Georg Brunnhuber

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Georg Brunnhuber's candidate poster for the 1990 Bundestag election

Georg Brunnhuber (* 18th February 1948 in Oberkochen ) is a former German politician of the CDU . From 1990 to 2009 he was a member of the German Bundestag . From 2011 to the end of 2014 he was chief lobbyist at Deutsche Bahn AG . From February 2015 to July 2019 he was chairman of the Stuttgart-Ulm Railway Project Association .

Life and work

Brunnhuber left the Peutinger Gymnasium in Ellwangen an der Jagst with the secondary school leaving certificate and then did an apprenticeship as a carpenter , which he finished with a journeyman's certificate . He then studied architecture and building construction with a focus on urban planning at the University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart . which he graduated in 1972 as a graduate engineer (FH) for architecture and building construction with a focus on urban planning. He then did his military service and was then active as a district building officer and later also as head of the building planning office and as an economic representative for the Ostalb district .

Georg Brunnhuber is married and has two daughters.

politics

Brunnhuber joined the CDU in 1972. From 1981 to 2000 he was chairman of the CDU district association Ostalbkreis. He is also the chairman of the transport commission of the medium-sized and business association (MIT) of the CDU / CSU.

MP

From 1990 to 2009 Brunnhuber was a member of the German Bundestag as the successor to Manfred Abelein . Here he was chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the committee for transport, construction and housing and deputy spokesman for transport policy for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group . Brunnhuber was also chairman of the Baden-Württemberg regional group in the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. As of 2005, Brunnhuber was a spokesman for all CDU country group chairmen on the executive committee. In addition, from 1994 he headed the German- Austrian parliamentary group .

Georg Brunnhuber has always entered the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Aalen - Heidenheim constituency . In the 2005 Bundestag election , he achieved 49.9 percent of the first votes .

In April 2007, Brunnhuber was noticed when he explicitly praised a controversial funeral speech by the then Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg Günther Oettinger on the death of Hans Filbinger, initially as a “master's examination”. In response to criticism from the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Brunnhuber replied that “excessive criticism from the Central Council” would rather lead to “people saying that Oettinger is right”. Stephan Kramer , General Secretary of the Central Council, described this statement as "pure anti-Semitism".

He did not run for the 2009 Bundestag election . His successor in the Bundestag was Roderich Kiesewetter  (CDU), who received 45 percent of the first votes in the September 2009 election.

Work for Deutsche Bahn AG

Georg Brunnhuber was a member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bahn AG from July 1, 2006 (as the successor to Margareta Wolf ) to March 24, 2010 .

In March 2010 it was announced that Brunnhuber would become Grubes' political advisor. From 2010 he was political representative of the CEO Rüdiger Grube . On January 1, 2011, he became head of the Department of Economics, Politics and Regulation and, as such, the company's chief lobbyist . The department employs 45 people (as of 2014).

According to his own statements, Brunnhuber's contract would have expired towards the end of 2012. Railway boss Rüdiger Grube asked him in view of the 2013 federal election to extend his contract until the end of 2013, which also happened. When no successor was found at the end of 2013, his contract was extended until the end of March 2014. From now until the end of 2014 he was head and special representative of the CEO for economics, politics and regulation. He was succeeded in this role on January 1, 2015 by Ronald Pofalla .

On February 4, 2015, he was unanimously chosen to succeed Wolfgang Dietrich as a member of the board of the Stuttgart-Ulm Railway Project Association . V. elected. His five-year mandate as club chairman would have ended in February 2020. In May 2018, Brunnhuber announced that he would resign from office at the end of 2018.

Ultimately, he left in July 2019. Bernhard Bauer was his successor . According to his own statements in 2019, he only wanted to exercise the function for one year.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Michael Schwarz: The man for the good mood . In: Heilbronn voice . February 7, 2015, p. 6 .
  2. ↑ Without a source
  3. ↑ a b Konstantin Schwarz: Land speaks to the S-21 club again and probably pays too . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . No. 29 , February 5, 2015, p. 18 ( online ).
  4. ↑ a b Michael Schwarz: Optimistic about the new task . In: Mannheimer Morgen . February 7, 2015, p. 5 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Regret but do not apologize , Stern Online April 14, 2007.
  6. ^ Filbinger speech: Anger over Oettinger's justification , Spiegel Online on April 14, 2007.
  7. ↑ After Oettinger's apology, the head of the CDU regional group of Baden-Württemberg in the Bundestag, Georg Brunnhuber, is now in trouble. In response to the Central Council of German Jews' criticism of Oettinger's Filbinger speech, the latter said: “Excessive criticism from the Central Council tends to lead people to say that Oettinger is right.” Stephan Kramer told Bayerischer Rundfunk that Brunnhuber had “a muzzle at the Central Council want to hang around ". When Brunnhuber talks about the fact that “the Central Council is playing into the hands of the right when it criticizes the Prime Minister for his revisionist statements”, then this is “pure anti-Semitism”. [1]
  8. ↑ a b From MP to lobbyist: Georg Brunnhuber celebrates his 65th birthday . In: Heidenheimer Zeitung , February 17, 2013.
  9. ↑ a b Report of the DB Supervisory Board for IPO . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International . Issue 8–9 / 2006, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 378.
  10. ↑ Changes in the Supervisory Board and Management Board of DB AG in the interim management report of Deutsche Bahn as of June 30, 2010 ( Memento of October 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ a b c Viktor Turad: Finally having more time for the family . In: Aalen news . No. 9 , January 9, 2014, p. 1 (similar version online ).
  12. ↑ Brunnhuber changes to the train . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten , March 23, 2010.
  13. ↑ Konstantin Schwarz: Brunnhuber as S-21 speaker in conversation . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . No. 274 , November 27, 2014, p. 20 ( online ).
  14. ↑ Brunnhuber new boss at the S-21 club . In: Südwest Presse . February 5, 2015, ZDB -ID 1360527-6 , p. 5 .
  15. ↑ Christian Milankovic: “Not every sack of cement is our problem” . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . tape 72 , November 19, 2016, p. 24 ( online ).
  16. ↑ Christian Milankovic: S-21 exhibition should move to the construction site . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . tape 74 , May 22, 2018, p. 18 ( online ).
  17. ↑ The approval has grown . In: Bahnprojekt Stuttgart – Ulm e. V. (Ed.): Reference . No. August 26 , 2019, ZDB -ID 2663557-4 , p. 18-24 .
  18. ↑ a b List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  19. ↑ The Mecca for those interested in architecture . stuttgarter-zeitung.de, July 6, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Brunnhuber, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag and lobbyist (Deutsche Bahn)
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberkochen