Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg

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Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (2017)

Karl-Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Joseph Sylvester Buhl-Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg (born  December 5,  1971 in Munich ) is a former German politician ( CSU ) and today's management consultant . In 2009 he was Federal Minister of Economics and Technology , then Federal Minister of Defense until 2011 . After the University of Bayreuth Guttenberg had revoked his doctorate in February 2011 in the course of the plagiarism affair surrounding his dissertation , which also includes criminal copyright infringements, he resigned from all political offices at the beginning of March 2011.

Origin and family

Stephanie and Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg at the Quadriga award ceremony (2010)

Karl-Theodor Buhl- Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg comes from the very wealthy Franconian noble family Guttenberg . His parents are the conductor Enoch Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg and his wife at the time Christiane, née Countess von und zu Eltz . The parents divorced in 1977. Guttenberg and his younger brother Philipp Franz then grew up with their father. Her mother married Adolf Henkell-von Ribbentrop in 1985 and her father married the conductor Ljubka Biagioni in 1997 . Guttenberg has four half-siblings from his parents' second marriages. The grandfather Karl Theodor Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg was also a CSU politician and from 1967 to 1969 Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Chancellery .

Guttenberg has been married to Stephanie zu Guttenberg , née Countess von Bismarck-Schönhausen , since 2000 . The couple have two daughters (born in 2001 and 2002). He is of the Roman Catholic denomination .

The family has residences in Berlin's Westend , Guttenberg and Greenwich (Connecticut) . Guttenberg has also owned an estate in Hasbergen near Osnabrück in Lower Saxony since 2019 .

School education and study

After graduating from the Ignaz-Günther-Gymnasium in Rosenheim in June 1991, Guttenberg started his military service in the mountain hunter battalion 233 in Mittenwald . At the end of his service, he was dismissed as a reserve officer and, after a later military exercise, was promoted to reserve staff officer.

Guttenberg studied law at the University of Bayreuth from 1992 to 1999 . In 1993 he began studying political science at the Munich School of Politics . He completed his law studies in 1999 with the First State Examination with the grade “Satisfactory” (6.8 points). During his studies, he completed several weeks of internships at the Peltzer & Riesenkampff law firm in Frankfurt am Main and at the Mayer, Brown and Platt law firm in New York .

Guttenberg then began a dissertation with Peter Häberle . He wrote a dissertation entitled Constitution and Constitutional Treaty . Constitutional stages of development in the USA and the EU . Rudolf Streinz was the second reviewer. The dissertation was accepted in 2006 by the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Bayreuth. Guttenberg passed the oral doctoral examination on February 27, 2007 and received the overall grade summa cum laude . Upon request, he was allowed to hold the degree of Doctor of Law provisionally from May 7, 2007 , and unlimited from January 28, 2009 after submitting the deposit copies . After allegations of plagiarism in connection with the dissertation were raised against Guttenberg in February 2011, Guttenberg asked the University of Bayreuth on February 21, 2011 to “withdraw the doctorate”. After another test of its own, the university withdrew the doctoral degree on February 23, 2011.

In 2019 Guttenberg completed a Ph.D. at the University of Southampton. -Study of economic history with a 467-page dissertation on the importance of correspondent banking . His doctoral supervisor is the economist Richard A. Werner .

Professional activities before entering politics

Guttenberg worked in the Guttenberg forest administration from 1994, initially alongside his studies, and until November 2003 was managing partner of Guttenberg GmbH in Munich , which managed the family assets. After his appointment as Federal Minister Guttenberg referred to the experiences made there. In view of the low annual turnover and few employees - Creditreform stated a turnover of 25,000 euros for the year 2000 with three employees - the television magazine Panorama spoke of an “exaggeration”. The Guttenberg GmbH dismissed as holding a registered capital of 1 million euros and an equity to approximately 75,000 euros. It managed assets of over a quarter of a billion euros, including a 26.5 percent stake in Rhön-Klinikum AG, which was sold to Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank in March 2002 for 260 million euros . From 1996 to 2002 Guttenberg was a member of the Rhön-Klinikum AG supervisory board.
Until September 2004 Guttenberg was also managing director of KT-Kapitalverwaltung GbR in Munich.

Guttenberg was accused of exaggerating the information in his own résumé. This resulted in the formulations “freelance journalist for the daily newspaper Die Welt ” and “professional stations in Frankfurt and New York”. The Axel Springer Group , the publishing house of the world , was quoted as saying that Guttenberg had been an intern in the editorial office. The “professional stations in Frankfurt and New York” were internships lasting several weeks as a student.

Political career

Guttenberg at the CDU party conference in Stuttgart (2008)

Guttenberg is a member of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU). Until December 2008 he was chairman of the CSU association in his hometown Guttenberg . He was also a member of the board of the CSU district association Kulmbach . On December 8, 2007 Guttenberg was elected as successor to Werner Schnappaufs chairman of the CSU district association of Upper Franconia . Guttenberg resigned from this office on March 19, 2011. Hans-Peter Friedrich was elected his successor in July 2011. Guttenberg sat on both the presidium and the executive committee of his party and was head of the foreign policy specialist committee in the foreign and security policy working group .

In addition, Guttenberg has been a member of the German Society for Foreign Policy , the Atlantik-Brücke and the Aspen Institute since 2002 . From 2005 he was Vice President of the Southeast Europe Society and a member of the German-British parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, which he chaired from mid-2005 to March 2009. Guttenberg was also a member of the Junge Union until 2009 . He was also a member of the Europa-Union parliamentary group of the German Bundestag .

From 2003 to 2005 Guttenberg was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Parliamentary Assembly of the WEU .

At the same time as his resignation as defense minister because of the plagiarism affair surrounding his dissertation, Guttenberg resigned from all other political offices on March 1, 2011. In May 2011 Guttenberg was elected by the CSU district association Kulmbach as a delegate for the district and state party congresses.

Kulmbach District Assembly (2002–2011)

Guttenberg was elected to the district council of the district of Kulmbach in 2002 and re-elected in 2008 for the electoral period that ran until 2014. During this electoral period, after his appointment as minister, he only performed the mandate sporadically, which other district councils criticized. In April 2011 he also resigned from this mandate.

German Bundestag (2002-2011)

Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (2006)

From 2002 Guttenberg was a directly elected member of the German Bundestag , in which he was chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the Foreign Affairs Committee and spokesman for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group for disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control from 2005 to November 2008 .

At the beginning of 2004 Guttenberg put the concept of the privileged partnership for political discussion in connection with the question of Turkey's accession to the EU . This has since determined the position of the CDU / CSU on the question of Turkey.

Guttenberg named Turkey's insufficient implementation of European criteria as the reasons for his negative attitude towards joining the EU. B. in the Cyprus question , as well as the threat of excessive demands on the EU . At the same time, he always emphasized the need for good relations with Turkey and criticized a French legislative proposal in this regard , which should criminalize the denial of the genocide of the Armenians .

In connection with Iran's plans for nuclear and missile armament, Guttenberg repeatedly warned of the impending risks for Germany and Europe. However, he rejected hasty military measures against Iran and instead called for unified international action at the political level.

Guttenberg also regularly published statements on various foreign policy issues.

Guttenberg was always elected to the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Kulmbach constituency . In the 2005 Bundestag election , he had received 60 percent of the first votes . On September 27, 2009, he was elected to the Bundestag in the Kulmbach electoral district with the best nationwide first vote result (68.1 percent). In connection with the withdrawal from his political offices, he also resigned from the Bundestag.

General Secretary of the CSU (2008-2009)

On October 30, 2008 Guttenberg was appointed CSU general secretary by the CSU party chairman Horst Seehofer . Shortly before, Seehofer had succeeded Erwin Huber as party chairman and Günther Beckstein as Bavarian Prime Minister , who had resigned their offices after the poor performance of the CSU in the Bavarian state elections in September 2008 .

During his tenure, Guttenberg campaigned for tax cuts and measures to relieve families. In November 2008, as a reaction to the state election results, he announced intra-party reforms with the aim of integrating the party base more closely in decision-making processes . Only one month later, Guttenberg pushed through the nomination of Monika Hohlmeier, who came from Upper Bavaria, as the Upper Franconian CSU candidate for the 2009 European elections in the CSU district association of Upper Franconia , which caused considerable irritation among the party base there. When Guttenberg took over his ministerial office on February 9, 2009, he left the office of CSU General Secretary.

Federal Minister for Economics and Technology (2009)

Following Michael Glos' resignation as Federal Minister of Economics and Technology, Guttenberg was appointed his successor in the Merkel I cabinet on February 9, 2009 and was sworn in before the German Bundestag on February 12 . When Guttenberg took office, at 37 years of age, he was the youngest Minister of Economics in the Federal Republic of Germany to date. In an interview on his inauguration in February 2009, Guttenberg characterized the markets as "proven efficient" and "part of our society". He warned against an expansion of the role of the state in the wake of the financial crisis . For distributive justice questioned Guttenberg pointed to a "misalignment" in the debate. The word justice enjoys “great popularity”, but is understood by many only in the sense of “ redistributive justice ” . Guttenberg called for a return to “fair start opportunities and performance ”. To minimum wages Guttenberg expressed skepticism. For the future he announced tax cuts.

Guttenberg took up his post as Minister of Economic Affairs during the international financial and economic crisis . For the automobile manufacturer Adam Opel AG , he said he would, together with its parent company General Motors to financial investors looking for. The negotiations with General Motors on the question of the future of the subsidiary Opel lasted until the end of May 2009 and ended with no results. Guttenberg positioned himself as the “ regulatory conscience of the nation”. In May 2009 Guttenberg favored - contrary to the other ministers and Chancellor Merkel - insolvency proceedings for Adam Opel AG and, according to newspaper reports, threatened to resign. At the crisis summit to rescue Opel, ministers with a different opinion prevailed, advocating the sale of Opel to the Austrian-Canadian investor Magna .

When the sale of Opel to Magna failed in November 2009, Guttenberg's previous rejection appeared to many observers to be the right decision.

Guttenberg also rejected state guarantees for the Quelle / Arcandor company, which had got into an existential crisis, and described insolvency as the better solution.

In contrast, the Bavarian Prime Minister Seehofer called for the company to be saved; this led to a heated controversy between the two politicians. Guttenberg repeatedly stressed that taxpayers should not be used for drastic mismanagement of companies. Guttenberg affirmed state support payments for the ailing German banking group Hypo Real Estate (HRE), among others . However , he rejected the Financial Market Stabilization Amendment Act (unsuccessfully), arguing that it would allow the state to control the company in return for the rescue payments and limit the influence of the HRE management.

Guttenberg's trip to the USA to the Opel negotiations first attracted a lot of media attention. He was widely praised in the media (see also section: Public Perception ). In a portrait in Stern magazine, for example, Guttenberg was described as an authentic, edgy plaintext writer alongside Guido Westerwelle . Ulf Poschardt wrote for Die Welt that Guttenberg amazed everyone with “hard work and comprehension”, that he was “a nobleman with a doctorate with an equally noble, attractive woman” and that he had a profile and authenticity. One of the few critical voices was the automotive expert Ferdinand Dudenhöffer , who accused Guttenberg in March 2009, among other things, of his trip to the USA to the Opel negotiation being pure "political marketing" because he had no intention of getting Opel.

In August 2009 - towards the end of the grand coalition from 2005 to 2009 and during the election campaign - the SPD-led Ministry of Justice criticized the draft law submitted by the Ministry of Economic Affairs for the compulsory administration of ailing banks (also because it anticipated its own draft). Guttenberg came under strong criticism because the commercial law firm Linklaters , which maintains close business relationships with major international banks , was commissioned to work out the draft . The extensive adoption of the Linklaters draft in the legislative process sparked a broad debate about the extent of lobbying in legislation .

Federal Minister of Defense (2009-2011)

Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg during a troop visit to Camp Marmal near Mazar-e Sharif (December 2009)

On October 28, 2009 Guttenberg was appointed Federal Minister of Defense . He was the youngest defense minister in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Afghanistan

As a Member of Parliament in 2007, Guttenberg and Hans-Ulrich Klose spoke out in favor of expanding the ISAF mandate and deploying German soldiers in southern Afghanistan.

With the office he also took on the task of clearing up the processes surrounding the air attack near Kunduz on September 3rd and 4th, 2009, which had taken place during the term of office of his predecessor Franz Josef Jung . Guttenberg initially defended the Bundeswehr , like Jung before, against allegations that the attack was unjustified, but, unlike his predecessor, admitted the death of civilians at the same time. Nevertheless, he described the deployment on November 6, 2009 as "militarily appropriate". On December 3, 2009, however, Guttenberg revised his statement after he had previously dismissed Inspector General Wolfgang Schneiderhan and State Secretary Peter Wichert due to withheld information.

An investigative committee was formed on the basis of allegations by the opposition parties about the previous flow of information about the incident near Kunduz . Guttenberg stated that he had agreed on a specific wording by telephone with Wolfgang Schneiderhan prior to his first statement on the air strike near Kunduz. In this statement Guttenberg described the bombing not only as militarily appropriate, but also as inevitable. Schneiderhan, on the other hand, testified that he had by no means recommended Guttenberg to portray the air strike as inevitable. Also contradicting were representations of a conversation that had led to the dismissal of Wichert and Schneiderhans. In its final report, the committee of inquiry approved Guttenberg's approach. The opposition parties submitted minority votes.

In March 2010 Guttenberg broke a taboo on the subject of the Afghanistan mission: He admitted that one could "speak of war" in Afghanistan in colloquial terms. He started a discussion. At the same time, this international law classification of the deployment as a non-international armed conflict ensured more legal security for the soldiers deployed.

During his tenure, Guttenberg arranged to improve the security situation in Afghanistan by increasing the number of German troops and relocating heavy weapons to the war zone. In addition, he pushed for improvements in the training of the Bundeswehr soldiers deployed.

During his tenure, Guttenberg traveled a total of nine times to Afghanistan and visited the Bundeswehr units stationed there. He also met soldiers directly at the front several times.

Security policy

At the Berlin Security Conference in November 2010, Guttenberg, like the former Federal President Horst Köhler , called for Germany's economic interests to be secured militarily. According to this, the “connection between regional security and German economic interests must be addressed openly and without deadlock”. The SPD and the Greens reacted with sharp criticism: “The Basic Law does not allow economic wars.” Guttenberg reiterated his statement during a guest speech at the CDU party congress on November 15, 2010; he protested against allegations made by the opposition that he was planning to wage economic wars .

Frank-Jürgen Weise presents the report to the structural committee (2010)

Bundeswehr reform

At the beginning of 2010 Guttenberg commissioned a deficit analysis to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the current Bundeswehr situation. On April 12th he set up the Bundeswehr Structural Commission , whose chairmanship was taken over by the head of the Federal Employment Agency , Frank-Jürgen Weise . Their recommendations were intended to prepare a comprehensive restructuring of the Bundeswehr, with the aim of adapting Germany's defense resources to current and future security policy challenges.

On August 23, 2010 Guttenberg presented the government coalition with five different models for the future structure of the armed forces. All models specified a troop strength of 150,000 to 180,000 regular and professional soldiers. Some models recommended the suspension of compulsory military service , while others assumed 25,000 basic military service and 25,000 additional voluntary military service. There were also variants with 30,000 basic military service or generally voluntary military service.

On September 1, 2010, Guttenberg briefed the defense committees of the Bundestag and Bundesrat on the current status of the results of the structural commission. The interim report of the inspector general showed that the Bundeswehr should be smaller. 163,500 soldiers, consisting of 156,000 professional and temporary soldiers plus at least 7,500 to 23 months of voluntary military service was described as the “absolute minimum”. The suspension of compulsory military service was also recommended. In the Basic Law , however, conscription should continue to exist.

On October 26, 2010 the final report of the structural commission was handed over to Guttenberg. The results provided for a suspension of drafting and drafting because an obligation to do basic military service was no longer considered necessary for security purposes. The 7,000 soldiers who took part in active missions at the time were to be more than doubled to 18,000. The Bundeswehr was to be reduced to around 180,000 soldiers and around 50,000 posts for civilian employees. It was also recommended that the Ministry of Defense be relocated completely from Bonn to Berlin and that the number of posts be halved.

Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg at the Munich Security Conference (February 2011)

At Guttenberg's initiative, the CSU board of directors made an application to suspend conscription and was accepted by a majority at the CSU party congress on October 29, 2010. A majority of the CDU party congress also agreed to this on November 15, 2010, after Guttenberg had previously campaigned for his Bundeswehr reform in a speech to the delegates.

The Ministry's specific plans for the reform of the armed forces were criticized in some cases as inadequate. Guttenberg's successor Thomas de Maizière spoke of “untenable conditions” in the ministry and criticized “outdated structures and inadequate planning work”. This was interpreted by some media as criticism of Guttenberg, which was denied by de Maizière. Rather, De Maizière had again named the persistent structural deficiencies that prompted the reform initiated by Guttenberg. The further planning of the structure and scope of the armed forces was based closely on Guttenberg's specifications. In an interview, de Maizière confirmed that he had built on much of Guttenberg's preliminary work. Former Defense Minister Volker Rühe (CDU) spoke in an interview in 2019 about the “destruction of the Bundeswehr” by zu Guttenberg. Guttenberg have “voluntarily saved eight billion. And mindlessly abolished compulsory military service without a concept of how to get people on the free labor market. "

Ghent Initiative

On September 23 and 24, 2010, the EU defense ministers met in Ghent , Belgium , to discuss the expansion of military cooperation in the face of falling defense budgets.

During this meeting, Guttenberg presented his colleagues with a 3-step model for intensifying cooperation on armaments and defense tasks within the European Union . In the case of military capacities, this differentiates between capabilities that must be available nationally, capabilities in which European cooperation enables savings, and capabilities that only a few member states need to have in order to be able to share them with the partners if necessary. The model became the basis of the German- Swedish pooling and sharing initiative for EU armaments projects and defense planning .

The Ghent Initiative was widely accepted within the EU and has been determining the planning requirements ever since.

Plagiarism affair (2011)

The subject of the plagiarism affair was the allegation of numerous plagiarisms in Guttenberg's dissertation with the title Constitution and Constitutional Treaty submitted to the University of Bayreuth . On the basis of this work, he was awarded the academic doctoral degree in 2007.

As of February 16, 2011, the first allegations became public that Guttenberg had taken several passages in his dissertation almost word for word, without marking them as quotations and without giving sources, from other publications. Guttenberg initially rejected the allegations as "absurd": the dissertation was his "own achievement". Numerous other sources of plagiarism in the dissertation, mostly identified by the GuttenPlag Wiki , led Guttenberg to declare that he would initially refrain from using the doctoral degree "temporarily" and then permanently two days later. He admitted serious errors in the work, but dismissed the charge of willful deception. The law and economics faculty of the University of Bayreuth finally recognized Guttenberg's doctorate on February 23, 2011 . Guttenberg still vehemently ruled out resigning as Minister of Defense. He was supported by Chancellor Angela Merkel as well as by the CSU party chairman Horst Seehofer as well as by the majority of the governing coalition.

In the following days, the fierce criticism persisted in large parts of the public, and the protest in science against the trivialization of the plagiarism allegation found considerable response in the press. Several legal scholars consider it impossible to unintentionally take over substantial parts and longer passages of a dissertation from foreign texts. Some prominent politicians of the CDU / CSU, among them the Bundestag President Norbert Lammert , criticized Guttenberg. On March 1, 2011, he finally announced his resignation from all political offices. On March 3, 2011, he was then dismissed as Minister of Defense. He also gave up his mandate as a member of the Bundestag .

An investigative commission set up by the University of Bayreuth came to the conclusion after a three-month examination that Guttenberg had “evidently grossly violated the standards of good scientific practice and deliberately misled them”. He added plagiarism throughout the work, reformulated the original texts, rearranged the sentence structure, used synonyms and left out details. This presupposes a conscious approach, with which he authorship arrogated have.

On the allegations of plagiarism based criminal charges led to an investigation of the prosecution in court . The main subject was possible violations of copyright . On November 23, 2011, the public prosecutor's office in Hof announced that criminally relevant copyright infringements had been found in 23 text passages and that they had discontinued the preliminary investigation in accordance with Section 153a of the Code of Criminal Procedure against payment of a requirement of 20,000 euros to a charitable organization . Among other things, she said: “In the present case, the economic damage suffered by the injured author ... is only marginal. Nor did the accused himself gain any economic advantages from his doctoral thesis. Therefore, the court and prosecution have come to the conclusion that a payment of € 20,000 to a non-profit organization removes the public interest in prosecution. ”In July 2011, it was announced that Guttenberg would be on a“ political sabbatical ”with his family in Greenwich (Connecticut ) will move to the USA .

Interview and book publication

On November 24, 2011, the weekly newspaper Die Zeit published the first interview with Guttenberg after his resignation. This was an excerpt from the book that initially failed: Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg in conversation with Giovanni di Lorenzo (editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit ), the reproduction of a long interview that di Lorenzo had with Guttenberg in a London hotel in mid-October 2011 Had led. The book was published on November 29, 2011 by Verlag Herder with an initial print run of 80,000 copies. One day before the interview was published, the Hof public prosecutor announced that it had terminated the proceedings. In the media it was reported that Guttenberg had deliberately chosen this point in time by paying the premium.

These activities have been interpreted by many media outlets as part of an attempt to make a comeback . Several daily newspapers and the heute-journal (ZDF) criticized Guttenberg's lack of remorse and his new self-staged presence. Guttenberg denied in the ZEIT interview that the CSU still had people 's party status. Some conservatives expressed a lack of understanding for this; Horst Seehofer (Bavarian Prime Minister and CSU Chairman) said: "It is not a good style when everything and everyone is reduced in order to be increased."

Guttenberg also accused the University of Bayreuth of partiality and stated that he was not prepared to allow himself to be accused of "legally relevant deliberate deception by a commission that was not even made up of a majority of lawyers," and also accused the university financial motives behind her allegation that he deliberately deceived. The Bavarian Science Minister Wolfgang Heubisch rejected these allegations and attested that the university had “carefully and independently examined”. Bayreuth law professor Oliver Lepsius explained Guttenberg's point of view: “From a legal point of view, this is absurd. He only escapes punishment because copyright law is based on financial loss. I find it unreasonable to rest on it now. We know: Not everything that is indecent is punishable. ”The University of Bayreuth rejected the allegations with a statement, referred to the - also legal - expertise of the members of the examination committee and the external consultants consulted, the correct legal competence of the body and that zu Guttenberg agreed to the publication of the audit report.

Center for Strategic and International Studies (since 2011)

On September 29, 2011 it was announced that Guttenberg at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a think tank in Washington, DC , was doing an unspecified unpaid job as a “ Distinguished Statesman ” (German: “respected statesman”) “at the Head of a new transatlantic dialogue forum ”.

In November 2011 Guttenberg took part in the Halifax International Security Forum . In the context of a debate on the financial crisis, he expressed himself pessimistically about developments in Europe and spoke in this context of a "crisis of political leadership" within the EU.

After a planned merger between EADS and BAE Systems failed in October 2012 due to resistance from Germany, Guttenberg clearly criticized the German government's approach. In a comment for the Financial Times , he pointed to the political and economic benefits that a merger would have made possible. Guttenberg described the failure of the merger as a "missed historic opportunity".

A few days later he publicly repeated this criticism at a conference of the CSIS. Guttenberg spoke here on the future of transatlantic relations and complained about a creeping alienation between the Western partners, which was accompanied on both sides of the Atlantic by an insufficient awareness of the problem: while the USA was suppressing climate change, the demographic time bomb of the continent was being ignored on the European side. Neither the USA nor the EU currently have viable answers to these or other pressing problems. In connection with the military operation in Afghanistan, Guttenberg emphasized that the war could not be won and that NATO, for its part, would rather worsen the security situation there by naming specific withdrawal dates. In the course of the conference, Guttenberg clearly rejected previous speculations about a prompt return to German politics.

Guttenberg at the 51st Munich Security Conference 2015

Against the background of a possible military escalation of the international dispute over the Iranian nuclear program , Guttenberg initiated a public debate in Germany on the consequences of an Israeli military attack on Iran in a guest article for the Wall Street Journal in early April 2013 . Guttenberg referred to Chancellor Merkel's declaration on the security of Israel as “part of the German raison d'etre” and demanded a “powerful signal of solidarity” from the German government, consisting of civilian and military support. In view of demographic shifts and counterproductive settlement proposals by Israel, he warned of dwindling support among the German population.

After the German government ruled out Germany's involvement in a possible military strike against Syria in August 2013, Guttenberg described this in a guest article for the New York Times as an expression of a “culture of reluctance” in German foreign policy. He named the upcoming federal election as the real reason for the rejection and drew parallels with Germany's abstention from the Libya vote in the UN Security Council in the run-up to the state elections in Baden-Württemberg in 2011 . Guttenberg criticized the attitude of German politicians to want to compensate for weaknesses in foreign policy with economic strength and called for an end to checkbook diplomacy so that Germany could meet its international responsibilities.

EU Commission Advisor (since 2011)

Guttenberg has been working as a consultant since December 2011 as part of the EU Commission's “No disconnect” strategy . He takes on the foreign policy coordination of the initiative with participating EU and third countries as well as non-governmental organizations . This was criticized by network activists, as Guttenberg had previously advocated Internet blocking and data retention . The human rights organization Human Rights Watch was generally positive about Kroes' initiative, but was "amazed" at the selection of personnel. Guttenberg, however, spoke out against a return to German politics in 2015. In January 2017 Guttenberg announced that he wanted to get involved again in the CSU.

Other activities

Guttenberg founded Spitzberg Partners , an investment and consulting firm in New York in 2013 , in which he lobbies for the CETA trade agreement planned between Europe and Canada in an alliance called Atlantic Advisory Partners .

He has also been a consultant at Ripple Labs since July 2014 . Since 2000 he has been involved in the Rotary Club Kulmbach.

He has been advising Deutsche Lufthansa on innovation issues since 2015 .

In October 2015, the CSU chairman Horst Seehofer Guttenberg appointed to his competence team for the election campaign.

In March 2019 Guttenberg became a shareholder in New York-based technology company Augustus Intelligence ; two months later he was on the company's board of directors and headed the board's general affairs department . In February 2020, he fired two senior Augustus employees from his New York office, who then sued the company in a New York court, accusing him of dubious business practices and obfuscation activities. The AI company led by the 33-year-old German Wolfgang Haupt , which was looking for proximity to German politicians such as the former head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Hans-Georg Maaßen and the CDU politician Philipp Amthor , and which was known in Germany in early summer 2020 is located in the One World Trade Center on the same floor as Guttenberg's own consulting and investment firm Spitzberg Partners .

On July 15, 2020 it was announced that Spitzberg Partners 2019 had supported the payment service provider Wirecard , which filed for bankruptcy in 2020, in entering the China business. At the same time, Guttenberg's company was lobbying the federal government for Wirecard.

public perception

According to a scientific study of the media representation of Guttenberg in the most important German print media, the minister received noticeably frequent and benevolent reports from November 2008 to April 2010. Accordingly, there was an article about the minister in every second issue of the Spiegel and the Süddeutsche Zeitung , another in 40 percent of the Focus and Zeit issues and in a third of the issues of the FAZ In particular, the Bild newspaper and the news magazine Focus predominantly rated Guttenberg positive, the latter in nine out of ten articles.

Guttenberg rose within a short time to one of the most popular politicians in Germany. In a survey by Stern magazine from June 2009, Guttenberg came third among the most popular politicians. 61 percent of those surveyed said they were satisfied with their work. According to Stern, this was the best value ever measured for an economics minister in Germany.

Nonetheless, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung criticized the “ court reporting ” of some media elsewhere , including Spiegel Online and Bild . If you take a closer look, "then it is noticeable that Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg is praised for taking things for granted". The tabloid Bild was also accused of engaging in “star cult” through its reporting on the Guttenberg couple and of wanting to make the minister a future chancellor. The time summed up that for Guttenberg in the “gap between public admiration and political balance sheet” the danger lies: “How is he supposed to match the projections with his real possibilities?” So far he has tried “with demonstrative support of the boulevard” "To cover up the difference between appearance and reality through staging and image building". To the unreal hopes that were attached to his person, "he answers with self-styling".

In the course of 2010 Guttenberg was even traded as Merkel's potential successor as Chancellor.

Guttenberg was calm about this assessment: on October 16, 2010, Spiegel magazine published an interview with Guttenberg, in which he expressed doubts as to whether he would stay in politics for a long time. He said: “I went into politics from the beginning with the full awareness that I could quit at any time.” He is not afraid of the possibility of a sudden end to his political career. “In every decision there is the possibility of a break in life. That’s the way it is. ”He says he has no“ desire to cling ”to what he has, on the contrary,“ the desire to build other bridges ”has increased lately.

In the plagiarism affair at the end of February 2011, he was referred to in various newspapers with allusions to Baron Münchhausen as a " baron of lies ". He was also criticized by the media, which were considered to be more liberal-conservative, whereby it was less about the plagiarism allegations than about his public handling of them. The Financial Times Deutschland published a comment that criticized the minister's unconvincing statements as “lies” and “mockery of the electorate”. As early as 2009, media reports speculated that Guttenberg tried to unduly upgrade his résumé. These allegations were renewed in the course of the plagiarism affair.

After several surveys at the time of his plagiarism affair, Guttenberg was still named as the most popular politician in Germany, but a loss of confidence was noted. The publicist Pascal Beucker deduced from the various comments on the plagiarism affair by various media, especially the FAZ and Bild , and his continuing popularity that non-academics and academics or the educated middle class have different points of view: Guttenberg feels that Guttenberg's “lapidary approach to the doctorate is Slap in the face ”, he is therefore pursuing a“ highly dangerous, populist strategy ”. According to an initial survey by infratest dimap on the day of the resignation, 53 percent of those questioned believed this to be correct. Ten days after his resignation, Guttenberg was still at the top of the most popular German politicians with 73 percent, according to ARD-Deutschlandtrend, ahead of Federal President Wulff with 66 percent.

In March 2013, the satirical television film Der Minister was released , the protagonist of which Franz Ferdinand von und zu Donnersberg was inspired by Guttenberg and which describes his political career partly fictionally, but mostly realistically.

Awards

In November 2009 Guttenberg was named “Politician of the Year” at the Political Award 2009 organized by the public relations magazine Politik & Kommunikation . The jury's reasoning stated, among other things: "No other politician this year has understood as well as Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg how to bring politics closer to the citizens through clear and open communication and at the same time make it more credible."

In March 2010, after a vote among its readers , the magazine Deutsche Sprachwelt named the Defense Minister at the time as “Sprachwahrer des Jahres 2009”. In particular, his commitment to “honest handling” of the German language and “clear, understandable and straightforward language” was recognized, as was his oratorical talent.

In December 2010, the politics editors of the weekly magazine FOCUS named him “Man of the Year 2010”. Other awards were “Best Dressed German Politician” from Men's Health Best Fashion magazine and the trade journal Textilwirtschaft , “ Best Dressed German” from GQ magazine , “ Grünkohlkönig 2010” from the city of Oldenburg , “Golden Potato” from the city of Rehau .

On February 19, 2011 Guttenberg received the order against the seriousness of the Aachen Carnival Association . The reasoning stated that Guttenberg had "the courage to contradict and to acrobatic lateral thinking". The award was announced on November 11, 2010; As usual, the medal was awarded shortly before Carnival. At that time, the public debate about the plagiarism affair had begun. Philipp Franz zu Guttenberg accepted the award in the absence of his brother.

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Guttenberg, Karl-Theodor too
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guttenberg, Karl-Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Joseph Sylvester Freiherr von und zu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CSU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH 5th December 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich