Christoph Bergner

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Christoph Bergner (2014)

Christoph Georg Bergner (born November 24, 1948 in Zwickau ) is a German politician ( CDU ). From 1993 to 1994 he was Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt . From 2005 to 2013 he was Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister of the Interior . Bergner was a member of the Bundestag from 2002 to 2017.

Life and work

At the age of 13 he moved to Saalfeld / Saale in 1961 and completed vocational training with a high school diploma as a skilled worker for cattle breeding from 1964 to 1967 . This was followed by basic military service with the National People's Army (NVA) and a degree in agricultural sciences at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and from 1969 to 1971 at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . He finished this in 1971 as a university agricultural engineer . This is followed by a research degree and a doctorate to become a Dr. agr. 1974 to 1990 he is a research assistant at the Institute for Biochemistry of Plants of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR .

Christoph Bergner is a Protestant , a member of the Moravian Brethren , married and has three children. His brother is the jazz musician Frieder W. Bergner .

Political party

Bergner became a member of the GDR CDU in 1971 . He was involved in the New Forum in Halle from September 1989 to January 1990 and was regional chairman of the CDU in Saxony-Anhalt from 1991 to 1993 . From 1995 to 1998 he was Deputy Federal Chairman of the CDU in Germany. In 2006 he was appointed representative of the German CDU for emigrants and is a member of the CDU federal executive committee.

MP

From 1990 to 2002 Bergner was a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt . Here he was chairman of the CDU parliamentary group from 1991 to 1993 and from 1994 to 2001 .

From 2002 to 2017 he was a member of the German Bundestag . Moved into the Bundestag until 2013 via the state list of Saxony-Anhalt , he won his direct mandate in the Bundestag constituency of Halle in the 2013 Bundestag election . He was a member of the foreign cultural and educational policy subcommittee .

Public offices

From 1986 to 1991 he was parish councilor of the evangelical Petrusgemeinde Kröllwitz . In 1990 he was head of department in the Halle (Saale) district administration authority .

After the Prime Minister Werner Münch resigned in December 1993 because of an affair about allegedly too high ministerial salaries, Bergner was elected Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt on December 2, 1993 . He received 60 votes in the vote in the state parliament, six more than would have been necessary for an absolute majority. Only 83 of the 106 MPs took part in the election. 19 members of the SPD and two non-attached parliamentarians did not take part in the vote.

In the state elections in June 1994 , his coalition partner FDP failed because of the five percent hurdle and the CDU only received 34.4 percent of the vote, 4.6 percentage points less than in the previous election in October 1990 . His successor in office on July 21, 1994 was the SPD candidate Reinhard Höppner , whose SPD had grown by 8.0 percentage points to 34.0 percent. Höppner formed a minority government tolerated by the PDS .

In the state elections on April 26, 1998 Bergner was again the top candidate. The CDU received 22 percent of the vote, while the SPD became the strongest parliamentary group for the first time with 35.9 percent. In 2004 he was a member of the board of directors of DeutschlandRadio, representing the state of Saxony-Anhalt .

On November 23, 2005, shortly after the 2005 Bundestag election , he was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of the Interior in the Merkel I cabinet (grand coalition) led by Chancellor Angela Merkel . From February 2006 to December 2013 Bergner was the Federal Government Commissioner for issues relating to repatriates and national minorities . From March 2011 to December 2013 Bergner was also the Federal Government Commissioner for the new federal states .

engagement

Christoph Bergner is a member and chairman of several associations.

Political priorities

  • Educational policy

Bergner's political career in the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt began as the education policy spokesman for his parliamentary group. He dedicated himself in particular to university renewal after the collapse of the GDR. A topic that remains from this time is the problem of the so-called " gap professors ".

  • Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide

Bergner attracted federal political and European attention in 2005 with the motion to the Bundestag that he initiated to outlaw the genocide of the Armenians on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the events. No German parliament had dealt with this issue since 1916. The "Armenian motion" triggered strong debates in Turkey and in the German-Turkish community, which contributed to the fact that the motion was accepted by the German Bundestag without a dissenting vote. One week before the 100th day of remembrance, Bergner spoke out in favor of naming the events as genocide ( "... I am against any attempt to avoid the term genocide in the application text in order to paint a trivializing picture of the events 100 years ago" Shortly afterwards, the coalition factions and the federal government included the term 'genocide' in the motion for a resolution , which the Bundestag will vote on on the 100th anniversary of the commemoration.

  • Minority policy

For many years his work focused on the concerns of the four national minorities in Germany as well as the German minorities in Eastern and Central Eastern Europe and states of the former Soviet Union as well as the repatriates and ethnic German repatriates . In this area of ​​work, he headed bilateral government commissions and created further discussion forums to improve the minority situation. For example, the establishment of the round table with the Republic of Poland on issues relating to national minorities can be traced back to his initiative.

criticism

  • Bergner is criticized because of his membership in the CDU of the GDR from 1971. He himself justified his entry into the CDU as an opportunity to protect himself from the desired entry into the SED. In this context, he defended the reappraisal of his party's block party history.
  • Bergner has repeatedly attracted attention because of his views on the complete equality of the registered civil partnership with marriage, as well as because of his general views regarding the homosexual minorities. At an election campaign event in Halle, Bergner is said to have said in summer 2009 that the higher suicide rate among homosexuals was due to disorders in personal development. The LSVD asked Bergner to distance himself from these "scandalous" statements. Hendrik Lange accused Bergner of not having properly informed himself. Rather, the increased risk of suicide is due to the high level of intolerance in the population. Bergner himself repeatedly contradicted this representation to his statement, which is reproduced in abbreviated form. In January 2014, he came under the spotlight of critical media coverage because he was a member of the board of trustees of the Society for Life Orientation - "Leo eV", which was accused of offering seminars on the healing of homosexual people in Saxony-Anhalt. A representation that the association itself contradicts.

honors and awards

  • 2005 Prize of the German Sports Association "Pro Ehrenamt"
  • 2010 Appointment as ambassador of the Russian Germans by Vira - Association for the Integration of Russian-German Aussiedler eV
  • 2011 Medal "Cordi Poloniae" from the Convention of Polish Organizations in Germany
  • 2012 Kazakh Jubilee Medal
  • 2012 Gold Badge of Honor from the Democratic Forum of Germans in the Banat
  • 2013 Golden badge of honor of the German national team from Russia
  • 2013 National Order Star of Romania in the officer's degree
  • 2013 Central Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit
  • 2014 Star of Honor of the Federation of Transylvanian Saxons for special services to the community of Transylvanian Saxons worldwide

Cabinets

Fonts

  • Together with Matthias Weber: Resettler and minority policy in Germany. Balance sheet and perspectives. Writings of the Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe, Volume 38. Munich 2009. ISBN 9783486590173 [2]
  • Together with Carl Johann Blydal: Reconciliation, instrumentalization and insult. The "Armenian application" in 2005 and the formation of political will in Germany on the genocide of the Armenians. In: Briskina Müller / Drost-Abgarjan / Meißner: Logos in dialogue. Looking for Orthodoxy. Commemorative letter for Hermann Goltz. Münster 2011. ISBN 9783643110275
  • The end of the GDR. In: Bohley, Peter (ed.): Experienced GDR history - contemporary witnesses report. Berlin 2014. Christoph Links Verlag pp. 193-208. ISBN 978-3861537892
  • “Gap professors” - On the role of politics in dealing with the problem of old-age provision for salaried university teachers in the new federal states. In: Research & Teaching 6/2014. [3]
  • Together with Hans Zehetmair: German as the identity language of the German minorities. Munich 2014. ISBN 978-3-88795-438-3 [4]
  • Modern bread scholarship. Scientific ethos and science policy in the knowledge society - 10 theses. In: Research & Teaching 9/2004. [5]

literature

Web links

Commons : Christoph Bergner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.bergner.de/files/Mitgliedschaften.pdf
  2. ↑ Official constituency result 2013 ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2013 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundeswahlleiter.de
  3. ↑ Curriculum vitae on the website of the German Bundestag Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2015 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. , accessed October 14, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundestag.de
  4. ↑ http://www.bergner.de/files/Mitgliedschaften.pdf
  5. ↑ http://www.bergner.de/images/stories/pdf/forschunglehre06.14.pdf
  6. ↑ Printed matter 15/4933
  7. ↑ Resolution of the German Bundestag, June 2005 (PDF; 202 kB)
  8. ↑ Claus Leggewie : The struggle for European memory. A battlefield is visited . CH Beck 2011. p. 114 ff. ISBN 978-3-406-60584-0
  9. ^ Sibylle Thelen : The Armenian question in Turkey . Berlin 2010. p. 79. ISBN 978-3803126290
  10. ↑ spiegel.de April 17, 2015: Genocide against the Armenians: CDU politician warns government against trivialization
  11. ↑ FAZ.net April 20, 2015: The German government is now talking about genocide
  12. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Coalition speaks indirectly of genocide against Armenians
  13. ↑ FAZ.net / Berthold Kohler : Down to the bones (comment)
  14. ↑ http://www.bergner.de/images/stories/Presse/eine_verzweiflungstat_1992.doc
  15. ↑ http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/wir-haben-uns-in-dieser-hinsicht-keine-vorwuerfe-zu-machen.694.de.html?dram:article_id=66539
  16. ↑ CDU has to distance itself from Bergner; Queer.de accessed on July 9, 2012
  17. ↑ Bergner continues to be criticized; HalleForum eseppelt  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.halleforum.de  
  18. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: LSVD  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / lsvd.0391web.de@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / lsvd.0391web.de  
  19. ↑ http://www.bergner.de/images/stories/pdf/offener_brief_31.1.2014.pdf
  20. ↑ queer.de accessed on July 9, 2012 allegation of homophobia
  21. ↑ LSVD: Offers to cure homosexuals are brainwashing
  22. ↑ Mitteldeutsche Zeitung: Homosexuality, Pastor wants to heal gay men
  23. ↑ Cornelius Pollmer: pottery, bake, heal gays. , sueddeutsche.de , January 31, 2014
  24. ↑ [1]  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / leoevbennungen.wordpress.com  
personal data
SURNAME Bergner, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bergner, Christoph Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau