Dieter Vogel (journalist)

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Dieter Vogel (born January 18, 1931 in Stettin ) is a German economist , journalist and State Secretary (CDU). From 1991 to 1995 he was government spokesman under Chancellor Helmut Kohl .

Life

Dieter Vogel was born on January 18, 1931 in  Stettin  and grew up there and on Rügen . Vogel graduated in 1950 in Bergen on Ruegen a high school and studied from 1951 to 1954 economy amongst others with Professor Karl Schiller at the University of Hamburg and graduated in 1954 as a graduate economist from.

In 1955 he started in the economics department of Dresdner Bank in Hamburg and in 1958 switched to business journalism . Until 1969 he was part of the editorial team of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and reported from Frankfurt, Berlin and Bonn.

In 1970 Karl Schiller , meanwhile Federal Minister of Economics and Finance Minister at the same time , brought Vogel into the BMWi as press spokesman . However, Schiller resigned in July 1972 because of a dispute with Chancellor Willy Brandt and cabinet colleagues. Thereupon Helmut Schmidt was economics and finance minister for a short time. At the time, Vogel considered giving up his job because he was close to the FDP . However, he remained press spokesman for the ministry, later also under Hans Friderichs (FDP). Vogel was also press spokesman for his successor, Otto Graf Lambsdorff .

Government spokesman

In 1991 Vogel became spokesman for the fourth government led by Helmut Kohl .

In addition to his government activities, the journalist Vogel had radio reports produced in which seemingly neutral commentators attacked the SPD. In 1993, government spokesman Vogel spent around 1.5 million marks on PR contributions made by agencies. Even in the 1994 election year, Vogel did not want to do without this type of public relations work. The SPD saw its right to competition and equal opportunities violated; Vogel violates the principle of party-political neutrality of state organs in the election campaign. Günter Verheugen , the SPD federal manager at the time , examined a lawsuit before the Cologne administrative court.

After the neo-Nazi murder attack in Mölln , the federal government was represented by Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel and Labor Minister Norbert Blüm at the funeral service . At that time, Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl took part in the state party conference of the Berlin CDU. When journalists at the federal press conference on November 27, 1992 wanted to know why Chancellor Kohl was not present at the memorial service, Dieter Vogel, among other things, said the federal government did not want to go into “condolences”. This statement has been criticized many times. The statement prompted a small inquiry from the PDS / Left List group in the Bundestag to the Federal Government. Vogels term "condolences tourism" candidate was the word of the year 1992 the German Language Society (GfdS) and was shortlisted.

The speech of the Bundestag senior president is traditionally printed in the Federal Government Bulletin . In the 13th electoral term, Stefan Heym's speech was initially not printed in the bulletin on the instructions of government spokesman Vogel, because Heym was in favor of the open list of the PDS as the successor party to the SED , although it had opposed the politics of the party leadership in GDR times the Bundestag was drafted. This led to a controversial parliamentary debate and, ultimately, the delayed printing of the speech in March 1995.

He retired from office on February 28, 1995. He was followed by the journalist of Bayerischer Rundfunk, Peter Hausmann (CSU), and the previous State Secretary in the Federal Building Ministry, Herbert Schmülling (FDP) as government spokesman and deputy.

After his time as a government spokesman , Vogel was appointed “Media Policy Officer” under Federal Building Minister Klaus Töpfer for the move to the capital from Bonn to Berlin.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Entry "Vogel, Dieter". In: Munzinger Archive Online / People. August 14, 1995. Retrieved August 1, 2017 .
  2. ↑ A nun doing a striptease . In: Der Spiegel . No. 24 , 1994, pp. 16 ( online ).
  3. First the law dies, then the person dies . In: sueddeutsche.de . May 29, 2013, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed July 27, 2017]).
  4. Klaus Jeziorkowski: Kohldeutsch : Unworthy after the Chancellor's bad word: Fine society . In: The time . March 11, 1994, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed July 27, 2017]).
  5. ^ Golo Schmidt: The Heym case. In: Berliner Zeitung . February 18, 1995, accessed August 1, 2017 .
  6. ^ "Bulletin" prints Heym speech. In: Berliner Zeitung . March 29, 1995. Retrieved August 1, 2017 .
  7. Benedikt Brunner: The senior president . A constitutional regulation and its alternatives. Springer Wissenschaftlicher Verlag , 2012, ISBN 978-3-531-18647-4 , p. 59 ff .
  8. ^ Felix Langhammer, Axel Gebauer: New spokesman for the government (new Germany) . ( neue-deutschland.de [accessed on July 27, 2017]).