Frank-Michael Wiegand

Frank-Michael Wiegand (born April 21, 1952 in Wuppertal ) is a businessman and German politician ( FDP ).

Frank Michael Wiegand

Life

Born in Wuppertal, with a high school diploma in Hamburg, Wiegand founded the GOVI record mail order business in 1971 and, at the end of the 1970s, the Hamburg retail chain Govi Schallplatten Frank-Michael Wiegand GmbH & Co. - with 23 GOVI stores across Germany - which was taken over by WEA Records in 1979 were. The historian and political scientist Wiegand took a stake in the Hamburg real estate agency Jendrusch & Partner from 1983 .

politics

In the 13th and 14th electoral periods from 1987 to 1993 Wiegand was a member of the Hamburg Parliament and from 1987 to 1991 chairman of the FDP parliamentary group. Reinhard Soltau took over as chairman of the parliamentary group . In the citizenry, he was for his parliamentary group in the Committee on Science and Research, the Committee on the Constitution, Rules of Procedure and Election Review and in the Culture Committee.

Wiegand was elected regional chairman of the FDP Hamburg shortly before the general election in 1997 and was nominated as a top candidate for his party. After the general election, in which the Liberals only received 3.5 percent of the vote, Wiegand resigned from the party chairmanship and was replaced in this role by Rainer Funke . From 1986 to 1990 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation .

In 2003, in the middle of the 17th Hamburg legislative period of the center-right government coalition consisting of the CDU, the Rule of Law Party and the FDP, Wiegand - himself a former SPD member - as a prominent Hamburg FDP member of the right wing, refused to work with Ronald Schill and instead advocated a government coalition with the SPD .

Publications

• The notables. Studies on the history of the electoral law and the elected citizenship in Hamburg 1859-1919. Association for Hamburg History, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-923356-14-5 .
• Frank-Michael Wiegand (Ed.): GOVI records. Govi collector. Pop and rock record catalog , Hamburg 1979.

literature

• Citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , 14th electoral period, editor Hinnerk Fock , Hamburg 1992, p. 64.