Peter Radunski

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Peter Radunski, 1989

Peter Radunski (born March 13, 1939 in Berlin ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and political advisor . From 1991 he was Senator for Federal and European Affairs and from 1996 Senator for Science, Research and Culture until 1999 for the State of Berlin. He was also a member of the Berlin House of Representatives from 1999 to 2001 .

Education and employment

education

Radunski graduated from the Friedrich-Ebert-Schule in Berlin in 1958 . From 1958 to 1967 he studied law , history, Romance studies and political science in Berlin , Bonn and Strasbourg . In 1967 he passed his diploma examination at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin .

Employment

In addition to his studies, he worked from 1964 to 1968 as a press and policy officer on the RCDS federal board. From 1965 to 1967 as a consultant for the Berlin Visitor Service in the Federal Ministry for All-German Issues . In 1967 he became the first full-time federal manager of the RCDS. From 1967 to 1969 he was deputy head of the Scientific Institute of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation . After this activity he worked as head of the division for political issues in the Hessian state association of the CDU. From 1971 to 1973 he was a department head for special use in the CDU federal office. He then worked from 1973 to 1981 as Head of Department III Public Relations in the CDU federal office in Bonn. From 1981 to 1991 he was the federal executive director of the CDU until he was appointed Senator of the State of Berlin in 1991. In 1992 he was given a teaching position at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin on the subject of election campaign organization . Furthermore, in 1995 he held a visiting professorship for political science at the University of Innsbruck .

politics

Peter Radunski entered the ring of Christian Democratic Students in 1961 during his studies . Four years later in 1995 he joined the CDU and Junge Union . During his studies at the Free University of Berlin, he was part of the so-called K-Gruppe (group of the right wing of the CDU) together with Peter Kittelmann , Eberhard Diepgen , Klaus-Rüdiger Landowsky , Heinrich Lummer and others.

From 1982 to 1990 Radunski was a member of the ZDF television council , 2001 to 2003 a member of the broadcasting council of the SFB (Berlin). Since 2005 he has been a member of the advisory board of the magazine politik & kommunikation , the magazine for political advice and the ProDialog initiative.

Public offices

In 1991 he was appointed Senator for Federal and European Affairs of the State of Berlin. Then he was from 1996 to 1999 Senator for Science, Research and Culture and member of the Federal Council as a voting member of Berlin anyway member of the mediation committee . After resigning as a senator for health reasons, he was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives from 1999 to 2001 .

As a Senator for Science, he was the initiator of the university contracts, which today form the basis of the relationships between many state governments and their universities. As a Senator for Culture , he published a comprehensive review of Berlin's cultural policy (Kreisepapier). He was chairman of many foundation and supervisory boards, u. a. Prussian Palaces and Gardens , Topography of Terror , City Museum , Berlin Gallery and Bröhan Museum . He was also chairman of the boards of trustees of all universities and technical colleges.

Policy advice

Radunski was a member of the Political Bureau of the European People's Party (EPP) from 1983 to 1992 . From 1987 to 1996 he was also the head of the EDU election campaign commission ( European Democratic Union ). He managed all of the CDU's Bundestag and European election campaigns from 1976 to 1990. From the federal office, Radunski helped shape almost all of the CDU's regional elections in the 1970s and 1980s.

As a senior consultant at Publicis , he worked from 2001 to 2009 a. a. the following Prime Ministers advised: Erwin Teufel (Baden-Württemberg), Georg Milbradt (Saxony), Wolfgang Böhmer (Saxony-Anhalt) and Christian Wulff (Lower Saxony). He also advised the regional associations of Berlin , Bremen , Rhineland-Palatinate and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on their state elections. From 2002 to 2004, Radunski advised the new democratic parties in Central and Eastern Europe in preparation for the European elections. a. in Hungary , Poland , Estonia , Lithuania , the Czech Republic and Slovakia .

Trivia

Partly appreciative, partly polemical, Radunski was dubbed “Kugelblitz” and “Gypsy baron” in Berlin media during his time as a senator.

Federal Cross of Merit

In 2009 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class .

literature

Web links

Commons : Peter Radunski  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Tabular curriculum vitae: Peter Radunski. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, March 6, 2014, accessed on August 25, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Peter Radunski, History. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, March 12, 1939, accessed on August 25, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Axel Bahr: Senators in the Tagesspiegel test - Peter Radunski was more concerned with culture and less with science. Der Tagesspiegel, October 8, 1999, accessed on August 25, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Dirk Krampitz: In the Palace of Desires. WELT, August 6, 2006, accessed on August 25, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Radunski, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Senator from Berlin, MdA, political advisor
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin