Christian Schwarz-Schilling

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Christian Schwarz-Schilling, 2010

Christian Schwarz-Schilling (born November 19, 1930 in Innsbruck ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and entrepreneur . From 1982 to 1992 he was Federal Minister for Post and Telecommunications / Federal Minister for Post and Telecommunications . Between 2006 and 2007 he was the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina for 17 months, responsible for overseeing the Dayton Peace Agreement .

education and profession

After graduating from high school in 1950 at the Arndt-Gymnasium Dahlem in Berlin, Schwarz-Schilling studied East Asian cultural and linguistic studies and history at the University of Munich . In 1956 he received his doctorate. phil. with the work The Peace of Shan-Yüan 1005 AD and its effects on the relations between the Chinese Empire and the Liao Empire of the Kitan . Then he began an apprenticeship in a bank in Hamburg. From 1957 to 1982 he was managing director of the Accumulatorenfabrik Sonnenschein GmbH in Büdingen .

From 1993 to 2002 he was managing director of Dr. Schwarz-Schilling & Partner GmbH , a telecommunications consulting company from Büdingen. After leaving politics, Schwarz-Schilling also repeatedly took on tasks in companies that ventured into regulated markets, e.g. B. as co-founder of Telegate AG and since 2014 as chairman of the corporate advisory board of UPLINK Network GmbH .

family

Christian Schwarz-Schilling is the son of the composer Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling . He is married, Catholic and has two daughters (Cara and Alexandra) and four grandchildren. His wife Marie-Luise Schwarz-Schilling was born in 2004 through her book Die Ehe. Affair known in history .

It was only after the death of his parents, during a trip through Poland , that Christian Schwarz-Schilling found out about the Jewish descent of his mother, the Polish pianist Dusza von Hakrid. In 1938 a German civil servant changed his mother's Jewish maiden name and thus concealed her true identity.

Political party

Schwarz-Schilling at the CDU federal party conference, 1986

He has been a member of the CDU since 1960. From 1964 he was a member of the State Executive Board of Hesse, from 1967 to 1980 as its General Secretary and from 1967 to 1996 as the first Deputy State Chairman.

From 1975 to 1983 he was chairman of the media policy coordination committee of the CDU / CSU and from 1977 to 1997 deputy federal chairman of the CDU / CSU's SME association . From 1979 to 1982 he was also President of the Executive Office of the European Union of SMEs .

MP

From 1966 to 1976 he was a member of the Hessian state parliament and from 1970 to 1976 deputy parliamentary group chairman and cultural policy spokesman.

From 1976 to 2002 he was a member of the German Bundestag . In the 8th electoral term of the German Bundestag he was chairman of the economic policy committee and in the 9th electoral term from 1981 to 1982 he was chairman of the inquiry commission “New Information and Communication Technologies”. In the 13th parliamentary term (1994-1998) he became chairman of the Subcommittee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid and in the 14th parliamentary term he was vice chairman of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid from 1998 to 2002 . Schwarz-Schilling was last enlisted in the German Bundestag (14th electoral term 1998) via the Hesse state list.

Public offices

Christian Schwarz-Schilling with Hannelore Kohl , 1989

On October 4, 1982, he was the Federal Minister of Posts and Telecommunications in by Chancellor Helmut Kohl led government appointed. From July 1, 1989, the ministry he headed was called the Federal Ministry of Post and Telecommunications . Under his leadership, cable television was introduced in Germany , private television was approved, mobile communications based on the GSM standard were introduced, and the privatization of the Deutsche Bundespost was initiated.

On December 14, 1992, he resigned from his position in protest against the German government's position in the war in Bosnia . The “disinterest of his generation” is one of the “most depressing experiences of all”, and actually it is what he still does not understand.

His appointment as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina was thanks to his previous ambitions in the former Yugoslavia . He took up this position on January 31, 2006. Barely a year later, on January 24, 2007, he announced his resignation on June 30, 2007. The various groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina accused him of making wrong decisions and of pursuing the wrong strategy. The 76-year-old finally gave in to political pressure. In his weekly column, however, Schwarz-Schilling wrote that he was simply not going to extend his original mandate, which expired at the end of June 2007. Successor was Miroslav Lajčák appointed.

criticism

In order to accelerate the cable project, Schwarz-Schilling insisted on involving private companies in laying the cables. In the Projektgesellschaft für Kabel-Kommunikation mbH , the company of his wife, in the form of Sonnenschein KG, was also involved, in which he had previously worked as managing director. He only gave up his shares in Sonnenschein KG a few hours before his appointment as Minister of Post. The buyer of these shares was the Nixdorf Group . His decision to use copper also met with amazement at home and abroad: It was already foreseeable in the early 1980s that fiber optic cables would be the “technology of the future”.

During his tenure, Schwarz-Schilling was known as "Kohl's minister with the most affairs". These affairs were usually triggered by the involvement of his wife's family business in Schwarz-Schilling's political decisions.

Schwarz-Schilling was anything but popular among employees of the Deutsche Bundespost, as he was the last post minister before it was privatized. There was a joke among the employees: “What does Black Schilling do when he comes to the office first in the morning? He does the mail ”.

engagement

Schwarz-Schilling campaigned and continues to support civil war refugees from the Yugoslav successor states. He criticizes the sometimes illegal deportation of (partial) families to a destroyed homeland more than ten years after their escape. The children from such families would be expelled from their home in Germany. The conference of interior ministers of the federal states is responsible for the deportations . Schwarz-Schilling was one of the co-founders of the “ Hessen helps ” campaign and in many cases promotes the concerns of “ Pro Asyl ” and the “ Society for Threatened Peoples ” (Göttingen, GfbV). In 2003 he founded the Schwarz Schilling Foundation to promote international understanding and the dialogue between cultures.

On July 30, 2007 he took up his dispute arbitration activities within the framework of the CSSP - Verein für Integrative Mediation e. V. in Kosovo, Macedonia and southern Serbia. In 2005 the CSS Project for Integrative Mediation (CSSP) was launched at the request of the German Bundestag as a “Lessons learned” project with a focus on Southeastern Europe, where CSS stands for its initials. CSSP has been a registered association with its seat in Berlin since 2006. The methodical approach of integrative mediation has arisen from the processing and further development of the experience of the international mediator in Bosnia and Herzegovina and aims to improve inter-ethnic cooperation in post-conflict regions and to build trust-building measures between local decision-makers. With the support of the German Bundestag, the Federal Foreign Office , the Austrian Development Agency and other sponsors, CSSP is currently active in inter-ethnic conflicts in Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo and individual projects outside the Balkans. Schwarz-Schilling is the honorary president of the association and sponsor of CSSP. He is significantly involved in strategic planning and the exchange and cooperation with national and international actors.

From the 2007/2008 winter semester, he took over a professorship for political science at the “Sarajevo School of Science and Technology” in Sarajevo . Schwarz-Schilling has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Student Help Life Foundation since autumn 2011 .

Honors

Cabinets

Web links

Commons : Christian Schwarz-Schilling  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Former Post Minister, co-founder of Telegate AG | [1]
  2. Prof. Dr. Schwarz-Schilling is chairman of the corporate advisory board of UPLINK Network GmbH | uplink.de [2]
  3. Interview with Schwarz-Schilling
  4. TV recording with reactions from Peter Kloeppel, Günther Jauch and Angela Merkel to the resignation
  5. Sabine Bode : The German disease - German fear, Stuttgart 2007, p. 97.
  6. Michael Martens: Schwarz-Schillings not entirely voluntary parting. In: FAZ , January 25, 2007
  7. Erich Rathfelder : About the retreat of black schilling. In: taz , January 25, 2007
  8. ^ Christian Schwarz-Schilling: Bosnia and Herzegovina's Peace and Security Will Not Be Placed at Risk ( Memento of August 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), OHR press office, January 26, 2007
  9. Miroslav Lajčák Succeeds Christian Schwarz-Schilling ( Memento from August 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), OHR press office, July 2, 2007
  10. Other circumstances . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 1982, pp. 124, 126 ( online - Nov. 8, 1982 ).
  11. Wrong in the long term . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 1983, pp. 86, 87 ( Online - January 31, 1983 ).
  12. The Federal Lead Minister . In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , 1985, pp. 27, 28 ( Online - June 24, 1985 ).
  13. Post-Budget 83: No more reference to Btx start. In: Computerwoche . December 10, 1982, accessed July 1, 2018 .
  14. http://conference2000.de/Conference/Referenten/referenten.html
  15. Schwarz-Schilling thanks for the deployment of the Bundeswehr in Bosnia and Herzegovina, press release of the Federal Ministry of Defense of June 12, 2006 [3]
  16. Empathy and Politics, documentation of the awarding of the Hessian Peace Prize 2007 to Christian Schwarz-Schilling, in: PRIF Standpoints No. 6/2007 online, PDF
  17. ^ Lamp for the Path Teachings in Friborg. Dalai Lama website, April 14, 2013, accessed July 1, 2018 .
  18. Secretary General Manfred Pentz: “Three outstanding personalities honored with the Alfred Dregger Medal in gold”. CDU Hessen, December 9, 2014, archived from the original on April 18, 2015 ; Retrieved April 18, 2015 .
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