Max Streibl

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Max Streibl (center) with Thomas Goppel (1989)

Max Balthasar Streibl (* 6. January 1932 in Oberammergau ; † 11. December 1998 in Munich ) was a German politician of the CSU . From 1988 to 1993 he was Bavarian Prime Minister .

Professional and political career

Max Streibl, son of a hotelier, studied law and economics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich after graduating from the Benedictine high school in Ettal and entered the civil service in 1955. He worked as a trainee lawyer at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen District Office and the Federal Council in Bonn. In 1960 he became an assessor in the government of Upper Bavaria and had worked in the Bavarian State Chancellery from 1961 .

In 1957 he became a member of the CSU and was a co-founder of the Junge Union in Upper Bavaria. From 1961 to 1967 he was state chairman of the Junge Union, in 1962 he was elected to the Bavarian state parliament, of which he was a member until 1994.

From 1967 to 1971 he was Secretary General of the CSU. In 1970 he took over the chairmanship of the CSU district of Upper Bavaria, which he held until 1994. On December 8, 1970, Prime Minister Alfons Goppel entrusted him with the newly created Ministry for Regional Development and Environmental Issues ( Goppel III cabinet ), making Streibl the first Environment Minister of a federal state in the Federal Republic of Germany. From 1972 to 1974 he was chairman of the conference of state ministers for spatial planning, then the conference of environment ministers . In May 1977 Streibl became Bavarian Minister of Finance ( Cabinet Goppel IV , successor to Ludwig Huber ); he remained Minister of Finance in the Strauss I , II and III cabinets . From July 12, 1988, Streibl was also Deputy Prime Minister. During his eleven years in office, Bavaria became the federal state with the lowest public debt ratio and the highest investment ratio .

As chairman of the board of directors of Bayerische Landesbank , Streibl was involved in the mega petrol affair.

Streibl as Prime Minister

Max Streibl (left) with Gerhard Stoltenberg (middle) and Ernst Albrecht (1981)

On October 19, 1988, following the death of Franz Josef Strauss, the Bavarian State Parliament elected him as his successor as Prime Minister of Bavaria with 124 out of 193 votes . With Streibl, who, compared to his predecessor, had a more cautious style of government, the CSU was able to defend its absolute majority in the state elections of October 14, 1990 and only lost 0.9%. On December 20, 1990, he opened the first joint conference of the heads of government of the countries.

When on July 6, 1992 at the opening of the 18th World Economic Summit in Munich, 500 demonstrators were arrested after a police cauldron and criticism was voiced of the police's actions, Streibl remarked that if anyone thinks they have to mess with Bavaria, then it is " Bavarian way ”,“ reaching a little harder ”.

After all, since January 1993, the Amigo affair shook his reputation. On May 27, 1993 he had to resign after protracted arguments. In this context, Streibl's attempt to save his office by threatening his party comrades became known: in the party executive he held up a suitcase with the words "There is explosive material in here - about each of you!"

In 1998, Der Spiegel wrote in its obituary: "Only when the CSU leaders were convinced that they would lose an absolute majority with Streibl in the 1994 state elections did they drop him." CSU chairman from 1988 to 1999 was Theo Waigel . The state election took place on September 25, 1994; Streibl's successor Edmund Stoiber was able to continue to govern with an absolute majority.

Streibl was a member or chairman of several supervisory boards. At the beginning of 1994 the Illustrierte Stern reported that Streibl, like Strauss , collects up to 300,000 DM annually as executor of the Friedrich Baur Foundation . Streibl's successor, Stoiber, waived this additional income .

In 1996 the Mega Petrol Committee of Inquiry of the Streibl State Parliament acquitted of all allegations; In 1993, however, the Landesbank was sentenced to high damages to defrauded small investors.

At the beginning of 1994 it became known that Streibl, as the Upper Bavarian CSU district chairman , had invited Franz Schönhuber , party leader of the Republicans , to a confidential fireplace chat.

Other engagement

Streibl was a Catholic and a member of the Catholic student associations K.St.V. Erwinia Munich and the KSSt.V. Alemannia Munich . In 1968 he was accepted into the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem . In 1964 he joined the Lions Club Munich-Grünwald, to which Franz Josef Strauss also belonged. From 1974 to 1989 he was chairman of the Catholic men's association in Tuntenhausen .

Private life

Grave of Max Streibl in the Oberammergau churchyard

His marriage to Irmingard Junghans (* 1933) in 1960 resulted in two sons and a daughter. His son Florian Streibl ran for Free Voters in the Bavarian state election on September 28, 2008 , in the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district, Garmisch-Partenkirchen and was elected to the state parliament via the Upper Bavaria list.

Streibl died in December 1998 at the age of 66 after a heart attack in his Munich apartment. He was buried in the Oberammergau cemetery.

Awards and honors (extract)

Publications

literature

  • Sylvia Krauss, Prime Minister Max Streibl . In: The most beautiful office in the world. The Bavarian Prime Ministers from 1945 to 1993. Munich 1999, pp. 171–187
  • Karl-Ulrich Gelberg, Max Streibl . In: New German Biography. Vol. 25, Berlin 2013, pp. 529f.

Web links

Commons : Max Streibl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Mathias Stamm and Renate Daum: The Bavarian oil scandal became a political issue. (Graumarktinfo.de/Börse-Online), archived from the original on November 28, 2007 ; Retrieved June 5, 2008 .
  2. The Chronicle of Bavaria. 3rd edition, Chronik Verlag, 1994, p. 617
  3. When Bavaria got there a little harder. In: sueddeutsche.de. June 5, 2015, accessed March 15, 2018 .
  4. a b Died: Max Streibl . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1998 ( online - 14 December 1998 ).
  5. ^ Heinz Kurtzbach: Fireside chat in Upper Bavaria. In: Berliner Zeitung . February 15, 1994, accessed June 17, 2015 .
  6. Hans Jürgen Brandt: Jerusalem has friends. Munich and the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher, EOS 2010, pages 84, 110 and 116
  7. ^ Membership Directory , published by Lions International All District 111, as of June 1, 1976
  8. Internet presence of the Free State of Bavaria ( Memento from September 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  9. List of honorary senators ( memento from July 21, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), adbk-nuernberg.de
  10. Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 43, March 9, 1973.
  11. Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 31, No. 5, January 9, 1979.