Markus Kerber (economist)

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Markus Kerber (born July 23, 1963 in Ulm ) is a German economist and has been State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Home Affairs since 2018 . From 2011 to 2017 he was General Manager of the Federation of German Industries (BDI), previously Head of the Policy Department in the Federal Ministry of Finance .

Life

He studied economics at the University of Hohenheim and the University of California in Los Angeles from 1983 to 1988 . In 1992 he received his doctorate in social sciences from the University of Hohenheim . From 1992 to 1995 he worked for SG Warburg & Co. Ltd. in London, then until 1998 at Deutsche Bank AG in London in the Equity Capital Markets division . In 1998 he became CFO at the IT service provider GFT Technologies , Stuttgart. He quit in 2003 when he realized he had flown 2,300 times in 11 years. He switched to politics and in 2006 became Head of the Department of Policy Issues and International Analyzes in the Federal Ministry of the Interior under Wolfgang Schäuble . There he organized a. a. the first Islam conferences .

After the Bundestag election in 2009 and the end of the grand coalition, he followed Schäuble to the Ministry of Finance and became head of the department for fundamental financial and economic issues, and from the beginning of 2011 also took on responsibility for international financial and currency policy . There he benefited from his knowledge of the financial sector when, as a result of the global financial and economic crisis, banks (for example the later nationalized Bank Hypo Real Estate ) began to falter and the euro rescue package was negotiated and decided at short notice in spring 2010 .

From July 2011 to March 31, 2017, Kerber was General Manager of the Federation of German Industries . He followed Werner Schnappauf . As BDI managing director, he saw refugees as the skilled workers of tomorrow, but he wished for better organization of refugee policy: “The phrase 'We can do it' is too vague for me. (...) When I compete as a coach at the World Cup, I also have to have an idea of ​​how I will divide the players' strengths into the final. "

In March 2018, Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer surprisingly appointed him to his ministry as State Secretary for Heimat . Kerber takes a pragmatic approach to questions of Islam and refugee policy.

Kerber is a member of the Friedrich A. von Hayek Society . He was also a member of the Commerzbank Supervisory Board .

Kerber is married and has four children. In 2016 he successfully underwent tumor surgery.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dr. Markus Kerber. In: Federal Ministry of the Interior, for Building and Home. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Markus Kerber, the pathfinder, new BDI managing director . Star . June 26, 2011. Retrieved September 13, 2011.
  3. ↑ rp-online.de (Rheinische Post)
  4. ↑ Stefan Braun Berlin: Seehofer's husband for home . In: sueddeutsche.de . April 3, 2018, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed April 19, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Management team of the BMI complete. Retrieved April 19, 2018 (German).
  6. ↑ Stefan Braun Berlin: Seehofer's husband for home . In: sueddeutsche.de . April 3, 2018, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed April 19, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Commerzbank website. Retrieved April 6, 2015.
  8. ↑ Stefan Braun Berlin: Seehofer's husband for home . In: sueddeutsche.de . April 3, 2018, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed April 19, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Kerber, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm