Peter Harry Carstensen

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Peter Harry Carstensen, 2010

Peter Harry Carstensen (born March 12, 1947 in Elisabeth-Sophien-Koog on Nordstrand ) is a German politician ( CDU ). From 2005 to 2012 he was Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein .

education and profession

(Former) residence of Peter Harry Carstensen in Elisabeth-Sophien-Koog

After graduating from high school in 1966 at the Hermann-Tast-Gymnasium in Husum , Carstensen, the son of a farmer, did an agricultural internship and then from 1968 to 1973 studied agricultural sciences in Kiel , which he completed with a degree in agricultural engineering. During his studies he became a member of the striking association Landsmannschaft Troglodytia in the Coburg Convent (left 1998). In 1976 the second state examination for teaching followed. He then worked as an agriculture teacher at the Bredstedt Agricultural School and as an economic consultant at the Schleswig-Holstein Chamber of Agriculture until 1983 .

Carstensen was a member of the supervisory board of CG Nordfleisch AG (today Vion Food Hamburg) until his candidacy for Prime Minister . Peter Harry Carstensen has been the chairman of the supervisory board of nordic hotels AG since October 2012. The Kiel hotel chain currently operates 21 hotels across Germany.

family

Peter Harry Carstensen is married and has two daughters by his first wife Maria, who died in 1996. His younger daughter is the ceramicist Anja-Christina Carstensen. In August 2004, the Bild newspaper looked for a new wife for Carstensen with his consent. In retrospect, he thinks this action was a mistake. On March 12, 2007 - his 60th birthday - Carstensen introduced the lawyer Sandra Thomsen, who was born in 1971, to the public as his new partner. Two and a half years later, on December 31, 2009, the two married in the Friesenstube of the Inselhotel Arfsten in Wrixum . On June 26th 2010 the church wedding took place in the Westenseer Catharinenkirche .

Political party

Peter Harry Carstensen 2008

Carstensen has been a member of the CDU since 1971. From 1986 to 1992 he was chairman of the CDU district association in North Friesland . Since July 2000 he has been deputy chairman, since June 2, 2002 then state chairman of the CDU in Schleswig-Holstein .

Carstensen was the CDU's top candidate for the 2005 state elections . Under his leadership, the CDU achieved 40.2 percent of the vote, the best result since Uwe Barschel resigned in 1987, was the strongest parliamentary group for the first time since 1983 and was able to take over government responsibility in Schleswig-Holstein in a coalition with the SPD . From March 1, 2005 until his election as Prime Minister on April 27, 2005, he was chairman of the CDU parliamentary group. After the break of the grand coalition and the dismissal of all SPD ministers from the state government, he led his party to the early state elections in 2009 . After the quarrels in the last legislative period, the CDU under Carstensen received the worst result (31.5 percent) in the election since 1950, but could continue to provide the state government with the FDP . On August 30, 2010, however , the state constitutional court ruled that the state electoral law was unconstitutional and ordered a new state parliament election for 2012. Then Carstensen handed over the CDU state chairmanship on September 18, 2010 to the CDU parliamentary group chairman in the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament, Christian von Boetticher . In addition, Carstensen decided not to run again for the early election of the state parliament , which was scheduled for May 6, 2012 . His successor became Torsten Albig after the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 2012 resulted in a change of government .

MP

From 1983 Carstensen was a member of the German Bundestag . In the 13 . In the 14th and 14th electoral term (1994 to 2002) he was chairman of the committee for food, agriculture and forestry and, after the ministry was renamed in 2001, consumer protection, food and agriculture. He was a full member of this committee for the 15th electoral term (2002 to 2005) . Since October 2002 he has been chairman of the working group on nutrition, agriculture and consumer protection of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group .

Peter Harry Carstensen pulled 1998 on the national list Schleswig-Holstein and otherwise always as directly selected delegates of the constituency North Frisia - Dithmarschen-Nord in the Bundestag one. On April 20, 2005, Carstensen resigned his parliamentary mandate in the course of his upcoming election as Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein.

From 2005 to 2012 he was a member of the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein .

Public offices

Carstensen at the conference of the Association of European Senates in Bern

In the election of the Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein in the constituent session of the state parliament on March 17, 2005, neither Carstensen nor the incumbent Heide Simonis achieved the required majority in four ballots; the election of a red-green minority government of Heide Simonis, tolerated by the SSW , with a majority of one vote would actually have been mathematically safe. Subsequently, however, negotiations were successfully conducted between the SPD and CDU to form a grand coalition . On April 27, 2005, Peter Harry Carstensen was finally elected as the new Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein in the fifth ballot with a majority of 54 votes (out of 59 votes in the grand coalition).

From November 1st, 2005 to October 31st, 2006, Carstensen was President of the Federal Council .

During the legislative period, the coalition headed by Carstensen was on the verge of failure several times. In autumn 2007, a break could only be avoided by the resignation of the SPD state chairman Ralf Stegner from the office of Schleswig-Holstein interior minister.

In mid-July 2009, the CDU parliamentary group decided on Carstensen's proposal to end the coalition with the SPD and to bring about new elections on September 27th parallel to the general election . The Prime Minister cited the loss of trust in the coalition partner as the reason. Since the two-thirds majority required to dissolve the state parliament failed due to resistance from the SPD, Carstensen put the vote of confidence, which was voted on on July 23. The SPD parliamentary group did not reject the new election plans in principle, but considered Carstensen's resignation to be the better way to achieve this goal. As expected, the vote of confidence was answered negatively with 37 out of 69 votes. The new elections for the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament took place parallel to the federal election on September 27, 2009.

As a consequence of the failed self-dissolution of the state parliament, Carstensen dismissed all SPD ministers from their offices in the state government on July 20, 2009 at the end of July 21, 2009. The management of the ministries concerned was divided among the remaining cabinet members, with Carstensen himself taking over responsibility for the Ministry of Justice, Labor and Europe as the successor to Uwe Döring .

After the new elections, Carstensen formed a coalition with the FDP . Although the opposition parties together had received more votes than the new government in the election, this was made possible due to a legally controversial distribution of overhang and compensatory mandates; an alternative distribution would have seen the CDU and FDP in the minority. On October 27, 2009, Carstensen was re-elected as Prime Minister with 50 of 95 votes and thus received one more vote than the new governing parties could unite. Later his coalition only had a majority of one vote. The distribution of seats in the state parliament was not lawful after the judgment of the state constitutional court of August 30, 2010, so that new elections had to be held by September 30, 2012 at the latest. The new elections took place on May 6, 2012. It was the second time that a government under Prime Minister Carstensen ended prematurely.

After this judgment, Carstensen announced that he would give up the CDU state chairmanship on September 18, 2010 and proposed Christian von Boetticher , the CDU parliamentary group leader in the Kiel state parliament, as his successor. Furthermore, he will not be drawn into the early election as the top candidate.

In autumn 2011 Carstensen took over the chairmanship of the Prime Minister's Conference . In the state elections on May 6, 2012 , the CDU received just under the most votes and exactly as many mandates as the SPD. Nonetheless, with votes from the SPD, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , SSW and at least two MPs from the ranks of the opposition (CDU, FDP, PIRATE ) on June 12, 2012 , the state parliament elected Torsten Albig as Prime Minister as successor to Carstensen.

On the proposal of the CDU, Carstensen became a member of the 16th Federal Assembly for the election of the German Federal President in 2017 . For personal reasons, however, he decided not to take part in the election.

On February 25, 2020, Carstensen was presented by the Minister of Education Karin Prien in the Jewish Museum in Rendsburg as the representative for Jewish life and against anti-Semitism.

Social Commitment

Carstensen is the patron of the Schleswig-Holstein initiative Schüler Helfen Leben , the state horticultural shows in Schleswig 2008 and Norderstedt 2011 and the family Christmas market Santa's Hof 2013 , which takes place in aid of needy children in Schleswig-Holstein. Carstensen is the spokesman for the “People's Initiative Relation to God”. From 2014 to July 2019 Carstensen was chairman of the board of trustees of the Gregor Mendel Foundation, which wants to sharpen awareness of the social significance of plant research and plant breeding.

Others

On November 23, 2007 Carstensen was seen in a guest role in the television series Der Landarzt .

Carstensen is listed in the Dutch company register as one of three directors of Peloponnesus BV , registered in Hoofddorp . According to the annual report, this company takes care of "the maintenance and dissemination of art and the operation of the Museum of Art on the West Coast on Föhr"; it is one of many companies in the Paulsen Group.

Honors

See also

Web links

Commons : Peter Harry Carstensen  - album with pictures, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: Peter Harry Carstensen  - on the news
Wikiquote: Peter Harry Carstensen  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ala / ddp / dpa: Peter Harry Carstensen: Marriage in the Friesenstube. In: Focus Online . December 31, 2009, accessed January 5, 2017 .
  2. ↑ http://www.ln-online.de/regional/2807947 (link not available)
  3. ↑ FAZ.NET with dpa: Unity in dispute. In: FAZ.net . July 15, 2009, accessed January 5, 2017 .
  4. ↑ netzeitung.de : SPD proposal for new elections rejected: Carstensen calls his resignation call “absurd” ( memento from July 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) , July 17, 2009
  5. ↑ kg: Schleswig-Holstein: Kiel Landtag withdraws Carstensen's trust. In: zeit.de . July 23, 2009. Retrieved January 5, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Prime Minister Peter Harry Carstensen dismisses social democratic ministers ( memento of June 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), press release of July 20, 2009.
  7. ↑ n-tv: 50 votes for Carstensen
  8. ↑ FAZ.NET with ddp: Carstensen: That welds together. In: FAZ.net . January 22, 2010, accessed January 5, 2017 .
  9. ^ Overhang mandates: Constitutional Court orders Schleswig-Holstein new elections. In: Spiegel Online . August 30, 2010, accessed January 5, 2017 .
  10. ↑ kev / dpa: Dachshund ill - Carstensen does not come to the federal presidential election . In: Spiegel Online. February 10, 2017. Retrieved February 12, 2017 .
  11. ^ State government of Schleswig-Holstein: Minister of Education Karin Prien introduces Peter Harry Carstensen as the representative for Jewish life and against anti-Semitism. Prien: "Jews and Jewish life belong to Schleswig-Holstein like waves, wind and dykes". February 25, 2020, accessed July 16, 2020 .
  12. ↑ "Everyone needs an ethical compass". In: shz.de. May 22, 2015, accessed January 5, 2017 .
  13. ↑ RELATION TO GOD FOR TOLERANCE AND DIVERSITY. In: kreuz-und-quer.de. October 9, 2015, accessed January 5, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Peter Harry Carstensen on gregor-mendel-stiftung.de
  15. ^ IMDb: The country doctor - The dream prince
  16. ↑ sueddeutsche.de November 8, 2017: Care and maintenance. The CDU politician Peter Harry Carstensen and the pharmaceutical entrepreneur Frederik Paulsen are closely linked. Possibly too tight.
  17. ↑ bundespraesident.de: Order of Merit for Peter Harry Carstensen accessed on March 17, 2013.
  18. ↑ uni-kiel.de: Former Prime Minister Carstensen receives an honorary doctorate , accessed on November 29, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Carstensen, Peter Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the State Parliament, Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Elisabeth-Sophien-Koog on north beach