Martin Selmayr

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Martin Selmayr (2014)

Martin Selmayr (born December 5, 1970 in Bonn ) is a German lawyer and EU civil servant . From November 2014 to the end of February 2018 he was Head of Cabinet of the EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and served as Sherpa of the Commission President. From March 1, 2018 to July 2019, he was Secretary General of the European Commission . Selmayr has been Head of the Representation of the European Commission in Austria since November 2019 . He is close to the CDU and the European People's Party (EPP).

In addition Selmayr is Honorary Professor of European Economic and Financial Law at the University of Saarland , a lecturer in the law of the economic and monetary union at the Danube University Krems and honorary director of at the University of Passau -based Center for European Law .

Family and education

Selmayr grew up in Bonn, Berlin, Munich and Karlsruhe. His father is Gerhard Selmayr , lawyer and founding chancellor of the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich. He is grandson of two generals of the Armed Forces, his grandfather Josef Selmayr belonged after the Second World War, the Organization Gehlen and was the first president of the Military Counterintelligence (MAD); On his mother's side, his grandfather, Heinz Gaedcke , was one of the "founding fathers" of the Bundeswehr.

After high school at Otto-Hahn-Gymnasium Karlsruhe studied Selmayr from 1990 law and was in the 1991 studienstiftung added. In 1991/92 he studied at the University of Geneva and its Institut universitaire d'etudes européennes , where he wrote a diploma thesis on the negotiations on the European Economic Area for the Swiss State Secretary Franz Blankart . He then studied at the University of Passau . At the beginning of 1997 he completed his studies in Passau with the first state examination in law. In June 2000 he passed the second state examination in law in Munich . From 1997 to 2000 he was a research associate at the Department of State and Administrative Law , International Law and European Law at the University of Passau in Michael Schweitzer . There he was in 2001 with the theme The pooling of currency with the grade " summa cum laude " doctorate .

Professional background

Selmayr as the then head of cabinet of Commission President Juncker in Bulgaria in January 2018; far left Alexander Italianer , his predecessor as Secretary General of the Commission.

From 1998 to 2000 Selmayr worked for the European Central Bank in Frankfurt am Main. He has been an official at the European Commission since 2004 . Initially, he was Commission Spokesman for Information Society and Media, the portfolio of Commissioner Viviane Reding . From February 2010 to June 2014 Selmayr was Head of Cabinet Redings, both in her position as EU Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, and as Vice President of the European Commission.

In April and May 2014, Selmayr led Juncker's election campaign as the top candidate for the European People's Party in the 2014 European elections . In July 2014, he was named Junckers' head of cabinet. On March 1, 2018, Selmayr succeeded Alexander Italianer as General Secretary of the European Commission . On July 16, 2019, Selmayr announced his retirement from the post of General Secretary for the following week. Since November 2019, he has succeeded Jörg Wojahn as Head of the Representation of the European Commission in Austria .

criticism

In October 2017, Selmayr was accused in the British press of having passed on details of the Brexit negotiations between the EU and Great Britain to media representatives. Selmayr denied these allegations.

Selmayr's appointment as Secretary General of the European Union took place at short notice at a meeting of the EU Commission on February 21, 2018. Selmayr was first appointed Deputy Secretary General of the Commission and then Secretary General on the same day, after the incumbent Italianer - unexpectedly for that morning almost all except Juncker - had applied for early retirement.

This procedure met with criticism from members of the other parliamentary groups in the EU Parliament , parts of the EU Commission and journalists. The Greens / EFA group asked for a parliamentary inquiry in the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control . The French journalist Jean Quatremer, who uncovered the promotion affair, described it as a "coup". According to him, Selmayr is said to have bought the commissioners' approval for his promotion by promising to extend the monthly payments to former commissioners from two years to up to five years.

The European Ombudsman questioned Selmayr's appointment from Deputy Secretary General to Secretary General and concluded that the European Commission "has not complied with EU law". The Ombudsman's statement was rejected by the Commission.

In addition to “piercing” information and “pushing items”, Selmayr is accused of exerting political influence on the Commission's decisions, for example with regard to the car toll . In its 12/2018 issue, Spiegel magazine accused him, under the heading “Aktion Eigenlob”, of having “pimped up” the German and English Wikipedia articles about himself between Christmas and New Year's Eve 2017 so that his role in EU decisions has been highlighted.

Monographs

Editorships

  • Journal for data protection , published monthly by Beck-Verlag since September 2011, co-editor: Thomas Hoeren et al.
  • European Competition Law. European competition law. Texts and materials. German English. , Munich (2010), in collaboration with Hans-Georg Kamann (700 pages).
  • Beck'scher short commentary on the General Data Protection Regulation, Munich (2017), together with Dr. Eugen Ehmann.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hendrik Kafsack: The strong man behind Juncker. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 10, 2014.
  2. ^ President Juncker's team - European Commission. October 23, 2014, accessed December 29, 2017 .
  3. ^ Ian Traynor, Nicholas Watt: Meet the sherpas: the key people quietly negotiating UK-EU reforms . In: The Guardian . February 17, 2016, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed December 29, 2017]).
  4. ↑ EURACTIV with agencies: General Secretary Martin Selmayr resigns. In: euractiv.com. July 16, 2019, accessed on August 4, 2019 (German).
  5. ↑ czar: Martin Selmayr is in his dream position. In: Wiener Zeitung . November 7, 2019, accessed on November 9, 2019 : "For a week now he has been at the head of a position that has 20 employees and is supposed to act as a link to the Brussels authority."
  6. ↑ Bettina Klein : New EU Secretary General - A controversial choice. In: Deutschlandfunk , broadcast Europe today , February 28, 2018.
  7. ↑ Michael Stabenow: Martin Selmayr's promotion - tailor-made ascent. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine (online), March 9, 2018.
  8. ^ Danube University Krems - University for Further Education .: Martin Selmayr - Faculty - Department for Business Law and European Integration - Danube University Krems. Retrieved December 29, 2017 .
  9. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Prof. Dr. Martin Selmayr - curriculum vitae In: Center for European Law, University of Passau .
  10. ↑ James Rothwell: Who is Martin Selmayr, the 'monster' Eurocrat accused of trying to wreck Brexit? ( Memento of March 18, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) In: The Telegraph , www.telegraph.co.uk, October 26, 2017. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
  11. ↑ University Chancellor Dr. Gerhard Selmayr receives Order of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany. Retrieved December 29, 2017 .
  12. ^ "Founding father" of the Bundeswehr , NWZ online March 18, 2011
  13. ↑ Christoph Schult: Junckers new string puller In: Spiegel Online , March 25, 2014.
  14. ↑ Martin Selmayr becomes Secretary General of the EU Commission . Zeit Online, February 21, 2018
  15. ^ Controversial EU top official Martin Selmayr leaves Brussels. Spiegel Online, July 16, 2019, accessed on the same day.
  16. ↑ Karoline Krause-Sandner: Martin Selmayr: EU top official from now on in Austria. In: Kurier (daily newspaper) . November 7, 2019, accessed on November 9, 2019 : "In the future, he will be Chairman of the Representation of the EU Commission in Austria and thus the successor to Jörg Wojahn, who will head the Commission representation in Berlin."
  17. ↑ Portrait of Alexander Mühlauer: The Bad Boy from Brussels . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed December 29, 2017]).
  18. ↑ Thomas Gutschker: Brexit negotiations: It doesn't work without torture . In: FAZ.NET . October 22, 2017, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed December 29, 2017]).
  19. ^ Politico: Tomorrow Europe, Florian Eder in conversation with Martin Selmayr (video). Retrieved December 29, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Peter Müller: Controversial EU personnel: lightning-fast transport of Juncker's "Monster" causes outrage . In: Spiegel Online . February 27, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed February 27, 2018]).
  21. ↑ dispute over the transport of lightning Selmayr. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. March 12, 2018, accessed March 16, 2018 .
  22. ↑ Jean Quatremer: Martin Selmayr braque la Commission européenne In: Libération , March 3, 2018
  23. ↑ Michael Stabenow: Tailor-made ascent . FAZ March 10, 2018 (p. 5)
  24. ↑ A strange affair: Selmayrgate gets Brussels going , In: zeit.de , March 12, 2018
  25. ↑ Bernd Riegert: Criticism of EU lightning transport: Martin who? In: dw.com , March 12, 2018
  26. ↑ Selmayr ascent: Night and fog action must be examined by parliament - Sven Giegold - Member of the Green Group in the European Parliament . In: Sven Giegold - Member of the Green Group in the European Parliament . February 26, 2018 ( sven-giegold.de [accessed February 27, 2018]).
  27. ↑ Affair about top German politicians in the EU shows Brussels' biggest problem , Huffington Post of March 10, 2018 (probably referring to this article (French) by Quatremer)
  28. ↑ Objection of the European Ombudsman to the appointment of Selmayr as Secretary General of the European Commission.Retrieved on February 20, 2019.
  29. ↑ Reply of the European Commission to the objection of the European Ombudsman.Retrieved on 20 February 2019.
  30. ↑ "Junckers Monster": Post dispute over German EU politician Selmayr escalates , Kölner Stadtanzeiger of March 12, 2018. Last accessed on March 18, 2018.
  31. ↑ Peter Müller: Corrections to 3:45 . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 2018, p. 30 ( online ).
  32. ↑ Ehmann / Selmayr | General Data Protection Regulation: GDPR | 2017. Retrieved December 29, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Selmayr, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and EU civil servant, Secretary General of the European Commission
DATE OF BIRTH 5th December 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn