Franz Josef Jung

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Franz Josef Friedrich Jung (born March 5, 1949 in Erbach (Rheingau) ) is a German politician ( CDU ). From 1998 to 2014 he was deputy chairman of the CDU Hessen .

Jung was Hessian State Minister for Federal and European Affairs and Head of the Hessian State Chancellery from 1999 to 2000 , Federal Minister of Defense from November 22, 2005 to October 28, 2009 and Federal Minister of Labor from October 28, 2009 to November 30, 2009 .

Because of the previous Kunduz affair , he resigned from his post as Federal Minister of Defense after only 33 days in office. His term of office as Minister of Labor was thus the shortest ever for a minister in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Life and work

After graduating from the Rheingau School in Geisenheim in 1968, Jung initially did his military service as a reserve officer candidate with engineer battalion 5 in Lahnstein and was then transferred to anti-aircraft battalion 5 in Lorch in the Rheingau district . As Corporal (OA) of the Anti-Aircraft Battalion 7 he graduated in 1969, sergeant -Vorausbildung at the NCO School of the Army in the Lutzow barracks in Münster - Handorf . After 15 months, most recently in Rendsburg , he was prematurely dismissed from service due to family obligations.

He then began studying law at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in 1970 , which he completed four years later with the first state examination and in 1976 with the second state examination . In 1978 he received his doctorate as Dr. jur. with Hans Heinrich Rupp at the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Mainz with the work Regional Planning in Hesse, illustrated using the example of the Rhine-Main-Taunus Regional Planning Association . Jung is a lawyer and notary in Eltville. From August 2000 to December 12, 2005 he was on the board of directors and from May 2003 on the supervisory board of the Bundesliga soccer club Eintracht Frankfurt . On May 9, 2017, Jung was elected to the supervisory board of the armaments company Rheinmetall while he was still an active member of the Bundestag .

Jung is Catholic , married, has three children and three grandchildren.

Political party

Jung at the CDU party conference in 2012

Jung was initially involved in the Junge Union , of which he was a member of the federal board from 1973 to 1983. From 1981 to 1983 he was deputy JU federal chairman.

From 1987 to 1991 he was Secretary General of the CDU in Hesse . From 1998 to 2014, Jung was deputy CDU state chairman in Hesse and has been a member of the CDU federal executive committee since 1998 . Since 2014 he has been deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group as well as the parliamentary group's commissioner for churches and religious communities.

Jung supported Roland Koch in his first political activities and became his close confidante. Just like him, Jung was a member of the so-called gas station connection of the Hessian Young Union and of the so-called Andean Pact .

MP

Federal Minister Franz Josef Jung in the Bundestag on December 16, 2005

From 1972 to 1987 Jung belonged to the district council of the Rheingau-Taunus district .

From 1983 to 2005 he was a member of the Hessian state parliament and was always directly elected in the Rheingau-Taunus I constituency. From 1987 to 1999 he was Parliamentary Managing Director of the CDU parliamentary group . From April 5, 2003 to 2005 he was chairman of the CDU parliamentary group. He is also a member of the Europa-Union parliamentary group of the German Bundestag .

In 2005, Jung entered the Bundestag via the Hesse state list . In 2009 and 2013, Jung won the direct mandate for the German Bundestag in the Groß-Gerau constituency .

In the 18th Bundestag , Jung was deputy parliamentary group chairman and representative for churches and religious communities of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group as well as a deputy member of the legal committee , the petitions committee , the foreign affairs committee and the defense committee of the German parliament .

In the 2017 federal election, Jung did not run again as a member of parliament.

Public offices

On April 7, 1999, Jung was appointed as Hessian Minister for Federal and European Affairs and Head of the Hessian State Chancellery in the state government led by Prime Minister Roland Koch ( Koch I cabinet ).

In November 1999 the public processing of the nationwide CDU donation affair began , whereby it turned out that the CDU also had "shadow accounts" in Hesse. As Secretary General of the Hessian CDU from 1987 to 1991, Jung was jointly responsible for the financing of election campaigns and the construction of a new party headquarters. Black money (declared as “Jewish legacies”) was also used. During Jung's tenure as CDU general secretary, more than 1.5 million DM black money flowed into the party coffers.

On August 23, 2000, the Hessian CDU member and then deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group Frank Lortz stated before the parliamentary finance committee that he himself had the parliamentary group at the end of March 1993 about the embezzlement of the accountant Franz-Josef Reischmann between 1988 and 1992 informed from the party fund. In addition to Koch, this also included Jung as the parliamentary managing director of the CDU Hessen from 1987 to 1999.

In particular, representatives of the FDP at federal level and from other federal states demanded more and more clear personal consequences from the donation affair of the CDU Hessen , which ruled in a coalition with the FDP at the time.

Finally, on September 7, 2000, Jung resigned from his position as Minister for Federal and European Affairs and as head of the Hessian State Chancellery. He declared himself innocent, but resigned because the FDP had withdrawn his trust. In some media, this resignation was described as Koch's pawn sacrifice .

The embezzlement of Reischmann was presented promptly in several reports by the then tax advisor to the Hessen CDU, Horst Weyrauch . Jung, then Hessian CDU general secretary and parliamentary managing director of the CDU state parliamentary group, was repeatedly named as the contact person or commissioner of the reports in documents that were later confiscated by the Wiesbaden public prosecutor near Weyrauch. In December 2000, however, Jung declared before the Berlin committee of inquiry into the party donation affair that he had never received or seen any of the detailed reports. He also knew nothing of meetings in which he had participated after a letter from Weyrauch dated March 17, 1993. He couldn't explain why the reports didn't reach him. He only found out about the embezzlement "in detail" in 2000. Even then, he did not inform the then Prime Minister Koch about this, since the embezzlement did not take place during his term in office as parliamentary group leader. When it became known that Reischmann had embezzled Koch during the period in office, Jung stated that he had not known that at the time of the Berlin testimony.

Pacing the front June 2007 Helmut Schmidt University

On November 22, 2005 (after the 2005 Bundestag election ), Jung was appointed Federal Minister of Defense in the Federal Government led by Chancellor Angela Merkel ( Merkel I cabinet ).

On October 28, 2009 (after the 2009 Bundestag election ) he took over the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs in the Merkel II cabinet . Jung's successor in the Ministry of Defense was Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg .

Only after a newspaper publication on November 26, 2009 about an air raid near Kundus requested by the Bundeswehr on September 4, 2009 with numerous civilian injuries and deaths, Jung declared on November 27, 2009: “I am taking on political responsibility for the internal information policy of the Federal Ministry of Defense to the minister regarding the events of September 4th in Kunduz ”and offered to resign, but asserted:“ I have correctly informed both the public and the parliament about my knowledge ”. The resignation was accepted by the Federal Chancellor and Jung was dismissed from the Federal Government by Federal President Horst Köhler on November 30th . This means the shortest term of office of a Federal Minister in the history of the Federal Republic.

In order to clear up open questions about the air strike and to provide information about it, the parties agreed at the beginning of December 2009 that the Defense Committee of the Bundestag would conduct an investigation .

As a representative of the federal government, Jung is a member of the ZDF television council .

Political positions

Memorial for Bundeswehr soldiers

Jung suggested erecting a Bundeswehr memorial in Berlin to honor soldiers and civilian workers who died in the service. On June 13, 2007, he presented the design by the Munich architect Andreas Meck for the memorial on the premises of the Federal Ministry of Defense in Berlin. The design envisages a hall measuring around eight by 40 meters. On November 27, 2008, the foundation stone for the memorial was finally laid on the eastern edge of Hildebrandstrasse. On September 8, 2009, the memorial was inaugurated by Federal President Horst Köhler.

Bundeswehr in the football stadium

As defense minister, at the request of the organizers of the soccer world championship, Jung had it checked whether soldiers in civilian clothes could fill free spaces in the stadiums. The idea failed because of the military leadership who made it mandatory to wear uniform.

Downing of passenger planes

On June 7, 2006, Jung told journalists in Brussels that despite the Federal Constitutional Court's ruling of February 2006 on the Aviation Security Act, he would have passenger planes shot down by the Air Force if they were hijacked and used for attacks. He said: "In the meantime, for example, we would intervene on the basis of a supra- legal emergency , even if no constitutional clarification has been made," by which he alluded to an amendment to the constitution he was aiming for . The SPD politician Dieter Wiefelspütz then accused Jung of calling for a breach of the constitution; It is sometimes criticized that even a change in the Basic Law could not legalize the shooting down of passenger aircraft, as this would violate the unchangeable Art. 1 Basic Law. The Association of the Crews of Jet Fighter Aircraft of the German Federal Armed Forces (VBSK) describes Jung's announcement as a “request to fulfill an illegal order” and recommends, like the Federal Armed Forces Association , not to carry out such an order, since, in the opinion of the representatives of both associations, pilots would make themselves liable to prosecution .

Soldiers pilgrimage to Lourdes

On May 12, 2007, the minister made a pilgrimage to Lourdes at the foot of the Pyrenees with 15,000 pilgrims from more than 30 nations . For the first time in over 15 years, a defense minister, at the invitation of military bishop Walter Mixa, visited the 600 German soldiers who had pitched their tent camp on the spacious grounds above the Holy District.

Use of the Bundeswehr in the context of the G8 summit

Franz Josef Jung with US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates

Hans-Christian Ströbele , Gregor Gysi , Winfried Nachtwei and Daniel-Erasmus Khan ( professor of international law at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich ) assessed reconnaissance flights of two Tornado fighter planes before and during the G8 summit in Heiligendamm in 2007 as an unconstitutional deployment of the Bundeswehr in the Internally, since such a deployment of armed forces internally according to Article 35 of the Basic Law is only constitutional in the event of natural disasters or accidents.

On the other hand, Franz Josef Jung as Federal Defense Minister justified this as “technical administrative assistance”.

The internal political spokesman for the SPD , Dieter Wiefelspütz , described the measure as legally impeccable, but "politically so gaga". Wiefelspütz later changed his mind: “The low flight over the protest camp was unconstitutional.” The spokesman for the conservative Seeheimer Kreis in the SPD, Johannes Kahrs , accused Jung of breaking coalition agreements: “There is a clear message between the two in the coalition Partners: Bundeswehr inside only in the event of a disaster. The defense minister did not adhere to that. ”The defense policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Rainer Arnold , later commented:“ The air force should not have been allowed to fly the missions that day ”.

In the course of the scandal, the Federal Ministry of Defense had to admit that it had answered the request of MP Hans-Christian Ströbele incorrectly. At least one of the combat aircraft had fallen below the legal minimum altitude of 500 feet despite the presence of acoustic warning systems. In the reconnaissance process, it turned out that instead of the approved two, there had also been five unauthorized reconnaissance flights, which the acting Commodore Lieutenant Colonel Heinzmann of reconnaissance wing 51 "Immelmann" in Jagel is said to have ordered on his own initiative at the request of the police.

In addition to combat aircraft and helicopters, the Bundeswehr deployed personnel and material from all branches of the armed forces at the G8 summit. In use, many were Spähpanzer type Fennek , six transport boats, three mine hunting boats , a frigate and 1,100 soldiers (including 27 reservists ) and civilian personnel. The Bundeswehr continued to provide around 6500 accommodations for police officers.

Discussion about amendments to the constitution

At the beginning of August 2009, following the release of the freighter Hansa Stavanger, hijacked by Somali pirates, Jung again spoke out in favor of entrusting the armed forces with the rescue of hostages instead of the police. According to his own statements, after the federal election he planned to amend the Basic Law that would regulate deployments of the Bundeswehr at home and abroad. He also announced that he wanted to negotiate with France about the use of military equipment. Jung's suggestions led to intense criticism in science and the media. For example, the former Scientific Director at the Bundeswehr leadership academy, Martin Kutz, stated that the changes “revealed a technocratic pattern of thought and behavior in which the use of force is only a question of military expediency. Built into this is the basic tendency to escalate, to break the boundaries of violence if the military goals are not achieved in the first attempt ”. He emphasized: “In German history there has not been a single positive experience from the armed deployment of the military inside. It always ended in political repression or murder, even when the Social Democrats at the beginning of the Weimar Republic deployed the Freikorps to crush the revolutionary movement. ”Experts from all other parliamentary groups rejected Jung's proposal and sometimes described it as an electoral maneuver. In this context, Rainer Wendt , chairman of the German Police Union , called for the federal government to "finally stop fiddling with the Basic Law".

Cabinets

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • The last days of the division. How German unification succeeded , Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau [u. a.] 2010, ISBN 978-3-451-30324-1 .
  • An eventful and moving time , in: Norbert Kartmann , Dagmar Schipanski (eds.): Hessen and Thuringia. Upheaval and a new beginning 1989/90 , Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-7973-1061-3 , pp. 103-110.
  • with Ingo Schon: The Hessian election examination after the decision of the BVerfG , in: ZRP 34 (2001), pp. 354–359.
  • Regional planning in Hesse, illustrated using the example of the Rhine-Main-Taunus Regional Planning Association , Mainz University , 1978. ( Dissertation )

literature

  • Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 291 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
  • Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 202.

Web links

Commons : Franz Josef Jung  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hauke ​​Friedrichs: The flawless minister . ZEIT Online (March 25, 2010). Retrieved October 28, 2011.
  2. ^ Franz Josef Jung: Regional planning in Hesse, illustrated using the example of the Rhine-Main-Taunus regional planning community . Dissertation, University of Mainz, 1978, no p.
  3. ↑ Rheinmetall: Ex-Defense Minister Jung becomes a member of the supervisory board of an armaments company . In: The time . May 9, 2017, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed May 12, 2017]).
  4. ↑ biography. In: franz-josef-jung.de. Franz Josef Jung, accessed on September 11, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Dr. Franz Josef Jung . CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag. Retrieved September 11, 2014.
  6. ↑ Jung's fateful encounter . taz. November 28, 2009. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
  7. ↑ The gentlemen from the gas station are running out of fuel . World online. November 29, 2009. Retrieved October 26, 2011.
  8. ↑ Applicants elected in the constituencies in the 2009 federal election in Hesse . Hessian State Statistical Office. Retrieved October 26, 2011.
  9. ↑ Dr. Franz Josef Jung . CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  10. ↑ Epochs: The Bundestag is losing many familiar faces - especially from the CDU
  11. ^ The CDU donation affair in Hesse . Mirror online. September 3, 2000. Retrieved November 26, 2011.
  12. ↑ One hand washes the other . Berlin newspaper. February 18, 2003. Retrieved October 26, 2011.
  13. ↑ Use for the CDU group - During Jung's tenure, 1.5 million DM black money
  14. ^ Federal FDP demands resignation . Mirror online. September 6, 2000. Retrieved October 26, 2011.
  15. ↑ Franz Josef Jung - Fastest resignation of all time . Retrieved January 17, 2013.
  16. ^ Black money: Jung protests innocence . RP Online. December 18, 2000. Retrieved October 26, 2011.
  17. ↑ Has Minister Jung withheld the truth? . Image. November 26, 2009. Retrieved October 26, 2011.
  18. ^ Press statement by Federal Minister Franz Josef Jung. Transcript of the press conference. November 27, 2009, archived from the original on January 10, 2010 ; accessed on July 1, 2018 .
  19. ^ Federal President Koehler dismisses Jung . N24. November 30, 2009. Retrieved October 27, 2011.
  20. ↑ Nobody was as fast as Jung . Stuttgart news. November 27, 2009. Retrieved October 27, 2011.
  21. ^ Zoff about Kunduz investigation committee . Focus Online. December 3, 2009. Retrieved October 27, 2011.
  22. ^ The members of the ZDF television council. In: ZDF.de. June 6, 2018, accessed July 1, 2018 .
  23. ↑ Jung presents a draft for the Bundeswehr memorial . Daily mirror. June 13, 2007. Retrieved October 27, 2011.
  24. ↑ The memorial: laying the foundation stone at the Bendlerblock . Armed forces. November 27, 2008. Retrieved October 27, 2011.
  25. ↑ It is “an avoidance monument” . Deutschlandfunk. September 8, 2009. Retrieved October 27, 2011.
  26. ↑ A new memorial for the fallen soldiers . Berliner Morgenpost. September 8, 2009. Retrieved October 27, 2011.
  27. ↑ Soldiers should fill free spaces in World Cup stadiums . Mirror online. June 2, 2006. Retrieved November 1, 2011.
  28. ^ Judgment of the First Senate of February 15, 2006 - 1 BvR 357/05 . Federal Constitutional Court. February 15, 2015. Retrieved June 18, 2015.}
  29. ↑ Bundeswehr intervenes in a terrorist case . The daily mirror. June 8, 2006. Retrieved November 1, 2011.
  30. ↑ SPD and Greens outraged about Jung's shooting plans . Mirror online. September 17, 2007. Accessed November 1, 2011.
  31. ↑ Jet pilots mutiny against Jung . Mirror online. September 17, 2007. Accessed November 1, 2011.
  32. ↑ Recharge your batteries and confidence . Coptic monastery Höxter. Archived from the original on October 8, 2013. Retrieved July 1, 2018.
  33. ^ Tornado shot pictures of G-8 protest camps while flying low . Mirror online. June 12, 2007. Retrieved November 1, 2011.
  34. ↑ Jung wants to change the Basic Law . Southgerman newspaper. August 9, 2009. Retrieved November 2, 2011.
  35. ↑ Jung demands a change in the constitution due to hostage drama . Mirror online. August 9, 2009. Retrieved November 2, 2011.
  36. ↑ Technocrats of Violence . Southgerman newspaper. August 13, 2009. Retrieved November 2, 2011.
  37. ↑ "Stop fiddling with the Basic Law" . Southgerman newspaper. August 10, 2009. Retrieved November 2, 2011.
  38. ↑ Violent criticism of Jung's proposed constitution . Berlin newspaper. August 10, 2009. Retrieved November 2, 2011.
  39. ^ Martin Grosch: Franz Josef Jung. Stations in a political career. With a foreword by Angela Merkel . 1st edition. Springer-Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-16406-5 , pp. 72 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  40. ^ SLD medal. In: bads.de. Association against alcohol and drugs in road traffic e. V., accessed on May 2, 2020 .
  41. ^ State party conference in Rotenburg / Fulda. In: CDU-Fuldatal.de. Retrieved July 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Jung, Franz Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jung, Franz Josef Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Eltville - Erbach