Peter Spary

Peter Spary (born March 12, 1940 in Beuthen , Upper Silesia ) is a German association functionary and lobbyist .

Life

After his Abitur at Neusprachliches high school in 1960 in Bottrop Spary studied until 1964 at the Philosophical and at the Law and Political Science Faculty of the University of Saarland and at the Law and Political Science Faculty of the University of Innsbruck . After graduating as an economist in Innsbruck (grade awarded) in May 1964, he received his doctorate magna cum laude in 1967 as Dr. rer. oec. in Innsbruck . He has been married to Helga Spary, nee Hager, since August 1964 and has two grown daughters with her (born in 1965 and 1969).

Spary began his professional career in Bonn in 1964 as a research assistant at the Society for the Study of Structural Policy Issues. V. and was from 1967 to 1990 managing director of the medium- sized business group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group and from 1975 to 1990 also managing director of the medium-sized business association of the CDU / CSU. In addition to his role as managing partner of the Mittelstands-Verlagsgesellschaft between 1975 and 1993, he was also a lecturer in economic policy at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in North Rhine-Westphalia in Aachen from 1974 to 1984 . From 1990 to 2001 Spary was General Manager of the Federal Association of German Wholesalers and Foreign Trade . Associated with this were his managerial activities at the service and publishing company of the BGA, the insurance office of the German wholesale and foreign trade company VGA GmbH. Between 1995 and 1997 he was the managing director of the joint committee of the German commercial economy .

After resigning as General Manager of the Federal Association of German Wholesale and Foreign Trade, Spary founded the office for association and political communication Spary Network Communication (SNC) in 2002 , which he still heads today. Since 2002 he has also been the managing director of Gütegemeinschaft Brandschutz e. V. GBA , since 2006 executive member of the Presidential Board of the Fire Protection Association . From 2008 to 2018 he was a member of the supervisory board of the consumer cooperative in Berlin and the surrounding area . Since 2012 he has been a delegate of the board of the Association of the Down and Feather Industry eV VDV and of the Presidium of the European Down and Feather Association . From 2002 to 2016 Spary u. a. active for the Pro Eigenheim campaign, the Individual Heating Initiative, the GVA Gesamtverband Autoteile-Handel e. V., the German AIDS Foundation , the FernUniversität in Hagen , the Federal Association for Apartment Ventilation e. V. and the Association of Private Builders eV

About his work as a lobbyist he gave in October 2014 for the satirical -show today the ZDF in which he was dubbed as the "most powerful man suspected of Germany", unexpectedly comprehensive insight. The Internet portal abgeordnetenwatch.de chose him then to showpiece his campaign against lobbying MPs and bribery.

voluntary work

Spary was and is doing a lot of voluntary work, for example:

• Association for the promotion of the competitive economy , executive board member from 1980 to 1995 and since 2002
• German-Hungarian Society in the Federal Republic of Germany , President from 1999 to 2019, Honorary President since 2019
• German Africa Foundation , treasurer, then legal advisor and member of the presidium until 2017
• German Africa Foundation, member of the Board of Trustees since 2019
• Friends of the German Africa Foundation, member of the board of trustees and treasurer
• German-Jordanian Society , Vice President since 2002
• German-Mozambican Society , Vice President since 1994
• German-Uzbek Society , Vice President since 2002
• German Chinese Society - Friends of Taiwan , member of the Advisory Board since 2004
• German-Ukrainian Society for Economy and Science , Secretary General since 2005
• German-Ukrainian Forum , member of the board since 2013
• Mérite Européen - Friends and Sponsors Germany , Vice President and Treasurer since 1995
• European Association of Self-Employed Germany , Vice President since 2007
• German-Albanian business association , member of the executive committee since 1994
• Study society for SME issues , member of the scientific advisory board
• Headquarters for Combating Unfair Competition , member of the Advisory Board since 1986
• German-Arab Friendship Society , member of the advisory board since 2008
• Colloquium Humanum - Forum for international encounters , member of the advisory board since 2010
• Center for Foreign Trade Law at the University of Münster , member of the Advisory Board since 1998
• Ars Dormiendi e. V. , Honorary President since 2017
• German-Portuguese industry and trade association , Chairman of the Advisory Board since 1996

honors and awards

Spary has received the following awards for his work:

• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (1983)
• Great Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria (1991)
• German SME Award (1987)
• Mérite Européen in silver from the Fondation du Mérite Européen (1990)
• Mérite Européen in gold from the Fondation du Mérite Européen (2017)
• Handicraft mark in gold of the Central Association of German Handicrafts (1990)
• Cross of Merit First Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1997)
• National Order of the Lion in the Officer Class of the President of the Republic of Senegal (1997)
• Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2007)
• Award of an honorary doctorate by the Ukrainian Free University in Munich (2010)
• Appointment as honorary professor at the Wisconsin International University in Kiev (2012), today Ukrainian-American Concordia University (UACU)
• Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2019)

Web links

• Own website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ today show from October 30, 2014, from min 1'22
2. ↑ cf. this z. B. [1]