Manfred Brunner (politician)

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Manfred Brunner (born July 31, 1947 in Munich ; † June 22, 2018 ) was a German politician ( FDP , BFB ). He was Chief of Cabinet in the EC - Commission in Brussels .

Life

After graduating from high school, Brunner was a temporary soldier in the mountain troops of the German Armed Forces . Later he was transferred to reserve training for Major of the Reserve transported. He completed his law studies in Munich in 1982 with the second state examination. After working as a partner in a law firm , he started working as an independent lawyer in 1987.

In 1965 Brunner joined the FDP , in 1969 he became chairman of the German Young Democrats . From 1973 to 1987 he was on the city ​​council of Munich for the FDP . In 1983 he succeeded Josef Ertl as chairman of the FDP in Bavaria . He held this office until 1989 when he was replaced by Josef Grünbeck . In 1984 Brunner ran as leader of the FDP parliamentary group in the Munich city council for the election of mayor, but received only 3.6% of the vote and thus less than his party. From 1989 to 1992 he was Head of Cabinet of the European Commissioner for the Internal Market Martin Bangemann in Brussels. He was considered a prominent opponent of the Maastricht Treaty and the introduction of the euro , which is why he voluntarily resigned from the EC Commission in September 1992. In January 1992 he founded the “Democracy and Market Economy” foundation based in Munich.

After the Maastricht Treaty was ratified in December 1992, Brunner lodged a constitutional complaint with the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe, arguing that the transfer of sovereign rights to the European Union was incompatible with the principle of democracy. The Constitutional Court rejected the lawsuit in 1993 in the so-called Maastricht judgment .

In 1994 he was one of the authors of the new right anthology " The Self-Confident Nation ".

In January 1994 he initiated the founding of what he said was the national liberal party Bund Freier Bürger (BFB) , and he was elected chairman. In the European elections in June of the same year , the party achieved 1.1% nationwide. In February 1996 the BFB received 3.2% in the city council elections in Munich. Evelyne Menges moved into the council alongside Manfred Brunner . In January 1998 the BFB merged with Heiner Kappels Offensive for Germany to form the BFB-Die Offensive. In the federal elections in the autumn of the same year, the party only got 0.2%. At the beginning of 1999, Brunner announced his resignation and resignation from the party because of increasingly right-wing tendencies in the BFB, the leadership of which his internal party competitor Heiner Kappel then took over. The BFB dissolved at the end of 2000.

Brunner became a member of the FDP again in 1999 and belonged to the regional association of Saxony , but resigned from the party after about two years.

Brunner was married and has three children. He worked as a lawyer in Munich until his death .

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SURNAME Brunner, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP, BFB), co-founder of the Federation of Free Citizens
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 2018