Erwin Huber

This article deals with the German politician Erwin Huber ; for other people of the same name, see Erwin Huber (disambiguation) .

Erwin Huber (2012)

Press conference of the general secretaries of the CDU, FDP and CSU on the coalition negotiations after the 1990 federal election (from left: Volker Rühe , Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen and Erwin Huber)

Erwin Huber at a campaign speech in 2008

Erwin Huber (* 26. July 1946 in Reisbach ) is a German politician of the CSU . From September 2007 to October 2008 he was party chairman of the CSU and from 1994 to 2008 he was a member of the Bavarian state government in various functions .

Life

education and profession

Erwin Huber grew up in modest circumstances. After graduating from secondary school in Dingolfing in 1963 , Huber first completed an advanced training course at the Bavarian financial administration , which he completed in 1968 with the inspector's examination. He then worked in the tax offices of Dingolfing, Landshut and Munich . From 1969 to 1973 he attended the evening grammar school in Munich on the second educational path , where he passed the Abitur in 1973 . The Next regarding his salary as a taxman enabled Huber alongside a study of economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , for the testing phase and visiting the university, he was released from his work, he that in 1978 his studies as a graduate economist could finish . He has been enrolled at the University of Philosophy in Munich since October 2018. Erwin Huber has been married since 1979, has two children and lives in Reisbach.

Political career

From 1967 to 1983 Huber was district and district chairman of the Junge Union . Huber has been a member of the board and the presidium of the CSU since 1988 and was chairman of the CSU district association of Lower Bavaria from 1993 to 2008 .

Party presidency

Along with Interior Minister Günther Beckstein, Huber was considered to be the most promising successor to Edmund Stoiber as Bavarian Prime Minister in the event of his entry into the federal government after the 2005 federal elections . But Stoiber surprisingly shied away from it. After Stoiber's announcement of his resignation at the beginning of 2007, Huber was considered the most promising candidate among the applicants for the party chairmanship, alongside Horst Seehofer and Gabriele Pauli . With 58.19% of the delegate's votes, he was elected as the new party chairman on September 29, 2007 at the CSU party congress.

Because the result for the CSU in the state elections in 2008 (43.4%) was below expectations , Erwin Huber announced his resignation from the party chairmanship at a special party convention of the CSU on October 25, 2008. Horst Seehofer was elected as his successor by the party congress .

Public offices

Huber has been a member of the district council of the Dingolfing-Landau district since 1972 . From 1978 to 2018, he was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament as a member of the Dingolfing constituency . In 1987 he was elected Deputy Secretary General. From 1988 to 1994 he was Secretary General of the CSU.

In October 1994 Huber was appointed Minister of State and Head of the Bavarian State Chancellery in the Bavarian State Government led by Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber . From November 1995 to October 1998 he was Bavarian State Minister for Finance. From 1998 Huber was again Minister of State and Head of the Bavarian State Chancellery, and from October 2003 he was also Minister of State for Federal Affairs and Administrative Reform. In December 2005 Huber moved to the department for economics and transport . After changing the office of Prime Minister in October 2007, Günther Beckstein appointed him Minister of State for Finance .

In February 2008, Huber was accused of withholding information about BayernLB's financial condition . The opposition in the Bavarian state parliament then demanded his resignation (in the run-up to the Bavarian local elections). With the failure of the Transrapid and the announcement of BayernLB's first quarterly figures for 2008 (further loss of 2 billion euros), the calls for resignation increased - an investigative committee in the state parliament was later unable to confirm the accusation made against Huber. After it became known in October 2008 that BayernLB would apply for federal aid of over 5.4 billion euros as a result of the global financial crisis, Huber announced his resignation as Bavarian finance minister. He therefore resigned from the state government in October 2008. In October 2017, he decided not to run again for the elections to the Bavarian State Parliament in 2018.

Further commitment

Erwin Huber has been an honorary member of the Catholic student union Oeno-Danubia in the CV since 2004 . He is a participant in the “ Dialog Forum East-South Landshut Bypass in the course of the B15neu ”, which was set up on April 7, 2015 . Since March 2019 he has been President of the Bavarian Academy for Television and Digital Media eV

Awards

• 1999: Bavarian Order of Beer

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1. ↑ Karsten Riechers: "The devil put me on the track!" In: BILD.de. November 8, 2018, accessed November 9, 2018 . 
2. ↑ "I give the CSU the chance to start over" . World online. September 30, 2008. Retrieved October 24, 2011.
3. ↑ CSU boss Huber knew BayernLB numbers . Financial Times Germany. February 21, 2008. Archived from the original on August 1, 2012. Retrieved October 24, 2011.
4. ↑ About lying and keeping silent . Southgerman newspaper. May 17, 2010. Retrieved January 24, 2014.
5. ↑ Huber announces withdrawal . Mirror online. October 22, 2008. Retrieved October 24, 2011.
6. ↑ Former CSU boss Erwin Huber will stop in 2018 . In: https://www.merkur.de . November 1, 2017 ( merkur.de [accessed November 1, 2017]).

Web links

Commons : Erwin Huber  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikiquote: Erwin Huber  - Quotes

• Official website of Erwin Huber
• Biography. Bavarian State Parliament.
• Erwin Huber on parliamentwatch.de
• Literature by and about Erwin Huber in the catalog of the German National Library