Carsten Frigge
Carsten Frigge (born July 13, 1963 in Hamburg ) is a German politician ( CDU ). From March 31, 2010 to November 24, 2010 Frigge was Finance Senator and President of the Finance Authority of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Before that he was State Councilor for Economy and Labor from September 2008 .
Life and education
Carsten Frigge grew up in Hamburg-Farmsen-Berne , attended the Surenland elementary school from 1969 and the Farmsen grammar school from 1973 , where he graduated from high school in 1982. He then did his basic military service in Hamburg and Eckernförde .
From 1984 to 1986 he completed an apprenticeship as an advertising clerk with an IHK degree at the Lintas advertising agency in Hamburg. From 1986 to 1990 he studied business administration at the University of Hamburg with a degree in business administration .
Professional career
From 1991 to 1992 Frigge worked for the then DASA board chairman Jürgen Schrempp as a consultant for fundamental questions at Deutsche Aerospace AG in Munich and from 1993 to 1994 as managing director of the automotive supplier Deutsche Tailleur GmbH & Co. KG in Bremen .
In 1995 he switched to Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and became a member of the management team. At that time, the company was 95.1 percent owned by Deutsche Bank , which had joined the company in August 1988 with an initial 75.1 percent. When Roland Berger and his 46 partners founded the consulting company in 1998 for approx. When they bought back 235 million euros and in some cases went into debt, Carsten Frigge left the company and in the same year set up their own management consultancy, C4 Consulting GmbH , in Düsseldorf with his ex-colleague Anabel Houben . Frigge and Houben were each 50 percent shareholders and shared the management of the management consultancy. The then Deutsche Bank supervisory board chairman Hilmar Kopper , with whom Frigge was best known through his work at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, secured the first orders.
politics
Frigge joined the Junge Union Hamburg as a schoolboy and was active on the board. In 1984 he was able to get to know the US presidential campaign at the US parent company as an election campaign manager for Walter Mondale from the Democratic Party - brokered by his later apprenticeship company Lintas in Hamburg .
During his studies in Hamburg, Frigge worked for the former member of the Bundestag and later Senator for Economics and Labor, Gunnar Uldall , and in 1990 as an election campaign manager for the former parliamentary group leader and Hamburg mayoral candidate Hartmut Perschau .
On September 1, 2008, Mayor Ole von Beust brought Carsten Frigge as his State Councilor to the Department of Economics and Labor after his predecessor Gunther Bonz was briefly dismissed for “alleged disloyalty”.
On March 31, 2010, Carsten Frigge was appointed the new Senator for Finance. His predecessor Michael Freytag resigned from his position as Senator and CDU state chairman on March 17th. On November 24, 2010, Carsten Frigge announced his resignation.
Conflicts of Interest
Involvement in the party donation affair of the CDU Rhineland-Palatinate
The C4 Consulting GmbH in Dusseldorf, whose Managing Frigge was at the time, advised in 2005 and 2006, the CDU Rhineland-Palatinate and their former top candidate Christoph Böhr in state elections . The fees charged for this activity in the amount of 385,918.40 euros were not paid from the party but from the parliamentary group fund of the CDU Rhineland-Palatinate. The fees were thus illegal party funding, as the transfer of funds from a parliamentary group to the party is prohibited. In this context, an investigation was carried out against Frigge, and his apartments were searched in May 2010. The affair is seen as the reason for Frigge's resignation. In January 2013, the Mainz Regional Court opened the main proceedings ; In addition to Frigge, Christoph Böhr, the former CDU general secretary Claudius Schlumberger and ex-parliamentary group manager Markus Hebgen were also accused. The trial before the 1st criminal chamber (large criminal chamber) of the Mainz Regional Court ended on December 3, 2013 with a conviction to a fine of 30,000 euros (150 daily rates) for aiding and abetting infidelity .
On December 11, 2014, the Federal Court of Justice rejected the appeals filed against the judgment of the Mainz Regional Court by Christoph Böhr and Carsten Fricke, so that their convictions for violating the Political Parties Act are now final. At the same time, the Federal Court of Justice overturned the judgment of the Mainz Regional Court on appeal by the public prosecutor, insofar as the accused were acquitted of the allegation of attempted fraud against the Rhineland-Palatinate Court of Audit . Another criminal chamber of the Mainz Regional Court has to decide on this again.
Advising J. Christopher Flowers
Since February 2009, C4 Consulting GmbH , in which Frigge held 50 percent of the shares through a holding company , advised J. Christopher Flowers , one of the shareholders of HSH Nordbank . At the same time, Frigge was State Councilor of the Hamburg Authority for Economics and Labor, and the State of Hamburg is also a shareholder in HSH Nordbank. At the time of the advisory work, the shareholders of HSH Nordbank were negotiating a rescue package for the ailing bank, through which Flowers' stake fell from 27 to 10 percent. Even though Frigge was not involved in the negotiations with Flowers as a State Councilor, Frigge was criticized for the possible conflict of interests. According to the agency C4, Flowers did not advise Flowers in the matter of HSH Nordbank; Frigge stated that he had informed Mayor Ole von Beust about the mandate of C4, but there was no note on the file.
Advising HSH Nordbank
At the same time, Dirk Große-Leege advised HSH Nordbank from March 2009 to August 2010. According to him, the consultancy agreement existed between HSH Nordbank and his own company, GLS. At this point in time, Große-Leege was also the managing director of C4 Communications GmbH , Berlin, which was founded in June 2007 as an offshoot of C4 Consulting GmbH , Düsseldorf. Frigge held 50 percent of the shares in the Düsseldorf-based C4 Consulting GmbH and through this 50 percent in turn 28 percent of the shares in the Berlin-based C4 Communications GmbH . So there was criticism of another possible conflict of interests between Frigges participation in the Berlin C4 Communications GmbH - the resulting connection with managing director Große-Leege - and his offices as State Councilor as Senator for Finance (from March 31, 2010), which is directly responsible for the Hamburg's shares in HSH Nordbank was responsible. Frigge himself stated that he reacted “angrily” to Grosse-Lee's mandate and sold the 28 percent stake in C4 Communications GmbH . This is said to have been effected on May 19, 2009 and retrospectively to January 1, 2009, according to Große-Leege, not until August 2009; however, the entry in the relevant commercial register is dated July 15, 2009.
Other offices
As a State Councilor, Carsten Frigge represented the Ministry of Economics and Labor u. a. on the supervisory boards of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), Hamburger Gesellschaft für Vermögens- und Beteiligungsmanagement mbH (HGV), Hamburg Energie GmbH and the administrative board of the Federal Employment Agency. Frigge was also the Senate Aviation Coordinator, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies / Leibniz Institute for Global and Regional Studies and Deputy Chairman of the Hamburg Logistics Initiative.
From 1998 to 2005 Frigge was an external lecturer at the chair for business psychology at Saarland University , where he taught in the field of media and organizational psychology, business mediation and negotiation tactics.
Web links
- Curriculum vitae Carsten Frigge, Ministry of Economics and Labor. ( Memento of July 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 2, 2010.
- No business success without enthusiasm. Management consultant Carsten Frigge on the consultant as a spin doctor for corporate strategies . In: VDI news . December 15, 2000 ( vdi-nachrichten.com ( memento of February 5, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) [accessed on March 2, 2010]).
literature
- Carsten Frigge , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 52/2010 from December 28, 2010, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
swell
- ↑ For a few more marks. In: Spiegel-Online. July 27, 1998.
- ↑ Roland Berger leaves. End of legend. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. June 7, 2010.
- ^ Revolt against Roland Berger. In: Wirtschaftswoche. May 3, 2010.
- ↑ Handelsblatt May 6, 2002: Co-owner of the management consultancy C4. Carsten Frigge: The flexible lateral thinker
- ↑ a b C4 Consulting - Climate researchers for fusion partners. In: Wirtschaftswoche. dated December 4, 2001, accessed March 2, 2010.
- ↑ Shaky confidence. In: Spiegel-Online. October 25, 2010.
- ↑ After 17 minutes, Councilor of State Bonz was dismissed! ( Memento of December 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: BILD-HH of August 28, 2008, accessed on March 2, 2010.
- ↑ How did Ole come up with that? ( Memento of April 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: BILD-HH of August 29, 2008, accessed on March 2, 2010.
- ↑ When I rule, there is discipline. In: The world. August 31, 2008, accessed March 2, 2010.
- ↑ Michael Freytag resigns from all offices. In: The world. March 2, 2010, accessed March 2, 2010.
- ↑ Finance Senator Frigge resigns - Kruse becomes successor In: Hamburger Abendblatt. November 24, 2010.
- ↑ Tagesspiegel December 22, 2010: Financial affair in the CDU Rhineland-Palatinate
- ↑ faz.net December 23, 2010: CDU has to pay a fine of 1.2 million euros
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt: CDU: Frigge entangled in illegal financing of the party , accessed on January 3, 2011
- ↑ Ex-Senator Frigge in court from September In: Abendblatt, January 24, 2013.
- ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung of October 2, 2013
- ↑ Ex-Senator Frigge for breach of trust in court, HA dated September 4, 2013
- ↑ volksfreund.de of July 29, 2013
- ↑ 15 months required: Public prosecutor wants probation for ex-Senator Frigge mopo.de from November 21, 2013
- ↑ Fine for ex-Senator for Finance Frigge for aiding and abetting unfaithfulness, Abendblatt.de of December 3, 2013
- ↑ Right-hand magnification: Illegal campaign financing in the Rhineland-Palatinate CDU election campaign in 2006
- ^ Die Welt: The Senator of Finance advises HSH shareholder Flowers , accessed on January 3, 2011
- ↑ a b Spiegel-Online October 25, 2010: affairs. Shaky confidence
- ^ Wirtschaftswoche September 17, 2007: Ex-head of communications at VW founds a PR agency
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt October 25, 2010: The past catches up with the Senator of Finance
- ↑ hamburg.de ( memento of March 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 2, 2010.
- ^ GIGA Board of Trustees , accessed on March 2, 2010.
- ↑ http://www.uni-saarland.de/media/fak5/orga/PDFs/stoffen/Externe_Lehrauftraege.pdf (link not available)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Frigge, Carsten |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), Senator in Hamburg |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1963 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |