Johannes Voecking

Johannes Vöcking (born April 16, 1949 in Ahaus ) is a former German politician and was Chairman of the Board of the Barmer Ersatzkasse until December 31, 2009 .

Life

Vöcking spent most of his school time at the Catholic boarding school Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck , where he also did his Abitur . He then studied law at the Universities of Bonn and Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1972 he laid the first, in 1977, the second state exam , and received his doctorate for Dr. iur.

Vöcking is a member of the CDU . In 1977 he joined the Federal Ministry for Labor and Social Affairs . In 1987 he was elected Vice President of the Federal Insurance Office in Berlin . Two years later, in 1989, he took over the management of the budget department, and later of the management staff in the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs in Bonn .

In 1991 Vöcking moved to the Federal Chancellery as head of the Administration and Law department . After just one year, he was appointed State Secretary in 1992 under Federal Interior Minister Rudolf Seiters . However, on June 18, 1993, he was dismissed from office and his political career came to an end. He admitted to having passed on a constitutional protection file to a journalist in 1992 . From this file should be emerged that it is in the vicinity of the former SPD - Chancellor candidate Björn Engholm a Polish spy was. The mass media at that time speculating whether Vöcking acted of his own accord or at the direction of a higher authority.

From January 1994 to December 1995, Vöcking was a member of the advisory group at Hunzinger PR GmbH (Frankfurt am Main), a subsidiary of Action Press Holding AG, which was managed by the entrepreneur Moritz Hunzinger until 2004. Hunzinger Information AG.

In January 1996 Vöcking became a member of the board of the Barmer Ersatzkasse. After Alfred Sigl , the previous deputy chairman, left his position in 2001 and held it until August 31, 2006. On September 1, 2006, he took over the office of outgoing chairman, Eckhart Fiedler .

Since the beginning of 2004 the board members of the health insurance companies have to disclose their salaries. In 2005 and 2006, Vöcking earned € 185,422.00 each.

Fonts

• The higher regional court control of pre-trial detention according to Paragraph 121 of the Code of Criminal Procedure , DCS Druck, 1977