Dirk Metz

Dirk Metz on October 7, 2009

Dirk Metz on December 12, 2009

Dirk Metz (born January 9, 1957 in Siegen ) was State Secretary in the Hessian State Chancellery and spokesman for the Hessian state government , today he works as a communications consultant in Frankfurt am Main .

Life

After his military service, an internship at the Siegener Zeitung and subsequent work as an editor at the Siegener Zeitung, Dirk Metz studied political science as well as economic , constitutional and social history in Bonn . In his home country he was a city councilor and district member of the CDU . Then he was press spokesman for the CDU Hamburg and editor at the Westfalen-Blatt in Bielefeld . Dirk Metz also worked as press spokesman for the CDU Hessen and the CDU parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament . Since the CDU's victory in the 1999 state elections , Metz has been State Secretary and spokesman for the Hessian state government. With the resignation of Prime Minister Roland Koch , Dirk Metz left office in 2010 and was put into temporary retirement. Michael Busser became his successor .

In 2010 he started his own business as a freelance communications consultant with an office in Frankfurt am Main , including working as a media consultant to the Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg, Stefan Mappus (CDU), until March 2011 . He advises companies on communication issues, including crisis communication, and organizes workshops for press and public relations work.

Metz regularly publishes guest articles and columns in German daily newspapers. Since July 2017 he has been one of the guest commentators of the Rhein Main publishing group ( AZ Mainz , Darmstädter Echo , Wiesbadener Kurier ).

In the 2009/2010 winter semester, Metz had a teaching position at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences . In June 2013, Dirk Metz was appointed to the PR advisory board at Kiel University of Applied Sciences. Metz has also been a jury member of the PresseFoto Hessen-Thüringen photo competition since 2014.

Consulting cases

In 2012, Metz temporarily advised the Limburg diocese on the construction of the bishopric on Domberg, which has been criticized for its high costs. After six weeks, the contract was terminated at Metz's request.

A Munich surgery professor charged with homicide on demand , whose trial was later discontinued, hired Metz as a consultant in 2014.

In July 2014 Dirk Metz took over the communication of the Main-Taunus-Kliniken in Bad Soden am Taunus. A midwife, against whom the Munich public prosecutor's office is investigating on suspicion of a four-fold murder attempt at the Munich-Großhadern University Hospital , previously worked in Bad Soden.

Dirk Metz advised the accused in the case of suspected breach of trust against the former President of the European Business School, Christopher Jahns , as well as in the subsequent public liability suit.

From October 2016 to January 2017, Metz accompanied the communication and public relations work of the expert commission "Police investigations and penal execution in terrorist suicide bombers in the Albakr case" under the direction of the former Federal Constitutional Judge Professor Herbert Landau . This was used to clarify the entire process from identification to the failed access to the suicide of terror suspect Jaber Albakr on October 12 in a cell in the prison in Leipzig.

Metz is the spokesman for the family of the murdered Kassel District President Walter Lübcke . Lübcke was on 1st / 2nd June 2019 was killed by a headshot in front of his home. The Lübckes family takes an active part in the trial of Stephan E. and Markus H. as a joint plaintiff in the prosecution. Together with the criminal lawyer Holger Matt, who represents the family in the criminal proceedings and in the main hearing before the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court, Metz takes care of the bereaved.

Since 2013, Dirk Metz has been conveying personalities from different areas, including Heiner Brand , Guido Knopp , Bert Rürup or Helmut Markwort , as speakers to companies, banks and savings banks or associations.

Sports

From 1991 to October 2018 Metz was the hall spokesman for the German national handball team and sat at the microphone at 350 international matches. The first international match he commented on was the match between Germany and Yugoslavia in the ball sports hall in Frankfurt am Main . At the 2007 Handball World Cup , he was the hall speaker in the Kölnarena . From 1996 to 2010, Metz co-organized the Wallau Midsummer Run. He was also the course spokesman for Ironman Germany , the European championship in long-distance triathlon in Frankfurt for many years . From 2005 to 2018 Dirk Metz attended the most important hammer throw meeting in Germany at the microphone in Fränkisch-Crumbach and is an honorary member of the Franconian-Crumbach hammer throw club. From 2004 to 2012 Metz was chairman of the Federal Association of German Press Spokespersons for the Hesse / Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland region. Dirk Metz is deputy chairman of the Schalke-Union eV fan club. Since 2008, he has been a member of the Gerald Asamoah Foundation's advisory board for children with heart disease. He has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Social Foundation of Hessian Football since 2010 and has been Deputy Chairman since 2016. Dirk Metz has been a member of the supervisory board of Bundesliga soccer club FC Schalke 04 since 2015 . In January 2017 he was appointed to the board of trustees of the DFB-Kulturstiftung.

Since October 2013, Metz and his agency have been participating in the “Springboard Future” initiative run by Deutsche Sporthilfe .

Others

In December 2011 he had a guest role alongside Claus Theo Gärtner as a correctional officer in the episode “The Matula Case” in the ZDF crime series Ein Fall für Zwei .

Metz is Protestant and married to the former Hessian Minister of Social Affairs, Silke Lautenschläger , who is now a board member of Ergo Insurance Group AG . The two live in Modautal , Herchenrode district , in the Odenwald on the former farm of his wife's family. He has three grown children from his first marriage.

Web links

• Literature by and about Dirk Metz in the catalog of the German National Library
• DIRK METZ communication

Individual evidence

1. ↑ G. Bohsem: Dirk Metz - Roland Koch sparring partner. In: Financial Times Deutschland of January 2, 2008
2. ↑ Loyal, stress resistant and a good seller. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung of September 16, 2010
3. ^ Saarbrücker Zeitung: The new Mappus whisperer, September 21, 2010
4. ↑ nh24.de: Mappus' media advisor Dirk Metz goes, April 29, 2011 ( Memento of the original from February 8, 2018 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. 
5. ↑ z. B. Gabriel's Righteous Wrath - SZ December 5, 2013; Steinbrück is not allowed to attack in the world from September 1, 2013
6. ↑ dirk-metz.de: Current columns, accessed on July 25, 2011
7. ^ VRM GmbH & Co. KG: Guest commentary by Dirk Metz: The non-election campaign . ( buerstaedter-zeitung.de [accessed on August 21, 2017]).
8. ↑ Press photo Hessen Thuringia. In: pressefotohessenthueringen.de. September 28, 2016. Retrieved June 28, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Volker Zastrow: Cave canem. In: FAZ.net . August 4, 2013. Retrieved June 28, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Rüdiger Soldt: A process of life and death. In: FAZ.net . March 15, 2014, accessed June 28, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Surprising end of the Ulm euthanasia trial. In: swp.de. April 30, 2014, accessed June 28, 2017 . 
12. ↑ Attempted murder in childbirth. In: sueddeutsche.de . July 24, 2014, accessed June 28, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Barbara Schmidt: Head physician suspended midwife Regina K. (No longer available online.) In: Kreisblatt.de. July 30, 2014, archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; accessed on June 28, 2017 . 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.  
14. ^ Compensation for pain and suffering for ex-EBS president Jahns . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung June 5, 2015. Accessed June 17, 2015. (PDF)
15. ↑ Martin Fischer: Commission presents final report on the terror case "Al-Bakr". In: lr-online.de. January 23, 2017. Retrieved June 28, 2017 . 
16. ^ Dpa: Report of the Al-Bakr-Commission not until the end of January. In: t-online.de. December 16, 2016. Retrieved June 28, 2017 . 
17. ^ Anna-Sophia Lang: The process started in Frankfurt: Commitment to the values ​​of Walter Lübcke . In: FAZ.net . June 16, 2020 ( faz.net [accessed July 9, 2020]).
18. ↑ Metz arranges speakers ( Memento of the original from February 28, 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. - Speaker's scene issue no.441 from February 21, 2013  
19. ↑ After 350 international matches: Dirk Metz said goodbye as DHB hall spokesman . In: dhb.de . ( dhb.de [accessed on November 2, 2018]).
20. ↑ L. Kazda: Voice of German handball. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 2, 2007
21. ^ Hammer throw meeting Fränkisch-Crumbach - Our team. In: hammerwurfmeeting-fraenkisch-crumbach.de. June 1, 2017. Retrieved June 28, 2017 . 
22. ^ Federal Association of German Press Spokespersons. ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. viewed on October 7, 2009  
23. ↑ D. Metz: Once upon a time there was a flower bed. ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of August 6, 2009 
24. ^ Website of the Gerald Asamoah Foundation accessed on October 7, 2009
25. ↑ football.de: Dirk Metz new member of the SHF Advisory Board, September 16, 2010
26. ↑ The Supervisory Board of FC Schalke 04, July 7, 2015 ( Memento of the original from August 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
27. ↑ Dirk Metz appointed to the board of trustees of the DFB-Kulturstiftung ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
28. ↑ Over 100 companies support the Sporthilfe initiative “Springboard Future”. In: sporthilfe.de. October 14, 2013, accessed June 28, 2017 . 
29. ↑ Silke Lautenschläger - Member of the Board of ERGO Lebensversicherung AG. (No longer available online.) In: ergo.com. March 10, 2017, archived from the original on May 3, 2017 ; accessed on June 28, 2017 . 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.  
30. ↑ Ex-Minister Lautenschläger and ex-government spokesperson Dirk Metz are a couple. Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine Zeitung, November 27, 2010, accessed on November 23, 2012 . 
31. ↑ Reiner Trabold: Former State Minister Silke Lautenschläger is now the head of an insurance group. In: echo-online.de. May 28, 2017. Retrieved June 28, 2017 .