Martin Bangemann

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Martin Bangemann, 1979

Martin Andreas Bangemann (born November 15, 1934 in Wanzleben ) is a German politician ( FDP ).

From 1984 to 1988 he was Federal Minister of Economics and from 1989 to 1999 EU Commissioner for the internal market (until 1993) and for industrial policy, information technology and telecommunications. From 1985 to 1988 he was also the federal chairman of the FDP.

Life and work

After graduating from college in 1955 graduated Bangemann a degree in law in Tübingen and Munich , which he after the first and second legal state exam in 1962 with the promotion of Dr. jur. finished with the work Images and Fictions in Law and Jurisprudence . In 1964 he was admitted to the bar. He has since returned his license to practice as a lawyer.

On July 1, 2000, Bangemann became a member of the management board of the Spanish telephone company Telefónica and in July 2001 a member of the supervisory board of Hunzinger Information AG .

From 1972 to 1975 and from 1976 to 1998 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation . From 1975 to 1976 he was deputy chairman of the board of the foundation.

Martin Bangemann is married and has five children.

Political party

Bangemann has been a member of the FDP since 1963. From 1969 to 1974 he was deputy chairman and until 1978 state chairman of the FDP / DVP in Baden-Württemberg . From 1974 to 1975 he was general secretary of the FDP. From 1985 to 1988 he took over the national chairmanship of the party.

MP

In the 1972 federal election , Bangemann entered the German Bundestag for the first time via the state list of the FDP Baden-Württemberg . Since 1973 he has also been a member of the European Parliament . In the run-up to the first direct election of the European Parliament , he was elected as the top candidate at the FDP Federal Representative Assembly in 1979 and has been a member of the European Parliament again since the European elections . That is why he resigned his Bundestag mandate in 1980 at the end of the legislative period.

In the European Parliament, Bangemann was from 1979 to 1984 chairman of the Liberal and Democratic Group . After the FDP had failed in the European elections in 1984 at the five percent hurdle , he left the European Parliament.

Since the federal election in 1987 Bangemann was again a member of the German Bundestag; On January 6, 1989, Ingrid Walz replaced him.

Bange's secretary Johanna Olbrich (aka Sonja Lueneburg), which from 1973 to 1985 worked for him, was a spy of the GDR - state security . Olbrich first worked for the Berlin FDP state chairman and member of the Bundestag William Borm , then for Secretary General Karl-Hermann Flach and finally for more than ten years for Bangemann. Even after her final conviction, Bangemann maintained the friendly relationship.

Public offices

Martin Bangemann (left) with Erich Honecker in March 1986
Visit of Honecker in the Federal Republic of Germany , lunch with the Federal President on September 7, 1987. V. l. To the right: Bangemann, Honecker, Weizsäcker, Mittag , Vogel , Bridegroom , Genscher .

In 1972 Bangemann ran for the office of Lord Mayor of Mannheim . June 27, 1984 Bangemann was the Federal Minister of Economics in by Chancellor Helmut Kohl led government appointed. At the beginning of 1989 he switched to the EC Commission with responsibility for the internal market. In 1993 he became EU commissioner for industrial policy, information technology and telecommunications . He held this office until the EU Commission resigned in 1999. During his term of office, he mainly pushed the liberalization of the telephone markets in Europe and thus contributed to breaking up the previous state monopolies in this area.

As EU Commissioner, Bangemann was responsible for communications in Brussels . With a decision of July 9, 1999, the Council of the European Union initiated proceedings against Bangemann before the European Court of Justice in order to have a possible official misconduct in connection with his move to the Telefónica group examined. The Council feared that Bangemann's behavior in this regard would jeopardize the Commission's reputation as an independent and impartial body and pleaded for the withdrawal of pension rights (Case T-208/99). Among other things, after Bangemann's assurance that he would take a leave of absence from July 1999 to June 2001 before he represented a third party in the EU institutions and after Bangemann had declared himself ready to take his action against the Council at the ECJ ( Case T-208/99), the proceedings were discontinued.

This change of a commission member to a company, whose field of business was previously the commissioner's remit, was used by the EU commission as an opportunity to set up a code of conduct and ethics commission.

Cabinets

Awards

Web links

Commons : Martin Bangemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ What is Martin Bangemann actually doing? . manager magazine online. June 29, 2007. Retrieved June 19, 2012.
  2. ^ Wolfgang Hartmann:  Olbrich, Johanna . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  3. ↑ http://www.fdp-bw.de/docs/Bangemann.doc
  4. ↑ Code of Conduct for EU Commissioners
  5. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Bangemann, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bangemann, Martin Andreas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag, MEP, Federal Minister of Economics
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Wanzleben