Gert Haller

Gert Haller (born April 30, 1944 in Tübingen ; † April 11, 2010 in Bremen ) was a German politician and manager . From 2006 to 2009, as State Secretary and Head of the Office of the Federal President, he was the highest-ranking German civil servant in terms of protocol .

Life

As the son of economics professor and State Secretary Heinz Haller - who worked under Finance Minister Alex Möller from 1970 to 1972 in the preparation of the tax reform - he studied economics in Berlin and Heidelberg . From 1970 to 1977 he was a research assistant at the chair for economic policy at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

After receiving his doctorate , Haller joined the Federal Ministry of Finance in 1977 . Most recently he was State Secretary and the Federal Chancellor's personal representative for the preparation of the world economic summit.

From January 1, 1993, he headed Department IX in the Federal Ministry of Finance. Haller made a significant contribution to the introduction of the European currency. On January 1, 1995, he switched to the private sector and became spokesman for the board of the Wüstenrot & Württembergische financial group . From early 2001 on, he was the CEO and key at this time proponents of the merger of Wüstenrot Group and the Württembergische Versicherung , which since then under the new name W & W occur.

From March 1, 2006 to September 30, 2009 Haller was head of the Federal President's Office in Berlin. Horst Köhler and Haller were personal friends. They had known each other since the time when they both worked in the Federal Ministry of Finance at the time of Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg . Haller's successor in this position was Hans-Jürgen Wolff .

In addition to his political activities, Haller has been a member of the board of the Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (WBG) since 1998 and was its chairman from 2007. There he pushed the takeover of the Philipp von Zabern publishing house and the audio book publisher auditorium maximum . His successor in this office was temporarily Dieter Planck .

Haller died after a brief serious illness in Bremen and was buried in Heidelberg . His death and the problems that arose after he left the office of the Federal President are cited as a reason for the resignation of Federal President Koehler on May 31, 2010.

criticism

Gert Haller worked as Head of the Office of the Federal President in the rank of State Secretary, waived a regular salary and instead worked for a symbolic euro. His former employer, the financial group Wüstenrot & Württembergische AG, from which Haller received a pension after retiring as chairman of the board, paid for his living. The publicist and former SPD politician Albrecht Müller criticized the fact that the insurance industry in Haller had a representative in the Federal President's Office who, due to his position, had the opportunity to influence decision-makers as an advocate of funded private provision (see " Pension Provision ").

Awards

• 1997: Great Golden Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 2006: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
• 2007: Ix-Xirka Ġieħ ir-Repubblika
• 2007: Norwegian Order of Merit
• 2008: Dutch Order of Merit
• 2008: Large Federal Cross of Merit
• 2009: Grand Cross of the Portuguese Order of Merit

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Norbert Schwaldt: State Secretary Gert Haller died. In: welt.de . April 13, 2010, accessed October 7, 2018 . 
2. ^ Gert Haller died, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of April 13, 2010
3. ↑ bundespraesident.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Heinz Hoffmann, Die Bundesministerien 1949–1999, Koblenz 2003, p. 232
5. ↑ ols. Gert Haller, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 13, 2010
6. ↑ Death notice of Hans-Jürgen Wolff as head of the Federal President's Office, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from April 14, 2010
7. ↑ Change in the office of the Head of the Office of the Federal President  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , August 31, 2009  
8. ↑ Dr. Gert Haller, CEO of the WBG has died ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2012 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.  
9. ↑ Stefan Braun, sad, lonely, disappointed. Horst Köhler resigned because he lost a close friend and felt increasingly politically isolated , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung of June 26, 2010
10. ^ NachDenkSeiten.de December 18, 2005
11. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)