Bernd Schmidbauer

Bernd Schmidbauer (center) 1989 in Bonn; right: Wolfgang Gröbl

Bernd Schmidbauer (born May 29, 1939 in Pforzheim ) is a former German politician ( CDU ).

From January to December 1991 he was Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and from 1991 to 1998 Minister of State to the Federal Chancellor .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1959, Schmidbauer completed a teaching degree in physics , chemistry and biology at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , which he completed in 1967 with the scientific and 1969 with the pedagogical examination. He then worked as a teacher at the Boxberg Gymnasium in Heidelberg , most recently as director of studies.

Bernd Schmidbauer is married and has three children.

Political party

Schmidbauer was chairman of the CDU district association Rhein-Neckar from 1981 to July 2003 . He was replaced in this office by Georg Wacker .

MP

From 1971 to 1989 Schmidbauer belonged to the district assembly of the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis and had been chairman of the CDU parliamentary group there since 1976.

From 1983 to 2009 he was a member of the German Bundestag . From 1987 to 1990 he was chairman of the Enquête Commission on Preparedness for the Protection of the Earth's Atmosphere . In addition, from 1988 to 1990 he headed the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety working group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group .

From December 2002 he was a member of the Parliamentary Control Committee (PKG) and from January 2006 was a member of the board of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group.

Bernd Schmidbauer has always entered the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Rhein-Neckar constituency . In the 2005 Bundestag election , he received 47.4% of the first votes . On April 28, 2008 Schmidbauer announced that he would no longer stand as a candidate in the upcoming federal election.

Public offices

On January 24, 1991 Schmidbauer was used as Parliamentary Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in by Chancellor Helmut Kohl led government appointed. On December 18, 1991, he moved to the Federal Chancellery as Minister of State with the Federal Chancellor . Here he was commissioner for the federal intelligence services , the Federal Intelligence Service , the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Military Counterintelligence Service .

Because of his inclination to work in the field of secret services himself, Schmidbauer was nicknamed "008" - a reference to James Bond alias 007 . In 1992 two German hostages were released in Lebanon; Schmidbauer was involved in the tough negotiations. In 1994 he obtained the release of the German Szimkus, who had been sentenced to death in Iran. Schmidbauer's role in the plutonium affair made headlines in December 1995. Schmidbauer justified the use of Werner Mauss , who negotiated the release of hostages of the ELN guerrillas on behalf of the German government in Colombia , as a “humanitarian emergency measure”. Schmidbauer "never made a secret of the fact that he was not reluctant to hear the title 'Agent 008'", reported the press in 2000.

After the 1998 Bundestag election , he left office on October 26, 1998. On May 16, 2006, Schmidbauer announced that he was resting his participation in the parliamentary control committee until the allegations against the BND in the so-called journalist affair had been clarified. Schmidbauer gave the reason that some of the spying on journalists took place during his time as a secret service coordinator. At the same time Schmidbauer stated that he had "no knowledge of the processes that are the subject of today's discussions".