Philipp Rösler

Rösler during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos 2013

Signature of Philipp Rösler

Philipp Rösler (* 24. February 1973 in Khanh Hưng , South Vietnam ) is a former German politician ( FDP ), business leaders and current elected officials in supervisory boards .

From 2009 to 2011 he was Federal Minister of Health and from 2011 to 2013 Federal Minister of Economics , Vice Chancellor and FDP Federal Chairman . From 2014 to 2017 Rösler was managing director and board member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) foundation in Switzerland . From 2017 to the beginning of 2019 he headed the Hainan Cihang Charity Foundation in New York, the non-profit foundation of the conglomerate HNA .

Since 2019, Rösler has been a member of several supervisory boards of companies and organizations.

Life

Origin, education and profession

Rösler was born during the Vietnam War around February 24, 1973 - his exact date of birth is unknown and was only officially determined later - in the Vietnamese village of Khánh Hưng (now part of Sóc Trăng ). After his birth, he was given anonymous to a Catholic orphanage in what was then Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City ). There, at the age of nine months, the Rösler couple from Lower Saxony adopted him . As a result, he grew up in the Federal Republic of Germany from November 1973. The Rösler family of four with two biological daughters took him in as their third child and named him Philipp. When Philipp Rösler was four years old, his adoptive parents separated and he stayed with his adoptive father Uwe Rösler (1941–2016), a professional soldier , helicopter pilot and flight instructor in the Bundeswehr . The adoptive mother, a nurse , lived in Chile after the divorce . Rösler grew up in Hamburg , Bückeburg and Hanover . His childhood in Germany was happy, he did not experience any discrimination .

Rösler presented in 1992 at the humanistic Lutherschule Hannover the High School from. In 1992 he joined the German Armed Forces as a temporary soldier (SaZ 16) and medical officer candidate (SanOA) in the Navy . After basic training at the Mürwik Naval School in Flensburg - Mürwik and the subsequent training trip abroad with the sailing school ship Gorch Fock , he was released from service from 1993 to 1999 for a civilian degree in human medicine at the Hannover Medical School (MHH). During his medical studies he also studied philosophy and history for four semesters at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Hanover . After the 3rd state examination in 1999, he was an intern and began a five-year specialist training as an ophthalmologist at the specialist center of the German Armed Forces in Hanover, which he continued at the German Armed Forces Hospital in Hamburg . From 2001 the medical officer worked as a troop doctor in the on-site medical center in Hanover. In 2002, he was in Hamburg with a thesis on arrhythmias after heart operations and their drug treatment ( cardiac , thoracic and vascular surgery ) for Dr. med. PhD . In 2003 he left the armed forces prematurely after eleven years of service and broke off his ophthalmological training in order to concentrate on his work as an FDP state politician in Lower Saxony. Since his release he has held the rank of medical officer in the reserve . In 2011 , the reserve officer was the first German federal minister to take part in an official event (DVag) wearing a Bundeswehr uniform.

In April 2020, Rösler helped set up and coordinate a Covid-19 makeshift clinic at the Hannover Medical School , where he himself was trained as a doctor. The makeshift clinic was built on the premises of the Hanover Fair . The Vietnamese media reported on Rösler's involvement.

Party career

Philipp Rösler with Nicole Bracht-Bendt and Guido Westerwelle at the state representative assembly of the FDP Lower Saxony to draw up the state list for the 2009 federal elections

At the election party of the FDP on September 22nd, 2013 , Rainer Brüderle and Philipp Rösler commented on the poor performance of their party

Rösler joined the FDP and the Young Liberals in 1992 . In 1994 he was elected district chairman of the Young Liberals Hanover City. Since 1996 he has been a member of the state board of the FDP Lower Saxony. In the same year he became state chairman of the Young Liberals of Lower Saxony and remained so until 1999. From 2000 to 2004 he was Secretary General of the FDP in Lower Saxony. From 2001 to 2006 Rösler was a member of the regional assembly of the Hanover region and deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group there.

On May 5, 2005, at the 56th party congress of the FDP, he was elected member of the Federal Party's Presidium with 95 percent of the vote, the best individual result . At the state party conference on March 18, 2006, he was elected with 96.4 percent as the new state chairman of the Lower Saxony FDP. He thus succeeded Walter Hirche , who no longer ran after twelve years in office. At the federal party conference of the FDP in mid-June 2007 he was re-elected to the federal presidium of his party. He achieved the second-best result with over 88 percent of the delegate votes.

The state representative assembly of the FDP Lower Saxony elected him on July 8, 2007 in Braunlage with 96 percent as the top candidate for the Lower Saxony state election on January 27, 2008 . In his Landtag constituency Hannover-Döhren (constituency 24) he received 10.9 percent of the first votes on January 27, 2008. On April 19, 2008, he was confirmed in office as state chairman with 95 percent.

On May 13, 2011, Rösler was elected federal party chairman at the federal party conference in Rostock with 619 of 651 valid votes (95.08 percent) with ten abstentions and 22 no votes. On December 14, 2011, FDP general secretary Christian Lindner resigned. He said that he wanted to enable the FDP federal chairman Rösler to “prepare the important federal election 2013 with a new general secretary and thus make it a success for the FDP with new impulses”. Rösler made Patrick Döring Lindner's successor.

On September 23, 2013, Rösler announced his resignation as party chairman. He drew the consequences after his party was no longer represented in the Bundestag for the first time after the 2013 federal election. Christian Lindner was elected as his successor on December 7, 2013 .

Public offices

From 2003 to October 2009 Rösler was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament , and until February 2009 he was also chairman of the FDP parliamentary group. On February 18, 2009, Rösler succeeded Walter Hirche as Lower Saxony's Minister for Economics, Labor and Transport and Deputy Prime Minister of Lower Saxony.

On October 28, 2009, Rösler, who was not a member of the Bundestag, became Federal Minister of Health in the Merkel II cabinet . He was the youngest member of the cabinet until Kristina Schröder joined the cabinet. After his election as FDP party chairman, Rösler moved to the head of the Ministry of Economic Affairs on May 12, 2011 and was appointed Vice Chancellor on May 16, 2011 to succeed Guido Westerwelle . Daniel Bahr succeeded Rösler as Minister of Health.

World Economic Forum

In December 2013 it was announced that Rösler would be on the board of the World Economic Forum from February 20, 2014 . Klaus Schwab , the founder of the World Economic Forum, called Rösler just three days after the federal election. Rösler was responsible for the international government contacts of the World Economic Forum. In June 2014 he and a business delegation visited Berlin at the invitation of Chancellor Merkel and presented a new study by the World Economic Forum on the competitiveness of the European Union .

Hainan Cihang Charity Foundation

On November 8, 2017, it was announced that Rösler would be leaving the World Economic Forum at the end of the month and joining the Chinese conglomerate HNA to head its not-for-profit foundation, the New York- based Hainan Cihang Charity Foundation, established in July 2017 . This foundation holds 29.5% of the shares in the HNA Group. In the past two years, the group had spent $ 50 billion on acquisitions and acquired shares in logistics companies, hotels, banks and airlines. Because of the extensive takeovers and investments, high debt and an opaque group structure, HNA is under special observation by supervisors and banks. Rösler should now apparently court trust in the European market. Rösler wanted to move his family to Zurich in November 2017. He had negotiated that he could do part of his work for HNA from Zurich. On December 14, 2017, Rösler's appointment as first chairman of the Hainan Cihang Charity Foundation was announced. At the beginning of 2019 he left the Foundation, for which he gave family reasons, including the constant back and forth between the United States and Switzerland.

Holders of office in public and economic bodies

In his role as Federal Minister for Economics and Technology, Rösler was Chairman of the Board of Directors of KfW Bankengruppe in 2012 .

From 2008 Rösler was a member of the Central Committee of German Catholics . In November 2010 Rösler became chairman of the board of trustees of the Robert Enke Foundation . In April 2014, he was replaced by Stephan Weil in this role .

On July 6, 2012, Rösler became a member of the ZDF television council , replacing his party colleague Rainer Brüderle . His successor for the FDP on the ZDF television council was Christian Lindner.

Rösler has been a member of the Bertelsmann Stiftung's Board of Trustees since January 2018 .

Rösler has been a member of the supervisory board of Jacobs University Bremen since August 2018 .

In 2018, Rösler was appointed to the Supervisory Board of Siemens Healthineers.

Private

He became a member of the Catholic Church through his baptism in 2000 . Godmother was his girlfriend and later wife Wiebke Rösler (née Lauterbach), a doctor. The couple married in 2002, had twin daughters in 2008 and have lived in Switzerland since 2013.

Politics as Federal Minister for Health (2009-2011)

Concepts

Reforming the health system was the central task of German health policy . Rösler argued as Health Minister that a health premium of universal health insurance was preferable. In his inaugural address to the German Bundestag, he emphasized that solidarity in statutory health insurance currently ends at the income threshold. Income above the limit is not used for statutory health insurance. Wealthy citizens would also often switch from GKV to private health insurance (PKV). In Rösler's view, the balance between rich and poor is better off in tax and transfer systems than in health care. The burden on lower income groups caused by the health premium should also be absorbed by the tax system.

In February 2010, Rösler commented on his reform plans: “If I don't succeed in getting a sensible health system off the ground, then nobody will want me as health minister anymore. I take it for granted. ”In the media, this statement was mostly interpreted as an indirect threat of resignation.

On July 1, 2010, Rösler presented his concept for the introduction of a health premium. This included a lump sum averaging 30 euros, which every statutory health insurance insured should pay. However, due to the high bureaucratic effort, the social balance should not take place in the tax system, but rather within the health system. The contribution rates should be graded into up to six income-dependent groups. Low earners should pay a reduced contribution rate of 5%, while the highest income group would have to pay the maximum contribution rate for employees. The maximum contribution rate from employees should fall from 7.9% (employee contribution rate 7% plus special contribution 0.9%) to 7.3%. To this end, the special contribution should be abolished and the employer's contribution rate increased from 7% to 7.3%. The income on which the calculation is based should no longer only take into account wages, but should also be extended to other income such as rental income or interest income. Specifically, this would have meant that the income up to 3400 euros would either have been relieved or, in the worst case, the burden would have remained the same. For this, the income of 3400 euros up to the contribution assessment limit of 3750 euros would have been more heavily burdened. However, Rösler's reform project failed due to resistance from Horst Seehofer and the CSU .

On July 4, Rösler then presented another reform concept. This concept was ultimately implemented through the drug savings packages I and II and the 2011 health reform. In addition, Rösler criticized the CSU and accused it of criticizing, but not making an alternative proposal to compensate for the impending budget deficit of up to 11 billion euros in the health sector. Rösler rejected a suggestion from the CSU to extend the practice fees to every doctor's visit.

Drug Saving Package I (June 2010)

The pharmaceutical savings package I was passed on June 18, 2010 and came into force on August 1. It was part of the short-term measures against high drug prices. In addition, the manufacturer's discount for statutory health insurance (GKV) for all drugs without a fixed amount was increased from six to 16 percent. So that the pharmaceutical companies could not avoid the manufacturer discount through price increases, the drug prices for the GKV were frozen until the end of 2013 at the level of August 2009 ( price moratorium ). In order to offer a further incentive for general price reductions, it was also agreed that price reductions for a drug would be deducted from the manufacturer's discount for the GKV. However, this led some pharmaceutical companies to first raise their drug prices and then lower them again. They could then have the reduction in the second step taken into account. With this "swing in prices", these pharmaceutical companies wanted to get around the manufacturer's discount for some drugs. This loophole was closed with the 2011 health reform and the corresponding pharmaceuticals were given an additional manufacturer discount of 4.5% to 20.5% in 2011.

Medicines Savings Package II and Health Reform 2011 (November 2010)

Health insurance contributions and additional contributions

As part of the health reform passed in November 2010, the general (reduced) health insurance contribution for statutory health insurance was increased from 14.9% (14.3%) to its previous level of 15.5% (14.9%) on January 1, 2011 . Previously, due to the financial crisis in 2007 as part of the economic stimulus package II , it had been reduced by 0.6%, financed with tax subsidies from the federal budget . The employers' share of the contribution rate of 15.5% was 7.3% and was frozen at this level.

Future cost increases should be compensated by the insured person through additional contributions for each individual health insurance fund . Rösler justified this with the fact that in the future rising health costs should no longer lead to an increase in ancillary wage costs . With the health reform, the limit on additional contributions was lifted. So that low-wage earners are not overwhelmed, social compensation has been introduced if the additional contribution exceeds 2% of gross income. Unemployment benefit II recipients, recipients of social assistance, military and community service, students, trainees, mini-jobbers and disabled people were excluded from the additional contribution. In the event of the introduction or increase of additional contributions, the insured received a special right of termination .

Law on the reorganization of the pharmaceutical market (AMNOG)

With the reform, the law for the reorganization of the pharmaceutical market (AMNOG) was passed. The reform made funds available to reduce drug prices. Among other things, Rösler was the first Federal Health Minister to enforce the drug benefit assessment ordinance (also known as “early benefit assessment”) against pharmaceutical companies in Germany. The pharmaceutical companies can no longer set the prices of new drugs freely and have to prove the additional benefits for new drugs. You are obliged to agree the price of the drug with the statutory health insurance within one year . If no agreement can be reached, a central arbitration board decides on the drug price. In this process, the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) and the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) can be commissioned as independent bodies to assess the additional benefit of drugs. Another important point is that the responsibility for inexpensive drugs has been transferred more and more from the doctors to the health insurance companies. The health insurance companies have z. B. with the drug discount agreements more means for price regulation. The bonus-malus regulation is thus lifted and the doctors are relieved. The regulation on prescribing special drugs (second opinion) has also been abolished.

With the AMNOG, it was also passed that antitrust law applies to voluntarily concluded contracts by health insurers and service providers. Exceptions to this are collective bargaining agreements and contracts that the health insurances or their associations are obliged to conclude, such as the contractual obligations for the supply of therapeutic products and aids . This change should prevent the restriction of competition by the health insurance companies. These came together in associations and were therefore in a very strong negotiating position. The health insurance companies criticized this change in the law, arguing that ultimately the insured benefited from the discount agreements. The Cartel Office calmed down and made it clear that the AMNOG would allow the practiced system of discount contracts as long as the health insurance companies did not exaggerate.

Private health insurance

With the 2011 health reform, the drug discounts were also extended to private health insurance. In addition, the three-year period introduced in 2007 has been abolished. Insured persons no longer have to be above the compulsory insurance limit for three consecutive years , but can switch to private health insurance if the limit is exceeded once.

GP contracts

In the health care reform in 2011, it has been written that fee increases for primary care physicians are not allowed to continue rising faster than the other doctors. The remuneration must also be more based on the general fee level for medical care. The GP contracts already concluded remain unaffected. Rösler explained this by saying that the population would not accept it if not all groups contributed to the consolidation of the health budget. The fees of family doctors had risen sharply in previous years and in 2009 even overtook the fees of specialists . Nevertheless, in the run-up to the reform, general practitioner associations expressed their displeasure with the planned changes. GPs threatened Rösler open with the return of approval from health insurance if it is not to despair of his plans and went on strike. However, the Federal Ministry of Health did not respond to their request and the family doctors finally gave up their protest after the Bavarian Family Doctors Association had not found a 60% majority among its members for a collective exit from the health insurance system.

Further regulations

• The fee increases for contract doctors were limited for the years 2011 to 2012.
• The administrative costs of the health insurance funds were frozen at the 2009 level for 2011 and 2012.
• The already agreed expenses for the additional services provided by the hospitals will be reduced by 30% for 2011.
• As of January 1, 2012, the premium for pharmaceutical wholesalers will drop to 70 cents per pack plus 3.15% of the manufacturer's selling price. Instead, in 2011 he has to pay 0.85% of the manufacturer's sales price as “his savings contribution”.

Criticism of the 2011 health reform

The health reform measures met with widespread opposition from unions, employers and social associations as well as from the opposition. The DGB spoke of a "challenge to the citizens". It has often been criticized that the increase in health insurance contributions for those with compulsory insurance contradicts the coalition agreement between the FDP and the Union. SPD parliamentary group leader Frank-Walter Steinmeier accused Rösler of failure and commented: "The government is starting the summer break with a grandiose breach of word." Criticism was also expressed in the ranks of the governing parties , for example by Prime Minister Stefan Mappus (CDU), Stanislaw Tillich (CDU) and Horst Seehofer (CSU).

Politics as Federal Minister for Economics and Technology (2011-2013)

growth

At the beginning of 2012, Rösler realigned the FDP by defining “growth” as the party's new motto and brand core. This swing also meant the abandonment of the previous focus on tax cuts from the Westerwelle period. "If all other parties distance themselves from growth, Germany needs a party that is clearly committed to it - the FDP," said Rösler.

Energy policy

Coal power plants

As a result of the nuclear phase- out, Rösler spoke out in favor of building new fossil-fuel power plants, including coal-fired power plants , and promoting them with government funds. The grant should amount to up to 15% of the investment costs. “If you want to get out of nuclear energy, you also have to get into fossil fuel power plants. Anything else would be dubious. […] I expect those who have demonstrated against nuclear energy in the last 20 or 30 years that they will now stand firmly by my side when we build new coal-fired power plants, gas-fired power plants and 4500 kilometers of new networks. ”The funds for this - for them In 2013 and 2016, around 165 million euros per year were calculated - should come from the energy and climate fund , which in turn is financed from emissions trading . However, due to the oversupply of certificates, their price was well below the originally planned level and the fund was equipped with significantly less capital than planned.

Environmentalists criticized that it was absurd to subsidize new coal-fired power plants from the climate fund of all things. They also denied that additional coal-fired power plants were needed, especially since a number of coal-fired power plants were already under construction . Coal-fired power plants are also unsuitable for compensating for the fluctuations in the volatile energy sources wind energy and photovoltaics , since they can only be regulated slowly. Modern combined cycle power plants , which also emit significantly less carbon dioxide than coal-fired power plants , are much better suited . This subsidy was also criticized by the EU, since power plants without CCS technology are only allowed to receive 5% subsidies.

Renewable energy

Rösler repeatedly spoke out in favor of capping the photovoltaic extension. After months of dispute with Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen , he agreed on major cuts in the feed-in tariff for solar power. Although the opposition is also fundamentally in favor of cuts, the revision of the Renewable Energy Sources Act came under strong criticism, including from coalition members, as it granted the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Environment a number of previously unprecedented special powers. In particular, the authorization to carry out compensation cuts without the Bundestag was criticized. This authorization would also have applied to all other renewable energies . The transition period set by Rösler and Röttgen also met with great resistance - the agreement was reached on February 22, 2012, should be passed by the Bundestag at the end of March and the reduction will apply retrospectively from March 9. This was also criticized within the coalition as incompatible with the protection of confidence of the investors, Hans-Jürgen Papier even expressed constitutional concerns in view of the abruptness of the cuts. Both regulations have now been withdrawn after criticism from within the party and the coalition. The amount of the cuts was also criticized by the opposition, environmental associations and the solar industry. This would drive the already endangered companies into insolvency, and the cuts would not be compatible with the energy turnaround decided a year earlier .

Nuclear power plants

In August 2012 it became known that the Ministry of Economics, headed by Rösler, will continue to support the construction of nuclear power plants abroad with so-called Hermes guarantees even after the nuclear phase-out in 2011 . Expressions of interest have already been issued for the examination of applications for guarantees for the projects Jaitapur in India, Temelin in the Czech Republic, Wylfa in Great Britain and Olkiluoto in Finland, further inquiries have been received for the Cernavodă nuclear power plant in Romania and the Changjiang nuclear power plant in the Hainan province in China. A spokesman for Rösler emphasized that they are “aware of the particular sensitivity of nuclear projects”, but the nuclear phase-out only affects the domestic market, and that it has no influence on the decision of other countries to use nuclear technology.

Energy efficiency

Philipp Rösler at the 2013 electromobility summit in Berlin

Rösler rejects the energy efficiency directive sought by the EU as a "planned economy". This stipulates that energy companies must reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by 1.5% per year. For this he was described by the former CDU minister Klaus Töpfer as a “brake” of the energy transition. EU Commissioner Günther Oettinger had also advocated the energy efficiency directive .

In February 2012, Rösler and Röttgen, who supported the energy efficiency directive, agreed on a compromise proposal. Instead of rigid regulations, the EU states should be able to set their energy efficiency targets "flexibly"; in addition to a rigid reduction in energy consumption, greater efficiency in energy consumption should also be possible. In addition, Rösler relies on voluntary savings by the industry. Critics complain that this is counterproductive, since such a regulation could, contrary to the original goals, under certain circumstances even lead to an increased consumption of energy. In July 2012, Chancellor Angela Merkel also expressed criticism of Rösler's actions at the time.

In 2011, Rösler was criticized by automobile and environmental associations because the passenger car energy consumption labeling ordinance drawn up by the Federal Ministry of Economics , which was originally designed as an efficiency label for cars, was designed in such a way that the weight of the vehicles was included in the assessment at pressure from the Association of the Automotive Industry flows in. As a result, high-performance vehicles with high CO ₂ emissions such as For example, an Audi Q7 or a Porsche Cayenne , which are heavy, often have a very good rating (= environmentally friendly), while low-consumption but light small cars are often rated comparatively poorly. If the regulation were also applied to tanks, a Leopard 2 battle tank weighing more than 60 tons with 1500 g CO ₂ emissions would, for example, fall into the fifth-best category E, as would a comparatively economical VW Golf 1.4.

Controversy

Policy Department in the Ministry of Health

In January 2010, Rösler appointed the deputy director of the Association of Private Health Insurance (PKV), Christian Weber, to head the policy department in the Ministry of Health. Since Weber was supposed to work out a conversion of the health system from pay-as-you-go financing to a private basis, the ministry was accused of lacking independence, and the opposition and some observers referred to Rösler's approach as "clientele policy". Weber himself had also worked for the Scientific Institute of the AOK (WIdO) in the past ; he wants to stick to the separation of GKV and PKV in health care.

Medicines Controversy

At a meeting in June 2009, the economics ministers of the federal states, including the then Lower Saxony economics minister Rösler, signed a statement against the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG). IQWiG must pay attention to the "competitiveness, especially of domestic pharmaceutical companies". This should have been done in consultation with the Association of Research-Based Pharmaceutical Manufacturers (VfA), an interest group of pharmaceutical companies . Since the decision taken by the state economics ministers that IQWiG is damaging Germany as a business location is largely identical to the VfA draft, critics see this as a successful lobbying work by the pharmaceutical industry against IQWiG.

Rösler's role in the non-renewal of the employment contract with Peter Sawicki , the then head of IQWiG, is viewed as questionable. Critics suspect political reasons behind the dismissal and the pressure from pharmaceutical companies to appoint a manager who is more comfortable for the pharmaceutical lobby. Likewise was Chancellor Angela Merkel by the then Head of the health policy, Susanne forest, mixed up in it in the dismissal of Peter Sawicki. However, contrary to this fear, Sawicki's successor Jürgen Windeler is considered to be similarly critical when it comes to drug evaluation.

Tart toss on Rösler during CeBIT

On March 8, 2012, Philipp Rösler was pelted with a piece of cake during a tour of the trade fair at CeBIT . The perpetrator was a 25-year-old who was arrested on site by bodyguards from the Federal Criminal Police Office. Philipp Rösler filed a criminal complaint, whereupon the 25-year-old is being investigated for attempted bodily harm and property damage.

Federal government poverty report

In November 2012, Rösler was accused by the opposition, social associations and trade unions of manipulating the federal government's poverty and wealth report and hiding unpopular information. It had previously become known that following Rösler's intervention, decisive text passages on the distribution of wealth and the increasing income spread had been rewritten or deleted entirely. The Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that, for example, the statement to be found in the introduction of an earlier version "Private wealth in Germany is very unevenly distributed" has been completely removed; The sentence “However, just over four million people worked in Germany for a gross hourly wage of less than seven euros in 2010” was also completely deleted. “In addition, the first version said:“ While the wage development in the upper range was positive, they are lower wages have fallen in price-adjusted terms over the past decade. The income spread has widened. ”This would“ hurt the sense of justice of the population ”and could“ endanger social cohesion ”. In the new version, this passage has been replaced by the statement that falling real wages are "an expression of structural improvements" on the labor market.

Rösler had already sharply criticized the original version from September 2012 and rejected it on behalf of the federal government. The poverty report had made a number of suggestions to close the ever-widening gap between rich and poor, including, for example, B. “Generally binding and reasonable minimum wages”. This had been rejected by Rösler's Ministry of Economics as “not capable of approval”; the draft was "not coordinated by the ministries" and therefore "does not correspond to the opinion of the federal government either".

Rösler defended the changes in the poverty report. Germany is doing better than ever before in its history, which is why passages that suggest that people are doing badly give the wrong impression. That is why he said, "We have to depict reality."

After the report was originally supposed to appear in 2012, it was published on March 6, 2013. The reason given for the delay was that the report was still being coordinated by the various ministries involved. The final version also shows some deletions of statements and changes in content compared to the original version.

Cabinets

• Cabinet Wulff II
• Merkel II cabinet

Fonts (selection)

• Influence of prophylactic sotalol application on the incidence of postoperative atrial fibrillation during aortocoronary bypass surgery. Hannover 2001, DNB 964258196 (Dissertation Medical University Hannover 2002, 59 pages).
• with Christian Lindner (Ed.): Freedom: felt - thought - lived. Liberal contributions to a discussion of values. VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-16387-1 .

literature

• Michael Bröcker : Philipp Rösler. A portrait. Faith. Homeland. FDP. Benno, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-7462-3287-4 .

Web links

Commons : Philipp Rösler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Philipp Rösler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Philipp Rösler in the Munzinger archive , accessed on August 21, 2020 ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Tabular CV. bundesregierung.de (as of 2011)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ This is the officially set date; the actual date is unknown, see Philipp Rösler does not know his birthday , neon.de , May 10, 2013.
2. ↑ Philipp Rösler is involved in Fintech Numbrs and SR Technics after HNA. Retrieved August 25, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Obituary in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of February 17, 2016, p. 15.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Philipp Rösler in the Munzinger archive (beginning of article freely accessible)
5. ↑ Markus Feldenkirchen: Hello Schnuffelchen . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 2010 ( online ).
6. ↑ Think fast, shoot hard . In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 2003 ( online ).
7. ↑ Martina Fietz: The "surprise package" . cicero.de, issue 12/2009.
8. ↑ Dr. med. Rösler, politician and "simply a doctor" aerzteblatt.de, October 25, 2009.
9. ↑ Minister Rösler breaks a taboo with his appearance in Bundeswehr uniform . In: Spiegel Online . July 24, 2011. Retrieved July 23, 2014.
10. ↑ Philipp Rösler helps organize the makeshift clinic on the exhibition grounds. Retrieved June 13, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Thời Đại: Cựu Phó Thủ tướng Đức gốc Việt: Thế giới chú ý tới Việt Nam sau COVID-19. May 23, 2020, accessed June 13, 2020 (Vietnamese). 
12. ↑ Tabular curriculum vitae bundesregierung.de (as of 2011)
13. ^ Resignation Lindner: "Goodbye!" zeit.de, December 14, 2011.
14. ↑ Replacement for Lindner: Döring becomes Secretary General n-tv.de, December 14, 2011.
15. ↑ Philipp Rösler is the new Minister of Economic Affairs . The world. February 18, 2009. Retrieved July 24, 2014.
16. ↑ Westerwelle's Crown Prince . Time online. October 24, 2009. Retrieved July 24, 2014.
17. ↑ Dr. Rösler, take over . Southgerman newspaper. May 12, 2011. Retrieved July 24, 2014.
18. ^ Philipp Rösler new Vice Chancellor bundesregierung.de, May 18, 2011.
19. ↑ Ex-FDP boss leaves Germany: Rösler gets new job in Switzerland focus.de, December 22, 2013.
20. ↑ Rösler goes to the World Economic Forum zeit.de, December 22, 2013.
21. ↑ Philipp Rösler in a portrait brandeins.de, November 2014.
22. ↑ Philipp Rösler's new career happiness welt.de, January 23, 2014.
23. ↑ The Europe 2020 Competitiveness Report weforum.org, June 5, 2012.
24. ↑ | title = Philipp Rösler on a new mission: "I am delighted to see the Chancellor" spiegel.de June 18, 2014.
25. ^ The mysterious job of Mr. Rösler sueddeutsche.de, November 8, 2017.
26. ↑ Philipp Rösler changes to China's HNA group spiegel.de, November 8, 2017.
27. ↑ Former Vice Chancellor: Philipp Rösler on a Chinese mission , faz.de, November 8, 2017.
28. ↑ Philipp Rösler appointed chairman of the Hainan Cihang Charity Foundation prnewswire.com, December 14, 2017.
29. ↑ ^{a b} "My departure was not voluntary": What happened to Philipp Rösler? In: haz.de. Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , May 27, 2019, accessed on June 5, 2019 . 
30. ^ ^{A b} FDP: Does a devout Christian become party leader? kath.net, April 6, 2011.
31. ↑ First board meeting in Barsinghausen robert-enke-stiftung.de, November 15 of 2010.
32. ↑ Stephan Weil new chairman of the board of trustees robert-enke-stiftung.de, April 15, 2014.
33. ^ ZDF television council newly constituted presseportal.de, July 6, 2012.
34. ^ Interstate broadcasting agreement : The number of politicians on the ZDF TV Council remains in place for the time being spiegel.de, May 16, 2014.
35. ↑ Rösler appointed . Bertelsmann Foundation: Ex-Minister on the Board of Trustees. In: Westfalen-Blatt . December 22, 2017, p. 17 .
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