Günter Meyer (politician)

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Günter Meyer (born September 10, 1935 in Olsberg ) is a German politician ( CDU ).

Life

Meyer entered the Franciscan order after graduating from high school in 1954 , but left it again after almost three years. From 1956 to 1965 he studied classical philology and philosophy in Münster and Bonn and during this time was among other things deputy chairman of the Association of German Student Unions in 1961/62 . After the state examination and legal clerkship, he worked from 1966 to 1970 as managing director of the German Student Travel Service gGmbH (DSR).

In 1970 Meyer moved to the CDU federal office ( Konrad-Adenauer-Haus ), where he was initially head of department and later head of department for administration, personnel and special organizational tasks. During this time he became a close associate of the CDU general secretary at the time, Kurt Biedenkopf , with whom Meyer's further career remained closely linked. In 1978 Biedenkopf made him managing director of the then CDU regional association Westphalia-Lippe . After the merger with the previous state association of Rhineland, Meyer retained this office in 1986 in the newly founded CDU state association of North Rhine-Westphalia. However, when Biedenkopf had to hand over the CDU state chairmanship to Norbert Blüm in 1987 after an internal party dispute , Meyer also quit his job and went to Vienna as office manager of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation .

The end of 1990 it was again Biedenkopf, who is now prime minister in Saxony had become and Meyer building the Saxon State transferred. In 1992 Meyer was officially appointed Head of the State Chancellery, initially with the rank of State Secretary , and was finally promoted to Minister of State in 1995 . In 1997, as part of a cabinet reshuffle, he moved to the post of Plenipotentiary of the Saxon State Government for Federal and European Affairs, before Meyer again took over the position of Head of the State Chancellery from September 1998 to October 1999 after the sudden death of Hans-Werner Wagner . After the state elections in 1999, Meyer left politics.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  2. ↑ Medal holder of the Saxon Order of Merit
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Olsberg