Holger Krahmer

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Holger Krahmer (born October 16, 1970 in Leipzig ) is a former German politician ( FDP ) and today's lobbyist . From 2004 to 2014 he was a member of the European Parliament .

education and profession

After training as a maintenance mechanic, which he completed in 1989, Krahmer worked as a bank clerk, first at Commerzbank from 1990 to 1996 , then from 1996 to 2000 at Bankgesellschaft Berlin and then at Bankhaus Reuschel . From 2001 to 2006 he worked as an independent financial advisor for the Nürnberger Versicherungsgruppe and most recently for Fürst Fugger Privatbank . He is a co-founder and was a member of the board of GANOS Kaffee-Kontor & Rösterei AG in Leipzig until March 2015.

After retiring as a politician, Krahmer became involved as a lobbyist for the car manufacturer Opel , where he worked as "Director Government & Industry Relations Europe" (meaning: Director for Government and Industry Relations Europe). Previously, as a politician on the Environment Committee, he was responsible for regulating the automotive industry for 10 years .

politics

Holger Krahmer has been a member of the FDP since 1993, was deputy chairman of the Leipzig FDP from 1997 to 2011 and chaired it from December 3, 2011 until March 2015. He was a member of the state board of the FDP Saxony . In 1998 and 2002 he was a candidate for the Bundestag in Leipzig. In 2001 he was sent by the FDP to the Council of European Liberals (ELDR Council). Krahmer is co-founder of the FDP internal platform “Liberal Awakening”. He has now retired from all political offices.

For the European elections on June 16, 2004 , he was the only East German liberal elected to the European Parliament , where he belongs to the parliamentary group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe . In the 2009 European elections , Krahmer was re-elected. With the end of the legislature in July 2014, he left the European Parliament.

Krahmer has been a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety since 2004 ; and deputy member of the Committee on Energy, Research and Industry. During his first legislative term, he was also a member of the temporary committee on climate change. In addition, from 2004 to 2009 he was a member of the delegation for relations with the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO and delegation for relations with the countries of Central America; since 2009 he has been vice-chairman of the delegation for relations with the Arabian Peninsula .

In 2013, before the EU Parliament's vote on the labeling of tobacco products with chilling images , Krahmer introduced 36 amendments. The lobby-critical initiative Corporate Europe Observatory accused him of the fact that these applications were very similar to documents from the tobacco industry . Krahmer denied the existence of these connections. It is not externally determined by a lobby. Rather, he supports health protection projects, but with some measures such as the placement of deterrent pictures "the question should be asked whether they should make the marketing of the products more difficult". This guideline is a "crusade against smoking", which is scientifically shaky.

Krahmer denies man-made global warming and denies the scientific objectivity of the IPCC . In 2010, under his leadership, the brochure Inconvenient Truths on Climate Policy and its Scientific Basis was published, which was certified by the environmental magazine Klimalgendetektor as "Errors, dubious sources, complete nonsense". He is co-editor of the self- published book Reality Check for Climate Protection - Global Climate Policy Between Claims and Reality . In 2012 he was co-organizer of an "alternative climate conference" of so-called "climate skeptics" in Dresden.

Krahmer is the editor of a trilogy on the history of Saxony, which was published by the Tauchaer Verlag. It comprises the volumes How Saxony became Saxony , How Saxony grew up and How Saxony became powerful . The Reformation period, which was closely linked to Saxony, the work of Martin Luther and his most important opponent, Cardinal Albrecht , is taken up in the fourth volume, which was published under the title Des Teufels Kardinal in 2014, also under his editorship.

family

Holger Krahmer has lived in a registered partnership with Patrick Passehr since July 13, 2012 .

Fonts

  • With Steffen Hentrich (Ed.): Reality check for climate protection. Global climate policy between aspiration and reality. H. Krahmer ( self-published ), Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-036040-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Where former EU politicians work now . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 31, 2017. Accessed April 12, 2018.
  2. ↑ lobbying. The EU needs stricter rules for changing politics . In: Wirtschaftswoche , January 31, 2017. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
  3. ↑ Rubbing against the status quo: Leipzig FDP elects Holger Krahmer as chairman , accessed on December 5, 2011
  4. ^ Lobbyists in the tobacco industry. Red like risk . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 7, 2013. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
  5. ↑ Shock therapy for smokers . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , October 8, 2013. Accessed April 12, 2018.
  6. ↑ Holger Krahmer, Benny Peiser , Arman Nyilas: Inconvenient truths about climate policy and its scientific basis. (PDF; 480 kB) via Krahmer's blog . (July 6, 2010)
  7. ↑ Holger Krahmer (FDP): Nonsense on climate change. ; Climate level detector . (December 7, 2010)
  8. ↑ http://www.holger-krahmer.de/blogeintrag-41/items/buchveroeffnahmung-realitaetscheck-fuer-den-klimaschutz.html
  9. ↑ Sebastian Erb: Saxony's FDP is climate skeptical. Bet against the "eco-hysteria" . In: Die Tageszeitung , June 29, 2012. Accessed June 30, 2014.
  10. ↑ Doreen Beilke: FDP politician marries gay clown . In: BILD.de, July 14, 2012. Accessed January 7, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Krahmer, Holger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig