petroleum Resources Services GmbH , a subsidiary of PDVSA that analyzes international market developments in the petroleum sector.

Positions

Capitalism - according to Mommer in a ZEIT interview in 2006 - simply defined the question of property ownership: “We are constantly talking about an economic model that has two variables, labor and capital. It has three ”. Mommer believes that "the management of natural wealth is a matter of the state".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steffen Leidel: Dossier Latin America - Venezuela - PdVSA. In: bpb.de. August 22, 2007, accessed March 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ http://d-nb.info/780725867
  3. ↑ Venezuela: The dream is over, page 5/5: There is nothing to be seen of the power of the people. In: TIME. Retrieved March 2, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Contacts born in ULA (Universidad de Los Andes) , wikileaks.org, accessed on March 2, 2019
  5. ↑ Venezuela. The dream is over , the time of May 19, 2018
  6. ^ Anne Grüttner: The Petro-Populist , Die Zeit No. 48 of November 23, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Mommer, Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Venezuelan petroleum expert
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH South France