Matthias Kleinert

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Matthias ("Matt") Kleinert (born March 9, 1938 in Berlin ) is a manager and politician of the CDU .

Life

Kleinert grew up in Besigheim in Württemberg . In 1958 he passed his Abitur in Bietigheim and then studied political science at the Free University of Berlin and at the German School of Politics . In 1963 he completed his studies as a political scientist. Then he worked at the All-German Institute Berlin and as an editor at RIAS Berlin.

Kleinert joined the CDU as early as 1965, where he was appointed press spokesman for the parliamentary group in Baden-Württemberg in 1972. Kleinert thus became a close confidante of Lothar Späth , the then parliamentary group leader of the CDU. When he succeeded Prime Minister Hans Filbinger in 1978 , he took Kleinert with him to the State Ministry and appointed him ministerial director. Kleinert acted as government spokesman . After the last election in 1984, Kleinert was promoted to State Secretary in the State Ministry, but had no seat and no vote in the cabinet. His efforts to get a seat in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg failed. At the time, he remained the only State Secretary without a state parliament mandate.

Kleinert's services to Prime Minister Späth were no longer generally recognized at the end of the 1980s, which ultimately led him to leave politics. Finally, in December 1987, Kleinert surprisingly announced the end of his political career. As early as January 1988 he took on a management position in the PR department of Daimler-Benz AG in Stuttgart . His successor as State Secretary in the State Ministry was Lorenz Menz , while Manfred Zach became government spokesman . From 1995, Kleinert took over the management of the Directorate for Politics and External Relations and was thus the general representative of his company. He held this office until the end of 2003. Since August 2004 he has been responsible for the Corporate External Affairs department of the Celesio pharmaceutical company and is a member of the board of the United Global Academy (UGA).

Other activities

Kleinert also works on a voluntary basis in various associations, including the German-Ukrainian Forum eV , founded in 1999 , of which he was the first chairman. In July 2006 he was elected President of the Tauberbischofsheim Fencing Club . He is also Chairman of the University Council of Hohenheim University and Honorary Senator of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. Kleinert conducts personal social engagement through the private club Sandsturm Cairo, of which he is the founder and president. Kleinert is involved as a project ambassador for the social project We Help Africa .

Kleinert received several awards, including the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , in 1995 the prize of the environmental foundation “Euronatur” , in 1998 the Merit Medal of the State of Baden-Württemberg and in 2004 the Olympic Order .

Awards

literature

  • Internationales Biographisches Archiv 52/1997 from December 15, 1997 (st), Munzinger archive online

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.6 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Kleinert, Matthias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kleinert, Matt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU) and manager
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin