Karlheinz Weimar
Karlheinz Weimar (born January 30, 1950 in Hünstelden-Kirberg ) is a Hessian politician ( CDU ). From 1987 to 1991 and from 1999 to 2010 he was a member of the Hessian state government as environment and finance minister .
Professional career
Karlheinz Weimar completed his Abitur at the Tilemannschule in Limburg an der Lahn in 1968. From 1968 he studied law at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen until 1975 and completed his legal clerkship at the Regional Court of Limburg from 1975 to 1977 . From 1978 to 1987 he practiced as a lawyer in a Limburg law firm. From 1991 to 1999 he worked as a notary .
Political career
In 1972 Weimar joined the Christian Democratic Union and the Young Union (JU). He belonged to the JU until 1985 and was its district chairman from 1972 to 1975. Between 1972 and 1974 he was a member of the local advisory board in the Limburg district of Staffel . In 1974 he became a member of the district board of the CDU Limburg-Weilburg and a district councilor . From 1973 to 1981 he sat on the state board of the Junge Union Hessen. Between 1988 and 2000 he was CDU district chairman and between 1991 and 1999 deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group and its financial policy spokesman.
From 1978 to 2014 Weimar was a member of the Hessian state parliament for constituency 22 ( Limburg-Weilburg II ).
Before joining Roland Koch's cabinet in 1999 , he was Hessian Minister for the Environment and Nuclear Safety from 1987 to 1991 under Prime Minister Walter Wallmann (CDU) . From April 1999 to August 2010 he was Hessian Minister of Finance . On July 16, 2010, he announced that he would no longer belong to a cabinet of the presumably new Prime Minister Volker Bouffier (CDU). On August 31, 2010, his successor Thomas Schäfer was sworn in as the new Hessian finance minister.
Cabinets
Weimar was a member of the following cabinets
- Wallmann cabinet (1987–1991)
- Cabinet Koch I (1999-2003)
- Cabinet Koch II (2003-2009)
- Cabinet Koch III (2009-2010)
Other offices
Weimar is or was a member of the following bodies as the owner's representative of the State of Hesse:
- Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale, Frankfurt am Main / Erfurt (current)
- Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Fraport AG, Frankfurt am Main
- Member of the supervisory board of Messe Frankfurt GmbH, Frankfurt am Main
- Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Flughafen GmbH Kassel of the airport Kassel-Calden
Athletic career
Karlheinz Weimar was a successful athlete , especially as a decathlete. In the decathlon he held the district record with 6777 points for decades from 1972 to 2014.
Tax investigator affair
Weimar came under fire in 2005 as part of the tax investigator affair . Four tax investigators from a special group of the Frankfurt tax investigators were diagnosed with paranoia on the basis of faulty psychiatric reports. They were then forced into retirement. They had investigated against owners of hidden foreign accounts and initiated several thousand proceedings. T. were shortly before the statute of limitations. You were put into early retirement (after several months of previous sickness notification) due to alleged incapacity for work . The former tax investigators Rudolf Schmenger and Frank Wehrheim then filed a criminal complaint against Weimar in August 2009 . The Vice President of the Saarland Finance Court, Peter Bilsdorfer , filed a criminal complaint for embezzlement of taxpayers' money against those responsible in the tax authorities and Minister Weimar. The heads of the five tax offices and Karlheinz Weimar rejected the allegations of bullying , harassment and influence.
According to documents, the superiors kept secret subsidiary files with defamation about the tax investigator Schmenger, and the tax investigators were judged by the psychiatrist Thomas Holzmann, who acted on behalf of the state, to be “paranoid, quarrelsome ” and “ dysfunctional ”. According to the State Medical Association , the expertises were "courtesy reports".
After the appraisals were unsuccessful in court, At the beginning of December 2009, Weimar offered the four tax officers a return to the civil service. Dieter Deiseroth , judge at the Federal Administrative Court , described the forced retirement as “grossly illegal”. Weimar could not pass responsibility on to subordinate authorities, but rather its ministry and the Hessian regional finance directorate would have been obliged, according to the current legal situation, to "independently" examine the reasons for the retirement. The state of Hesse must therefore expect claims for damages.
Honors
In 1991 Karlheinz Weimar received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.
In 2014 Weimar was awarded the Cross of Honor of the Nassau Fire Brigade Association on ribbon in silver.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karlheinz Weimar in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- ^ Hesse: Bouffier turns Koch's cabinet upside down. In: Spiegel Online . August 30, 2010. Retrieved June 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Board of Trustees. HLV-Kreis Limburg-Weilburg, accessed on June 24, 2016 .
- ↑ "That was absolutely arbitrary" Interview with Bernhard Edmunds in the Frankfurter Rundschau from January 20, 2010 on the tax investigator affair
- ↑ Peter Gerhardt: " Tax investigators sidelined? ( Memento of March 14, 2006 in the Internet Archive )" of November 6, 2005
- ↑ Frauke Hunfeld: " Frankfurt Tax Investigation: Dismissed Ice Cold " - Stern from December 19, 2008
- ↑ a b Tax investigator affair - Frankfurt is not a tax haven ( memento of November 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Hessischer Rundfunk, July 22, 2009
- ↑ Dubious report pulls investigators out of circulation , the West, July 30, 2009
- ↑ Fight for Honor in taz, August 12, 2009
- ^ Frankfurter Rundschau: Tax investigator affair: Finance minister reported for breach of trust ( memento of January 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), November 18, 2009
- ↑ Psychiatrist stopped tax investigators with dubious reports , Spiegel Online from November 17, 2009
- ↑ State of Hesse offers tax investigators to return , FAZ dated December 2, 2009
- ↑ Hesse's finance minister comes under pressure in the tax investigator affair , Spiegel Online from January 2, 2010
- ↑ “ Caution, moral courage! On the dangerous life of whistleblowers ”, Deutschlandfunk September 18, 2009
- ↑ Award of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on April 23, 1991 . In: The Hessian Prime Minister (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1991 No. 19 , p. 1210 , point 480 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2.2 MB ]).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weimar, Karlheinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kirberg |