Engelbert Kupka

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Engelbert Kupka (born January 21, 1939 in Rosenberg OS ) is a Bavarian politician of the CSU . He sat in the Bavarian state parliament .

Life and politics

Kupka graduated from the Wittelsbacher Gymnasium in Munich in 1959 . In 1959/1960 he did his military service in the Air Force . He then studied law and economics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1968 he passed the assessor exam . From 1969 to 1972 he worked as a Councilor in the Bavarian financial management and as a teacher at the National School of Finance. Since 1972 he has been a district councilor in the Munich-Land district. In 1972 he was also elected first mayor of the Unterhaching community and remained so until 1990. From 1978 to 1996, Engelbert Kupka was the deputy district administrator. Since 1990 he also worked as a lawyer .

He is a member of the district board of the CSU Upper Bavaria and a member of the Broadcasting Council of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation .

On October 14, 1990, Engelbert Kupka was elected to the Bavarian State Parliament for the Munich-Land-Süd constituency, to which he was a member until 2008. He was a member of the State Budget and Financial Committee. On December 7, 2005, he was elected deputy chairman of the parliamentary group with 90.8% of the votes to succeed Otmar Bernhard , who moved to the Ministry of Environment as State Secretary. He was no longer available for election to the state parliament in Bavaria in 2008 .

Kupka was chairman of the investigative committee of State Minister Monika Hohlmeier , who was appointed by the Bavarian state parliament on December 16, 2004 with a large majority. This committee of inquiry dealt i.a. a. with the " Munich CSU affair " about buying votes and voting manipulation in the Munich CSU. His committee leadership met with criticism several times. On January 19, 2005, a letter from Kupka caused great resentment among the SPD and the Greens. The opposition interpreted the letter to mean that the CSU parliamentary group wanted to prevent Monika Hohlmeier from giving testimony to the events in the Munich CSU. On April 22, 2005, there was a real scandal that led to the premature termination of a meeting. The SPD and the Greens accused the CSU majority of openly obstructing the educational work and the leader of the Greens, Margarete Bause , criticized the committee chairman as one-sided and partisan. Kupka is driving "a conscious obstruction and confusion strategy." Only after a mediation meeting with the President of the State Parliament, Alois Glück (CSU) on April 26, 2005, a compromise was reached between the government and the opposition. The committee could go on. On February 15, 2007, Kupka submitted the final report to the plenary session of the state parliament, which sparked a heated debate because the opposition viewed it as euphemistic and as a " clean bill ".

Engelbert Kupka is married and has two daughters. His hobbies are tennis, golf, jogging and music.

Awards

Memberships

From 1973 to mid-2012, Kupka was President of SpVgg Unterhaching . After 39 years in office - the longest of a president in German professional football - he made his office available at an extraordinary general meeting. The two years of the club's membership in the Bundesliga also fell during his presidency.

Kupka is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Integration Center for Cerebral Palsy (ICP) Munich (formerly: Spasticity Center Munich) and of the Board of Trustees for the New Jewish Community and Cultural Center at St.-Jakobs-Platz in Munich .

Kupka is also chairman of the supervisory board of IABG GmbH in Ottobrunn.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oliver Platzer: Engelbert Kupka deputy parliamentary group chairman ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), press release of the CSU parliamentary group, December 7, 2005.
  2. ^ Peter Fahrenholz: CSU wants to prevent Hohlmeier from being questioned , Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 20, 2005.
  3. ^ Scandal in the Hohlmeier committee: "He is driving a conscious strategy of confusion" , sueddeutsche.de / ddp / dpa , April 22, 2005.
  4. ↑ Hohlmeier Committee: It can go on , sueddeutsche.de/dpa, April 26, 2005.
  5. ^ Heavy debate on the final report ( memento of September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Bayerischer Rundfunk, February 15, 2007.
  6. ↑ http://www1.bayern.landtag.de/www/lebenslauf_ehemalige/lebenslauf_555500000154.html .
  7. ↑ Office of the Federal President
  8. ↑ Spielvereinigung Unterhaching: ... Engelbert Kupka resigns from office after 39 years , December 22, 2015.
  9. ↑ Information from IABG; Link on WEBsite .
personal data
SURNAME Kupka, Engelbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CSU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosenberg / Upper Silesia