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Erwin Teufel (2011)

Erwin Teufel (born September 4, 1939 in Rottweil ) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany . From 1991 to 2005 he was Prime Minister of the state of Baden-Württemberg and chairman of the CDU regional association .

Life

Teufel grew up as the son of a farmer in Zimmer ob Rottweil and attended the Albertus Magnus High School in Rottweil . He left school with middle school leaving certificate . He then completed an apprenticeship for the higher administrative service , which he finished in 1961 with the state examination as an administrator. With the conversion of the Haigerloch administrative college into an administrative college in 1971, the graduates were subsequently awarded the academic degree of Diplom-Verwaltungswirt (FH) . In October 2005, Teufel began studying philosophy at the ecclesiastical University of Philosophy in Munich , which he gave up in 2008 when he was appointed to the German Ethics Council .

Political career and public office

Conference of the Interior Ministers 1973. Far left Erwin Teufel, Baden-Württemberg State Secretary at the time

Teufel was a founding member of the Junge Union in his home district of Rottweil , and its district chairman from 1964 to 1965. From 1973 to 1991 he was chairman of the CDU district association in South Baden and from 1991 to 2005 regional chairman of the CDU in Baden-Württemberg . From 1992 to 1998 he was also deputy federal chairman of the CDU. Teufel was a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg from 1972 to 2006 . From 1978 to 1991 he was chairman of the CDU parliamentary group . Teufel was always elected as a directly elected member of the constituency of Villingen-Schwenningen (until 1976 constituency of Villingen) in the state parliament.

Teufel was mayor of Spaichingen from 1964 to 1972 . At the time of his election he was only 25 years old, making him the youngest German mayor at the time. His brother Albert Teufel became his successor in the office of Mayor of Spaichingen. From 1972 to 1978 he was political state secretary in the Ministry of the Interior and state secretary for environmental protection in the state government of Baden-Württemberg , headed by Hans Filbinger . After the resignation of Lothar Späth , Teufel was elected Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg on January 22, 1991.

After the CDU had to accept considerable losses and the loss of the absolute majority in the state elections in 1992, a grand coalition with the SPD was formed under his leadership . After the state elections in 1996 , the CDU was finally able to enter into a coalition with the FDP , which was also confirmed in the 2001 election. From November 1, 1996 to October 31, 1997, Teufel was the rotating president of the German Federal Council .

In 1994 Teufel was appointed a member of the EU's Committee of the Regions for the first time . At the European Convention , convened by the European Council , he represented the German states from February 2002 to July 2003. On February 13, 2008, Teufel was appointed by the Federal Cabinet and the German Bundestag to be a member of the German Ethics Council until 2012.

Political activity

While Devil tenure led to the mergers of both the previously regional energy suppliers to EnBW and the two public broadcasters South German Radio and Südwestfunk for Südwestrundfunk . Teufel's predecessor Späth had not yet been able to push through both mergers. Furthermore, Teufel strongly advocated the formation of a powerful Baden-Württemberg Landesbank ( LBBW ). He pushed the construction of the new Stuttgart Trade Fair Center . Teufel's last major project, a comprehensive administrative reform, was implemented in 2004. The main points of this reform were the integration of state authorities (e.g. trade supervisory offices and forestry offices) in lower regional authorities such as urban and rural districts as well as in the middle authorities (regional councils).

After lengthy internal party quarrels, Teufel announced on October 25, 2004 that he would resign as Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg and State Chairman of the Southwest CDU on April 19, 2005. His favorite successor, Annette Schavan , was unable to prevail within the party. The previous CDU parliamentary group leader Günther Oettinger was therefore elected as the new prime minister on April 21, 2005 , and on April 29, 2005 he also took over the office of CDU state chairman from Teufel.

Social Commitment

Erwin Teufel was a member of the German Ethics Council from 2008 to 2012 . He is also a member of the board of trustees of the ProChrist Association , the Eugen Biser Foundation Munich and the Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma , as well as an advisory board member of the Association Against Forgetting - For Democracy and the scientific advisory board of the Research Center for International and Interdisciplinary Theology . Until 2008 he was a member of the Central Committee of German Catholics . He is also President of the Franco-German Institute in Ludwigsburg, a member of the Convention for Germany and, between 2011 and 2016, a member of the University Council of the Liebenzell International University .

In July 2014, Winfried Mack published the book Learning from the Crisis, On the Way to a Cosmopolitan and Human Society, together with Teufel as editor . The book was published by Herder Verlag and contains contributions by Heiner Geißler, Paul Kirchhof, Renate Köcher, Manfred Spitzer, Cardinal Peter Turkson, among others his book Ehe alles zu Late. He wrote ecclesiastical despondency and Christian explosiveness in just 20 days.

family

Erwin Teufel is married and has four children with his wife Edeltraud. He is the uncle of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament member Stefan Teufel . His brother Albert Teufel was Erwin Teufel's successor in the office of mayor of Spaichingen from 1972 to 2004.

Honors

with Serge Mangin (2017)
State Order
Cross of Merit 1st Class (1980)
Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria (1997)
Great Cross of Merit (1985) with star (1994) and shoulder ribbon (1999)
Commander of the Legion of Honor (1998)
Order of the Marienland Cross, 2nd class (2000)
Ix-Xirka Ġieħ ir-Repubblika (2001)
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , Grand Cross (2004)
National honors
Great Order of Montfort (2005)
Saxon Order of Merit (February 23, 2006)
Merit Medal of the State of Baden-Württemberg (April 26, 2008)
Honorary professorship of the state of Baden-Württemberg, by Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (2015)
Honorary Senator
Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
University of Kehl
Furtwangen University
University of Police Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University Villingen-Schwenningen
Shanghai Jiaotong University
European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (May 11, 2005)
Honorary doctorate
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Agricultural and Veterinary University of the Banat
Oradea University
D. theol. hc of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen (June 15, 2007)
Honorary citizen
City of Spaichingen (2003)
City of Villingen-Schwenningen (2005)
Municipality of Zimmer oR (2005)
Others
Honorary member of the AV Cheruskia Tübingen in the Cartell Association of Catholic German Student Associations
Dinosaur of the Year (1999)
Kaiser Maximilian Prize (2002)
Plaque of Honor of the Association of Expellees (2003)
Lambert-Schill Medal of the Baden Agricultural Association (March 14, 2005)
Teddy Kollek Prize of the Jerusalem Foundation (June 5, 2005), see Teddy Kollek # Honors
Robert Schuman Medal (2005)
In July 2008, the Spaichingen vocational school was named after Erwin Teufel.
Eugen Bolz Prize in Rottenburg am Neckar (September 21, 2008)

Fonts

  • Maß & Mitte - Courage for simple truths , Johannis-Verlag, Lahr 2006, ISBN 3-501-05181-6 .
  • Before everything is too late: Church despondency and Christian explosiveness , Herder Verlag, Freiburg u. a. 2013, ISBN 978-3-451-30907-6 .

See also

Web links

Commons : Erwin Teufel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. FAZ: “I am no longer silent” from August 2, 2011, viewed on August 21, 2011
  2. Roland Schulz, The Beginner , in: Die Zeit , 43/2005; Petr Jerabek, start of studies of a political pensioner. Erwin Teufel is going on in Munich , spiegel.de, October 17, 2005; Prominent college dropout. The devil comes out , spiegel.de, February 18, 2008
  3. Mappus, Müller, Schavan: Crash of the estate administrators of ex-Prime Minister Teufel , article from February 21, 2013 by Roland Muschel on Südwest Presse
  4. Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma: Members of the Board of Trustees (accessed August 30, 2010)
  5. FIIT: The Advisory Board of FIIT (accessed August 30, 2010)
  6. ^ Franco-German Institute - About the dfi Board
  7. Erwin Teufel adopted by the University Council , ihl.eu, article from October 21, 2016.
  8. http://www.schwaebische.de/region_artikel,-Den-Teufel-bringt-niemand-aus-der-Kirche-_arid,10183330_toid,650.html
  9. List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  10. Overview of the medal bearers of the Marienland Cross. Retrieved June 28, 2010 .
  11. http://www.wirtschaftszeit.at/aus-der-region/aus-der-region-detail/article/montfortorden-fuer-einen-verlaesslichen-partner-vorarlbergs/
  12. http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.ehrung-durch-kretschmann-teufel-wird-ehren-professor.fdbc7f13-ba18-4b77-b314-7f16537f2291.html Report about honorary professorship to Teufel in the Stuttgarter Zeitung, Retrieved April 14, 2015
  13. Schwäbisches Tagblatt , June 16, 2007, p. 27
  14. ^ Lambert Schill Medal for Erwin Teufel
  15. Schwäbische Zeitung of July 16, 2008 ( memento of September 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 27, 2008