Michael Fuchs (politician, February 1949)

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Michael Fuchs (2013)
Fuchs at the CDU party conference in 2014

Michael Franz Wilhelm Fuchs (born February 6, 1949 in Koblenz ) is a German politician ( CDU ). From 2002 to 2017 he was a member of the German Bundestag .

Life

education

After graduating from high school in 1967, Fuchs first studied pharmacy in Erlangen and later in Bonn at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . In 1973 took place approval for pharmacists and 1976 his promotion to Dr. rer. nat. at the University of Bonn with the study of the pregnanediol-glucuronyltransferase of the rat liver: its multiplicity and age dependence . In 1978 he was called up and in 1979 left the Bundeswehr as the reserve pharmacist.

Professional career and association work

In 1977 he and his wife opened a pharmacy in Koblenz. In 1980, Fuchs founded Impex Electronics and, in 1984, its subsidiary in Hong Kong, Impex SEL. In 1999, Impex merged with the Dutch company Mid-Ocean . Fuchs holds shares in Fuchs Holding GmbH , Fuchs Immobilienverwaltungs GmbH & Co. KG and Grundstücksverwaltung GmbH in Koblenz.

In 1986 Fuchs became chairman of the Rhineland-Palatinate wholesale employers' association and the Rhineland-Palatinate wholesale and foreign trade association . In 1987 he was elected chairman of the Federal Association of Young Entrepreneurs and from 1992 was a member of the Presidium of the Federal Association of German Employers' Associations . From 1992 to 2001, Fuchs was President of the Federal Association of German Wholesale and Foreign Trade , of which he is honorary chairman today. From 1999 to 2001 he was also the founding president of the Federation of German Trade Associations. Michael Fuchs is a member of the Association of Catholic Entrepreneurs .

Fuchs has been Vice President of the European Trade Organization (FEWITA) since 1992 and a member of the Board of Directors of the Asia-Pacific Committee of German Business and a member of the Foreign Trade Advisory Council at the Federal Ministry of Economics since 1995 . Since 1997 he has been chairman of the Taiwan Committee of German Business. Furthermore, Fuchs is currently active on the so-called Executive Committee of the Trilateral Commission founded by David Rockefeller in 1973 .

Since leaving the German Bundestag in 2017, Fuchs has been a Senior Advisor at WMP Eurocom .

Party career

Fuchs was elected to the federal executive committee of the CDU in 2006.

Membership career

Fuchs was a member of the Koblenz City Council from 1990 to June 2006.

From 2002 to 2017 he was a member of the German Bundestag. Fuchs was a member of the board of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group and was chairman of the parliamentary group for medium -sized businesses from 2006 to 2011. Since November 2009 he was one of the deputy chairmen of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group and responsible for business and energy, medium-sized businesses and tourism.

Michael Fuchs was always as directly selected delegates of the Bundestag constituency Koblenz in the Bundestag voted. In the 2005 Bundestag election , he achieved 45.4 percent of the first votes , in the 2009 Bundestag election 44.1 percent and in the 2013 Bundestag election 48.0 percent . In the 2017 federal election , Fuchs no longer ran for the Bundestag.

Outside employment

Michael Fuchs announced at the beginning of 2012 that he had six advisory board memberships (two of which have already ended), two supervisory board mandates, a consultancy activity, three corporate investments and had given twelve fee presentations.

Since the mid-1990s, Fuchs has also been a board member of the Asia-Pacific Committee of German Business, Chairman of the Taiwan Committee of German Business, board member of the German Chamber of Commerce (GCC) in Hong Kong, the representation for German companies in the region, as well as honorary president of the Federal Association of German Wholesalers and Foreign Trade. He did not initially inform the President of the Bundestag about these memberships, but has since registered them.

In 2009 it became known that Fuchs was a member of the advisory board of the political consulting firm PKS Wirtschafts- und Politikberatungs GmbH . Fuchs did not report this activity to the Bundestag administration. According to this, he had announced that he had worked for the company, but no membership in the advisory board was recognizable.

In the course of the debate about ancillary income for MPs , Fuchs spoke out in October 2012 against the publication of concrete figures. At most he could imagine "that we will add a few levels to the current transparency regulation". Currently (October 2012) the highest level is 7,000 euros. Critics had previously complained that this procedure was far too imprecise, since additional income that was well above this amount was not adequately recorded. According to Spiegel, Fuchs ranks 10th among the MPs with the highest additional income. According to this, he earned at least 100,000 euros in addition to his parliamentary salary for the last three years, and in 2011 his additional income was at least 155,000 euros.

In January 2013, the star reported, with reference to parliamentwatch.de , that Fuchs had for years made false statements about a secondary activity for which he had received fees of at least 57,000 euros. Accordingly, since 2008, Fuchs has given over 13 lectures for the British consulting firm Hakluyt & Company , whose area of ​​activity u. a. Supposed to include espionage . So far, there has been evidence of spying on the environmental protection organization Greenpeace . On the website of the Bundestag, however, the geographic Hakluyt Society was incorrectly stated. Fuchs emphasized that he had given correct information about his secondary employment; the Bundestag administration, however, testified that he had stated "Hakluyt" and "once also" spoke of "Hakluyt & Co".

In addition, Fuchs reserves the right to take legal action against parliamentarian watch and, in the same context, Netzpolitik.org, claiming that he “was not guilty of anything”. Regardless of whether he gives a lecture himself or not, he drives once a quarter to the meetings of the society, which is a very interesting, international network, because it gives him "a lot of fun". He would have no doubts about the seriousness of the company. “I have nothing to do with the company's operational business and I have no interest in it at all,” said Fuchs. At the moment, Michael Fuchs is taking action against Parliament Watch.

Memberships

He is a member of the Ludwig Erhard Foundation .

Private life

Michael Fuchs is Catholic and has two daughters. He is a member of the Germania Erlangen fraternity in the South German cartel .

Political positions

Energy policy

Fuchs is considered a strong advocate of nuclear energy , which earned him the nickname “Atomic Fox”. In August 2010 - shortly before the approval of an extension of the service life of German nuclear power plants by 8 or 14 years - he positioned himself as one of 40 signatories of the Energy Policy Appeal , a lobbying initiative of the four large electricity companies, in order to promote this extension of the service life. Even after the start of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima in March 2011, he spoke out in favor of continuing to operate the nuclear power plants that were shut down in the nuclear moratorium , as he saw no way of how the nuclear phase-out could work. In addition, he would like to see “less hysteria” on this issue, and the nuclear phase-out should also be reviewed at regular intervals.

In May 2012, shortly after the new Environment Minister Peter Altmaier took office, Fuchs once again brought an extension of the service life of nuclear power plants into play for cost reasons. Altmaier immediately rejected this request.

On the other hand, Fuchs repeatedly spoke out against the expansion of renewable energies , especially photovoltaics . Fuchs is a strong advocate of capping the expansion of photovoltaics, most recently he called for a limit to an annual expansion of 500 MW. Fuchs criticizes what is, in his opinion, too high costs, at the same time the contribution of photovoltaics to power supply of a good 3% in 2011 is "irrelevant". Fuchs also wants to abolish the Renewable Energy Sources Act or at least change it significantly. For this reason, Fuchs rejected the amendment to the EEG. So should u. a. the feed-in priority of renewable energies will be lifted, the expansion will be linked to the grid expansion and the compensation for green electricity operators will be reduced if their systems have to be downgraded.

privacy

In Fuchs 'opinion, it should be possible for employers to monitor employees' telephone and internet usage extensively in the future. On the part of the employees here in the company "on a large scale abuse is possible", said Fuchs in the ZDF show Maybrit Illner on August 5, 2010. Therefore there must be a "reasonable control". When asked, Fuchs qualified his statements.

Financial transaction tax

Fuchs is an opponent of the planned financial transaction tax because, in his opinion, it would weaken Germany as a financial center.

Reallocation of the soccer World Cup 2018

In July 2014, Fuchs called for Russia to take away the 2018 World Cup and give it a new one. In May 2015 he was selected by the Russian Federation with a travel ban occupied.

Fonts

  • Investigation of the rat liver pregnanediol glucuronyl transferase: its multiplicity and age dependence. Dissertation. Bonn 1976
  • with Horst-Udo Niedenhoff (Ed.): Social partnership. Opinions, visions, suggestions. Deutscher Instituts-Verlag, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-602-14355-4
  • with Thomas Selter, Thomas Bentz, Rainer Follmann, Florian Geyr, Heinz Greiffenberger , Klaus Günther, Jürgen Heraeus , Randolf Rodenstock and Marie-Luise Schwarz-Schilling: Property obliges. End of sharing - hour of increasing. Berlin 2004.

Web links

Commons : Michael Fuchs (Member of the Bundestag)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fuchs is Senior Advisor at WMP Eurocom. politik-kommunikation.de, October 2, 2017, accessed October 4, 2017 .
  2. ↑ EpochTimes: The Bundestag is losing many familiar faces - especially from the CDU
  3. ↑ Martin Reyher: CDU parliamentary group vice-chairman kept secret secondary employment for years . In: parliamentwatch.de . February 1, 2012. Retrieved January 10, 2013
  4. ^ Marvin Oppong : Member of the Bundestag: Trend towards secret part-time jobs . In: the daily newspaper . May 4, 2009. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  5. ↑ Top earners among politicians against transparency . In: Der Spiegel . October 14, 2012. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  6. ^ Veit Medick : Ranking of the additional income: Top earners in the Bundestag . In: Spiegel Online . October 8, 2012. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  7. ↑ Debate about additional income: FDP rejects full transparency ( memento of October 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: Rheinische Post . October 14, 2012. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  8. ↑ “The company is 'Hakluyt & Company' (H&C), which was founded by former members of the British foreign intelligence service MI6. H&C attaches great importance to the utmost discretion, so little is known about its business activities. One of the company's founders, Christopher James, once described the activities of his company as follows: 'The idea was to do for industry what we used to do for the government', in plain English: espionage. ”(Martin Reyher: Michael Fuchs collected money from nebulous consulting firm ( Memento from January 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). In: abhabenwatch.de . January 9, 2013. Accessed on January 10, 2013)
  9. ↑ Hans-Martin Tillack & Mathew D. Rose : CDU parliamentary group vice under pressure: His name is Fuchs, Michael Fuchs . In: stern.de . January 9, 2013. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  10. ↑ A Quantum Hakluyt . In: Telepolis , January 21, 2013. Retrieved January 23, 2013.
  11. ↑ How Michael Fuchs got a slouch hat . In: Die Zeit , January 11, 2013. Retrieved January 16, 2013.
  12. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from January 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ Michael Fuchs website: Curriculum Vitae ( Memento from January 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ Margarete van Ackeren: Atomic Summit: With a mild smile to the grand energy coalition . In: Focus . April 15, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  15. ^ Nuclear power: SPD calls for parliamentary committee to phase out nuclear power - Politics - Inland - Berliner Morgenpost . In: Berliner Morgenpost - Berlin . April 6, 2011.
  16. ↑ Christian Ramthun: nuclear policy: CDU Group Vice want to upgrade German nuclear power plants . In: Wirtschaftswoche . March 26, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  17. ↑ Christian Rohde: The Nuclear Dilemma ( Memento of 5 March 2014 Internet Archive ). In: Frontal21 . May 31, 2011.
  18. ↑ Doubts in coalition about the implementation of the energy transition . In: N24 . May 27, 2012. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  19. ↑ Trouble with black and yellow: Critics from within their own ranks torpedo the energy transition . In: Spiegel Online . May 27, 2012. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  20. ↑ New dispute over black and yellow: CDU parliamentary group wants to cap solar subsidies . In: Rheinische Post . January 25, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  21. ↑ Nikolai Fichtner & Claudia Kade: Renewable Energies: There is no cut in solar subsidies ( Memento from June 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). In: Financial Times Germany . June 16, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  22. ↑ Energy: Solar subsidies should be cut drastically . In: Augsburger Allgemeine . November 17, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  23. ^ Klaus Stratmann: Subsidies: High production of solar power irritates critics . In: Handelsblatt . December 29, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  24. ↑ “Citizens have to dig deep into their pockets”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ). @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de In: Saarbrücker Zeitung . July 1, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  25. ↑ Completely new concept: CDU politicians want to grind green electricity law . In: Focus . January 13, 2012. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  26. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: poorly paid and without rights ). In: ZDF . August 5, 2010. Retrieved January 10, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.zdf.de
  27. ↑ Catrin Gesellensetter: Data protection: Summer theater for beginners . In: Focus . August 6, 2010. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  28. ↑ FDP dispute over financial market tax: Kubicki takes a stand against Rösler . In: Rheinische Post . January 11, 2012. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  29. ^ Markus Sievers: coalition dispute over financial transaction tax: stock exchange tax - the fear tax . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . January 11, 2012. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  30. ^ Christian Rothenberg: Sanctions against Russia: "New World Cup awards would hit Putin more" . In: n-tv . July 29, 2014. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
  31. ↑ Andreas Borcholte: Entry bans: Russia accuses EU politicians of showing behavior. In: Spiegel Online. May 31, 2015, accessed June 1, 2015 .
  32. ^ RUS: Russian Visa Blocking List. (PDF 23 KB) In: yle.fi. May 26, 2015, accessed June 1, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuchs, Michael Franz Wilhelm (full name); Atomic Fox (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz