Paul Bauwens-Adenauer

Paul Bauwens-Adenauer (born April 19, 1953 in Cologne ) is a German building contractor and architect .

biography

Paul Adenauer was born as the grandson of the former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and was adopted in 1983 by the childless Paul-Ernst Bauwens by way of adult adoption. Since then he has had the surname "Bauwens-Adenauer". After graduating from high school , Adenauer studied architecture at the State Apostle High School in Cologne-Lindenthal, at the Technical University of Braunschweig and at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen . He then worked in an architectural office in Cologne. From 1982 he worked as a trainee in his adoptive father's company before taking over the management of the company in 1986.

From 2005 to 2015 he was President of the Cologne Chamber of Commerce and Industry and was active in committees of the IHK organization at state and federal level. Together with Ulrich Soénius, he is a board member of the entrepreneur for the Cologne region. V., who commissioned the urban development master plan for downtown Cologne in 2007. With his brother and co-partner in the Bauwens company Patrick Adenauer , he founded the Kölner Grün Foundation , of which he is a member of the board. Politically he is active as chairman of the economic council of the CDU in NRW.

politics

Bauwens-Adenauer was a member of the 13th Federal Assembly as a member of the 13th Federal Assembly nominated by the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia . In August 2010 he positioned himself as one of 40 prominent signatories of the Energy Policy Appeal , a lobbying initiative of the four major electricity companies to promote the extension of the service life of German nuclear power plants.

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• Biographical sticky note
• CV and interview ( Memento from July 22nd, 2010 in the Internet Archive )