Michael Glos

Michael Glos (2012)

Michael Glos (born December 14, 1944 in Brünnau ) is a German politician ( CSU ).

From 2005 to 2009 he was Federal Minister for Economics and Technology and from 1993 to 2005 he was chairman of the CSU regional group and first deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group .

education and profession

After completing secondary school , Glos completed an apprenticeship as a miller . In 1967 he passed the master's examination. In 1968 he took over the management of his parents' grain mill and agricultural business in the Stolzenmühle near Prichsenstadt .

Party career

Glos has been a member of the CSU since 1970 and was the founding chairman of the CSU local association in Prichsenstadt in 1972. From 1975 to 1993 he was chairman of the CSU district association in Kitzingen . Glos has been a member of the board of the CSU district association Lower Franconia since 1976 and was district chairman from 1993 to 2011. During this time he was also a member of the presidium and the state executive committee of the CSU. He has been honorary chairman of the district association since 1993 and of the district association since 2011.

Member of Parliament

Glos belonged to the city council of Prichsenstadt from 1972 to 1978 and from 1975 to 1993 the district council of the district of Kitzingen .

From 1976 to 2013 he was a member of the German Bundestag . From 1987 to 1990 he was chairman of the parliamentary group on finance and at the same time the finance and tax policy spokesman for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. From 1990 to the end of 1992 he was deputy group chairman for the economy, transport, medium-sized businesses and agriculture sector . From January 22, 1993 to November 21, 2005 he was chairman of the CSU regional group and thus first deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, the longest uninterrupted incumbent in the history of the regional group.

Glos has always entered the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the constituency of Schweinfurt . In March 2012, he announced that he would no longer run in the 2013 federal election. Anja Weisgerber became his successor in the Bundestag constituency .

Public offices

Michael Glos at the JU state assembly 2005 in Schweinfurt

Glos was appointed as Federal Minister of Economics and Technology in the government that was formed by Angela Merkel after the 2005 general election ( Merkel I cabinet , a grand coalition). In this office he was seen as a representative of a conservative economic policy; he rarely appeared in the public eye.

On February 7, 2009, he unexpectedly announced his readiness to step down as Federal Minister. Media reported that he had given the new beginning in the CSU and his age as reasons in a letter to the CSU chairman Horst Seehofer . Seehofer was initially against the resignation, but agreed the next day. On February 9, 2009, Glos officially asked Chancellor Angela Merkel to be released. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg , General Secretary of the CSU, was proposed as his successor on February 9, 2009 . On February 10, 2009, Glos was retired from office and Guttenberg succeeded him.

In an interview in 2011 he said in retrospect that he had been taken by surprise by his appointment as Minister of Economics in autumn 2005 and that he was not prepared for the task: “At the time, I didn't even know exactly where this Economics Ministry was. I even lived nearby but never cared. I had little idea what the duties of this ministry are, what it has to take care of. "

Other engagement

Glos is a member of the Europa-Union parliamentary group of the German Bundestag and the board of trustees of the Young Leaders Initiative Germany-Russia - The New Generation . While he was chairman of the CSU regional group, he was the curator of the New Social Market Economy Initiative .

Private

Michael Glos is Catholic, married and has two children.

Awards

• 1986: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 1989: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
• 1990: Golden Ring of Honor of the Kitzingen district
• 1992: Bavarian Order of Merit
• 1996: Large Federal Cross of Merit
• 2001: Great Gold Medal of Honor with the Star for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 2005: Medal for special services to Bavaria in a United Europe
• 2008: Environmental Dinosaur of the Year - negative award from the Naturschutzbund Deutschland , awarded as a criticism of the Minister's environmental and climate policy.
• 2008: German Mittelstand Prize from markt-intern-Verlag
• 2008: Georg Schulhoff Prize
• 2008: Ring of Honor of German Craftsmen
• 2008: Great Golden Decoration on Ribbon for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 2010: Bavarian Constitutional Medal in Gold
• 2010: Polar Star Order of Mongolia for services to German-Mongolian relations, highest award for foreigners
• 2011: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit "Bernardo O'Higgins" , Chile ( Order of Freedom)
• 2014: Central Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit

Cabinets

• Merkel I cabinet

Web links

Commons : Michael Glos  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikiquote: Michael Glos  - Quotes

• Michael Glos website
• Biography at the German Bundestag

• Interview , Focus , August 13, 2011
• Dossier at Spiegel Online
• Michael Glos on parliamentwatch.de
• "Master miller remains master miller" (extensive interview with Reinhard Bingener and Timo Frasch on private and media issues), in: FAZ August 4, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bavaria: Glos is no longer running for the Bundestag . Southgerman newspaper. March 13, 2012. Archived from the original on February 12, 2013. Retrieved on November 14, 2012.
2. ↑ cf. Economy Minister Michael Glos offers resignation at reuters.com, February 7, 2009
3. ↑ cf. Seehofer rejects Glos' resignation at spiegel.de, February 7, 2009
4. ↑ cf. Union leaders want to let Glos go (tagesschau.de archive) at tagesschau.de, February 8, 2009
5. ↑ cf. Seehofer sends CSU talent Guttenberg to the Ministry of Economic Affairs at Spiegel Online , February 9, 2009 (accessed February 9, 2009)
6. ↑ "I saw colleagues die from alcohol" Spiegel Online, February 19, 2011.
7. ^ Board of Trustees. Germany-Russia - Die neue Generation eV, archived from the original on February 8, 2013 ; Retrieved May 19, 2014 . 
8. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
9. ↑ Naturschutzbund: Glos named "Dinosaur of the Year 2008". Die Welt , December 30, 2008, accessed May 19, 2014 . 
10. ^ German SME Award 2008 ( Memento from March 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ List of the award winners ( Memento from April 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), website of the Düsseldorf Chamber of Crafts, accessed on May 19, 2014
12. ^ Article in Deutsche Handwerkszeitung from January 1, 2005, accessed on November 11, 2011.
13. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
14. ↑ Note in: Federal Minister Ramsauer on a visit to Mongolia ( Memento from August 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Ulaanbaatar , accessed on November 11, 2011.
15. ↑ Announcement on the website of the Hanns Seidel Foundation eV on the occasion of the award of the order to Hans Zehetmaier, accessed on November 7, 2012.
16. ↑ Seven German politicians received the Hungarian Order of Merit . German Embassy Budapest. November 18, 2014. Archived from the original on April 6, 2015. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 26, 2014.