Gernot Erler

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Gernot Erler (born May 3, 1944 in Meißen ) is a German politician ( SPD ). He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1987 to 2017 and was Minister of State at the Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2005 to 2009 . From January 2014 to April 2018 he was Russia Commissioner (official title: Coordinator for inter-societal cooperation with Russia, Central Asia and the countries of the Eastern Partnership ) of the German Federal Government ( Merkel III cabinet ).

Life and work

After graduating from high school in Berlin in 1963 , Erler studied history , Slavic languages and political science at the Free University of Berlin and the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg im Breisgau , which he completed in 1967 with the state examination for teaching. From 1968 to 1969 he worked as a publisher's editor and then until 1979 as a research assistant at the Department of Eastern European History at the University of Freiburg. From 1980 to 1987 he then worked as a publishing manager in Freiburg.

Gernot Erler is married and has one daughter.

Political party

He has been a member of the SPD since 1970. Here he was initially involved at the local level and from 1973 to 1977 was chairman of the local SPD association in Freiburg-Tiengen . He was then from 1977 to 1987 chairman of the SPD district association in Freiburg. From 1983 to 1997 he was also a member of the SPD state executive and from 1985 to 1997 the SPD presidium in Baden-Württemberg . Gernot Erler is also chairman of the historical commission of the SPD Baden-Württemberg .

MP

In 1987 Erler became a member of the German Bundestag. From 1994 he was a member of the SPD parliamentary group executive and from 1998 to 2005 he was deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group with responsibility for foreign, security and development policy as well as human rights .

Gernot Erler moved in 1987 , 1990 and 1994 over the national list Baden-Wuerttemberg and 1998 bis 2009 as directly selected delegates of the constituency Freiburg in the Bundestag one. In the 2005 Bundestag election he received 45.1% of the first votes and in the 2009 Bundestag election, in which he was the only SPD candidate to win a direct mandate in Baden-Württemberg, 33.0%. In the 2013 federal election , he lost the direct mandate to Matern von Marschall from the CDU, but entered the Bundestag again via the state list.

From October 22nd, 2009 he was again one of nine deputy chairmen on the board of the SPD parliamentary group and responsible for foreign policy, development policy, human rights and defense. After the federal election in 2013, he no longer held this office.

On July 28, 2016, Erler announced on his homepage that he would not run again in the constituency of Freiburg in the 2017 federal election. Four members of the SPD Freiburg applied for his successor. The constituency conference elected Julien Bender in the first ballot to succeed Gernot Erler as a candidate for the Bundestag.

Public offices

On November 22, 2005, Erler was appointed Minister of State to the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Federal Government led by Chancellor Angela Merkel ( Merkel I cabinet ). He held this office until the change of government in October 2009. He was appointed by the black-red coalition government formed after the federal election in 2013 as coordinator for inter-societal cooperation with Russia, Central Asia and the countries of the Eastern Partnership. The office, which was solely responsible for Russia until 2013, was established in 2003 during Joschka Fischer 's term of office on Erler's initiative. Since January 1, 2015, Erler has also been the Federal Government's Special Representative for the German OSCE Chairmanship in 2016.

Erler is a member of the Executive Board of the European Leadership Network (ELN) .

Political positions

In 1990 Erler voted against the German-German currency union. In May 2013 he published an essay titled “Stop Bashing Russia!” In August 2013 he was skeptical of a Western military strike in the civil war in Syria and said it was a false hope that something would be gained by an attack . On the other hand, he rated Putin's military intervention as a success for his domestic political reputation. At the OSCE ministerial meeting in December 2016, Erler made it clear that he regards the OSCE as an important institution for resolving conflicts diplomatically.

Social Commitment

Erler was chairman of the German- Bulgarian forum, president of the Southeast Europe Society (2000–2020), chairman of the West-Ost Gesellschaft Südbaden e. V., sat on the board of the German- Kazakh Society and on the board of trustees of the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies . He is a member of the steering committee of the German-Russian Petersburg Dialogue .

Honors

In 1998 Erler was honored with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

In November 2007 Erler was awarded the "Stara Planina" order , the highest Bulgarian order. He was also awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of World Economy in Sofia .

Fonts

  • The Russian elections and the responsibility of the West. In: Dieter Weirich (Hrsg.): Russia before the elections (= Deutsche Welle Forum. Vol. 1). Edition q, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-86124-313-X , pp. 80-85.
  • The discomfort with the political elite. Five theses on one problem. In: Who will lead tomorrow? Tasks and contents of elite education (= Herrenalber Protocols. Vol. 105, ISSN  0934-6007 ). Evangelical Academy Baden, Karlsruhe 1995, pp. 44–47.
  • Globalization and the Future of the Third World. In: Wolfgang Thierse (Ed.): Can politics still be saved? Viewpoints at the end of the 20th century. (Dedicated to Erhard Eppler). Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-351-02454-1 , pp. 300-310.
  • as editor with Johanna Deimel: Bulgaria - one year after the change of government (= Southeast Europe currently 27). Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-925450-76-9 .
  • Global Monopoly. World politics after the end of the Soviet Union (= AtV. Construction topic 8518). Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-7466-8518-4 .
  • Geopolitical thinking in Russia after NATO's eastward expansion. In: Gabriele Gorzka, Peter W. Schulze (Hrsg.): In search of a new identity. Russia on the threshold of the 21st century. Edition Temmen, Bremen 1998, ISBN 3-86108-332-9 , pp. 32-45.
  • Experience with Mechanisms of Crisis Management and Conflict Resolution: The Eastern European Case. In: Mark A. Heller (Ed.): Europe and the Middle East. New Tracks to Peace? Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies et al., Herzliya 1999, pp. 41-45.
  • Crisis region Balkans: challenge to the new Europe. In: Southeast Europe communications. Vol. 39, No. 1, 1999, ISSN  0340-174X , pp. 9-16
  • Oil and Gas in the Caspian Sea Region. In: Dieter Dettke (Ed.): A Great Game no more. Oil, Gas and Stability in the Caspian Sea Region. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Washington DC 1999, ISBN 0-9647348-5-0 , pp. 1-6.
  • Region of the Future: The Caspian Sea. German Interests and European Politics in the Trans-Caucasian and Central Asian Republics. In: Dieter Dettke (Ed.): A Great Game no more. Oil, Gas and Stability in the Caspian Sea Region. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Washington DC 1999, ISBN 0-9647348-5-0 , pp. 90-104.
  • Globalization or the hope of the islands of maturity. In: Johannes Röser (Ed.): Dare more heavens. Searching for traces in society, culture, church. Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 1999, ISBN 3-451-27181-8 , pp. 214-216.
  • Russia's Role in Europe and the Russian Security Concerns. In: Susan Eisenhower (ed.): NATO at Fifty. Perspectives on the Future of the Atlantic Alliance. Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Washington DC 1999, ISBN 0-9670233-0-0 , pp. 205-210.
  • "Live with the bomb". Marie Marcks ' drawings on armaments, disarmament and the peace movement. In: Marie Marcks: Caricatures of the last 50 years. Edited by Thomas Werner. Edition Braus, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-926318-73-2 , pp. 94-100.
  • What use is philosophy in everyday political business? In: Hans-Otto Mühleisen (Hrsg.): Of the use of philosophy for politics. Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-7820-0838-3 , pp. 144-150.
  • The preventive imperative and the silence of sustainable politics. In: Ingeborg Villinger, Gisela Riescher, Jürgen Rüland (eds.): Politics and responsibility. Festival ceremony for Wolfgang Jäger on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Rombach, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2000, ISBN 3-7930-9262-3 , pp. 31-34.
  • Expansion to the east: stumbling blocks on Europe's path into the future. In: Southeast Europe communications. Vol. 40, No. 2, 2000, pp. 99-103.
  • The IMF's Russia Policy or Organized Doom. In Gabriele Gorzka, Peter W. Schulze (Hrsg.): Russlands Weg zur Zivilgesellschaft. Centralism - regional momentum. State functions - private sector. Legal structures and norms in a civil society. Particular interests - common good. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2000, ISBN 3-86108-335-3 , pp. 67-77.
  • The war in Kosovo a year later: review, balance sheet, lessons. In: Jörg Calließ (Ed.): Europe after the Kosovo War (= Loccumer Protocols. 00,17, ISSN  0177-1132 ). Evangelical Academy Loccum - Protocol Office, Rehburg-Loccum 2001, pp. 123–127.
  • The better tomorrow - ways into the future of Southeast Europe. In: Europa 2030. A futuristic search for traces in 14 countries in Southeast Europe. Published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft (= Südosteuropa-Mitteilungen. Special edition = Bd. 42, H. 1, 2002). Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft, Munich 2002, pp. 13-17.
  • International Politics 1998–2002: The Forced Rethinking. In: Gernot Erler, Michael Müller, Andrea Nahles , Ludwig Stiegler : Majorities with links. Workshop reports from Berlin for a policy to shape globalization (= policy in pocket book. Vol. 30). Dietz, Bonn 2002, ISBN 3-8012-0322-0 , pp. 31-72.
  • Why the Iraq war must not be: Three reasons. In: Karl-Heinz Harenberg, Marc Fritzler (Ed.): No War. War is not the solution, Mr. Bush! (= Knaur 77711). Droemer-Knaur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-426-77711-8 .
  • The Khodorkovsky case. On the tomography of a political conflict. (PDF; 182 kB). In: Gabriele Gorzka, Peter W. Schulze (ed.): Where is Russia heading under Putin? The authoritarian way to democracy. Campus, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2004, ISBN 3-593-37585-0 , pp. 301-325.
  • Russia is coming. Putin's state - the struggle for power and modernization (= Herder spectrum 5566). Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 2005, ISBN 3-451-05566-X .
  • Mission world peace. Germany's new role in world politics. Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-451-30110-0 .
  • The failure after 9/11. With better strategies against terror. A point of view. Edition Körber Foundation, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89684-143-8 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal government appoints commissioners for Russia and America faz.net, April 11, 2018.
  2. ^ SPD Baden-Württemberg
  3. ↑ Press release of the SPD parliamentary group from October 22, 2009 ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spdfraktion.de
  4. ↑ Homepage Gernot Erler press release, July 28, 2016: Gernot Erler: No renewed candidacy for the Bundestag 2017 , accessed on July 29, 2016
  5. ^ Badische Zeitung: Freiburg: constituency conference: SPD elects Julien Bender as candidate for federal election - badische-zeitung.de . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on December 14, 2016]).
  6. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 11, 2014
  7. ↑ Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the OSCE Vienna - Gernot Erler appointed as Special Representative of the Federal Government for the OSCE Chairmanship in 2016. (No longer available online.) In: www.wien-osze.diplo.de. Archived from the original on December 14, 2016 ; accessed on December 14, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wien-osze.diplo.de
  8. ^ Website ELN
  9. ↑ dfs / RA / tsv / cbs / lac / mir: Crimean Crisis: What Drives Putin Understanders in Germany. In: welt.de . March 20, 2014, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Gernot Erler: EU Neighbor: No more Russia bashing! In: The time . No. 23/2013 ( online ).
  11. ↑ Susann Kreutzmann: German politicians are skeptical about intervention in Syria
  12. ↑ DLF 2015
  13. ^ OSCE ministerial meeting - "The opportunity for dialogue was seized" . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed December 14, 2016]).
  14. ↑ On the history of the SOG
personal data
SURNAME Erler, Gernot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen