Bernd Neumann

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Bernd Neumann (2009)

Bernd Otto Neumann (born January 6, 1942 in Elbing ) is a former German politician ( CDU ) and has been President of the Film Funding Agency (FFA) since 2014 .

From 1991 to 1994 Neumann was Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Research and Technology and from 1994 to 1998 at the Federal Minister for Education, Science, Research and Technology . From 2005 to 2013 Neumann was Minister of State for the Federal Chancellor and Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media ( Minister of State for Culture ).

biography

Family, education and work

After being expelled from West Prussia , the Neumann family of three came to the Lüneburg Heath in the winter of 1945 on a refugee trail . The parents initially earned a living in agriculture. In 1953 the family moved to Bremen, where Neumann spent his further childhood and youth. After graduating from the Gerhard-Rohlfs-Gymnasium in Vegesack in 1961 , he initially did his military service . From 1963 to 1966 he studied at the University of Education in Bremen . He then worked as a secondary school teacher at the school on Kerschensteinerstraße in Bremen-Vegesack. In 1971 Neumann was given leave of absence for his political activities.

Bernd Neumann is married for the second time and has two children.

politics

Political party

Neumann has been a member of the CDU since 1962. Here he was initially involved in the Junge Union , whose state chairman in Bremen he was from 1967 to 1973. From 1969 to 1973 he was also a member of the JU federal executive committee, and since 1971 as deputy federal chairman.

Neumann has been a member of the Bremen CDU state executive since 1967. From 1979 to 2008 he was state chairman of the CDU Bremen , making him the longest-serving national in the party's history. In the mayor elections in 1975 , 1979 and 1983 Neumann was the CDU's top candidate for the office of mayor and president of the Senate of Bremen, but was unable to prevail against incumbent Hans Koschnick (SPD) in all three rounds . From 1975 to 2008 Neumann was also a member of the CDU federal executive committee , his successor was Thomas Röwekamp .

MP

From 1971 to 1987 Neumann belonged to the Bremen citizenship . From 1973 he was chairman of the CDU parliamentary group .

From 1987 to 2013 Neumann was a member of the German Bundestag . From 1998 to 2005 he was chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the committee for culture and media .

Bernd Neumann has always entered the Bundestag via the Bremen state list. His home constituency is Bremen II - Bremerhaven . He did not run for the 2013 federal election .

Public offices

Bernd Neumann during a speech (2010)

On January 24, 1991, Neumann was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Research and Technology in the Kohl IV Cabinet formed by Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl after the 1990 Bundestag election . After the federal election in October 1994 , he moved to the Federal Minister for Education, Science, Research and Technology in the same function. After the 1998 federal election (change of government from Kohl's cabinet V => Schröder I cabinet ), he left office on October 26, 1998.

On November 22, 2005 Neumann was appointed Minister of State in the Federal Chancellery and Commissioner of the Federal Government for Culture and the Media and held office until December 17, 2013. His term of office was well received by those involved in culture and the opposition and can be described as secretly successful . He particularly supported German films.

From 2006 to 2017 he was a federal representative on the ZDF board of directors .

On January 1, 2007, he set up the German Film Funding Fund (DFFF) with the aim of supporting German productions and compensating for competitive disadvantages compared to countries like England or France.

At the beginning of November 2009, Neumann's authority came under public criticism after the media reported on the censorship of exhibition texts by the German Historical Museum , which is under their jurisdiction .

Until 2013, Neumann was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Federal Cultural Events in Berlin GmbH and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Cultural Foundation , the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Jewish Museum . He was succeeded by his successor in the office of State Minister Monika Grütters .

Neumann was elected the new chairman of the FFA board of directors at the constituent meeting on February 12, 2014 and is thus also chairman of the FFA executive committee (successor to Eberhard Junkersdorf ).

Action against warning cost cap

In February 2013, Neumann internally opposed the planned “anti-rip-off law” of the federal government ( Merkel II cabinet ), which is intended to protect consumers from the excesses of warnings to make a profit (instead of ensuring that they fail to do so ). The draft should be changed again: Wrongly warned persons should only have a limited right to the reimbursement of their legal fees, the cap on the amount in dispute should also be weakened by vaguely worded exceptions. (Details here )

Speech on the 80th anniversary of the "seizure of power" by the National Socialists

Also in 2013, Neumann emphasized the importance of describing the foundations and starting points for the emergence of totalitarian systems in view of the younger generation's insufficient knowledge of the distinction between democracy and dictatorship. According to Neumann, the creation of references to the present is not a relativization of earlier events, but enables a critical look at disturbing developments similar to those of the 1920s.

criticism

Neumann is accused, as Minister of State for Culture, to have called small cinemas “drop-outs” in the course of the digitization of film theaters, thereby implying that they should not be funded. In fact, “drop-out cinemas” was the technical term for cinemas that did not meet the minimum requirements of the 2011–2014 digitization funding. In August 2014, the BKM launched its own digitization funding for these cinemas.

Cabinets

Honors

literature

  • Olaf Zimmermann , Wolfgang Börnsen and Eberhard Junkersdorf (Hrsg.): Red carpet for culture. Words to speak on cultural policy (Festschrift on the occasion of Bernd Neumann's 70th birthday) , Be.bra Verlag, Berlin 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile Bernd Neumann. In: Details of the film funding agency. Retrieved August 29, 2015 .
  2. ↑ For the previous Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann, Bremen-Nord is a new world by Patricia Brandt December 21, 2013 Weser-Kurier
  3. ↑ http://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/politik2_artikel,-Mohr-Luellmann-will-kandidieren-_arid,383851.html
  4. ↑ Bernd Neumann, the phantom in the exceptional section. In: zeit.de. September 15, 2013, accessed on August 29, 2015 : “As inconspicuously as Bernd Neumann goes about his tasks, he is so successful. Since he was brought into the Chancellery by Angela Merkel as Minister of State for Culture and Media in 2005, both cultural workers and members of the opposition have praised his work. "
  5. ↑ Eight nice years. In: tagesspiegel.de. October 23, 2013, accessed August 29, 2015 .
  6. ↑ The man for the canned. In: tagesspiegel.de. January 30, 2015, accessed August 29, 2015 .
  7. ^ Report of the newspaper Tagesspiegel from November 12, 2009 ; Report of the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT from November 13, 2009
  8. ↑ kbb.eu
  9. ↑ www.preussischer-kulturbesitz.de
  10. ↑ Homepage
  11. ↑ FFA press release of February 12, 2014: Minister of State a. D. Bernd Neumann elected as the new chairman of the FFA administrative board , accessed on February 13, 2014
  12. ^ Report at Spiegel Online from February 12, 2013
  13. ^ Wolfgang Mück: Nazi stronghold in Middle Franconia. The Volkish Awakening in Neustadt ad Aisch 1922–1933. Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 2016 (= Streiflichter aus der Heimatgeschichte. Ed. By Geschichts- und Heimatverein Neustadt ad Aisch e.V., special volume 4), 3rd, extended edition ibid. 2016, ISBN 978-3-87707-990- 4 , p. 3.
  14. ↑ Interview with “Drop-Out Cinema” founder Jörg van Bebber. In: highnoon film-e-zine. April 8, 2013, accessed December 10, 2019 .
  15. ^ Frank Völkert, Deputy Director of the FFA, at the HDF Filmtheaterkongress 2014. In: blickpunkt: film.de. April 11, 2014, accessed July 28, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Press release of the federal government of August 20, 2014: "Minister of State for Culture Grütters: Additional funding program for cinema digitization makes a further contribution to preserving the diversity of our cinema landscape" , accessed on July 28, 2018
  17. ↑ New honorary doctorates from the University of Pécs from October 22, 2011 ( Memento from October 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 7, 2015

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personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Bernd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neumann, Bernd Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Elblag