Franz Georg Strauss

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Franz Georg Strauss (born May 5, 1961 in Munich ) is a German media entrepreneur . He is the younger son of the former Bavarian Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss and his wife Marianne, and the brother of Max Josef Strauss (* 1959) and Monika Hohlmeier (* 1962). Strauss is married to Birgit Strauss, he lives and works in Munich.

Franz Georg Strauss completed an apprenticeship as an advertising clerk. He studied law at the University of Salzburg . In 1999 he submitted his diploma thesis, in 2003 his inaugural dissertation , both of which he wrote in the subject of international law . In 1988 he planned to write a doctoral thesis with the sociologist Lothar Bossle but did not realize it.

Since 1984 he has been a board member of the Marianne Strauss Foundation , named after his mother , which provides financial and advisory support to those in need through no fault of their own.

From 1985 to December 12, 1996, Franz Georg Strauss held a 30 percent stake in the Munich city broadcaster TV Weiß-Blau (later tv.münchen ), which he co-founded and which was then taken over by the media entrepreneur Leo Kirch . From Kirch he acquired his share in the Munich local radio station Radio Arabella .

Since 2005, through his HeronMedia Werbegesellschaft mbH, he has again been involved in Munich local television with the channels münchen.tv , münchen2 and RTL Munich. Strauss was able to avert the insolvency of HeronMedia Werbegesellschaft mbH. A creditor filed for bankruptcy against the company in August 2014. In July 2015, Strauss stated that he had got into “financial difficulties” as a result of a company investment. At the end of 2018 he sold the house in Mittersendling, in which the Strauss family had lived since 1978.

Publications

  • The subsidiarity principle under European law: history of ideas, implementation and feedback effects in the federal member states of Germany, Austria and Belgium , dissertation 2003, University of Salzburg, Department of Law, International Law, Int. Organiz./3.UG 7 B 60
  • My father. Memories . Herbig, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7766-2573-8

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Doctor games in Würzburg. Die Zeit , November 4, 1988, accessed March 12, 2011 .
  2. ↑ a b Conny Neumann, Angela Böhm: Franz Josef Strauss: House is foreclosed. In: Spiegel Online . July 31, 2015, accessed May 15, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Strauss' Munich house under the hammer ( Memento from August 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Franz Josef Strauss' son has to get out of the villa - apparently money worries. merkur.de, January 14, 2019.
  5. ^ Jan Bielicki: Strauss villa sold. In: sueddeutsche.de . January 29, 2019, accessed May 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Strauss, Franz Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media entrepreneur, the youngest son of the former Bavarian Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich