Ernst Brückner (lobbyist)

Ernst Brückner (* 1939 ) is a German lawyer and longstanding lobbyist for the tobacco industry in Germany. From 1971 to 2004 he worked for the now dissolved association of the cigarette industry in Hamburg, Bonn and Berlin.

Life

During his student days, Brückner was a member of the mandatory student union gymnastics association Schaumburgia Marburg .

In 1971 Brückner became managing director of the Association of the Cigarette Industry (VdC), at that time still based in Hamburg. In 1996 he became the general manager of the association. In 1990 Brückner moved with the VdC to Bonn, then to Berlin in 2001. He headed the association until 2004, then he was replaced by Wolfgang Hainer as managing director.

Under the leadership of Brückner, the VdC was able to neutralize the political debate about passive smoking and the protection of non-smokers and successfully hold back corresponding non-smoking protection laws for a long time.

Individual evidence

1. ^ FrankfurterVerbindungen.de: Famous (and notorious) corporates .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Stern / Georg Wedemeyer (October 31, 2002): Fighters for the smoke . In: Stern 45/2002.
3. ↑ ^{a b} A. Bornhäuser, J. McCarthy, SA Glantz: German tobacco industry's successful efforts to maintain scientific and political respectability to prevent regulation of secondhand smoke. In: Tobacco control. Volume 15, number 2, April 2006, p. E1, doi : 10.1136 / tc.2005.012336 , PMID 16565444 , PMC 2563568 (free full text).