Rainer Brüderle

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Rainer Brüderle (born June 22, 1945 in Berlin ) is a German politician of the FDP .

Brüderle was Minister of Economic Affairs for the State of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1987 to 1998 , Deputy Chairman of the FDP parliamentary group from 1998 to 2009 and Deputy Federal Chairman of the FDP from 1995 to 2011. From October 28, 2009 to May 12, 2011 he was Federal Minister for Economics and Technology in the Merkel II cabinet . From 1983 to 2011 he was also the FDP state chairman in Rhineland-Palatinate. From May 10, 2011 to October 22, 2013, Brüderle was chairman of the FDP parliamentary group .

Life

education and profession

From 1948, Brüderle grew up in modest circumstances in Landau in the Palatinate , where his father Theodor ran a small retail shop for textiles. The Brüderle family was already active there as a textile retailer in the 19th century. After graduating from the Otto Hahn Gymnasium in Landau in 1966 , Brüderle completed a degree in economics with minor subjects in law , journalism and political science at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz , which he completed in 1971 with a degree in economics . He then worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Economic Policy at the University of Mainz and then from 1975 to 1981 director of the Office for Economics and Transport, and from 1977 for Economics and Real Estate of the City of Mainz . From 1981 to 1987 he was the full-time head of economics for the city of Mainz.

After leaving the Bundestag in 2013, Brüderle started an independent consultancy with his company RainerBrüderleConsult in Mainz.

Party career

Rainer Brüderle (right; 1993)

Brüderle has been a member of the FDP since 1973, in which he was chairman of the FDP district association Rheinhessen - Vorderpfalz from 1981 to 1983 . From 1983 to 2011 he was state chairman of the FDP Rhineland-Palatinate . Since 1983 he has also been a member of the FDP federal executive committee. From 1995 to 2011 he was one of the deputy federal chairmen of the FDP. From May 12, 2011 to September 22, 2013 he was chairman of the FDP parliamentary group. Party leader Rösler offered Brüderle his position as FDP party chairman in January 2013; this refused. At the 64th party congress on March 10, 2013, Brüderle was elected as the top candidate for the 2013 federal election.

Member of Parliament

Brüderle was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament from 1987 to 1998 and briefly chairman of the FDP parliamentary group there in 1987.

From 1998 to 2013 he was a member of the German Bundestag . Here he was immediately elected deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group. At the same time, until he took office as Federal Minister, he was the parliamentary spokesman for economic policy and headed the parliamentary group's working group for economics and finance.

On May 10, 2011, the FDP parliamentary group elected Brüderle as their new chairman. He was elected with 86 votes in favor, with 2 abstentions and 2 against. In the 2013 federal election , the FDP failed because of the five percent hurdle . Rainer Brüderle therefore left the German Bundestag on October 22, 2013.

Public offices

Rainer Brüderle (2004)
Top candidate Rainer Brüderle on the evening of the 2013 federal election

On June 23, 1987, he was appointed Minister of Economics and Transport to the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate led by Prime Minister Bernhard Vogel ( CDU ) . After Carl-Ludwig Wagner was elected as the new Prime Minister, on December 8, 1988, Brüderle was also named Deputy Prime Minister.

After the CDU suffered considerable losses in the 1991 state elections , a coalition between the SPD and FDP was formed. The new cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Rudolf Scharping since May 21, 1991, was again a member of Brüderle as Minister of Economics and Transport and Deputy Prime Minister.

After the Bundestag election in 1994 , Scharping went to the German Bundestag as leader of the opposition . The state government, led by Kurt Beck since October 26, 1994, belonged to Brüderle as Minister for Economic Affairs, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture and as Deputy Prime Minister. He resigned from these offices after his election to the German Bundestag in the 1998 Bundestag election . On October 28, 2009 he was appointed Federal Minister for Economics and Technology. After the election to the FDP parliamentary group chairman, Brüderle gave up his office on May 12, 2011; His successor was the designated FDP chairman Philipp Rösler .

Other engagement

At the end of March 2015 he was elected Chairman of the Board of the Taxpayers' Association of Rhineland-Palatinate. In the same year, Brüderle became chairman of the BPA employers' association .

On February 26, 1996 he managed to set a Guinness record . The content of the record was that 1368 wine queens gathered at the same time at his invitation.

Private

Rainer Brüderle is married, a Protestant and lives in the Mainz district of Gonsenheim .

Sexism allegations

At the end of January 2013, the article Der Herrenwitz by journalist Laura Himmelreich , published in Stern , sparked a broad debate on sexism in the German public that went beyond the event on which the article was based . The journalist accused Brüderle of being too close to her a year earlier. As a result, other journalists made similar accusations, others defended him and accused the star of campaigning against Brüderle, who had recently been declared a top candidate. Brüderle declined to comment. In the book Now I'm Talking! from April 2014, Rainer Brüderle presented his view of the events in an interview with Hugo Müller-Vogg.

Positions and Government Policy

Unbundling Act

Brüderle announced to the media at the beginning of 2010 the planning for an unbundling law; this should allow the state to smash dominant corporations (even without a specific reason) if competition cannot be created otherwise. The German electricity companies then turned against such a draft law. In May 2010, Brüderle defused the draft law.

Minimum wages

In May 2010, Brüderle tried to curb the introduction of a minimum wage in the care sector , which was led by Labor Minister Ursula von der Leyen , and to limit it to December 31, 2011. Two weeks later he gave in; as a result, the minimum wage was quickly introduced by ordinance and limited to December 31, 2014.

State aid for Opel

On June 9, 2010, Brüderle rejected an application from Opel Germany for 1.1 billion euros in state aid. On the same day, Chancellor Angela Merkel gave Opel a vague hope of a cash injection: “The last word on the future of Opel has not yet been spoken.” “The state is not a better entrepreneur” was one of the reasons why Brüderle gave his vote. In his opinion, the state aid would have seriously distorted competition in the industry. However, there was no government decision because General Motors and Opel / Vauxhall no longer applied for state aid in Europe.

ELENA

As Federal Minister for Economics and Technology, Brüderle has criticized the project for an electronic remuneration statement ( ELENA ) with reference to the associated burdens for public budgets and medium-sized companies. The black-and-yellow government agreed in the summer of 2011 that what was originally decided by the red-green federal government as part of the Hartz reforms introduced in 2002 and adopted by the black-and-red federal government with the law on the electronic remuneration statement procedure dated 28 March 2009 to discontinue implemented projects as soon as possible.

Nuclear power moratorium

In March 2011, Brüderle described the reaction of the Germans to the nuclear disaster in Fukushima as "hysterical". At a confidential meeting of the Presidium of the Federation of German Industries (BDI) on March 14, 2011, according to the minutes of the meeting, Brüderle is said to have stated that the Federal Government's decision to extend the service life of German nuclear power plants under the impression of the accidents at the Japanese Fukushima I nuclear power plant was not made for material reasons , but was due to the political pressure of the upcoming state elections. Following the publication of the recorded statements by the Süddeutsche Zeitung , on March 24, 2011, Brüderle denied the accuracy of the protocol in front of the Bundestag, after the BDI general manager Werner Schnappauf (CSU) had said that the protocol he had sent a few days earlier gave the Brüderles utterances incorrectly again. What Brüderle actually said at the BDI meeting was left open by both sides. On the same day, the Süddeutsche Zeitung appealed to an unnamed participant in the meeting in question, who confirmed that Brüderle's statements had been made, as recorded in the minutes.

Conscription

As early as 1997, Brüderle spoke out in favor of the abolition of conscription. "The conscription is a thing of the past" announced Brüderle and thus drew the displeasure of the then Defense Minister Volker Rühe . Rühe even considered the "coalition question" for this reason. In contrast, Brüderle found the protests of the military service supporters “prayer-wheel-like”. Brüderle argued that compulsory service was the main obstacle to adapting the Bundeswehr to new requirements. An army must be professionally and modernly equipped and would therefore be the opposite of a conscription army. This is inevitably large, poorly trained and because of the high personnel costs, it lacks the money for modern equipment. During the coalition negotiations in 2009, the FDP pushed through the reduction of compulsory military service to six months. On December 15, 2010, the Federal Cabinet resolved to suspend compulsory military service from July 1, 2011. On January 1, 2011, all conscripts were drafted for the last time, and since March 1, 2011, conscripts are no longer obliged to serve against their will.

EU clone law

An EU legislative proposal in March 2011 on the labeling of clone products and cloning techniques did not materialize due to the German rejection, represented by Rainer Brüderle. This met with massive political criticism. The EU legislative proposal was several years in advance and a further vote is not expected before 2013.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

author

  • Now I'm talking! Rainer Brüderle in conversation with Hugo Müller-Vogg. Lau Verlag, Reinbek 2014, ISBN 978-3-95768-113-3 .

editor

  • Please get in! From 150 years of railways in Rhineland-Palatinate. Schmidt, Mainz 1997, ISBN 3-87439-421-2 .

Contributions to edited volumes

  • The social aspect of the market economy. In: Heinrich Tschochohei and Stefan Zimmermann (eds.): Governance and market design. In search of the best “rules of the game”. Perspectives from science, practice and politics. Lang, Frankfurt am Main [a. a.] 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-57281-8 , pp. 375-389.
  • Political talk shows. Parliamentary democracy versus media democracy. In: Sascha Michel and Heiko Girnth (eds.): Polit-Talkshows - Bühnen der Macht. A look behind the scenes. Bouvier, Bonn 2009, ISBN 978-3-416-03280-3 , pp. 43-48.
  • The social market economy. A biotope for trade unions? In: Jürgen Morlok (Ed.): Contributions to the 80th birthday of Otto Graf Lambsdorff . Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8282-0385-3 , pp. 97-101.

Cabinets

Web links

Commons : Rainer Brüderle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Rainer Brüderle  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brüderle Theodor men's hats underwear, Landau in the Palatinate. Retrieved February 5, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Oliver Hoischen: The approximate. In: FAZ.net. August 2, 2010, accessed February 5, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Historic address books Address book entry Johann BRÜDERLE. In: Landau address book. Franz Steuer / Buchdruckerei K. and A. Kaußler, 1892, accessed on February 5, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Rainer Brüderle is the new strong man of the FDP . In: Die Zeit , No. 46/2011
  5. ↑ Caesar and Brutus . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 2013 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Overview of the federal party conference. In: liberale.de. March 10, 2013, accessed March 6, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Change of leadership at BdSt Rhineland-Palatinate ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ^ New employers' association chaired by Rainer Brüderle. bpa employers' association, June 24, 2015, accessed on December 11, 2017 .
  9. ^ Rainer Brüderle . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 1991, pp. 347 ( online ).
  10. ↑ Laura Himmelreich : Der Herrenwitz. stern.de, February 1, 2013, accessed on February 9, 2013 (originally published in stern , issue 5, 2013).
  11. ↑ Franziska Reich, Andreas Hoidn-Borchers: Rainer Brüderle: The pointed candidate. stern.de, January 23, 2013, accessed on February 9, 2013 .
  12. ^ FDP top candidate: "Stern" reporter accuses Brüderle of intrusiveness. spiegel.de, January 23, 2013, accessed on February 9, 2013 .
  13. ↑ Claudius Seidl : prudish in weapons. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 27, 2013, accessed on April 16, 2013 .
  14. ↑ Birgit Kelle : Then close your blouse! The European , January 29, 2013, accessed April 16, 2013 .
  15. ↑ Florian Leclerc: Nickname "Popo Grabscher". Frankfurter Rundschau , February 1, 2013, accessed on February 9, 2013 .
  16. ↑ Sexism accusation: Brüderle does not apologize to the reporter "Stern". spiegel.de, January 30, 2013, accessed February 9, 2013 .
  17. ↑ Peter Dausend: Behind the Mask. The sexism debate hit FDP parliamentary group leader Rainer Brüderle hard. Now he tries it differently: with distance. zeit.de, March 8, 2013, accessed April 16, 2013 .
  18. ↑ Jens Tartler and Michael Gassmann: Resistance to the unbundling law: electricity companies start counter-attack. ( Memento from January 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Financial Times Deutschland. January 11, 2010
  19. ↑ Brüderle defuses law on unbundling. ( Memento of May 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) RP-online, May 7, 2010
  20. ↑ mik: Care: Minister of Economic Affairs Brüderle torpedoed minimum wage . In: Spiegel Online , May 8, 2010
  21. ^ Kerstin Schwenn: Lower wage limit. Brüderle gives in to the minimum wage for care. faz.net from May 20, 2010
  22. ↑ Merkel snubbed Brüderle in the Opel decision. ( Memento from June 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Financial Times Deutschland . June 9, 2010
  23. ^ Opel / Vauxhall to Withdraw All Applications for Loan Guarantees. Funding Requirements to be met internally ( Memento from June 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) June 16, 2010
  24. ↑ Brüderle stops saving employee data. In: Handelsblatt . 5th July 2010
  25. ↑ ELENA Procedural Act of March 28, 2009 (Federal Law Gazette IS 634)
  26. ↑ ELENA process is discontinued. ( Memento from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Joint press release by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs from July 18, 2011
  27. ↑ Atomic policy: Westerwelle distances himself from Merkel . In: Spiegel Online . March 19, 2011, accessed March 25, 2011
  28. ↑ Atomic Policy and State Elections Brüderle: Nuclear Power Plant Moratorium is just an election campaign tactic . In: Süddeutsche.de. March 23, 2011, accessed March 23, 2011
  29. ↑ Confusion about statements by Minister of Economic Affairs Brüderle . In: Focus Online. March 24, 2011, accessed March 24, 2011
  30. ↑ The moratorium and the election campaign: Brüderle becomes a malfunction . In: Süddeutsche.de. March 24, 2011, accessed March 25, 2011
  31. ↑ Inner guidance. In: Friday . March 18, 2010
  32. ↑ Tattoo for conscription . In: FOCUS Magazin, No. 45/1997
  33. ↑ Clone meat comes on the table. ( Memento from April 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: Financial Times Germany . March 29, 2011
  34. ↑ Excellent: the winners of the “GQ Men of the Year 2010” awards . ( Memento from December 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: gq-magazin.de
personal data
SURNAME Brüderle, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin