Christian von Boetticher

Christian von Boetticher (2010)

Christian von Boetticher (born December 24, 1970 in Hanover ) is a former German politician of the CDU and today managing director of the food manufacturer Peter Kölln (Köllnflocken), chairman of the Federal Association of the German Food Industry (BVE), national chairman of the German-Baltic Society and chairman of the support group of German Fire Brigade Association .

From 1999 to 2004 he was a member of the European Parliament , from 2005 to 2009 Minister for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas in Schleswig-Holstein , from July 2009 also Minister for Social Affairs, Health, Family and Seniors and Deputy Prime Minister, from 2009 to 2011 parliamentary group chairman of the CDU state parliamentary group and from 2010 to 2011 also party chairman of the CDU Schleswig-Holstein and top candidate for the state elections in 2012 . He resigned from these political offices on August 14 and 15, 2011 as a result of a published prior relationship with a 16-year-old student.

Origin, education and profession

Boetticher comes from the Courland line of the Boetticher family . He was as an infant in the family adopted , grew up in sub Glinde in Pinneberg and attended the Theodor Heuss High School in Pinneberg . After graduating from high school in 1990, he trained with the Air Force to become a reserve officer in the Air Force Security Force . He is first lieutenant d. R. From 1992 he studied law at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and the Universität Hamburg . During his studies in Kiel, he joined the country club Slesvico-Holsatia vm L! Cheruscia zu Kiel in the Coburg Convent . In 1997 he passed the legal trainee examination with a focus on European and international law and in 2001 the assessor examination . That same year he was in Hamburg at Ulrich Karpen with the work "parliamentary administration and parliamentary control" to Dr. iur. PhD. Since 2002, as a lawyer admitted he initially worked until 2005 as a partner in a law firm Pinneberger. Its approval was suspended from 2005 to 2012. From June 1, 2012, he initially worked in a Hamburg law firm, but was appointed managing director of the Elmshorn food manufacturer Peter Kölln on September 16, 2015 , replacing Hans Heinrich Driftmann on the management board . In this function, he appears nationwide as a speaker on the topics of digitization and change management in medium-sized family businesses

Political career in the CDU from 1992 to 1999

Boetticher joined the Junge Union in 1987 and became a member of the CDU in 1988. From 1992 to 1996 he was a member of the CDU local executive committee in Appen , most recently as deputy chairman. In 1993 he was elected for the first time as an assessor in the CDU district board of Pinneberg and received a mandate in the Pinneberg district council after the local elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 1994. Here he worked in the youth, sports and culture committee and as a member of the supervisory board of the economic promotion and development company of the Pinneberg district. In 1995 he was elected deputy district chairman of the CDU-Pinneberg and remained in this office until 1999. In the local elections in 1998, Boetticher again won a district council mandate and now acted as deputy parliamentary group chairman and member of the main and finance committee. At the same time he also became a community representative for the community of Appen.

Member of the European Parliament (1999 to 2004)

In the European elections in 1999 , the CDU in Schleswig-Holstein surprisingly achieved 50.5% of the votes, so that in addition to the top candidate Reimer Böge , Boetticher also moved into second place in the European Parliament as a list candidate.

In Brussels and Strasbourg , Boetticher was a member of the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs and the Committee on Petitions. He was a member of the delegation to Japan and the mixed-parliamentary committee EU / Latvia that prepared the country's accession to the EU in 2004. In 2000/2001 he served as chairman of the EPP / ED Group in the Echelon ad hoc committee , which investigated American intelligence activities against European companies and citizens. Boetticher worked u. a. as Parliament's rapporteur on the further development of the Schengen information system , the expansion of Europol and the establishment of an agency for operational cooperation at the external borders ( Frontex ).

From 2003 to 2005 he was chairman of the CDU district association Pinneberg. He narrowly missed re-election to the European Parliament in the 2004 European elections .

Minister in Schleswig-Holstein (2005 to 2009)

In August 2004, Peter Harry Carstensen was appointed to the shadow cabinet by the CDU's top candidate for the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein 2005 , where he was responsible for agriculture and the environment. After the failed attempt by Heide Simonis (SPD) to be re-elected Prime Minister, a grand coalition was formed on April 27, 2005. Boetticher was a member of Prime Minister Carstensen's cabinet as Minister for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas of Schleswig-Holstein.

Under his leadership, the agricultural and environmental administration was restructured. The Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesforsten emerged from the 41 forest districts in 2008 as an institution under public law . The State Office for Coastal Protection, National Park and Marine Protection Schleswig-Holstein and in 2009 the State Office for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas were created from the decentralized offices for rural areas, the environmental authorities and the national park office . In 2009, Boetticher, together with the Minister for the Environment of Lower Saxony, Hans-Heinrich Sander , achieved the declaration of the Wadden Sea of ​​the North Sea as a UNESCO World Heritage Site . Controversial were u. a. the changes made by him to the hunting season ordinance, the change in the state nature conservation law and the designation of bird sanctuaries, etc. a. on Eiderstedt .

After Boetticher handed over the CDU district chairmanship to Ole Schröder in 2005, he was elected to the executive committee of the European People's Party (EPP) at the CDU federal party conference in 2006. From 2008 to 2010 he was deputy chairman of the Federal Committee on Food and Agriculture of the CDU Germany under Peter Bleser . and assessor in the state executive committee of the CDU Schleswig-Holstein.

After the break of the grand coalition in July 2009, all SPD ministers were dismissed from their offices in the state government by Prime Minister Carstensen at the end of July 21, 2009. The management of the ministries concerned was divided among the remaining cabinet members; von Boetticher was given responsibility for the Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Family and Seniors as the successor to Gitta Trauernicht . On July 23, 2009 he was appointed as the successor to Ute Erdsiek-Rave as Deputy Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein.

Group leader of the CDU parliamentary group, party leader and top candidate (2009 to 2011)

In the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 2009 , he won the direct mandate for the CDU for the first time in 26 years in constituency 28 (Pinneberg, Halstenbek, Schenefeld) .

The CDU parliamentary group elected him on September 29, 2009 with 28 out of 34 votes as parliamentary group chairman as the successor to Johann Wadephul , who moved to the German Bundestag . He also acted as media policy spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group and as such headed the media working group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group chairmen's conference from 2010 onwards.

Also in 2010, Boetticher was appointed to the state executive committee of the CDU's economic council for the first time. On September 18, 2010 he was elected chairman of the state as the successor to Peter Harry Carstensen at the 63rd state party conference of the CDU Schleswig-Holstein . After the incumbent Prime Minister Carstensen renounced another candidacy, von Boetticher was elected the CDU's top candidate for the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 2012 with 209 of 240 votes at the party conference in Norderstedt on May 6, 2011 .

In addition, from March 2011 until his resignation on August 14, 2011 he was chairman of the media policy expert group of the CDU in Germany.

Resignation on 14./15. August 2011 and resignation from parliament in 2012

In early August 2011, an earlier relationship between Boettichers and a 16-year-old schoolgirl, which ended in 2010, became known. After criticism from his own party, he resigned on August 14, 2011 as the CDU's top candidate for the state elections and as CDU state chairman. The next day he also gave up the chairmanship of the group. Already on August 16, 2011 it became known that the state executive and district chairman of the CDU had decided on Jost de Jager as the successor to Boettichers.

The personal and party political backgrounds that led to his resignation were dealt with extensively in the dossier Christian von Boetticher: Enemy, Mortal Enemy, Party Friend, which the journalists Ulf B. Christen, Volker ter Haseborg, Karsten Kammholz and Lars-Marten Nagel published on December 29th Published in the Hamburger Abendblatt in 2011 . On February 27, 2013, the journalists were awarded the German Bundestag's media prize for their contribution .

The outgoing Prime Minister Carstensen found out on July 13, 2011 rumors about an earlier relationship between his nominated successor and a minor, which Boetticher had confirmed to him on July 28, 2011. On August 20, 2011, the young woman's contacts with other members of the Schleswig-Holstein CDU were reported. This met on July 8, 2011 with a man close to the country's managing director Daniel Günther , who was considered an internal party opponent of Boettichers. The contact is said to have taken place on Facebook via an alias.

On August 15, 2011, one day after his resignation as chairman of the CDU Schleswig-Holstein, he also resigned from the parliamentary group chairmanship, but complained about a "great degree of disloyalty" because his party had publicly announced his resignation from the CDU parliamentary group chairmanship before he would have chosen it. He retained his mandate as a member of the state parliament until the end of the electoral period on June 5, 2012, thus securing the one-vote majority of the CDU / FDP government and acting as deputy chairman of the European Committee from October 2011.

At the party convention of the CDU district association Pinneberg on September 17, 2011, he announced that he would not run again for the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament and work in the economy. The members then re-elected him as deputy CDU district chairman.

Baltic German engagement and honorary positions (from 2012)

After retiring from professional politics, he dedicated himself to work in the Baltic region on a voluntary basis and exchanges with Estonia and Latvia.

At the age of 22 Boetticher had already joined the Baltic German Youth and Student Association and later, between 1999 and 2004, as a member of the European Parliament in the responsible mixed-parliamentary committee "EU / Latvia", he intensively accompanied the country's accession negotiations to the European Union . As Minister for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas in Schleswig-Holstein, in 2006 and 2007 he concluded cooperation agreements with Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania for administrative and youth exchanges.

Since 2012 he has been a member of the board of the Carl-Schirren-Gesellschaft and since 2013 deputy chairman of the German Baltic Cultural Foundation in Lüneburg , which together function as the German Baltic Cultural Association. On October 31, 2015, he was elected as the successor to Frank von Auer as Federal Chairman of the German-Baltic Society in Darmstadt , the association of the Baltic Germans from Estonia and Latvia, who were initially resettled in 1939 and then expelled from Estonia and Latvia at the end of the war, today's umbrella organization of eight regional associations and six Companies and foundations acts. In September 2016 he finally became deputy chairman of the Carl-Schirren-Gesellschaft.

Further political and voluntary engagement (from 2016)

Since 2010 Boetticher has been a member of the Schleswig-Holstein State Executive Committee of the CDU's Economic Council; At the general assembly in November 2016, he was also elected chairman. A month later, the CDU district association Pinneberg elected him again with 95.2% of the votes as the successor to Ole Schröder as district chairman, after he had previously held this office until 2005. At the federal party conference of the CDU in Essen in December 2016, he was confirmed as a board member of the European People's Party for another two years. However, he has denied an intention to return to professional politics.

On March 30, 2017, the general assembly of the Federal Association of the German Food Industry in Berlin unanimously elected him as deputy chairman. On July 1, 2020, he was finally appointed as the successor to Dr. Wolfgang Ingold ( Wiltmann , Westfälische Fleischwarenwerke) was unanimously elected chairman. The association represents the interests of the third largest German branch of industry with 622,000 employees, 6225 companies and around 185 billion euros in sales.

On April 4, 2019, von Boetticher was elected chairman of the support group of the German Fire Brigade Association in Berlin, taking over from Albert Jugel , who had made the office available after 15 years.

Incidentally, Boetticher is currently volunteering as

• Legal Knight of the Order of St. John , Schleswig-Holstein Cooperative (since 2019, Knight of Honor since 2002); currently he heads the sub-committee "Grafschaft Rantzau" of the Schleswig-Holstein cooperative and is a member of the convention;
• State chairman of the Paneuropean Union Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg
• Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Volksbank Pinneberg-Elmshorn Community Foundation (since 2009);
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Northern Business School for Management and Security in Hamburg;
• Member of the board of trustees of the Institute for International Politics and Economics "Haus Rissen Hamburg" ;
• Member of the economic advisory board of Focam AG;
• Member of the economic advisory board of Flughafen Hamburg GmbH;
• Member of the General Assembly of the Kiel Chamber of Commerce ;
• Board member of the Association for the Promotion of Young Political Education in Schleswig-Holstein eV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mutzinger biography
2. ^ University of Hamburg, Faculty of Law: Dissertations, summer semester 2002
3. ^ Declaration by the law firm from June 1, 2012, welcoming statement from the law firm on their website
4. ↑ Elmshorn Christian von Boetticher will head Kölln Flocken in the future. In: Hamburger Abendblatt, September 19, 2015
5. ^ Event report of the Association of Family Entrepreneurs from November 15, 2017
6. ^ Event report of the Monday Society in Frankfurt from August 2018
7. ↑ Event report of the Bundeswehr Leadership Academy from December 5, 2018
8. ↑ Dr. von Boetticher, Christian (European Parliament) ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ Carstensen prematurely introduces the shadow cabinet. In: Die Welt from August 23, 2004
10. ↑ Landtag printed paper 16/1582 of September 3, 2007
11. ↑ Coast, mud flats, sea - now all in one authority. In: Hamburger Abendblatt from January 12, 2008
12. ^ New: State Office for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas. In: Blog Lübeck Tea-Time from January 23, 2009
13. ↑ Press release of the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Environment from June 26, 2009
14. ↑ Kiel allows magpies and crows to be shot. In: Hamburger Abendblatt from August 11, 2005
15. ↑ Nature Conservation Act passed - dispute continues. In: Die Welt from February 22, 2007
16. ^ Minister had a difficult time. In: Husumer Nachrichten of June 27, 2008
17. ↑ Minutes of the 20th CDU Federal Party Congress 2006, p. 233
18. ^ Press release by Peter Bläsers from April 18, 2008
19. ^ Spiegel-Online: Chaos in Kiel: Carstensen fires SPD ministers. On: Spiegel-Online on July 20, 2009
20. ↑ Boetticher becomes the CDU top candidate. On: FocusOnline. Retrieved May 7, 2011.
21. ↑ Media policy expert group of the CDU needs a new chairman. On: DIMBB media blog from August 14, 2010
22. ^ Christian von Boetticher: enemy, dead enemy, party friend. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. December 29, 2011.
23. ↑ Media information on the website of the German Bundestag
24. ↑ Hamburger Lehrstück. In: The Parliament 2013, No. 10–11
25. ↑ Ulrich Exner: Watch out, Christian, the story goes wrong. On: welt.de on August 18, 2011.
26. ^ Welt-Online: pseudonyms, secret meetings and the Boetticher case. On: welt-online.de on August 20, 2011.
27. ↑ kuz: teenage affair: Boetticher Schleswig-Holstein wants to leave. In: Der Spiegel . August 21, 2011.
28. ↑ From Boetticher back to the Landtag in Kiel. In: Schleswig-Holstein newspaper publisher of September 14, 2011.
29. ^ Curriculum vitae on the Landtag website
30. ↑ Wolfgang Schmidt: Boetticher on the exit: "Never say never"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: shz.de of September 17, 2011.  
31. ↑ deutsch-balten.de
32. ^ Generation change in the Brömsehaus , article on the homepage of the Carl-Schirren-Gesellschaft
33. ↑ Dr. Christian von Boetticher new state chairman. In: Press release of the German Economic Council from November 2, 2016.
34. ↑ Top result for new CDU chairman. In: Hamburger Abendblatt from December 12, 2016
35. ↑ Minutes of the 27th Party Congress, p. 282
36. ↑ Norbert Vojta: I am the bridge between the generations In: Die Welt from May 30, 2018
37. ^ Federal Association of the Food Industry - Ingold still at the top.
38. ↑ BVE press release of July 1, 2020
39. ↑ Press release of the German Fire Brigade Association of April 4, 2019
40. ↑ Christian von Boetticher now Knight of Honor. In: Hamburger Abendblatt from June 5, 2002
41. ^ Homepage of the Johanniter
42. ^ Website of the association. Retrieved June 7, 2020 . 
43. ↑ buergerstiftung-pinneberg.de
44. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
45. ↑ Website of the institute
46. ↑ website of Focam AG
47. ↑ Website with the list of members of the Economic Advisory Board
48. ↑ List of the members of the general assembly on the homepage of the IHK Kiel
49. ^ Website of the association

literature

• Bernhard Pörksen , Wolfgang Krischke (ed.): Christian von Boetticher. The pack . In: The rushed politics. The new power of the media and markets . Halem-Verlag, Cologne 2013, pp. 54–65.

Web links

Commons : Christian von Boetticher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Christian von Boetticher in the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament information system
• Entry on Christian von Boetticher in the Members' database of the European Parliament
• Curriculum vitae on the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung website
• Current curriculum vitae on the website of Peter Kölln GmbH & Co. KGaA