Michael Westhagemann

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Michael Westhagemann (born August 9, 1957 in Beckum ) is a German industrial manager . Since November 1, 2018, he has been the independent Senator for Economic Affairs in Hamburg. From 2018 to 2020, as President, he headed an authority for economics, transport and innovation in Senate Tschentscher I and since June 2020 an authority for economics and innovation in Senate Tschentscher II .

Life

Westhagemann was born and raised in Beckum, Münsterland. In his youth he was with the boy scouts and was nominated as a swimmer for the national team. However, his parents refused the intensive training. He trained as a power - electrician and studied computer science at the University of Applied Sciences in Paderborn .

First he worked for Nixdorf Computer AG until 1992 , including at several foreign stations in Asia. After the takeover of Nixdorf by the Siemens group, he held various managerial positions there, such as regional business manager for Middle East and Africa. Most recently, from 2003 to 2017, he was CEO of the North Region, based in Hamburg , where he was particularly responsible for the wind energy sector. In addition, he was Chairman of the Hamburg Industry Association for many years and was Vice-President of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce until the Chamber of Commerce elections in spring 2017 .

In 2013, during the referendum on the repurchase of the Hamburg energy networks from Vattenfall , Westhagemann was the spokesman for the action alliance "No to buy the network", consisting of 15 chambers, associations, parties and associations, which raised the mood against the remunicipalisation of the energy networks . In the year of the referendum, he saw the costs of taking over 100 percent of the electricity, gas and district heating networks in no reasonable relation to their benefits.

From 2017 Westhagemann worked as an independent management consultant. Since 2017 he has been a member of the supervisory board of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), chairman of the Association for the Promotion of the Cluster for Renewable Energies in Hamburg (EEHH) and a member of the university council of the Hamburg University of Technology .

Westhagemann is married and has two children.

Since 2019 Westhagemann has been on the board of the “Hammerbrooklyn - City of the Future” foundation, which was set up as part of the Hammerbrooklyn.DigitalCampus . He himself had to bring the initiators of the “Hammerbrooklyn” project together after a falling out.

Political offices

At the end of October 2018, he was presented by Hamburg's First Mayor Peter Tschentscher (SPD) as the successor to Frank Horch (independent). On November 1, he was confirmed and sworn in as Senator by the Hamburg citizenship of 118 votes cast with 74 against 42 with two abstentions. His first chosen tasks as President of the Authority for Economics, Transport and Innovation included a “traffic jam master plan” (a construction site coordination) for Hamburg's streets and a disempowerment of the Hamburg port authority HPA .

Westhagemann has also been a deputy member of the Federal Council since November 1, 2018 . He is a member of the agricultural policy and consumer protection , transport and economic committees . As the responsible senator, he was also a member of the Conference of Transport Ministers and the Conference of Economic Ministers of the Länder.

After the course of the continuation of the red-green coalition after the state election in 2020 in the Senate Tschentscher II , a new, independent authority for transport and mobility turn was created Westhagemann lost as a Senator for Economic Affairs, responsibility for transport policy . He has therefore been running a smaller authority for economy and innovation since June 2020, which, however, is still responsible for the port and the airport .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael Westhagemann is Senator of the Authority for Economics, Transport and Innovation. Retrieved November 1, 2018 .
  2. ↑ With St. George to St. George welt.de of October 6, 2007 (accessed December 18, 2018)
  3. ↑ https://www.hk24.de/share/flipping-book/3647644/flippingbook.pdf (accessed on December 18, 2018)
  4. ↑ Hamburgers vote for the buyback of the energy networks , spiegel.de of September 22, 2013
  5. ↑ "NO to buying the net!" - Protection Association of German Forest and Central Real Estate Committee strengthen the action alliance , bdi-hamburg.de of August 22, 2013 (accessed on December 18, 2018)
  6. ↑ "Industry is good for the city!" , Abendblatt.de of April 23, 2013 (accessed December 18, 2018)
  7. ↑ HHLA Supervisory Board Michael Westhagemann (accessed December 18, 2018)
  8. ↑ Michael Westhagemann - EIM Interim Management . In: EIM Interim Management . July 13, 2018 ( eim-interimmanagement.de [accessed November 1, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Short CV Michael Westhagemann , bundesrat.de (accessed on 18 December 2018)
  10. ↑ Hammerbrooklyn. DigitalCampus starts work. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Eva Eusterhus: Hammerbrooklyn: The box from which the future comes . In: THE WORLD . June 17, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed May 3, 2020]).
  12. ↑ Jana Werner: day of personal details in the citizenry . In: THE WORLD . November 2, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed December 18, 2018]).
  13. ↑ Peter Ulrich Meyer and Andreas Dey: Ex-Siemens manager becomes the new Senator for Economics . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed October 31, 2018]).
  14. ↑ Olaf Preuß: Successor to Frank Horch: Westhagemann becomes Hamburg's new Senator for Economics . In: THE WORLD . October 29, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed October 31, 2018]).
  15. ^ NDR: Westhagemann becomes the new Senator for Economics . ( ndr.de [accessed October 31, 2018]).
  16. ↑ Hamburg Port Authority New Senator for Economic Affairs removes power from the port authority , mopo.de of December 18, 2018
  17. ↑ Members of the Bundesrat , bundesrat.de (accessed December 18, 2018)
  18. ↑ Members of the Bundesrat , bundesrat.de (accessed December 18, 2018)
  19. ↑ Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg constituted , Senate Chancellery Hamburg , accessed on June 10, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Westhagemann, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager and politician (independent)
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Beckum