Monika Hohlmeier

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Monika hollow Meier (* 2 July 1962 in Munich as Monika Strauss ) is a German politician of the CSU . From October 6, 1998 to April 15, 2005, she was Bavarian State Minister for Education and Culture . She has been a member of the European Parliament since 2009 .

Education and family

Franz Josef Strauss with daughter Monika on a 1980 election poster

Monika Hohlmeier is the daughter of the late Bavarian Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss and his wife Marianne Strauss , b. Zwicknagl. Her brothers are Max Josef Strauss (* 1959) and Franz Georg Strauss (* 1961). After the death of her mother Marianne Strauss in 1984, Monika Hohlmeier took over the company of her father on official occasions until his death in 1988.

Monika Hohlmeier was married to the auditor Michael Hohlmeier (born August 10, 1955 in Munich) since 1982 . With him she has a daughter and a son. The couple lived in Vaterstetten . On November 13, 2013, she filed for divorce. She has lived in Bad Staffelstein since then .

From 1968 to 1969 she attended the elementary school in Rott am Inn , from 1969 to 1972 the elementary school on Zielstattstrasse in Munich, from 1972 to her Abitur in 1981 the Dante-Gymnasium Munich. From 1981 to 1983 she completed an apprenticeship as a hotel clerk at the Eden-Hotel-Wolff in Munich. From 1985 to 1986 she attended the Foreign Language Institute of the City of Munich (FIM) with the language combination French and Spanish. Due to the birth of her daughter and her social tasks at the side of her father as well as in the Marianne Strauss Foundation , she left the FIM without a final exam.

Hohlmeier studied economics at the Fernuniversität Hagen , in 2008 she completed her basic studies.

politics

In 1976 she joined the Junge Union and in 1978 the CSU. In March 1990 she was elected to the parish council of Vaterstetten (1990–1996), and in September 1990 she was elected to the Bavarian state parliament for the first time . In 1993 she was elected deputy party chairman of the CSU and in 2003 as district chairman of Munich. In 2004 she resigned from this office after internal party disputes.

Ministry of Culture

From 1993 to 1998 she was State Secretary under Hans Zehetmair in the Bavarian State Ministry for Education, Culture, Science and Art.

After the state elections in 1998, the previous Ministry for Education, Culture, Science and Art was divided. Hohlmeier was appointed Bavarian State Minister for Education and Culture by Edmund Stoiber . The main content-related stations of her work were the introduction of the six-level secondary school and the secondary school leaving certificate at secondary schools, the expansion of technical and vocational schools as an equal path to higher education entrance qualification after secondary school leaving certificate, and the establishment of the first dual vocational school (vocational qualification + Technical diploma). The establishment of the Bavarian Education Pact Foundation , a cooperation between the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture and business enterprises, which aims to promote quality and innovation in education, attracted particular attention across Germany . In his government statement after the state elections in 2003, Prime Minister Stoiber surprisingly announced that Monika Hohlmeier would immediately shorten school time in Bavarian grammar schools from nine to eight years, which together with four years of primary school means a reduction in schooling from 13 to twelve years. The subject matter of the grammar school should be shortened so that it can be completed in eight instead of nine years. The pupils who are newly admitted to the grammar school and the pupil age group who were in the 5th grade in the 2003/2004 school year are affected.

A change in the freedom of learning materials planned in autumn 2004 , in which all school books would have to be paid for by the students, was dropped after massive protests by parents and the threat of a referendum . It has been replaced by a solution that is less of a burden on families' budgets. From September 2005 to July 2008 a book fee of 20 or 40 euros was levied from the students. The expected income was higher than the amount that the Free State of Bavaria had previously spent on school books. In February 2004 the travel allowance for schoolchildren was questioned. However, these savings plans were not pursued after the objection by the Bavarian Parents' Association.

criticism

The appointment of her press spokesman Peter Brendel as director of the grammar school in Pfarrkirchen brought Hohlmeier into the headlines in November 2004, as allegations of favoritism were raised and a competitor's suit led to a judicial review. The Regensburg Administrative Court initially declared the appointment to be ineffective. Since the beginning of 2005 the ministry has met the requirements of the administrative court and Brendel has been confirmed as headmaster. Furthermore, she is said to have promoted her acquaintance Monika Zeyer-Müller, daughter of Werner Zeyer , without sufficient qualifications to director of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Gymnasium in Schweinfurt .

On April 14, 2005, the former JU functionary Maximilian Junker accused the minister of education in the investigative committee of the Bavarian state parliament of having known at an early stage of falsified applications for membership and buying votes in the Munich CSU (see Munich CSU affair ): “Everyone knew who was it says above, that was Frau Hohlmeier ”. Thereupon the CSU parliamentary group leader Hans Podiuk in the Munich town hall also incriminated them heavily: “An abyss of lies and deception is revealed in the investigative committee”. When Podiuk discovered apparently forged applications for membership in December 2002, the minister prevented him from taking action against the forger Maximilian Junker. The SPD and the Greens then renewed their calls for resignation. After a conversation with Edmund Stoiber, Monika Hohlmeier resigned from her position as Bavarian Minister of Education on April 15, 2005. On April 20, 2005, Prime Minister Stoiber proposed the Eichstätter CSU state parliament member Siegfried Schneider in the CSU state parliament group as successor to Hohlmeier.

The Hohlmeier couple came under fire together from the end of the 1990s. Max Strauss had placed his brother-in-law in 1998 as a controller at the WABAG group of companies (economic analysis and consulting company) in Oberhaching . But Michael Hohlmeier had "left the company after a short period as a senior executive because he was convinced that the public prosecutor would come by at some point". From the end of 1999, the Munich I public prosecutor's office was investigating WABAG on suspicion of fraud and breach of trust. Michael Hohlmeier meanwhile worked for the media group of the Strauss friend Leo Kirch .

On August 6, 2004, Münchner Merkur raised new allegations against Monika Hohlmeier. Her ministry is said to have financed the extension of the visually impaired center in Unterschleißheim for around 8.5 million euros, while her husband had previously been appointed deputy director there. Other school buildings fell victim to the austerity measures at the same time. "Ministry spokesman Thomas Höhenleitner denied any inaccuracy," wrote the star after a dpa / Reuters report on August 6, 2004, "the approval for the extension building" had already existed before Michael Hohlmeier moved to the facility. For weeks the minister has had to defend herself against several allegations, among other things because of possible amalgamations of the party and ministerial office. "

After the resignation

On July 20, 2004, Monika Hohlmeier announced that she would retire from her position as district chairwoman of the Munich CSU in September of the same year because of the "double burden as minister and CSU district chief". She had previously come under pressure from allegations from the CSU that she was deeply involved in the “Munich CSU affair”. In a crisis meeting of the Munich CSU leadership on July 16, 2004, Monika Hohlmeier also “threatened her internal party opponents to use dossiers about her, according to participants. With the words 'Well, there is something against each of you' she put a green plastic folder on the table ”. When this became known to the public, she had to hand over the chairmanship of the Munich CSU to her vice-president Otmar Bernhard on July 23, 2004 . However, due to her parliamentary immunity, Hohlmeier was spared a public prosecutor's investigation of her possibly criminally relevant action.

Demands for resignation and indications that this affair was very detrimental to a ministerial office for education, which required a certain exemplary character, received no corresponding reaction. Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber in particular was accused of hesitation: "In the case of Hohlmeier, however, Stoiber has been silent for a long time - too long, many in the CSU believe". But at the end of 2004 "the air is now getting thin in our own ranks". “Shortly before the parliamentary investigation into Hohlmeier began, Edmund Stoiber criticized her education policy with unusually sharp harshness. The Munich CSU board should also insist on her resignation as minister. ”Four months later, the subheading in an agency report reads“ Stoiber hires backing ”.

In June 2005, the CSU parliamentary group refused Monika Hohlmeier a seat on the budget committee, which was instead given to the Lower Bavarian MP Bernd Sibler . The agricultural scientist Maximilian Lehmer was nominated by his party for the constituency of Erding-Ebersberg .

On July 29, 2005, Monika Hohlmeier rejected all allegations before the investigative committee of the Bavarian state parliament in connection with internal party election fraud: “You neither supported election fraud in the Munich CSU nor extorted party colleagues, said Hohlmeier sometimes with tears. She pushed ahead with clearing up the election affair, but the Munich CSU was 'an intriguing barn' in which 'there was only bogus and intrigues'. "

Monika Hohlmeier informed the press on July 31, 2005 by fax that she had left the Munich CSU district association and had switched to the local association of her place of residence in Vaterstetten: "The letter says, after consulting with the district chairwoman Christa Stewens and the Upper Bavarian District chairman Alois Glück decided weeks ago to end her work in the Munich district association, according to the testimony to the investigative committee. But of course she will continue to be available to the citizens in her district of Milbertshofen as a member of parliament who fights with undiminished commitment for their interests'. "

Return to politics

In the spring of 2006 Monika Hohlmeier had the opportunity to “carefully try to re-enter active politics”. After Otmar Bernhard was appointed Bavarian State Secretary for the Environment in December 2005, he gave up his seat on the influential Budget Committee in January 2006. Monika Hohlmeier moved up to the coveted post: “She is less often in the headlines. That is deceptive: According to plan, the 43-year-old is on the stony way back in the first row. "

On May 12, 2006, Monika Hohlmeier designed the statement to the committee of inquiry named after her as an appearance with a high level of media attention. She was asked about irregularities in the organization of the Bavarian cultural program for the 2006 World Cup (see "Task Force" affair ). Her aggressive handling of the accusations and criticism raised there, which she exercised at a parliamentary group meeting of the CSU policy in Berlin, gave rise to speculation within the party: “More and more colleagues trust the Strauss daughter to make a political comeback ; she inherited the standing qualities of dad. "

In the state elections in Bavaria in 2008 she ran for 18 years as a candidate on the list for the district of Upper Bavaria for the Bavarian state parliament , but failed because of the poor election results of the CSU, although she started in 10th place and got the fourth most second votes.

Monika Hohlmeier has been a member of the Lichtenfels District Council since 2014.

European Parliament

Monika Hohlmeier was the top candidate of the CSU district association of Upper Franconia for the European elections in 2009. At times she was also the list leader of the entire CSU European list.

On June 7, 2009, Hohlmeier was elected to the European Parliament.

In the EU Parliament, Hohlmeier is a member of the budget committee , the special committee against organized crime, corruption and money laundering and the delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China. She is a deputy on the Committee on Budgetary Control , the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council. Hohlmeier is domestic policy spokeswoman for the EPP Group .

On November 27, 2018, the Coburg public prosecutor's office called on the European Parliament to lift Hohlmeier's immunity. She is accused of having left an accident site without permission ( accident escape ) after damaging another vehicle while parking her vehicle.

Awards and memberships

Monika Hohlmeier was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon on May 13, 1988 . On June 20, 2001, she was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit . She is the patron of the German Multiple Sclerosis Society, State Association of Bavaria (DMSG), together with her brothers the founder and deputy chairwoman of the board of trustees of the Marianne Strauss Foundation, member of the board of trustees of the Pfennigparade Foundation , chairwoman of the state committee of readiness at the Bavarian Red Cross , member of the board of the Bavarian Red Cross, Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees of the Bavarian Memorials Foundation and member of the Board of Trustees of the German Hospice Foundation.

In November 2006, after protests by the state parliament opposition, Hohlmeier decided not to be awarded the Bavarian Constitutional Medal . It is awarded by the Bavarian State Parliament to people who have rendered outstanding services to the Bavarian constitution. Members of the state parliament usually receive the medal after twelve years of membership in the Bavarian state parliament. State Parliament President Alois Glück accepted the waiver. On December 1, 2014, Hohlmeier was awarded the Constitutional Medal by State Parliament President Barbara Stamm .

From 1999 to the beginning of 2007 she was a member of the supervisory board of TSV 1860 Munich . Since 2001 she has also been on the supervisory board of the association's limited partnership. She was accused of only watching the negative financial development of the association instead of having acted, whereupon she was denied discharge as a member of the supervisory board with 77:90 votes at the delegates' meeting on December 2, 2006. On February 8, 2007, she resigned from her association offices.

On June 4, 2013, Hohlmeier was elected to the BayWa Supervisory Board .

Web links

Commons : Monika Hohlmeier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Hohlmeier: Divorce after 31 years of marriage . Munich Mercury. November 13, 2013. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  2. ↑ The marriage ended after 31 years: Strauss daughter Hohlmeier is getting a divorce . Focus Online. November 14, 2013. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  3. Ralf Müller: Wildly determined to the top . Kölnische Rundschau. May 16, 2008. Archived from the original on November 13, 2013. Retrieved on February 1, 2017.
  4. Peter Issig: "Comeback? I was never gone" . World N24. June 8, 2008. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  5. Sebastian Beck: Parents should pay for school books . ( Memento from October 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 23, 2004
  6. Sebastian Bräuer: Call for Protest ( Memento from October 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), sueddeutsche.de, September 24, 2004
  7. Christine Burtscheidt: The Trick with Book Money ( Memento from October 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) , sueddeutsche.de, September 30, 2004
  8. CSU: Parents should pay for their children's school books . Munich Mercury. April 16, 2009. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  9. ^ Bavarian Parents' Association: Press release by the Deputy State Chairman Prof. Dr. W. Magin at the beginning of the 2004/05 school year ( memento from October 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) , September 15, 2004
  10. Hohlmeier's ex-spokesman is to remain director ( memento of November 23, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) ; Bayerischer Rundfunk , November 18, 2004
  11. ↑ The appointment of Hohlmeier's ex-spokesperson as school director is invalid . Munich Mercury. April 19, 09. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  12. Brendel remains - also in the new selection process clearly the best applicant for the school management at the Gymnasium Pfarrkirchen ( Memento from March 10, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) , Bavarian Ministry of Culture, press release No. 23 from February 4, 2005
  13. Hans-Peter Reitzner: Monika Hohlmeier's Strauss system - self-glory brings a minister into distress . August 6, 2004. 
  14. Monika Hohlmeier resigns . In: Die Zeit , No. 16/2005
  15. ^ "Abyss of Lies and Deception" . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. April 15, 2005. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  16. Dieter Schröder: In the fatherland. Franz Josef Strauss was a role model for his children. That was when the problems began for Max, Monika and Franz Georg. In: Berliner Zeitung , July 24, 2004.
  17. New trouble for Monika Hohlmeier ( memento from October 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) , dpa / Reuters / Stern , August 6, 2004
  18. a b Hohlmeier has to hand over the Munich CSU chairmanship . Southgerman newspaper. December 8, 2008. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  19. Peter Fahrenholz: Stoiber's bite inhibition . Southgerman newspaper. May 11, 2010. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  20. Heavy ruffle from the boss . Southgerman newspaper. May 19, 2010. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  21. Hohlmeier gives up . Southgerman newspaper. May 11, 2010. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  22. Lower Bavaria let Hohlmeier run up , Münchner Merkur, June 10, 2005
  23. Hohlmeier complains of the Munich intriguing stalls . Spiegel Online . July 29, 2005. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  24. Berthold Neff: Hohlmeier resigns from the Munich CSU . ( Memento of October 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) sueddeutsche.de, August 1, 2005 5:40 p.m.
  25. Peter Issig: On the way to a comeback . In: Welt am Sonntag , February 5, 2006
  26. Monika Hohlmeier returns . Augsburg General. January 26, 2006. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  27. On the stony way back . Munich Mercury. April 26, 2009. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  28. Sebastian Fischer: Moni's eruptive upheaval situation . Mirror online. May 12, 2006. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  29. Cornelia Wohlhüter: Is Monika Hohlmeier planning a comeback? ( Memento from January 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: Passauer Neue Presse
  30. Monika Hohlmeier: Strauss daughter loses mandate . Focus Online. September 29, 2008. Retrieved February 3, 2017.
  31. European Parliament: Hohlmeier looks at Brussels . Focus Online. December 13, 2008. Retrieved February 3, 2017.
  32. Monika Hohlheimer . European Parliament. Retrieved February 3, 2017.
  33. EPP brings Greece's Schengen exclusion into play . World online . December 17, 2016. Retrieved February 3, 2017.
  34. Report on the request for waiver of the immunity of Monika Hohlmeier. europarl.europa.eu
  35. Hohlmeier waives the honor ( memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Bayerischer Rundfunk, November 13, 2006
  36. Constitutional Medal 2014 Honoring (PDF) Bavarian State Parliament. Retrieved February 3, 2017.
  37. Football - 2nd Bundesliga: 1860 elects a new supervisory board at the second attempt . Focus Online. December 12, 2006. Retrieved January 23, 2018.
  38. Monika Hohlmeier's curriculum vitae . ElectionsMeter. November 20, 2013. Retrieved January 23, 2018.
  39. This is where success grows (PDF) BayWa AG. June 4, 2013. Retrieved February 3, 2017.
  40. The BayWa Group's Supervisory Board . BayWa AG. Retrieved February 3, 2017.