Florian Graf (politician, 1973)

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Florian Graf, 2017

Florian Graf (born October 5, 1973 in Berlin ) is a German politician ( CDU ).

He has been a member of the Berlin House of Representatives since 2006 and was chairman of the CDU parliamentary group from 2011 to 2018. Since June 2018 he has been the state manager of the Berlin-Brandenburg regional association of the CDU Economic Council .

Life

education and profession

Graf grew up in Berlin-Tempelhof . In 1993 he passed the Abitur at the Luise-Henriette-Gymnasium. From 1993 to 1996 he studied administration at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences for Administration and Justice . In 1996 he finished his studies with a degree in administrative management (FH) .

In 1997 he did his military service . He then worked in the Senate Department for Home Affairs from 1997 to 2000 . From 2000 to 2001 he was personal assistant to the State Secretary in the Senate Department for Economics and Technology . From 2001 to 2006 he was head of the office and chief of staff of the CDU parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives. In 2004 he passed an aptitude test for a doctorate at the University of Potsdam to compensate for his degree from a university of applied sciences.

In 2010 he was awarded a Dr. rer. pole. PhD. On April 27, 2012, he announced that he would return his doctorate. According to the university, "there were doubts about the scientific quality and the suspicion of plagiarism ". On May 2, 2012, the university withdrew his doctorate from him because he had "copied in several places in his dissertation". The doctoral committee of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences certified Graf at its meeting that it had deceived the university. He had previously applied for the withdrawal of his doctorate, which he had acquired in 2010. He admitted serious mistakes in his doctoral thesis to his university.

Political career

Political party

Graf joined the Junge Union and the CDU in 1995 and has been a delegate for the state party convention of the CDU Berlin since 1997 .

From 1999 to 2003 he was deputy state chairman of the JU Berlin and from 2003 to 2012 chairman of the CDU local branch in Neu-Tempelhof . In 2002 he became a member of the board of the CDU district association Tempelhof-Schöneberg for the first time.

Graf has been chairman of the CDU Tempelhof-Schöneberg district association since March 10, 2007 and chairman of the newly founded Mariendorf-Marienfelde local association since January 10, 2013. In addition, since 2008 he has been a member of the Federal Technical Committee “Finances, Economy and Energy” of the CDU in Germany .

As district chairman, he also belongs to the state executive committee of the CDU Berlin.

In 2012 he was one of seven electors for the Berlin CDU in the Federal Assembly .

Berlin House of Representatives (since 2006)

In 2006 he moved into the Berlin House of Representatives via the district list in constituency 5 of Tempelhof-Schöneberg (2006: 33.0 percent). From 2006 to 2011 he was head of the budget and finance working group of the CDU parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives. In addition, he was deputy chairman of the main committee as well as spokesman in the property committee and in the 1st investigation committee "Spreedreieck" and 2nd investigation committee "HoWoGe". From January 2009 to November 2011 he was Parliamentary Managing Director of the CDU parliamentary group in Berlin.

In 2009, Graf attracted attention when he sued the Berlin Constitutional Court for inspection of the lease between the State of Berlin and the Bread & Butter fashion fair . The Senate had previously denied parliamentarians access to the files. The CDU parliamentary group in Berlin was finally granted access to the files.

In 2011 , Graf won the direct mandate in the constituency Tempelhof-Schöneberg 6 with 43.7 percent of the first votes and moved back into the House of Representatives.

Group leader (2011-2018) and leader of the opposition (2016-2018)

On December 1, 2011, he was elected as the successor to Frank Henkel , who moved as Interior Senator to the red-black Senate of the Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit , with 95 percent as the new CDU parliamentary group leader in the Berlin House of Representatives.

After declaring a "voluntary return of his doctorate" 27 April 2012 announced Graf, the 3 May 2012 at a special party meeting of the CDU in a secret ballot vote of confidence of wanting to make the CDU parliamentary group chairman on his continued presence in office. In this vote, 30 of the 34 MPs present voted for him to remain in office; three voted against, one abstained.

At the regular election of the new executive committee on January 14, 2014, Graf was confirmed in his office with 97.2% of the votes.

In the 2016 elections to the House of Representatives , Graf was able to defend his direct mandate in the constituency of Tempelhof-Schöneberg 6 with 32.1 percent of the vote.

He was re-elected parliamentary group chairman on September 20, 2016 with 93.3 percent, and since Senate Müller II took office on December 8, 2016, he was also the opposition leader in the Berlin House of Representatives.

In a press release on May 31, 2018, Graf announced that he would resign from the position of parliamentary group chairman and, while maintaining his mandate, take over the position of managing director of the Berlin-Brandenburg regional association of the CDU economic council.

During the regular parliamentary group meeting on June 12, 2018, CDU MP Burkard Dregger was elected as the new parliamentary group chairman, who thus also assumed the role of opposition leader.

Economic Council of the CDU (since June 2018)

Since June 15, 2018, Graf has succeeded Markus Rosenthal as the state manager of the CDU Economic Council Berlin-Brandenburg.

Other engagement

Graf is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin Foundation , a member of the Advisory Board of the Einstein Foundation Berlin and a member of the board of the local political education organization Berlin eV In addition, he is the second chairman of the Friends of TSV Tempelhof-Mariendorf and a member of the board of trustees of the Hertha BSC Foundation .

Private

Florian Graf is married and has three children. He is a member of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .

Political positions

Budget and finance

As a budget and financial politician, Graf has made a name for himself in Berlin politics beyond party lines. He is known as a “hardworking, communicative and sociable clerk” who has always advocated the reduction of debts and the introduction of the debt brake . As chairman of the CDU parliamentary group, he played a key role in reaching an agreement with the coalition partner SPD on the important questions of the 2014/2015 double budget and thus a balanced Berlin state budget for 2014.

Digital agenda

Graf has defined the development of a digital agenda as a focus of his group for 2014. The aim is to make the Berlin administration more citizen-friendly by introducing e-files. In the future, it should also be possible to carry out many official visits online.

Work-life balance

One of Graf's central demands is to improve the compatibility of family and work. He thinks this is a real location factor and would like Berlin to take a pioneering position here. For him, this includes, above all, the massive expansion of the daycare center as well as the unrestricted sibling regulation for access to secondary school.

Web links

Commons : Florian Graf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florian Graf's curriculum vitae
  2. ↑ CDU parliamentary group leader Graf wants to return his doctorate
  3. ↑ "Mistakes made in doctoral thesis" After suspicion of plagiarism: Graf asks a question of trust
  4. ↑ zeit.de: Berlin CDU parliamentary group leader loses doctorate
  5. ↑ www.berliner-zeitung.de: CDU parliamentary group leader Graf admits plagiarism
  6. ^ CDU parliamentary group leader Graf without a doctorate
  7. ↑ Werner van Bebber: CDU parliamentary group leader Graf admits plagiarism to Der Tagesspiegel, May 1, 2012, accessed on March 6, 2015.
  8. ↑ Florian Graf's political résumé
  9. ↑ Tempelhof: CDU complains about access to files
  10. ↑ possible in contract with fashion fair
  11. ↑ CDU parliamentary group elects its executive board
  12. ↑ Berlin CDU parliamentary group leader gives up doctorate: Personal statement in full
  13. ↑ Nico Fried: "Not flawless in some places." Berlin, May 15, 2012; accessed on March 12, 2015
  14. ↑ Berlin CDU parliamentary group leader Florian Graf receives the trust
  15. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau: [1]
  16. ↑ CDU parliamentary group elects new board - Graf confirmed as chairman
  17. ^ Elections to the House of Representatives 2016 - Tempelhof-Schöneberg 6 - first votes. Retrieved January 31, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Florian Graf resigns as CDU parliamentary group leader. In: Der Tagesspiegel. May 31, 2018, accessed June 1, 2018 (German).
  19. ^ Dregger is the new CDU parliamentary group leader in Berlin. DER TAGESSPIEGEL, June 12, 2018, accessed on June 12, 2018 (German).
  20. ↑ Change in the state management. In: Website of the CDU Economic Council. June 1, 2018, accessed June 15, 2018 (German).
  21. ^ Local political education organization Berlin eV
  22. ↑ CDU parliamentary group leader Florian Graf father for the third time . In: BILD.de . ( bild.de [accessed June 27, 2017]).
  23. ↑ Florian Graf leads the CDU parliamentary group
  24. ↑ Senate should stop debt brake in the Federal Council
  25. ↑ The Berlin household will probably end up in the black
  26. ↑ Florian Graf (CDU) on the 2014/2015 budget of Berlin
  27. ↑ CDU parliamentary group wants more online services for citizens
  28. ↑ CDU successes in education
personal data
SURNAME Count, Florian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdA
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin