Mathias Middelberg

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Mathias Middelberg

Mathias Middelberg (born December 14, 1964 in Osnabrück ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and a member of the Bundestag since 2009 . He is the domestic political spokesman for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, chairman of the Lower Saxony state group and deputy chairman of the parliamentary group's SME parliamentary group (PKM).

Life and work

After High School on school Carolinum Osnabrück Middelberg studied law (with an economics focus) in Osnabrück. He completed his legal traineeship at the Oldenburg Higher Regional Court with positions at the Legal Committee of the German Bundestag in Bonn and at the University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer. He passed both state exams with distinction , most recently in 1993.

From 1994 to 1996 Middelberg worked as an in-house lawyer at E.ON AG . From 1997 to 2000 he was office manager of the Bremen Senator for Economic Affairs and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Post AG , Josef Hattig , and from 2002 to 2004 head of corporate development / law at Mitteldeutsche Airport Holding AG (Leipzig / Halle and Dresden airports). In 2004 he was investment manager at EWE AG . From January 2005 to October 2009, Middelberg headed the economic department in the Lower Saxony State Chancellery in Hanover. In this function, he was also in charge of the supervisory board mandate of the then Lower Saxony Prime Minister, Christian Wulff , at VW . The lawyer is referred to as the “secret head” behind the dispute between Lower Saxony and Porsche AG over VW.

Laureen Nussbaum 2019 in the German Bundestag with Chancellor Angela Merkel and Mathias Middelberg.

In 2003, Middelberg received his doctorate. iur. ( scl ). The dissertation deals with the work of the lawyer Hans Georg Calmeyer in the German occupation administration in the Netherlands during the Second World War. In 2015, Middelberg published a biography about Calmeyer, which was reviewed in numerous media.

politics

Political party

Middelberg was district chairman of the Junge Union Osnabrück-Emsland and deputy state chairman of the Junge Union Lower Saxony. He has been a member of the CDU since 1983, and since 2012 district chairman of the CDU Osnabrück-Emsland.

MP

Middelberg has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2009. Until 2018 he was a member of the Finance Committee and a deputy member of the Economic Committee. In March 2018, the lawyer switched to the Interior Committee and was elected domestic policy spokesman for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. Middelberg is also a full member of the Judges' Committee and a deputy member of the Legal and Consumer Protection Committee and the Finance Committee.

The lawyer has been chairman of the state group of Lower Saxony CDU members in the CDU / CSU parliamentary group since 2014, and has been deputy chairman of the SME parliamentary group (PKM), the economic wing of the group, since 2011.

In the federal elections in 2009, 2013 and 2017, Middelberg won the constituency of the city of Osnabrück directly with 38.4%, 45.7% and 40.3% of the first votes, respectively.

Middelberg is a member of the board of trustees of the German Federal Environmental Foundation , the board of trustees of the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and the advisory board of trustees “Foundation New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum”. He is also a member of the German-Israeli Society , Osnabrück Working Group.

Positions and Criticism

Financial policy

Middelberg's main areas of work in the finance committee were corporate taxation and capital market law . He advocated stricter reporting requirements in takeover law in order to prevent the so-called "sneaking up", that is, the secret development of share subscription rights. As a result, the Investor Protection Improvement Act increased the transparency of investor participation.

In 2016, the lawyer warned against an initiative of the EU Commission , the so-called "public country-by-country reporting" (CbCR), in which European companies should be obliged to make data relevant for taxation public. He criticized that this would only be counterproductive unilaterally within the EU.

In March 2018, Middelberg called for comprehensive corporate tax reform in Germany in a guest article in the daily newspaper Die Welt . He referred to the US financial policy, which would have achieved a lower overall tax burden on companies with a reduction in corporation tax and would thus be below the level of all other G-7 countries (except Great Britain).

Asylum and migration

As the domestic political spokesman for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Middelberg tried to mediate in the dispute within the Union parliamentary group over the rejection of asylum seekers at the German borders in June 2018. In the debate about the draft of a law on the immigration of skilled workers , Middelberg warned of “opportunities for abuse and possible false incentives”. He was critical of the possibility of immigration for people from non-EU countries who did not have a qualification or training position. The bill was subsequently amended several times, which Middelberg described as a "very good and balanced compromise".

In line with the optimized immigration opportunities, Middelberg called for more effective regulations for the repatriation of rejected asylum seekers. He was particularly critical when deportations failed because asylum seekers were not present. With the Ordered Return Act , which the Bundestag passed in June 2019, the requirements for detention and detention were lowered in particular.

Middelberg is in favor of declaring the Maghreb countries Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia as safe countries of origin . This caused criticism from human rights organizations such as Amnesty International and from the opposition from the Greens and the left, as human rights violations continue to occur in Algeria and Morocco. Middelberg, on the other hand, referred to the low recognition rates from these countries and pointed out that every asylum application from safe countries of origin would be examined on a case-by-case basis.

With regard to the migrants rescued from distress at sea, Middelberg considers a constant European distribution mechanism to be "very helpful", but not sufficient in the long term, as the decisions of the EU Council of June 2018 would have to be implemented. As a result, he advocates a reduction in migration by intensifying cooperation with the countries of origin and transit countries, as well as disembarkation platforms on the Mediterranean coasts, which are intended to guarantee an orderly asylum procedure.

Middelberg positioned itself against the naturalization of foreigners who are married to more than one person. Middelberg criticized the fact that a corresponding legislative proposal by the Ministry of the Interior was initially not accepted by the Federal Ministry of Justice. In the meantime, a passage in the parliamentary procedure has been added to the Third Nationality Amendment Act.

Works

  • Jewish law, Jewish policy and the lawyer Hans Calmeyer in the occupied Netherlands 1940–1945 (= Osnabrücker Schriften zur Rechtsgeschichte, Volume 5). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89971-123-8 , also: Dissertation, University of Osnabrück, 2003.
  • With Daniel Möritz: Capital markets need rules! An insight into the discussions in the Finance Committee of the German Bundestag using the example of the topic of "sneaking up on companies" . In: Werner Ebke, Andreas Möhlenkamp, ​​Berthold Welling (ed.): International financial market crisis, bank accounts and medium-sized companies . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-6733-8 , pp. 98-110.
  • “Who am I to decide between life and death?” Hans Calmeyer - “Racial advisor” in the Netherlands 1941–1945 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1528-0 .

Web links

Commons : Mathias Middelberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heads or Tails - Who will join the Bundestag, who will shape economic policy in the coming years? The most important names. In: Manager Magazin. Accessed September 2009 .
  2. ↑ The Shadow Man. In: Wirtschaftswoche. Retrieved May 18, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Terminal Wolfsburg. In: Wirtschaftswoche. Retrieved May 11, 2009 .
  4. ^ Wallstein 2015
  5. ↑ The Desperate Savior. DER SPIEGEL 15/2015, April 4, 2015, accessed on June 26, 2019 .
  6. ↑ The Savior of the Jews - Suddenly many Jews had "Aryan" fathers. DIE WELT, April 15, 2015, accessed on June 26, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Hans Calmeyer: Who checked the parentage ... Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 5, 2015, accessed on June 26, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Working group chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group confirmed in office. Press office of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, September 25, 2018, accessed on August 10, 2019 .
  9. ↑ New advance against sneak attacks. Manager Magazin, accessed August 8, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Politics wants to make hostile takeovers more difficult. Handelsblatt, accessed on August 8, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Bundestag passes investor protection and functional improvement law. Federal Ministry of Finance, accessed on August 8, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Will corporate tax data be made public soon? Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, accessed on August 8, 2019 .
  13. ^ Stephan Harbarth, Mathias Middelberg: Guest Comment: Against the tax pillory . Ed .: Handelsblatt. June 15, 2016, p. 15 .
  14. ↑ Against the tax pillory. CDU / CSU parliamentary group; blogfraktion.de, accessed on August 29, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Mathias Middelberg: Union calls for an Agenda 2020 for corporate taxation - CDU finance politician Middelberg reacts to Trump . Ed .: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 1st March 2018.
  16. ^ Mathias Middelberg: Guest commentary Mathias Middelberg "Don't forget the company" . Ed .: DIE WELT. 17th March 2018.
  17. ↑ Middelberg (CDU) on the union dispute "I believe that the differences can be overcome". Deutschlandfunk, accessed on June 8, 2019 .
  18. ↑ The Union's domestic politicians take on their own ministers. DIE WELT, accessed on August 8, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Two laws for the immigration of skilled workers. Süddeutsche Zeitung, accessed on August 8, 2019 .
  20. ^ German Bundestag - 19th electoral term - 105th session. Berlin, Friday, June 7th, 2019. Retrieved on June 8th, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Refine the legal framework for successful deportations. CDU / CSU parliamentary group press office, accessed on July 26, 2019 .
  22. ↑ https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/sichere-herkunftsstaat-111.html
  23. ↑ Amnesty International , Annual Report 2018, Section Morocco and Western Sahara & Annual Report 2018, Section Algeria
  24. ↑ Weekly magazine Die Zeit : Bundestag classifies Maghreb states and Georgia as safe ( memento of January 18, 2019 in the Internet Archive ), January 18, 2018, downloaded on January 19, 2018, saved as a memento .
  25. ↑ Maas wants Germany to be a pioneer in accepting migrants. DIE WELT, July 13, 2019, accessed on July 26, 2019 .
  26. ↑ Naturalization remains possible despite multiple marriage. DIE WELT, May 5, 2019, accessed on July 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Middelberg, Mathias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück