Christian Baretti

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Christian Baretti (born July 2, 1973 in Munich ) is a German economist, tax advisor and former local politician ( CSU / non-party). He was a member of the Munich City Council from 2002 to 2008. In connection with the Munich CSU affair , he was sentenced to a fine for suppressing documents .

Study and job

After graduating from high school in 1993, Baretti studied economics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU). For the second best diploma examination performance, he received the “Prize for Young Economists” from the Munich Economists Alumni Club in spring 1998 . With a dissertation on the topic “Incentive Effects of State Financial Equalization: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis” , he received his doctorate in 2001 at the LMU . In it he examined the incentive effects of the federal state financial equalization system on the policies of the federal states with regard to the efficiency of tax administration, economic policy efforts and public investments.

From 1998 to 2001 Baretti worked at the Munich Ifo Institute for Economic Research in the field of “ public finances ”, in particular financial relations between the federal government, states and local authorities. Its results were incorporated into various reports that were drawn up for the federal government and the federal states of Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, among others. On behalf of the institute, he took a position as an expert at the Bundestag on the reform of the state fiscal equalization system and the benchmark law. In addition, he gave lectures for the institute at the annual meeting of the Verein für Socialpolitik in 2000 and at the 57th Congress of the International Institute for Public Finance (IIPF) in 2001.

Baretti moved to the Bavarian Ministry of Finance in 2001 . There he worked as a consultant for “Economic Policy Issues, General Public Budget, Financial Planning Council and Tax Estimation” . His main areas of activity included the scientific foundations of financial policy, economic monitoring and the examination and evaluation of current socio-political reform projects, in particular in the context of social security systems. During his time at the Ministry of Finance, Baretti supported Finance Minister Kurt Faltlhauser in writing the book “ Future Financial Policy - The Principle of Sustainability ”.

In 2002 Baretti was on the planning staff of the Bavarian State Chancellery, responsible for fundamental economic policy issues. He also wrote speeches for the then Prime Minister and Chancellor candidate Edmund Stoiber and the then State Chancellor Erwin Huber .

Due to his involvement in a health insurance bribery scandal, he had to leave the civil service. He then worked as a freelance lecturer in economics and accounting. He is now admitted as a tax advisor and has been a partner in Rasso Graber's office since 2012 .

Political career

Political party

Baretti joined the Junge Union in 1992 and the CSU in 1993 . In the Junge Union he was first local chairman of Trudering-Riem and also held the office of district manager and later the deputy district chairman of the Junge Union Munich-East. He was a member of the district board of the Junge Union Munich from 1995 and held the office of district treasurer from 1997 to 1999. From 1999 to 2001 Baretti was managing director of the Junge Union Munich. During this time he was particularly involved in the “Millennium Program” of the Junge Union in Munich, where he headed the “Domestic Policy” working group . Among other things, he was jointly responsible for the organization of the 2001 regional assembly of the Junge Union Bayern. In addition, as managing director of the Junge Union München, he organized the youth party convention of the CSU Munich, which took place in 2001 in the “night work” . In addition, he played a key role in the joint lead motion of the JU and CSU, which was passed at this youth party conference. For the JU, he repeatedly called for a rejuvenation of the CSU city council faction.

In the CSU he was a member of the local executive committee of the CSU Trudering-Riem from 1995 and from 1997 its deputy chairman and press spokesman. From 1999 he was chairman of the Munich CSU local association Trudering and from 2001 deputy district chairman of the CSU Munich-East. On May 22, 2003 he was elected to the successor of the long-time chairman of the District Association 9 (East), Hans Podiuk , after a battle vote with 63 to 36 votes . His local party activities focused on improving public relations work and strengthening the CSU's local presence. Baretti took on his first public mandate in 1996 when he was elected to the district committee of Trudering-Riem (district 15). There he was deputy parliamentary group spokesman for the CSU and chairman of the environmental committee.

City council work

For the Munich local elections in 2002, Baretti ran for 14th place on the CSU list and was “ pegged ” to 9th place . In the Munich City Council he was a member of the Urban Planning and Building Regulations Committee, the Finance Committee, the Riem Committee , the Social Welfare Committee and the Social Welfare Committee until 2003 . Within the CSU city council group, he was a member of the parliamentary committee. Baretti was deputy finance spokesman for the CSU in the city council and deputy spokesman for the social welfare committee.

Baretti saw himself within the CSU parliamentary group as a representative of a constructive opposition policy, described himself in a balance sheet of his first 100 days as a city councilor as the "record holder among the 80 city councilors in terms of the number of initiatives" and did indeed have numerous city council motions and - Request made. In terms of content, he campaigned for the establishment of “citizen service agencies” as a central point of contact, the use of urban land to eliminate homelessness, the new regulation of the front garden statute with the aim of allowing lockable bicycle parking spaces and the expansion of the capacity of the Allianz Arena .

In addition, he put his focus on the issues of his Trudering-Riem district . This included, above all, the further development of the district with many new building areas such as the Messestadt Riem . He was a member of the jury for the Bajuwarenstrasse development plan area as well as the steering committee for citizen and user participation in the newly emerging trade fair town of Riem.

Due to his economic qualifications and as a financial expert at the Ifo Institute, Baretti was proposed by the Junge Union as a candidate for the office of city treasurer. He was seen as a bearer of hope for the Munich CSU and was even traded as a candidate for the mayor's office, but stumbled over a series of scandals. He resigned from the city council on April 30, 2008 at the end of his term of office and was honored with the silver medal " Munich shines - the friends of Munich".

Political positions

In financial and social policy, Baretti took a strictly neoliberal course. In the city council, he called for the implementation of the Ifo concept of “ activating social assistance ” by Hans-Werner Sinn. As a member of the social welfare committee of the Munich City Council, he massively criticized the fact that Munich pays the highest standard rate of social welfare in Germany. You have to compare Munich with the surrounding area, where the standard rates are significantly lower. "And that although the cost of living in Munich is not higher, apart from the rent," said Baretti as a speaker in a city council meeting.

Baretti campaigned for the reorientation of the CSU into a modern city party. He advocated opening up the party to the Greens .

As his political goals in the city council, he led a future-oriented financial policy, a business-friendly local policy and the preservation of Christian values ​​in politics. He also wants to "make Munich fit for global competition" .

Affairs

AOK bribery scandal

In May 2004, Baretti's parents were sentenced to several years' imprisonment or suspended sentences by the Munich Regional Court I , because they had accepted bribes of around 260,000 euros from the SANITAS clinics between 1998 and 2003 as AOK employees . Christian Baretti had created bogus invoices for his parents to cover them up . The criminal proceedings against him were discontinued against payment of EUR 8,000, as his contribution to the crime was low and he resigned from his position in the Ministry of Finance in return for the termination of the proceedings . As early as March 8, 2004, the CSU city council group had excluded him because of this affair.

"Munich CSU Affair"

On February 5, 2003, Baretti and other young CSU members ensured that the CSU member of the state parliament and President of the Bavarian Crafts Day Heinrich Traublinger was able to recapture the CSU local chairmanship in the Perlach district of Munich . The background to the election of Traublinger was the wish of the CSU leadership around Prime Minister Stoiber that the master baker Traublinger be re-elected as a member of the state parliament. The election of the local chairman should improve his starting position for the party internal process. As it turned out later, this was done through vote buying and election manipulation.

Membership admissions were thus carried out bypassing the usual party path. As later became known, this procedure was coordinated with the party leadership. Hohlmeier's colleague Pangerl explained: “The minister approached me and said - I am now quoting analogously, not literally - that Dr. Baretti - if I remember correctly - asked her whether a CSU member who was not on the local association list, which was on December 31. with regard to the preparation of the internal party elections, is listed, however, in the case of a vote, may vote in the election in the local association. I then passed this question on, put it in my legal words and presented it to the justiciar of the state management at the request of the minister. " The admission procedure was ultimately also approved by the CSU state management: " With the decision of the local or district chairman the admission is complete, the entry in the list of members is only an administrative matter for the CSU. "

These events triggered the long-standing " Munich CSU Affair " , in the course of which high CSU functionaries up to Stoiber were accused of complicity and at the end of which Minister of Education Monika Hohlmeier had to resign. According to Graber, Traublinger had conveyed Stoiber's expression of respect for the kind of support Traublinger (" Hund dich's scho ") provided.

On April 26, 2005, he anticipated the party expulsion proceedings initiated against him by resigning from the CSU.

The Munich District Court sentenced Baretti on June 29, 2004 for suppressing documents to 160 daily rates of 30 euros each. The court saw it as proven that he, together with Rasso Graber and Stephanie Lütge, had withheld applications for membership in the CSU and covered up for falsifications by others. On November 26, 2004, the judgment became final, as Baretti and Graber had withdrawn their appeals to the Munich District Court I. Their lawyers announced that their clients had decided to take this step "in order to avert the otherwise unavoidable damage to the CSU due to extensive evidence taking". But this does not mean an admission of guilt. The defendants had originally announced that they would "unpack" extensively. Lütge's criminal case had previously been suspended on payment of her fine . The lawyer was spared a criminal record that would have blocked her way into the legal profession.

In the final report of the state parliament's committee of inquiry of January 25, 2007, against which the opposition factions protested violently, it said: “Therefore, the non-forwarding of membership applications (according to the old CSU statutes) did not lead to criminal liability for the suppression of documents in the opinion of the committee of inquiry. The Munich District Court saw it differently ” .

Civil society engagement

Baretti was involved in his Catholic parish of St. Peter and Paul as a youth leader, lecturer, firm assistant and member of the parish council, of which he was deputy chairman from 1998 to 2006. He is also a member of the Catholic Workers' Movement , the social association VdK Germany , the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft , the Truderinger Musikverein and the Original Truderinger Böllerschützen .

Private

Baretti is married and has two children. He lives in Zorneding .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Münchner Volkswirte Alumni-Club (VAC): Prize for young economists: previous winners
  2. ^ Ifo Contributions to Economic Research: Incentive Effects of the State Financial Equalization - Abstract for the dissertation by Christian Baretti
  3. ↑ Ifo Institute report on the population weighting in the financial equalization of the federal states
  4. ↑ German Bundestag - Public meeting of the special committee of measures law / financial equalization law
  5. ↑ a b Dr. Christian Baretti
  6. ↑ Homepage of Dr. Christian Baretti - Profession
  7. ↑ Willi Bock: “Stoibers young super man” , evening newspaper, June 24, 2002
  8. ^ Munich District Court , partnership register, sheet PR 183
  9. ↑ a b c d Homepage of Dr. Christian Baretti - honorary positions
  10. ↑ a b c d Homepage of Dr. Christian Baretti - former party work
  11. ^ Eberhard Geiger: CSU: Baretti ousts district chief Podiuk , Münchner Merkur , May 24, 2003
  12. ^ State capital Munich - results of the city council election 2002 - CSU
  13. ^ City of Munich - City Councilor Dr. Christian Baretti
  14. ^ Homepage of Christian Baretti - city council work
  15. ^ Motions from Dr. Christian Baretti , City of Munich, City Hall Information System (RIS)
  16. ↑ Homepage of Dr. Christian Baretti - work for Trudering-Riem
  17. ↑ , Ude should confess to the stadium and kick Jungfer out
  18. ↑ Berthold Neff: [1] , sueddeutsche.de, September 5, 2003 5:09 pm
  19. ↑ City council request "Social assistance - reintegration into the labor market" , City of Munich, City Hall Information System (RIS)
  20. ^ Social welfare: the city is still in good shape , Münchner Merkur, February 21, 2003
  21. ↑ Michael Grill, Frank Müller: “We are conservative. We too ”Interview with Christian Baretti and Boris Schwartz , Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, December 8, 2002
  22. ↑ Dr. Baretti, Christian (non-party) , City of Munich, City Hall Information System (RIS)
  23. ^ Proceedings against CSU City Councilor Baretti discontinued , Münchner Merkur from May 17, 2004
  24. ↑ CSU parliamentary group: Aus für Baretti , sueddeutsche.de of March 8, 2004
  25. ^ Traublinger winner in his home game , Münchner Merkur, February 7, 2003
  26. ^ Jan Bielicki Suspicious e-mails and mysterious meetings ( Memento from December 5, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) , sueddeutsche.de , July 22, 2003 5:38 pm
  27. ↑ a b SPD press information on the Hohlmeier investigation committee
  28. ↑ Early exit: Baretti's lawyer: The CSU wanted to slaughter him , Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 27, 2005
  29. ↑ Jan Bielicki: CSU forgery affair: "Indecent membership purchase" , Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 30, 2004
  30. ↑ Matthias Kristlbauer: Wahltrickserin emerges from the CSU , Münchner Merkur, 21 June 2005
  31. ^ Final report of the committee of inquiry examining the extent to which Minister of State Hohlmeier was informed about events in the CSU (...) (PDF; 836 kB) , p. 37
  32. ↑ Alisa from Zorneding , Münchner Merkur from May 4, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Baretti, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CSU)
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd July 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich