Burkhart Braunbehrens

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Burkhart von Braunbehrens (born March 22, 1941 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German painter. He was on the supervisory board of the arms company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann . In 2014 he resigned as a partner after the artist group Center for Political Beauty revealed who was behind Krauss-Maffei Wegmann in the “Reward: 25,000 euros” campaign .

Life

Braunbehrens received lessons from Willi Geiger in Munich from 1957 to 1959 . From 1961 to 1971 he studied sociology, romance studies, art history and economics. According to taz , he was "the head of the student movement in Heidelberg in 1968". From 1972 to 1975 he was a newspaper editor at the Communist People's Newspaper . According to his own statement, he inherited company shares from Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW), which he sold, and invested in the development of the printing works of the Communist Federation of West Germany (KBW). From 1976 to 1980 he worked as an industrial worker, completed a printing apprenticeship and was involved as a works council. From 1982 he participated in art exhibitions in Mannheim, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Ludwigshafen, Berlin and Paris.

In 1984, after the death of his father, he again inherited shares from KMW and co-founded an alternative housing project. He has had a studio in Ebertsheim since 1985 . The musicologist Volkmar Braunbehrens is his twin brother, the philologist Adrian Braunbehrens another brother.

His public opposition in June 2012 to the sale of Leopard 2A7 + main battle tanks to Saudi Arabia during the Arab Spring attracted nationwide attention. According to media reports, Saudi Arabia wanted to order 600–800 tanks with an estimated value of ten billion euros. Among other things, he wrote an open letter to the Federal President Joachim Gauck . He was then voted out of the supervisory board of Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, to which he belonged for almost three years.

The debate about the tank deals was stimulated by an action by the artists' initiative Center for Political Beauty . To prevent the deal, she offered a bonus of 25,000 euros for tips that the owners of Krauss-Maffei Wegmann brought to prison.

In 2013, Braunbehrens presented in the business section of Welt am Sonntag how his attempt to sell his shares in the armaments company had failed. He explained that the secrecy regulations for the Federal Security Council de facto removed the arms export decisions from democratic control, so that guidelines that make compliance with democracy and human rights a condition could be undermined. In 2014 he was able to exit the investment through arbitration and settlement.

Burkhart Braunbehrens was a member of the Rhein-Neckar Artists' Association .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Krauss-Maffei Wegmann: Do not have a tank order from Saudi Arabia Focus online June 18, 2012.
  2. ↑ Deal with Germany - Saudis want up to 800 tanks taz June 17, 2012.
  3. ↑ Armaments owners on the tank deal - The protest still has a chance taz June 18, 2012
  4. ↑ Artist and arms dealer poses , ZDF report on Burkhart Braunbehrens on youtube.de, June 15, 2012
  5. ^ Arms company Kraus-Maffei Wegmann - Stubborn as a tank Süddeutsche Zeitung June 21, 2012
  6. ↑ Welt am Sonntag : Principles are Sacrificed for National Advantage, October 20, 2013, p. 42
  7. ↑ welt.de: Ex-KMW co-owner Braunbehrens founds a foundation for refugees
  8. ↑ aufschrei-waffenhandel.de: The Braunbehrens - a tank family ( Memento from September 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ kuenstlerbund-rhein-neckar.de: Profile Burkhart Braunbehrens (accessed on November 28, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Braunbehrens, Burkhart
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Braunbehrens, Burkhart from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and co-heir of the arms company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau