Ingeborg Berggreen-Merkel

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Ingeborg Berggreen-Merkel (* 1949 as Ingeborg Berggreen ) is a German administrative lawyer and was until 2013 Assistant Secretary in the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media .

Life

Administrative career

Ingeborg Berggreen-Merkel studied law and in 1971 at the University of Munich with a dissertation on the "dissenting opinion" in the administration: On the problem of public governmental decision processes for Dr. iur. PhD.

From 1972 to 2008 she worked in the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture . During this time, she and another colleague represented the German states on the Education Committee of the Council of the European Union in Brussels for six years . In 2008 she went to Berlin to work for the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, where she worked until April 2013, most recently as Head of Office and Deputy to the Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann . In this position, she was a member of numerous foundation boards and boards of trustees, such as the Berlin Wall Foundation and the Berlin Palace - Humboldt Forum Foundation ; at the House of History she was chairman of the board of trustees. Your successor is Günter Winands .

Berggreen-Merkel has been a member of the University Council of the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art since 2017 .

Head of the task force "Schwabing Art Finds"

In November 2013, the Bavarian State Government and the Federal Government announced that they would be setting up a task force in response to the public discussion on the “ Schwabinger Kunstfund ” , which Berggreen-Merkel would lead. Berggreen-Merkel was still familiar with what was happening from her earlier work, but, like the other two full-time employees and most of the members of the task force, had no knowledge of provenance research . Maurice Philip Remy , who has studied the biography of Cornelius Gurlitt , the owner of the confiscated works of art, concludes that the task force was more about a PR measure to limit damage than about damaged previous owners and their descendants. It was also a matter of distracting from the failures of state museums in checking the origin and refunding possible looted art.

After the 80-year-old Gurlitt was admitted to a hospital because of a serious illness, Berggreen-Merkel went to see him there on December 21, 2013 and gave him a long letter. In it she stated that she had "largely halted" the judicial supervision proceedings concerning Gurlitt . She described that the "art find" caused "indescribably great excitement" at home and abroad. Countless private individuals and organizations such as the Jewish Claims Conference have raised demands for the restitution of works of art and intend to cover Gurlitt with numerous lawsuits that are costly to him. His safety and that of his works of art are at risk. In this situation, which for him seemed hopeless, according to Remy, Gurlitt had the option presented by Berggreen-Merkel of transferring the works of art to “another hand” as a solution to all problems. At the beginning of January 2014, Gurlitt appointed the Kunstmuseum Bern as his sole heir; A few weeks earlier, Berggreen-Merkel had met the President of the Museum's Board of Trustees, Christoph Schäublin , in Berlin .

The task force was disbanded at the end of 2015. The result of their work, according to Remy, is “embarrassing”: Of the more than 1,200 works of art confiscated from Gurlitt, only five cases of looted art could be identified , four of which were known before the task force took action. Ten other works of art are suspected of being looted art.

Awards

Works

  • The “dissenting opinion” in the administration: On the public issue of state decision-making processes. Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-02597-0
  • The legal aspects of cultural policy under the Maastricht Treaty. Europa-Institut, Law Section, Saarbrücken, 1995
  • European Union. Bavarian Administration School, Munich 2007 (new editions 2008 and 2011)

literature

  • Maurice Philipp Remy: The Gurlitt Case. Europa-Verlag, Berlin etc. 2017, ISBN 978-3-95890-185-8 , pp. 462-563.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz HU Borkenhagen (Hrsg.): The German countries in Europe: political union and economic and monetary union. Nomos 1992 ISBN 9783789026485 , p. 259
  2. ↑ Office for provenance research / research
  3. ↑ Maurice Philipp Remy: The Gurlitt case. Europa-Verlag, Berlin etc. 2017 ISBN 978-3-95890-185-8 , pp. 475–476, 509–510, 562.
  4. ↑ Maurice Philipp Remy: The Gurlitt case. Europa-Verlag, Berlin etc. 2017, ISBN 978-3-95890-185-8 , pp. 529-533.
  5. ↑ Maurice Philipp Remy: The Gurlitt case. Europa-Verlag, Berlin etc. 2017, ISBN 978-3-95890-185-8 , pp. 521, 537-539.
  6. ↑ Maurice Philipp Remy: The Gurlitt case. Europa-Verlag, Berlin etc. 2017, ISBN 978-3-95890-185-8 , pp. 558-563.
  7. ↑ Max Herrmann Prize to Ingeborg Berggreen-Merkel , Börsenblatt dated May 13, 2013 (accessed on November 12, 2013).
personal data
SURNAME Berggreen-Merkel, Ingeborg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berggreen, Ingeborg (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and ministerial director at the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media a. D.
DATE OF BIRTH 1949