Peter Clever

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Peter Clever (born January 5, 1955 ) is a German Ministerialdirektor a. D., since 2003 member of the executive board of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA) and since 2008 chairman of the administrative board of Deutsche Welle .

Life

After high school and military service, he studied economics, political science and sociology at the University of Cologne with a degree in economics. In 1979 he became assistant to Norbert Blüm MdB, to whom he personally worked until 1984 as office manager and press spokesman in the CDU / CSU parliamentary group , the Senate Department for Federal Affairs of the State of Berlin and the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMA).

Between 1985 and 1998 he headed three departments at the BMA: International Social Policy (1985–1994), Employment and Integration of Foreign Employees / Personnel in the BMA Division (1996–1997) and Labor Market Policy / Unemployment Insurance (1997–1998). From 1994–1996 he was a special advisor to the EU Commission in Brussels (Cabinet Commissioner Martin Bangemann). 1998–2003 he headed corporate communications for the Fundus Group in Cologne / Berlin.

In November 2003 he was elected by the Presidium of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA) as a member of the three-person BDA management board . There he is responsible for the labor market, European Union and international social policy as well as education / vocational training. Since December 2003 he has been the spokesman for the employers' bank on the administrative board of the Federal Employment Agency and its alternate chairman. In this role, he managed to dismiss Valerie Holsboer from the executive board of the Federal Agency in July 2019. On July 16, he then asked Hubertus Heil to be released from the administrative board.

2004–2008 he was a member of the Broadcasting Council of Deutsche Welle. In 2008 he moved from the Broadcasting Council to the Board of Directors of Deutsche Welle, which unanimously elected him chairman in September 2008. Clever is also a member of the European Economic and Social Committee of the European Union, where he is Vice President of the employers' group. He is also a member of the board of trustees of Aktion Deutschland Hilft , the alliance of aid organizations.

Clever is married to Birgit Over-Clever, with whom he has two grown sons.

Obstruction of a BpB publication

“With a lot of commitment” (Der Spiegel), Peter Clever prevented a publication by the Federal Agency for Civic Education “Economy and Society” from going on sale. The volume contains twelve “building blocks for school and extracurricular political education” written by different authors and was published in February 2015. In June 2015 Clever wrote a five-page letter to the President of the Federal Agency for Civic Education and a copy to the Federal Ministry of the Interior , to which the Federal Agency is formally subordinate, expressing his “alienation” about the publication, as entrepreneurship there would get off too badly: “The in We have known the ideological and biased accusations conveyed by your publication from interested circles for a long time. The fact that they are now being distributed and recommended by the Federal Agency for Civic Education is scandalous and unacceptable. ”The book corresponds to“ one-sided propaganda against the economy ”. Clever asked for the book to be taken out of distribution in this form, whereupon the Ministry of the Interior under Thomas de Maizière (CDU) asked the Federal Agency for Civic Education to stop selling the book.

The German Society for Sociology was shocked, the scientific advisory board of the BpB dealt with the case and voted with a large majority in favor of lifting the sales ban. The publication has been available again since November 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank Specht: The dispute over the only woman on the board of the Federal Employment Agency , in: www.handelsblatt.com, July 12, 2019.
  2. ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/bundesagentur-fuer-arbeit-peter-clever-verwaltungsrat-1.4526613
  3. ↑ https://wap.igmetall.de/streit-um-wirtschaft-in-der-schule-11077.htm
  4. ↑ http://arbeitgeber.de/www/arbeitgeber.nsf/id/BEC0C1AE8494AFB1C1257EEB0054D771
  5. ↑ Letter Clevers as a pdf on http://arbeitgeber.de/www/arbeitgeber.nsf/res/Brief-PC.pdf/$file/Brief-PC.pdf
  6. ↑ Bernd Kramer: Economy in the school: employer lobby stops teaching book. In: Spiegel Online . October 26, 2015, accessed June 10, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Clever, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Ministerial Director
DATE OF BIRTH 5th January 1955