Martin Zeil
Martin Zeil (born April 28, 1956 in Munich ) is a German politician of the FDP . From 2008 to 2013 he was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament and in the Seehofer I cabinet, Bavarian State Minister for Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology and Deputy Prime Minister.
Life
Zeil was born in 1956 as the son of geologist Werner Zeil in Munich and grew up in the Upper Bavarian community of Gauting . He attended Starnberg High School and Whittier High School in Los Angeles , California. After graduating from high school in Starnberg in 1974 , he studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he took the first state examination in 1981 and the second in 1984 . He completed his legal clerkship a. a. in the Starnberg district office and in a law firm in London .
In 1984 he joined the legal department of the banking house H. Aufhäuser (now Hauck & Aufhäuser ) in Munich, in 1985 he was admitted to the bar, and since 1998 he has been head of the legal department of Hauck & Aufhäuser Privatbankiers, Munich and Frankfurt / Main. During this time, as the political magazine "Kontrovers" revealed in 2017, Zeil was involved in events in connection with the Icelandic banking affair and was therefore criticized. When he took over the ministerial office in October 2008, Zeil left the service of the bank.
Political party
Martin Zeil joined the FDP in 1974. He is a co-founder of the Young Liberals at the federal level and the Young Liberals Bavaria. 1981 to 1983 he was their state chairman.
From 1995 to 1999 he was district chairman in Upper Bavaria and a member of the state board, from 1997 to 1998 as deputy state chairman of the FDP Bavaria . He has been a member of the state executive again since 2000, and was proposed by the state executive as general secretary in September 2006 . He was elected to this office at the state party conference in Memmingen in February 2007. In 2009, because of his office as Minister of Economics, Zeil did not run for General Secretary again, but was re-elected as Deputy Chairman. This office ended with the early election of the state board in November 2013. His successor in the office of general secretary was Miriam Gruß in 2009 . From May 2007 to December 2013 Zeil was a member of the federal executive committee of the FDP.
Martin Zeil headed the list of the Upper Bavarian FDP as the top candidate in the 2008 state elections . The FDP moved back into the state parliament for the first time in 14 years. On October 19, 2008 he was elected chairman of his group. However, he gave up this office on October 31, 2008, when he was appointed Minister of State. His successor as parliamentary group leader was Thomas Hacker .
On January 12, 2013, the delegates elected Zeil at the constituency assembly with more than 92 percent of the votes again to first place on the Upper Bavaria list for the state election on September 15, 2013. Two weeks later, the nomination as the top candidate of the FDP Bavaria followed State party conference in Fürth. As a result of the defeat of the FDP in the state elections in September 2013, Zeil left the Bavarian state parliament and the Bavarian state government.
In the state election in October 2018 , Zeil ran again without success, this time in 12th place on the Upper Bavarian FDP list and as a direct candidate in the district 131 Weilheim-Schongau .
Public offices
Martin Zeil was a member of the municipal council from 1990 to 2005 and second mayor in Gauting from 2002 to 2005 . He was also a member of the district council of the Starnberg district from 1990 to 2008 and was deputy district administrator from 1996 to 2002 .
In the 2005 Bundestag election he was elected to the Bundestag and a full member of the Bundestag Committee for Economics and Technology, a deputy member of the Finance Committee and spokesman for his parliamentary group for competition law and bureaucracy reduction. In his constituency Munich-Land he achieved the best second vote result for the FDP in Bavaria with 14.6% . On November 1, 2008, he renounced his parliamentary mandate in order to devote himself exclusively to Bavarian politics from then on.
After the success of the FDP in the Bavarian state elections in 2008, he became Bavarian Minister of Economics and Deputy Prime Minister in the CSU / FDP coalition government . In this role Zeil u. a. Chairman of the board of directors of LfA-Förderbank, the board of directors of BayernTourismus-Marketing GmbH and Bayerische Eisenbahngesellschaft (BEG) and member of the board of directors of Bayerische Landesbank. Zeil was also a representative of Bavaria on the ZDF television council from 2008 to 2013 .
Martin Zeil was a member of the 13th (2009), 14th (2010) and 15th (2012) Federal Assembly.
Awards
Zeil is a bearer of the Bavarian Order of Merit and the Order of the Star of Italy of the Italian Republic.
In 2012 Zeil received the Bavarian Beer Order, in November 2013 the Golden Medal of Honor from the Chamber of Crafts for Munich and Upper Bavaria.
On August 30, 2013, he received the German Rail Transport Prize in the Politics category, which is awarded by the Deutsche Bahnkunden-Verband, for his outstanding political achievements in the field of rail transport, in particular for his conception of testing the reactivation of disused railway lines through trial operations .
Private
Martin Zeil is Protestant, married to Barbara Daumiller-Zeil and has a daughter and two sons.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ BR
- ↑ https://www.merkur.de/politik/islaendische-bankenaffaere-martin-zeil-im-zwielicht-8105777.html
- ↑ List of applicants for the constituency of Upper Bavaria , accessed on September 28, 2018
- ↑ Appreciation: Minister of Transport Zeil receives German Rail Transport Prize 2013. Eurailpress, September 2, 2013, accessed on September 3, 2013 .
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Karl Lange (1945) | Ludwig Erhard (1945–1946) | Rudolf Zorn (1947) | Hanns Seidel (1947–1954) | Otto Bezold (1954–1957) | Otto Schedl (1957-1970) | Anton Jaumann (1970–1988) | Gerold Tandler (1988) | August Lang (1988–1993) | Otto Wiesheu (1993-2005) | Erwin Huber (2005–2007) | Emilia Müller (2007-2008) | Martin Zeil (2008–2013) | Ilse Aigner (2013–2018) | Franz Pschierer (2018) | Hubert Aiwanger (since 2018)
Fritz Linnert (1946–1949) | Otto Bezold (1949–1954) | Karl Eberhardt (1954–1958) | Otto Bezold (1958–1962) | Klaus Dehler (1962–1966) | Otto Bezold (1970–1972) | Hildegard Hamm-Brücher (1972–1976) | Hans-Jürgen Jaeger (1976–1982) | Josef Grünbeck (1990–1991) | Jürgen Doeblin (1991–1994) | Martin Zeil (2008) | Thomas Hacker (2008–2013) | Martin Hagen (since 2018)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zeil, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, Bavarian Minister of State |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |