Christopher Tugendhat

Christopher Tugendhat, Baron Tugendhat, 2020

Christopher Samuel Tugendhat, Baron Tugendhat (born October 15, 1937 in London ) is a British Conservative politician .

Life and politics

His father was born in Vienna, but emigrated to England after the First World War to continue working on his doctorate at the LSE . Christopher Samuel Tugendhat was raised a Roman Catholic .

From 1955 to 1957 he served in the British Army. He then studied from 1957 to 1960 in Cambridge and then worked for the Financial Times for which he wrote editorials .

In 1970 he became a member of the British Parliament for London and Westminster , which he remained until 1977. From 1977 he became European Commissioner for Budget, Financial Control and Financial Institutions , and in 1981 the tax department was added. In 1985 he handed over the tax department to the Briton Francis Cockfield and the budget and finance department to the Dane Henning Christophersen .

On October 15, 1991 he was promoted to Life Peer as Baron Tugendhat , of Widdington in the County of Essex, and has been a member of the House of Lords ever since .

He became Chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority of Great Britain until he was succeeded by Christopher Chataway .

Fonts (selection)

• Oil: The Biggest Business (1968) (German Gigant Erdöl Verlag Fritz Molden)
• Multinationals (1971) London. Eyre and Spottiswoode (German Die Multinationalen Verlag Fritz Molden)
• Making Sense of Europe (1986) London. Viking
• Options for British Foreign Policy in the 1990's (Chatham House Papers) by Christopher Tugendhat and William Wallace (Nov 1988)
• Roy Jenkins A Retrospective (2004) Contributor, wrote Chapter 12.

literature

• Christopher S. Tugendhat , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 48/1985 of November 18, 1985, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

• Mr Christopher Tugendhat at Hansard (English)
• Brief CV at koerber-stiftung.de