Ingrid Matthäus-Maier

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Ingrid Matthäus-Maier, 2012

Ingrid Matthäus-Maier , b. Matthäus (born September 9, 1945 in Werlte ) is a lawyer , former German politician ( SPD , formerly FDP ) and the first woman to head a major German bank.

From 1979 to 1982 she was chairwoman of the finance committee of the German Bundestag and from 1988 to 1999 deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group. From 1999 she was a member and from 2006 to 2008 chairwoman of the board of the KfW banking group .

Study and job

Ingrid Matthäus-Maier, 1975

In his childhood, Matthäus-Maier lived in Mülheim an der Ruhr and rode his bike to Duisburg every school day. After graduating from high school in Duisburg in 1965 , she became a member of the German National Academic Foundation and studied law in Giessen and at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , which she completed with the first and second state exams . She then worked as an administrative judge in Münster until 1976 . Ingrid Matthäus-Maier was initially involved in the civil rights organization Humanist Union (HU). During her studies in Münster she was active in the student group at the HU (HSG Münster).

Political career

In 1969 she joined the Young Democrats and the FDP. In 1972 Ingrid Matthäus-Maier became federal chairwoman of the Young Democrats (she was the first female chairman of a German political youth association) and was a member of the federal executive committee of the FDP until her resignation in 1982 .

She was instrumental in the formulation of the FDP church paper “Free Church in the Free State”, which was adopted on October 1, 1974 at the 25th FDP federal party conference in Hamburg. It consisted of a preamble and 13 theses that provided for a new regulation of the relationship between state and church in the sense of a strict separation of the two from one another , including the abolition of the status of a corporation under public law for the churches and the replacement of church tax by a church's own Contribution system, replacement of all exclusive state services to the churches and the repeal of the existing state church treaties and concordats. This was the first time since the Federal Republic of Germany was founded that the established state church system was openly problematized by a party responsible for government .

Bundestag

Ingrid Matthäus-Maier was elected to the German Bundestag for the first time in the Bundestag election on October 3, 1976 ( 8th electoral term ). From November 1979 she was chairwoman of the finance committee. At that time a social-liberal coalition ruled under Helmut Schmidt (Chancellor since May 1974); At that time, the FDP policy was largely shaped by the FDP ministers in the Schmidt II cabinet ( Hans-Dietrich Genscher , Werner Maihofer , Gerhart Baum , Hans Friderichs and Otto Graf Lambsdorff ).

When the so-called turnaround came in the autumn of 1982 and the FDP changed the coalition from the SPD to the CDU / CSU , Ingrid Matthäus-Maier, who had advocated the preservation of the social-liberal coalition , left the FDP parliamentary group on November 9th and also resigned the chairmanship of the finance committee. On December 2, she joined the SPD and resigned from the Bundestag by resigning from her seat.

In the early general election of March 6, 1983, Matthäus-Maier entered the Bundestag again via the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia . From 1988 to 1999 she was the financial policy spokeswoman and one of the deputy chairmen of the SPD parliamentary group . In 1988 she became chairman of the "Transnuclear" investigative committee, making her the first woman to head a committee of inquiry. From 1995 to 1999 she was also a member of the SPD federal executive committee.

On July 1, 1999 - in the meantime a red-green coalition ruled under Gerhard Schröder - she resigned her Bundestag mandate and thus left the Bundestag.

Board member KfW

From 1999 to 2008 she was a member of the board of the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW). On December 9, 2005, she was elected spokeswoman for the board of the KfW banking group and took over the office on October 1, 2006 as the successor to Hans Reich . This made her the first woman to head a major German bank.

Triggered by the subprime crisis of 2007/2008 , KfW, as a major shareholder of IKB Bank, had to support it several times with payments amounting to billions after IKB had speculated on dubious real estate deals. Matthäus-Maier, who was never a member of the IKB Supervisory Board, was then criticized by politicians and journalists. On April 7, 2008, one year before the end of her contract, she resigned from her position as spokeswoman for the board at KfW, according to her own statements for health reasons.

Political positions

Fundamental rights and separation of politics and religion

Ingrid Matthäus-Maier speaks up regularly on questions of fundamental rights in connection with the separation of politics and religion. Most recently in 2019 in the anthology contribution “State Church or Rule of Law? What I expect from an ideologically and religiously neutral state: Twenty necessary corrections ”, in which they cover a wide range of topics from church labor law to state collection of church taxes , state benefits , religious instruction , information on abortions , state investigative measures in the event of child abuse to the criminalization of euthanasia presented.

She contributes her positions to public discussions, including 2019 on the subject of "Plural Society and State Neutrality" at the annual meeting of the German section of the Jurists Commission .

Religious proclamation on public broadcasting

As a member of the WDR Broadcasting Council, she criticizes the regulation in the State Broadcasting Treaty on the promotion of religious proclamation. The WDR annually produces and publishes over 1,700 announcements on radio and television. She disclosed that these programs in the WDR television division alone cost around 600,000 euros in 2017. Of this, 75,000 euros went to the 20 issues of Wort zum Sonntag that WDR produces.

Campaign "Against Religious Discrimination in the Workplace - GerDiA"

Since 2012 she has been the spokesperson for the campaign against religious discrimination in the workplace - GerDiA , with which the fundamental right to freedom of religion and belief and the European anti-discrimination provisions are to be given a breakthrough in all publicly funded social institutions. Regarding the approach of the campaign, she says: "It is not at all understandable why other provisions should apply to Caritas and Diakonie than to workers' welfare ". In 2019, she commented on the ECJ's “chief physician's judgment” as the beginning of the end of church labor law and proposed legal reforms to the federal and state governments.

euthanasia

At an early stage she turned against the criminalization of euthanasia in the form of Section 217 of the German Criminal Code introduced by the Bundestag in 2015 . With the motto “My end belongs to me” of the civil society campaign For the Right to Last Aid , she wrote an FAZ article and presented ten guiding principles of humanistic organizations in the house of the federal press conference. The law found them “not only unconstitutional, but also deeply inhuman”. In February 2020, the Federal Constitutional Court declared Section 217 of the Criminal Code to be unconstitutional and void.

Secular SPD working group

She has been a co-founder and supporter of a secular working group within the SPD since 2010, which, however, has not yet been recognized by the party executive.

family

Ingrid Matthäus-Maier is married to the mathematician Robert Maier, has two children and lives in the Sankt Augustin district of Birlinghoven . Her son Robert Maier , who works as a start-up entrepreneur, announced a candidacy for the SPD chairmanship on August 5, 2019 , but did not receive the necessary support for a nomination.

Awards

activities

Web links

Commons : Ingrid Matthäus-Maier  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Ingrid Matthäus-Maier in conversation with Ursula Welter: Ingrid Matthäus-Maier - "For me the MP is number one". Deutschlandfunk, April 26, 2018, accessed on May 24, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ Thesis paper available from gbs , pdf; accessed on January 5, 2019.
  3. ↑ Banking crisis: Billions hole at KfW - boss Matthäus-Maier resigns . In: Spiegel Online .
  4. ^ Ingrid Matthäus-Maier: State Church or Rule of Law? What I expect from an ideologically and religiously neutral state. Twenty corrections needed . In: Helmut Ortner (ed.): EXIT: Why we need less religion - a settlement . Nomen Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2019, ISBN 978-3-939816-61-4 , pp. 231 .
  5. ^ Helmut Ortner in conversation with Christiane Florin: Criticism of religion - "The state must be godless". Deutschlandfunk, July 31, 2019, accessed on May 24, 2020 (German).
  6. ↑ Annual Conference 2019. German Section of the International Commission of Jurists, 2019, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Are over 1,700 religious proclamations broadcasts on WDR still up to date? hpd.de, November 14, 2018, accessed on May 26, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Frank Patalong, DER SPIEGEL: Atheists: The godless challenge the church's moral monopoly - DER SPIEGEL - Panorama. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  9. ↑ About us - GerDiA. Retrieved on May 24, 2020 (German).
  10. ↑ "Chief Physician Judgment" of the ECJ: Churches' dismissal policy violates European law. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Ingrid Matthäus-Maier: About the long history of fundamental rights violations through church labor law - a plea for legal reforms . In: Jacqueline Neumann, Gerhard Czermak, Reinhard Merkel, Holm Putzke (eds.): Current developments in Weltanschauungsrecht . Writings on Weltanschauung, No. 1 . Baden-Baden 2019, ISBN 978-3-8487-5907-1 , pp. 313 ff .
  12. ↑ Euthanasia - My end is mine! Retrieved on May 24, 2020 (German).
  13. ↑ Ingrid Matthäus-Maier: Guest contribution: Ingrid Matthäus-Maier: My end belongs to me . In: FAZ.NET . 2014, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed May 24, 2020]).
  14. ↑ "Help for self-determined death must remain unpunished". 2014, accessed May 24, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Federal Constitutional Court - Press - Prohibition of commercial promotion of suicide unconstitutional. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Secular Social Democrats: Supporters. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Berliner-Zeitung: SPD top does not want to recognize new group - against the point of view of the atheists .
  18. ↑ Religious Policy of the SPD - No Heart for Secular Socis. Retrieved on May 24, 2020 (German).
  19. ↑ Martina Welt: Ex-MP keeps fit in clubs - Ingrid Matthäus-Maier feels at home in Birlinghoven. In: General-Anzeiger Bonn. May 26, 2018, accessed January 2, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Ulf Poschardt: SPD: Entrepreneur Robert Maier wants to run for party chairmanship . August 4, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed August 5, 2019]).
  21. ↑ Questions to Ingrid Matthäus-Maier - DER SPIEGEL 2/1989. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Feuerbach Prize | Covenant for freedom of the mind. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  23. ↑ Board of Trustees. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  24. ^ Members of the WDR Broadcasting Council. January 18, 2018, accessed May 24, 2020 .
  25. ↑ vemdb.de: Board of Directors .
  26. ↑ Matthäus-Maier, Ingrid. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  27. ^ Ingrid Matthäus-Maier | ifw - Institute for Weltanschauungsrecht. Accessed March 31, 2020 .
  28. ↑ gerdia.de: Ingrid Matthäus-Maier at Anne Will ( Memento from August 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
  29. ↑ Our structure. CARE Deutschland eV, accessed on March 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Matthäus-Maier, Ingrid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matthäus, Ingrid (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP / SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Werlte near Aschendorf