Georg Fahrenschon

Georg Fahrenschon as Minister of Finance (2008)

Georg Fahrenschon (May 2011)

Georg Fahrenschon (* 8. February 1968 in Munich ) is a German politician of the CSU . The graduate economist has been President of the German Savings Banks and Giro Association since May 16, 2012 . On November 17, 2017, he announced his resignation on November 24, 2017.

From 2002 to 2007 he was a member of the Bundestag , then State Secretary in the Bavarian Ministry of Finance. From October 2008 to November 3, 2011, Fahrenschon was Bavarian Minister of State for Finance . From May 2011 to April 2012 he was a member of the Bavarian state parliament .

Life

education

After graduating from the Feodor-Lynen-Gymnasium in Planegg in 1988 , Fahrenschon did his military service . In 1990 he began studying economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and graduated from the University of Augsburg with a degree in economics in 1999 . He financed his studies from 1992 to 1998 as a production and editorial assistant at the TV station ProSieben .

job

He then worked as a management consultant at arf Gesellschaft für Organizationentwicklung mbH in Nuremberg, and in 2000 he switched to Bayerische Landesbank as a project and organizational consultant . Most recently, he headed the Risk and Controlling Processes department until October 2002.

family

Georg Fahrenschon is married and has two daughters. He lives with his family in Neuried .

politics

Political party

Fahrenschon joined the Junge Union (JU) in 1985 and the CSU in 1989. From 1989 to 2002 he was a member of the federal board of the Junge Union and from 1994 to 2002 he was deputy federal chairman of the JU. In addition, he was district chairman of the JU in the CSU district of Upper Bavaria and from 2000 to 2003 a member of the executive committee of the Young Alpine Region . From 1997 he was a member of the board of the CSU district association Upper Bavaria and from 2003 its treasurer . From 1999 Fahrenschon was one of four deputy chairmen of the CSU district association Munich-Land.

Mandates

Georg Fahrenschon was a member of Neuried's municipal council from 1990 to 2002 and has been a member of the Munich district council since 1996 .

From 2002 until the resignation of his mandate on November 8, 2007, Fahrenschon was a member of the German Bundestag and from 2005 chaired the working group on finances and budget of the CSU regional group . Marion Seib moved up for him in the Bundestag. Fahrenschon entered the Bundestag in 2002 via the Bavarian State List and in 2005 as a directly elected member of the Munich-Land constituency . He won the direct mandate in 2005 with 52.7% of the vote against the SPD competitor, the then Federal Minister of the Interior Otto Schily .

After the state elections in 2008 , he was initially unable to enter the state parliament as a list candidate for the Upper Bavaria district due to the high losses suffered by the CSU. On May 17, 2011, he replaced the resigned Siegfried Schneider in the state parliament. On April 2, 2012, he resigned from the state parliament; Alex Dorow moved up for him .

State Offices

On October 16, 2007, Fahrenschon was appointed State Secretary in the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance under the new Minister Erwin Huber .

After the formation of the new Bavarian cabinet , Prime Minister Horst Seehofer appointed him Minister of Finance on October 30, 2008 . On October 30, 2011, Fahrenschon announced in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) his candidacy for the post of President of the German Savings Banks and Giro Association (DSGV) and, as Spiegel Online commented on November 2, allegedly duped Prime Minister Horst Seehofer. On November 3, 2011, he resigned from his position as Minister of Finance. Fahrenschon's successor was Markus Söder .

He was a member of the 12th, 13th and 14th Federal Assemblies , which Horst Köhler elected in 2004 and 2009 and Christian Wulff in 2010 as Federal President .

Sparkasse President

On November 30, 2011, Fahrenschon was elected President of the German Savings Banks and Giro Association (DSGV). He took office on May 16, 2012 as the successor to Heinrich Haasis .

In September 2015, Fahrenschon supported a proposal by EU Financial Market Commissioner Lord Jonathan Hill that there should be less strict capital requirements for loans to small and medium-sized companies.

At the beginning of November 2017 it became known that a penalty order for tax evasion had been issued against Fahrenschon . Fahrenschon denied deliberate action and initially lodged an objection. Initially, he did not want to withdraw his candidacy for re-election as DSGV President. On November 17, 2017, he announced his resignation on November 24, 2017. In April 2018, he accepted the penalty order for 140 daily rates for tax evasion . He has a criminal record .

Tax advice

Since January 2019 Georg Fahrenschon has been employed as "Director and General Representative" at the tax consulting company WTS Germany . In his position, Fahrenschon is to build alliances with other consulting firms, private equity and venture capital companies.

Memberships

• Fahrenschon is a member of the association council of the Zweckverband Staatliches Gymnasium im Würmtal, Planegg .
• Fahrenschon is (as of 2016) a member of the Münchner Finance Forum e. V.
• Since 2001 he has been a member of the “Basic Economic and Social Issues” working group of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), and since 2004 a member of the ZdK General Assembly.
• Since 2005 he has been a founding member and member of the board of trustees of the support association of the air rescue station " Christoph 1 ".
• Fahrenschon is a member of the council of the Catholic Academy in Bavaria .
• Since 2007 he has been an honorary member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Moenania Munich in the Cartell Association (CV) .
• In 2010 he took over from Hans Zehetmair as chairman of the association of friends and sponsors of the Center for Environment and Culture in Benediktbeuern . In 2019 he handed over the office to Marcel Huber .
• Georg Fahrenschon is a member of the Ludwig Erhard Foundation .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from November 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
2. ↑ Bavarian State Gazette of May 20, 2011.
3. ↑ Bavarian State Gazette of April 13, 2012.
4. ↑ Seehofer's embarrassing search for Minister X. In: Spiegel Online. November 2, 2011, accessed November 12, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Sparkassen-Verband: Fahrenschon elected President. In: Focus Online. November 30, 2011, accessed February 21, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Georg Fahrenschon. (No longer available online.) German Savings Banks and Giro Association, archived from the original on November 13, 2016 ; accessed on November 12, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Jonathan Hill: The Banker Friend. Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 2, 2015, accessed on September 10, 2015 . 
8. ↑ Penalty order against Sparkasse boss Fahrenschon for tax evasion. In: Focus Online. Retrieved November 7, 2017 . 
9. ^ Michael Rasch: Piquant tax affair in Germany. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , November 8, 2017.
10. ↑ Sparkasse President Fahrenschon resigns. In: Spiegel Online , November 17, 2017, accessed on the same day.
11. ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/georg-fahrenschon-steuerberatung-1.4280459
12. ↑ faz.net: Tax evader goes to tax advisors , accessed on September 18, 2019
13. ↑ WTS Germany: Georg Fahrenschon , accessed on September 18, 2019
14. ↑ Speakers and lectures from past annual meetings. Munich Finance Forum, accessed on November 12, 2016 . 

Web links

Commons : Georg Fahrenschon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Georg Fahrenschon in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Entry by Georg Fahrenschon on parliamentwatch.de