Birgit Breuel

Birgit Breuel (1991)

Birgit Breuel (born September 7, 1937 in Hamburg-Rissen as Birgit Münchmeyer ) is a German politician ( CDU ), former president of the Treuhandanstalt and general commissioner of the Expo 2000 in Hanover , later active in numerous honorary offices.

biography

Birgit Münchmeyer comes from an originally Lower Saxon family of merchants and private bankers from Hamburg since 1816 and is the daughter of the businessman and banker Alwin Münchmeyer the Elder. J. (1908–1990), owner of the trading and banking house Münchmeyer & Co. in Hamburg and president of the DIHT , and Gertrud Nolte (1914–2007). On August 8, 1959, she married the Hamburg merchant Ernst-Jürgen Breuel (born October 7, 1931 in Hamburg). Her son Nikolaus was CEO of DB Fernverkehr AG until November 2010 .

Birgit Breuel 1973 at the CDU federal party conference

Birgit Breuel first studied political science at the universities of Hamburg , Oxford and Geneva , but without a degree. In 1966 the trained retail saleswoman joined the CDU. From 1970 until her resignation on June 28, 1978, she was a member of the Hamburg Parliament . From 1978 to 1986 she was Lower Saxony's Minister of Economics and Transport , then Lower Saxony's Finance Minister until 1990 . After taking office, she was the first woman to receive the official title of minister .

In 1990 Breuel was elected to the management of the Treuhandanstalt , one year later she succeeded the murdered Detlev Rohwedder as President of the Treuhandanstalt. She left this office in 1995. Birgit Breuel was then General Commissioner of the World Exhibition Expo 2000 in Hanover . After that she mostly withdrew into her private life, but was still a member of several supervisory boards. She also takes care of the Philip Breuel Foundation, which was founded in 1990 on behalf of her deceased son, and which enables children from socially disadvantaged families to be creative and artistic.

Others

In 2009, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, ARD produced and broadcast a documentary about Breuel's work as the head of the trust. It bears the title The Trustee .

D-Mark, Einheit, Vaterland , a documentary by Arte, 2019

Awards

• 1981: Large Federal Cross of Merit
• 1984: Large Federal Cross of Merit with a star
• 1990: Great Golden Decoration of Honor with the Star for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 1992: Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize
• 1994: Bernhard Harms Medal from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy
• 1994: Large Federal Cross of Merit with star and shoulder ribbon

Publications

• There is no bread and butter for free. Düsseldorf u. a. 1976, ISBN 3-430-11534-5 .
• Unsaddle the official white man. Less bureaucracy, closer to the citizen. Düsseldorf u. a. 1979.
• Perspectives of departure. To learn from mistakes. Düsseldorf u. a. 1983, ISBN 3-430-11544-2 .
• People don't live on sales figures. How I understand politics. Busse Seewald, Herford 1983, ISBN 3-512-00792-9 .
• (Ed.): Treuhand intern. Diary. Ullstein, Frankfurt a. M./Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-548-36614-7 .
• (Ed.): Without a historical model. The Treuhandanstalt 1990 to 1994 - a critical appreciation. Bostelmann and Siebenhaar, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-936962-15-4 .

literature

• German gender book . Volume 128 of the complete series (Hamburg Volume 10), CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1962, ISSN  1438-7972 , pp. 69-70.
• Rita Schoeneberg: Birgit Breuel , in this: 13 out of 500,000 people from Hanover , Hamburg: Urban-Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-924562-04-0 , pp. 22–31

Web links

Commons : Birgit Breuel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Birgit Breuel in the catalog of the German National Library
• FemBiography: Birgit Breuel
• resume

Individual evidence

1. ↑ broadcast November 20, 2009 ARD .
2. ↑ Stefan Locke: ARD documentary about the trust: In the engine room of the transformation . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed October 13, 2019]).
3. ^ D-Mark, Unity, Fatherland - The Difficult Legacy of the Treuhand. Retrieved October 13, 2019 . 
4. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
5. ^ Bernhard Harms Medal. (No longer available online.) Ifw-kiel.de , archived from the original on April 13, 2014 ; Retrieved June 15, 2013 . 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.