Bernd Klaus Buchholz

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Bernd Klaus Buchholz (born November 2, 1961 in Berlin ) is a German lawyer and politician ( FDP ). Since June 28, 2017 he has been Minister for Economics, Transport, Labor, Technology and Tourism of the State of Schleswig-Holstein in Günther's cabinet . Before that, he was CEO of Gruner + Jahr AG & Co KG from 2009 to 2012 .

education

After graduating from high school in Berlin in 1980 , Buchholz studied law and economics in Berlin , Erlangen and Kiel . After the first state examination in 1986, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Environmental Protection, Commercial and Tax Criminal Law at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . With the work The Affected in the parliamentary committee of inquiry , he received his doctorate in 1990 as a doctor of rights. In 1992 he passed the second state examination in law.

Professional career

From 1996 Buchholz initially worked as an assistant to the executive board at Gruner + Jahr in Hamburg. In 1998/99 he was the publishing director of the Hamburger Morgenpost , which at the time belonged to the publishing house. Subsequently, he was for a short time the publishing director of STERN before he became the publishing director of the Stern / GEO group in mid-2000. In January 2004 he was appointed member of the board for the entire magazine business and head of Gruner + Jahr Germany.

On January 6, 2009, Buchholz succeeded the retired CEO of Gruner + Jahr AG & Co KG , Bernd Kundrun . He held this position for around three and a half years before stepping down in August 2012. At the same time, Buchholz was a member of the Bertelsmann AG Executive Board .

On August 24, 2012, Manager Magazin reported that Bertelsmann wanted to take over Gruner & Jahr completely and wanted to convert the blocking minority of the Jahr family of 25.1% into Bertelsmann shares. Buchholz then left the company in mid-September 2012 with a severance payment of five million euros.

Since June 2014 Buchholz has been “ of counsel ” for the Hamburg office of the law firm CausaConcilio. Until his appointment as state minister, he advised company executives there, primarily on compliance issues.

Political commitment

Political party

Buchholz has been a member of the FDP since 1981 . From 1987 to 1990 he was state chairman of the Young Liberals in Schleswig-Holstein . From 1989 to 2007 he was a member of the FDP state executive . Since 2013, Buchholz has been a member of the FDP state executive again as deputy chairman .

Member of the state parliament

Buchholz was a member of the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament from 1992 to 1996. He acted as domestic and legal policy spokesman and was deputy chairman of the Kiel investigation committee into the Barschel affair . From August 17, 1993 he also acted as parliamentary manager of the FDP parliamentary group.

Bundestag candidate

In the 2013 federal election , Buchholz ran for second place on the FDP state list in Schleswig-Holstein, but failed with his party because of the five percent hurdle . For the 2017 federal election , his party again placed him in second place on the FDP state list in Schleswig-Holstein. After the election, however, he renounced his mandate in the Bundestag, as he had already been appointed Minister of Economics in Schleswig-Holstein. Gyde Jensen moved up for him .

Minister of Economics in Schleswig-Holstein

In the wake of the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 2017 , the CDU, FDP and the Greens formed a Jamaica coalition . In the course of this, Buchholz was appointed Minister of Economics for the State of Schleswig-Holstein on June 28, 2017 . As such, he has been a member of the Günther state government since then .

Private

Buchholz is married and has two children. He is evangelical .

Web links

Commons : Bernd Klaus Buchholz  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. Bernd Buchholz: CEO of Gruner + Jahr AG. In: bertelsmann.de. Archived from the original on February 10, 2013 ; Retrieved October 26, 2014 .
  2. Hans-Jürgen Jakobs: Buchholz leaves Bertelsmann board of directors: Away from the sun deck . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung online . August 29, 2012. Retrieved June 10, 2017.
  3. Former Gruner + Jahr boss: Buchholz receives five million euros in severance payment . In: Spiegel Online . 20th September 2012.
  4. Northern FDP paves Kubicki the way to Berlin . In: kn-online.de . May 20, 2017. Retrieved May 22, 2017.
  5. Buchholz waives his mandate , Lübecker Nachrichten Online September 25, 2017, accessed October 3, 2017