Horst Reichenbach

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Horst Reichenbach (left) with EU Commissioner Avramopoulos

Horst Reichenbach (born March 5, 1945 in Kiel) is a German economist and longstanding EU civil servant . He was head of the European Commission's Task Force Greece .

Life

Reichenbach studied economics and mathematics at the University of Kiel , where he also received his doctorate in 1974. He also earned an MA in Economics from the University of Western Ontario in London (Ontario / Canada) .

Since 1975 he has worked for the European Commission, initially in the Directorates General for Economic and Financial Affairs, Regional Policy, Coordination of Structural Policy Instruments and Budget. From 1995 to 1997 he was Head of Cabinet of EU Commissioner Monika Wulf-Mathies , 1997 to 1999 Director General of the Directorate-General for Consumer and Health Protection; Here he made a name for himself in the BSE crisis by advocating consumer education. From 1999 he headed the General Directorate ADMIN (Personnel and Administration).

In 2005 Reichenbach went to London as Vice President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development .

Reichenbach is a member of the SPD and is married to the former MEP Dagmar Roth-Behrendt .

Head of the "Task Force Greece"

In September 2011 Reichenbach was appointed head of the “Task Force Greece” of the European Commission to Athens . The task force, a 30-strong crisis team, is supposed to help Greece , which has fallen into a profound economic crisis as a result of the financial crisis, to get back on its feet. Its work relates in particular to the implementation of the structural reforms prescribed by the “Troika” (European Commission, International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank) in Greece, such as improving tax collection, reforms of the administration and the health system, better use of electronic communications services in the public sector and the private sector. The task force should also provide advice in the case of better use of the billions of EU structural funds that Greece is entitled to but insufficiently called up . Another field of activity is the placement of potential investors in Greece, especially in the tourism, renewable energy sources and agribusiness sectors .

In parts of the Greek press, which initially met him with suspicion, Reichenbach was referred to as “ Gauleiter ” and “Governor Angela Merkel ”.

Works

  • Soil in a growing economy, Kiel 1975
  • A note on the stability properties of induced technical progress, Kiel 1975
  • Basic questions regarding the management, planning and organization of transshipment processes at access points to the network of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, 1985
  • Market services and European integration, Luxembourg 1993
  • Selected Problems of the European Financial Constitution, Saarbrücken 1992
  • Integration: Migration over European summits 1961–1998 . Baden-Baden 1999, ISBN 3-7890-6125-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curriculum vitae of Horst Reichenbach on the website of the European Commission. (PDF; 9 kB) Accessed June 25, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Michael Stabenow: Horst Reichenbach, the helper of Greece. FAZ, September 23, 2011, accessed on November 18, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Troika throws the ball into Greece's court ( Memento of the original dated November 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Athens News of October 3, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.athensnews.gr
  4. ↑ Klaus Hecking: Horst Reichenbach, the disaster relief worker of the EU. Financial Times Deutschland, July 20, 2011, archived from the original on August 1, 2012 ; Retrieved November 18, 2011 .
  5. ↑ a b Profile on the website of the government commission “Future of the Public Service - Public Service of the Future”. ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2013 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.regierungskommission.nrw.de
  6. ^ Horst Reichenbach: A German firefighter for Athens. cio.de, accessed on November 18, 2011 .
  7. ↑ Detlef Drewes: Horst Reichenbach, Brussels firefighter in Athens. (No longer available online.) Www.morgenweb.de, formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 18, 2011 .  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.morgenweb.de  

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personal data
SURNAME Reichenbach, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and EU diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel