Ernst Piehl

Ernst Piehl (born November 1, 1943 in Konin ( Poland )) is a German political scientist. As a European civil servant , he headed responsible European institutions.

Life

In 1950 his parents had to move to Germany with nine children and came to Ibersheim, Worms district, today Worms-Ibersheim , via Hanover . He has been married to a French woman since 1974. You have three children.

1950-58 he attended the elementary school Ibersheim and from 1958 to 1964 the state advanced high school in Alzey , where he passed the Abitur. From 1960 to 1970 Piehl worked at the Franco-German Youth Office as a group leader and educational advisor. Between 1964 and 1969 he studied political science at the Free University of Berlin with a degree in political science. 1970-73 took place his doctorate to Dr. rer. pole. in Berlin, in addition to professional activity in Düsseldorf.

From 1965 Piehl became an active member with an elective function in the Europa-Union Deutschland and European Movement. From 1967-69 he was federal chairman of the European Federal Student Union (EFS-JEF). From 1969 Piehl was a lecturer for European topics at the FH Duisburg-Essen, FU Berlin, at the adult education centers in Düsseldorf and Berlin and at the Europakolleg Bruges.

From 1969 to 1975 he was a consultant at the Economic and Social Science Institute of the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) in Düsseldorf and then moved as Executive Director to the European Youth Office (EJW) at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. There he dealt with youth policy in the europ. Institutions. From 1980 Piehl worked at the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) in Brussels as a member of the management team and was responsible for social, regional, research, education and vocational training policy.

In 1984 he became director of the European Center for the Promotion of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) of the EU in Berlin. In 1994 he took over the management of the information office of the European Parliament in Germany in Berlin, Unter den Linden. In 1996, Piehl moved to the European Commission in Brussels as principal board member / “program manager” .

On September 1, 2001, he retired from the European Commission and is still doing voluntary work, expert and consultancy activities in the processes of enlargement, partnership and the neighborhood of the EU.

European cycling tours

Piehl has been the initiator and organizer of the 'European Cycling Tours', a private bike tour with employees from institutions of the European Union , since 2009 . The aim is to promote Europe and European integration . In 2014, too , there were receptions with the politically responsible in important cities along the Rhine, from Bregenz to Rotterdam , in time for the 2014 European elections .

Publications

Piehl wrote five books and around 50 articles in magazines, collective publications and handbooks (Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag) on ​​the following topics: Relations between the EU and its Central and Eastern European neighbors:

• Multinational Corporations and the International Trade Union Movement, 1974, ISBN 3-434-10059-8 .
• Round tables for Europe in all the new federal states and Berlin: Contributions to the integration process of East Germany into the European Union, 1995, ISBN 978-3-7946-0433-3 .
• Europe in East Germany: On the interim balance sheet and on the perspectives of European structural funding in the new federal states and Berlin, as well as in the reforming countries of Central and Eastern Europe, 1996, ISBN 978-3-7713-0528-4 .
• The European Employment Pact: Development Process and Perspectives, 2000, ISBN 978-3-7890-6552-1 .
• The open flank of the European Union, Russian Federation, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova, 2005, ISBN 3-8305-0898-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Piehl in the catalog of the German National Library