Georg Milbradt

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Georg Milbradt, 2006

Georg Hermann Milbradt (born February 23, 1945 in Eslohe ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and economist . As the successor to Kurt Biedenkopf from April 2002 to May 2008, he was the second Prime Minister of the Free State of Saxony after the fall of the Wall. He was confirmed in office in September 2004 despite a considerable loss of votes in the state elections in Saxony and formed a coalition with the SPD . On April 14, 2008 Milbradt announced his resignation as Prime Minister and State Chairman of the CDU. On May 27, 2008, he resigned as Prime Minister. On May 28, 2008, the previous Saxon Finance Minister Stanislaw Tillich was elected Prime Minister. Tillich also took over the chairmanship of the CDU Saxony from him .

Georg Milbradt is Catholic and married to Angelika Meeth-Milbradt , a professor at the Dresden University of Applied Sciences . The couple has two sons.

Life

Origin, studies and science

His family comes from Posen (or Wongrowitz ). It was from there after the Second World War expelled and moved to Dortmund , where Milbradt 1964 at the Humboldt High School , the High School took off. From 1964 to 1968 he studied economics , law and mathematics at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation , from which he graduated as an economist.

From 1970 to 1980 he was a research assistant or assistant to Herbert Timm and later Heinz Grossekettler at the Institute for Public Finance at the University of Münster . In 1973 he received his dissertation on goals and strategies in debt management. A contribution to the theory of the optimal debt structure of the state with the involvement of the central bank for Dr. rer. pole. PhD (“ summa cum laude ”). In 1980 he completed his habilitation with the thesis Problems of indexing economically important variables and received the Venia Legendi for Economics. From 1980 to 1983 he held a chair for finance and economics at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . At the same time he held a teaching position at the University of Osnabrück . In 1985 he was appointed adjunct professor in the economics faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

Since December 2009 Milbradt has been an adjunct professor for economics, especially financial policy, at the Faculty of Economics at the TU Dresden .

He was one of 136 German economics professors, including Roland Vaubel , Hans-Werner Sinn , Jürgen B. Donges , Manfred JM Neumann and Bernd Lucke , who, shortly before the federal elections in September 2013, accused the European Central Bank (ECB) of illegal monetary state financing .

Politics in Münster and Saxony

Biedenkopf cabinet 1990; first person from the right: Georg Milbradt

Milbradt has been a member of the CDU since 1973 . From 1975 to 1983 he was a council member in Münster. From 1983 to 1990 he was head of finance for the city of Münster. From November 8, 1990 to January 31, 2001, he was Saxony's Minister of State for Finance. The then Prime Minister Kurt Biedenkopf surprisingly dismissed Milbradt from the Biedenkopf III cabinet ; Biedenkopf favored Agriculture Minister Steffen Flath as the next CDU chairman and probably also as the next Prime Minister. Since 1991 he has been a member of the state board of the Saxon CDU and since 1994 a member of the Saxon state parliament . Most recently, he was directly elected member of the constituency 53 (Kamenz I) . In 1999 he became deputy chairman of the CDU Saxony. On September 15, 2001, Milbradt became chairman of the CDU Saxony at a special party conference. Biedenkopf had favored Agriculture Minister Steffen Flath ; Milbradt won the fight vote against Flath. On January 16, 2002, Biedenkopf announced his resignation as Prime Minister on April 18, 2002. In March 2002, the CDU Saxony nominated Milbradt as a candidate for the office of Prime Minister; on April 18, 2002 he was elected by the state parliament.

Initially head of a CDU sole government ( Cabinet Milbradt I ), he has led a CDU and SPD government since the state elections on September 19, 2004. On November 10, 2004 he was confirmed in office in the second ballot.

Georg Milbradt, 2008

Milbradt was controversial during his tenure as Prime Minister. Above all, his comments on the Dresden bridge dispute contributed to this, for example his assessment that the loss of the World Heritage title for the Dresden Elbe valley, which was only entered in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2004, was "manageable". On April 14, 2008 Milbradt announced his resignation from all offices for the end of May. He thus drew the consequences of his involvement in the Sachsen-LB affair. In the affair he was criticized for his role as finance minister and also because he was involved in a closed real estate fund of Sachsen LB, with which he had business. Milbradt submitted his resignation on May 27, 2008; On May 28th, Finance Minister Stanislaw Tillich was elected 3rd Prime Minister of the Free State of Saxony. In the state elections in 2009 Milbradt did not run again and consequently left the state parliament in September 2009.

From 2014 to 2016, as a representative of the social groups, he was also a member of the Commission for the Storage of Highly Radioactive Waste (Repository Commission) in accordance with Section 3 of the Site Selection Act .

Social offices

Georg Milbradt is the chairman of the HHL Foundation (formerly the traditional Kramer Foundation ) at the private Leipzig University of Commerce and the patron of the “ Schüler Helfen Leben” initiative . He is also the patron of the SACHSEN ASSE award and a member of the board of trustees of the Peter Escher Foundation for children with cancer .

Honors

Georg Milbradt (3rd from left) at the award of the Order of Merit of the Free State of Saxony to Horst Saalbach (2nd from left), accompanied by Winfried Pinninghoff (left) and Werner Kriesel , right. ( Dresden 2015)

Fonts (selection)

  • Goals and strategies of debt management. A contribution to the theory of the state's optimal debt structure with the involvement of the central bank (= publications on public administration and public economy , Volume 4). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1975, ISBN 3-7890-0115-5 .
  • Presentation and analysis of the national debt in the Federal Republic of Germany (= contributions to economic and social policy , volume 81). Deutscher Instituts-Verlag, Cologne 1980, ISBN 3-602-24781-3 .
  • Problems of indexing economically important variables. A study of the economic effects of index clauses on the labor market, on the capital market and in the state sector (= publications on public administration and public economy , Volume 43). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1982, ISBN 3-7890-0737-4 .
  • with Bernd Thode: The Saxon network solution. Reorganization of the savings banks, Landesbank Sachsen Girozentrale and Sächsische Aufbaubank . Knapp, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-8314-0709-6 .
  • with Thomas Rietzschel: Power of Visions . Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-378-01065-7 .
  • ed. with Ingolf Deubel : Regulatory contributions to financial and economic policy. Festschrift for Heinz Grossekettler on his 65th birthday (= Studies on Finances, Money and Capital , Volume 14). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-428-11370-5 .
  • ed. with Johannes Meier: The demographic challenge. Shaping Saxony's future . Bertelsmann Stiftung, Gütersloh 2004, ISBN 3-89204-793-6 .

Web links

Commons : Georg Milbradt  - Collection of Images
 Wikinews: Article about Georg Milbradt  - in the news

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WirtschaftsWoche biography Georg Milbradt ( memento from October 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on wiwo.de, accessed on April 24, 2017
  2. ↑ Sven Heitkamp: Ascent of a model student on zeit.de, May 19, 2010, accessed on April 24, 2017
  3. ↑ Apl. Professor of Economics at TU Dresden , accessed on August 11, 2012
  4. ^ New appeal: German economists accuse the ECB of state financing. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 11, 2013, accessed September 12, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Tim B. Peters, Christine Bach / KAS: Kurt Biedenkopf .
  6. ↑ Milbradt received 72 of 118 votes; the CDU had 76 seats in the state parliament at that time. Plenary minutes 3/60 of April 18, 2002, p. 4158 ( online ).
  7. ^ Chemnitzer Neue Presse of March 16, 2007
  8. ↑ Tagesschau : Prime Minister Milbradt resigns (tagesschau.de archive) from April 14, 2008
  9. ^ SachsenLB affair: What Milbradt cost the job. In: Der Spiegel . April 14, 2008, accessed June 30, 2014
  10. ↑ Saxony: Milbradt submitted resignation on May 27, 2008.
  11. ↑ https://www.bundestag.de/blob/434430/35fc29d72bc9a98ee71162337b94c909/drs_268-data.pdf , page 550
  12. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Milbradt, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Milbradt, Georg Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL, Prime Minister of the Free State of Saxony
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Eslohe (Sauerland)