Christoph Palmer

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Christoph Eberhardt Palmer (born July 20, 1962 in Stuttgart ) is a German management consultant , chairman of the board of the Alliance of German Producers - Film & Television eV and a former German politician ( CDU ).

family

Palmer is married to the former Stuttgart regional councilor Christine Arlt-Palmer (CDU), who did not run for another term in 2014. The couple has three children. His father, the self-employed engineer Eberhardt Palmer (1931–2017), was active as a local politician in Stuttgart for many years and from 1996 to 1999 he was regional president in the Stuttgart region. Christoph Palmer is a nephew of the late Remstal rebel Helmut Palmer , the father of the mayor of Tübingen, Boris Palmer ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ).

Professional background

1983 to 1988 he studied political science , German literature and history at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen . He received his doctorate in economics and social sciences from the University of Hohenheim in 1992 . From 1988 to 1992 he was parliamentary advisor to the CDU parliamentary group in the Baden-Württemberg state parliament . From 1994 to 1996 he was a professor of politics at the Police College in Villingen-Schwenningen .

Since April 1, 2005, Palmer has been a self-employed management consultant.

Since November 1, 2008, he has also been Chairman of the Management Board of the Alliance of German Producers - Film & Television (Producer Alliance ), which was created in spring 2008 from four associations and represents the majority of German film and television production companies. In this function he participates in the media-political discourse.

Political career

Since his school days Palmer was politically active in the Junge Union . In 1989 and 1994 he was elected to the city council in Stuttgart. In 1996 he became State Secretary in the Baden-Württemberg Ministry for Science, Research and Art and was considered a beacon of hope for the Southwest CDU , especially since he also became chairman of the CDU Stuttgart in the same year. He led the party until 2008, which won both mayor elections during this period and, contrary to the national trend, recorded a considerable increase in membership. From 2001 to 2008 he was a member of the state parliament for the constituency of Stuttgart II (Filder constituency) in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg .

From 1998 to 2004, Palmer was Minister in the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg and was considered the “right-hand man” of Prime Minister Erwin Teufel . As Minister of State, he coordinated state politics and initiated projects in the field of media policy, for example with the IT and media offensive “doIT” and the image campaign “We can do everything. Except High German. ” And the founding of the Baden-Württemberg Pop Academy in Mannheim, which he pushed through against resistance in the state and whose“ Spiritus Rector ”he is considered to be. From 1996 to 2008, Palmer was chairman of the supervisory board of the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy . With the Popakademie, the Filmakademie and the Akademie für Darstellende Kunst, Palmer pushed the development of all three "creative academies" in Baden-Württemberg.

As special representative of the Prime Minister, Palmer led the negotiations on the new building of the state fair at Stuttgart Airport.

Since 2001, Palmer was also Minister for European Affairs (Minister for Europe) and among other things became Chairman of the European Committee of the Federal Council in Berlin. Under his leadership, the Baden-Württemberg State Representation in Brussels was acquired in 2002 and, after renovation work, opened on February 5, 2004 by Prime Minister Erwin Teufel and EU Commission President Romano Prodi . In 2003 and 2004, Palmer represented the German federal states at the Intergovernmental Conference to implement and formulate the results of the European Convention in a constitutional text. The European Constitutional Treaty was not legitimized due to the negative referendums in France and the Netherlands, but was largely reflected in the EU basic treaty " Treaty of Lisbon " .

The humanities graduate Palmer confessed himself as state minister through a large number of speeches and contributions to historical responsibility and in this context initiated the Stauffenberg memorial at the House of History Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart and campaigned for the Matthias Erzberger memorial in Münsingen. In 1998 he coordinated the transfer of Alfred Döblin's estate, recognized as a nationally valuable cultural asset, to the German Literature Archive in Marbach. In 2003 he organized the acquisition of the historically significant " Gray Passion " from Hans Holbein the Elder. Ä. for the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.

On October 25, 2004, Palmer resigned as minister after he had clashed with the CDU member of the Bundestag Joachim Pfeiffer in a dispute over demands for resignation from Erwin Teufel , in which he slapped him. His severance pay initially caused criticism until it became known that he was donating it to a charitable cause in Stuttgart ( Vesperkirche Stuttgart ).

In the election to the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg on March 26, 2006, Palmer was directly re-elected as a member of the constituency of Stuttgart II with a 14.2% lead. Since July 19, 2006, he has been chairman of the Parliament's European Committee and thus the first point of contact for European issues.

In 2006, as a member of parliament, Palmer initiated the raising and exhibition of the sculpture treasure from Rosenstein Castle , so that since then all the remaining marble sculptures that were part of the Rosenstein Castle Sculpture Gallery in the 19th century have been exhibited to the public in the State Gallery of Stuttgart after appropriate restoration .

On May 31, 2008, Palmer resigned from the state parliament in order to devote more time to the profession. Thomas Bopp moved up for him . He passed the chairmanship of the Stuttgart CDU on to Michael Föll on October 2, 2008 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Former district chairman of Stuttgart-Mitte, Eberhardt Palmer, died. In: stuttgart.de. January 23, 2017. Retrieved March 11, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Everything is at stake for Europe's film producers. FAZ, November 21, 2017, accessed on November 23, 2017 (German).
  3. ↑ The third man. In: Focus. March 17, 1997, Retrieved June 18, 2014.
  4. ↑ Local election 2009, CDU between hope and fear. ( Memento from June 18, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. June 2, 2009.
  5. ↑ "Know-how" is available in concentrated form. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. August 20, 2013, p. 26, Retrieved May 25, 2013.
  6. ↑ The three “creative academies” in Baden-Württemberg. In: Making ideas possible (Festschrift) - 30 years Ministry for Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg. Retrieved December 18, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Thinking in Baden-Württemberg, acting European - Documentation for the inauguration of the new representation of the state of Baden-Württemberg to the European Union. In: European publications of the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg. No. 4, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-9801995-3-3 .
  8. ^ Europe in good shape: Erwin Teufel - for the German states in the convention. In: European publications of the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg. No. 6, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-9801995-5-X .
  9. ↑ Andreas Morgenstern: "Now everyone thanks God for this brave murder" - Matthias Erzberger: in Demokrat in times of hatred. Conference report. In: H-Soz-u-Kult of the Humboldt University in Berlin. December 22, 2011. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
  10. ^ "Matthias Erzberger: a democrat in times of hate" from 2013 collection of articles / personal information media. Retrieved on June 18, 2014.
  11. ↑ Heartbeat secured: Baden-Württemberg acquires Holbein's "Graue Passion". In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. September 19, 2003. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
  12. ↑ slip of the right hand. In: Der Spiegel. October 30, 2004. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
  13. ↑ The night of the slaps. Retrieved June 21, 2017 .
  14. ↑ And all of this for free? In: The time. 4/2005, January 20, 2005.
  15. ↑ Naked people loll in the ministry basement - STIMME.de. Retrieved October 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Palmer, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Palmer, Christoph Eberhardt (full name); Palmer, Christoph E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart