Günter Rexrodt

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Günter Rexrodt (born September 12, 1941 in Berlin ; † August 19, 2004 there ) was a German politician ( FDP ) and from 1993 to 1998 Federal Minister of Economics .

Life and work

He was born as the son of Wilhelm Rexrodt , the former Reich Managing Director of the DDP . He passed his Abitur in 1960 in Arnstadt . After fleeing the GDR and a subsequent year in West Berlin , he completed a degree in business administration from 1961 to 1967 at the Free University of Berlin , which he completed with a degree in business administration. In 1971 , Rexrodt received his doctorate as Dr. rer. pole. .

From 1968 he worked at the Berlin Chamber of Commerce and Industry . In 1979 he switched to the Berlin Senate Department for Economics as a department head.

In April 1989 he started working for Citibank, initially in New York , and from January 1990 to August 1991 he was Chairman of the Board of Citibank AG in Frankfurt am Main . Rexrodt then moved to the Treuhandanstalt in September 1991 . As a member of the board, he was responsible for the privatization of agriculture and construction as well as GDR foreign trade companies until January 1993 .

He took on extensive sideline activities as a multiple supervisory or advisory board member of various companies. The most important activities were:

  • President of Ghorfa (from 2002),
  • Supervisory board mandate at the all-round financial service provider AWD
  • Supervisory Board of AGIV Real Estate AG in Hamburg (Chairman),
  • of the Berliner Effektengesellschaft AG Berlin,
  • of DTZ Zadelhoff Holding AG Frankfurt / Main,
  • of Gerling Versicherungs-Beteiligungs AG Cologne,
  • of Landau Media AG Berlin.
  • Member of the advisory board of medführer GmbH Darmstadt
  • Member of the investment committee of vc Trust Venture Capital AG.
Grave of Günter Rexrodt in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Günter Rexrodt had to undergo a complicated operation on his neck in May 2004 because of cancer . He died on August 19, 2004 during follow -up treatment in the Berlin Charité , but not from the effects of cancer, but from sudden cardiac death , as a subsequent autopsy revealed.

Around 800 people attended the funeral service for Günter Rexrodt in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin on August 29, 2004, including Federal President Horst Köhler and the chairmen of the CDU and FDP, Angela Merkel and Guido Westerwelle . Commemorative speeches were given by Federal Economics Minister Wolfgang Clement , FDP honorary chairman Otto Graf Lambsdorff and former BDI boss Hans-Olaf Henkel . After the ceremony, he was buried in the state-owned cemetery in Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: 16-A-40/41).

family

Rexrodt's father Wilhelm Rexrodt was Reich Managing Director of the German Democratic Party until 1931 and was one of the founders of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDP) in Saxony-Anhalt and Halle after 1945 . Günter Rexrodt was married to Ingrid Rexrodt, geb. Hoyermann, and was the father of a son.

Political party

Since 1980 he was a member of the FDP. From 1983 to 1987 and from 1989 to 1994 he was deputy state chairman and from 1994 to 1995 and from 2000 to 2004 he was state chairman of the FDP Berlin . Since 1990 he has been a member of the FDP federal executive board, since 1993 also of the presidium of the FDP. Since 2001 he was federal treasurer of the FDP. In this office he was entrusted with the task of clearing up Jürgen Möllemann's financial entanglements in the context of the so-called leaflet affair .

When he was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives in 1995 , he was his party's top candidate for the first time. Under his leadership, the FDP dropped from 7.1 to 2.5% of the vote and was no longer represented in parliament. Rexrodt then announced his resignation as state chairman.

After long internal party quarrels, which among other things resulted in another failure of his party in Berlin in 1999 (2.2% of the votes), he returned to his previous office in 2000 and was in the new election for the Berlin House of Representatives in 2001 renewed top candidate of the FDP. Under his leadership, the FDP returned after six years of absence with a result of 9.9% of the vote in the House of Representatives.

MP

From 1994 until his death, Rexrodt was a member of the German Bundestag . He was always drawn into the German Bundestag via the Berlin State List. Although he accepted the 2001 mandate in the House of Representatives, he resigned it on January 31, 2002.

Public offices

From 1982 to 1985 he was State Secretary in the Senate Department for Economics and from 1985 to 1989 Senator for Finances of the State of Berlin in the Berlin Senate led by the Governing Mayor Eberhard Diepgen .

On January 21, 1993 he was appointed Federal Minister of Economics to the Federal Government headed by Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl . Even after the 1994 general election , he was represented in the cabinet . After the 1998 Bundestag election , he left the federal government on October 26, 1998.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. Rexrodt died of sudden cardiac death . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . August 29, 2004. Retrieved November 15, 2019.
  2. Moving funeral for Günter Rexrodt . On: RP Online . August 29, 2004. Retrieved November 15, 2019. Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin Burial Sites . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 493.
  3. List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)

Web links

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