Klaus P. Arnold
Klaus P. Arnold (* 1944 ) is a German lawyer and local politician. Since 1991 he has been chairman of the board of trustees of the Kulturförderung Foundation .
Arnold studied from 1963 to 1968 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After his legal clerkship, he went to the University of Zurich , where he did his doctorate on Corporate Law in the Jurisprudence of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court and the German Federal Supreme Court . He then worked as an auditor in various medium-sized and industrial companies from 1972 to 1974. In 1975 he settled in Munich as a lawyer specializing in civil and commercial law.
In addition to his professional activity, Arnold began to get involved politically and socially at an early age. From 1971 to 1979 he was a member of the regional executive committee of the Junge Union . In 1972 he took on political mandates in the municipal council of his hometown Gauting and in the district council of the Starnberg district and held the parliamentary chairmanship in both bodies for a long time. From 1987 to 1996 he was deputy district administrator of the Starnberg district.
Four years after it was founded, he took over the chairmanship of the German Children's Fund in 1976 , which he held until 1980. Since 1985 he has been president of the Fondazione Rotonda Romana . In 1991 he took over the chairmanship of the board of trustees Stiftung Kulturförderung, which awards the German Culture Prize every year. Since 1992 he has also been chairman of the Vera and Volker Doppelfeld Foundations for Science, Culture and Education.
Awards
- 1991: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
- 1997: Medal for special services to local self-government
- 2007: Bavarian Order of Merit
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| SURNAME | Arnold, Klaus P. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and local politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1944 |