Rainer Funke

Rainer Funke (born November 18, 1940 in Berlin ) is a German politician ( FDP ) and a full member of the G 10 commission . From 1991 to 1998 he was Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister of Justice and from 2006 to 2016 in the National Regulatory Control Council .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1960 at the Andreanum in Hildesheim , Funke studied law in Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg , which he completed in 1965 with the first state examination and in 1969 with the second state examination . Since then he has been admitted to the bar. He was the syndic of the MM Warburg & CO bank and managing director of its real estate subsidiary " Hamburgische Immobilien Handlung " (HIH).

Rainer Funke is married and has two grown sons. On December 14, 2005 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.

Political party

Funke has been a member of the FDP since 1972 . In 1978 he was elected state treasurer of the Hamburg FDP . From 1993 to 1995 he was the FDP state chairman here. From 2001 to 2005 he was chairman of the FDP district association Hamburg-Eimsbüttel .

MP

Funke was a member of the district assembly of Hamburg-Eimsbüttel from 1974 to 1980 and from 1986 to 1987 and was also chairman of the FDP parliamentary group .

From 1980 to 1983 and again from 1987 to 2005 he was a member of the German Bundestag . Since 2002 he was chairman of the working group inside and law and spokesman for legal policy as well as post and telecommunications of the FDP parliamentary group . In addition, he has been Deputy Chairman of the Bundestag Committee for Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid since 2002 .

Funke has always entered the German Bundestag via the Hamburg state list. His constituency was Hamburg-Eimsbüttel, where he ran as a direct candidate. He was not nominated again for the 2005 Bundestag election.

Documents about his parliamentary activities are in the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach .

Public offices

After the federal election in 1990 , on January 24, 1991, Funke was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Justice in the Federal Government led by Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl . Here worked under the Federal Justice Ministers Klaus Kinkel , Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger and Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig . Because of the change of government after the federal election in 1998 , Funke left the federal government on October 26, 1998.

Funke has been a full member of the G 10 Commission since 2018. Before that, he was a full member of the committee from 2009 to 2013 and a deputy member from 2005 to 2009.

In 2006 Funke was appointed a member of the National Regulatory Control Council, of which he was a member until 2016.

Volunteering

From 1959 to 2004 Funke belonged to the European Union . After the Hamburg state chairman Georg Jarzembowski had declared that the FDP was superfluous, that it was “incomprehensible why it was elected to the European Parliament” and “was not missed in Brussels ”, Funke left this non-partisan organization because he believed was that she had gotten more and more into the waters of the CDU in Hamburg .

Since the establishment of a national planning office in Germany - in 1989 - of the children's aid organization Plan International , Rainer Funke has been its honorary treasurer and member of the organization's board.

Since February 2011, Funke has been chairman of the board of the Forum Kollau - Association for the History of Lokstedt , Niendorf and Schnelsen .

Funke is a member of the board of trustees of the aid organization CARE Germany .

See also

• Cabinet Kohl IV - Cabinet Kohl V

Web links

• Biography at the German Bundestag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chancellor Merkel welcomes new members of the National Regulatory Control Council. Press and Information Office of the Federal Government, September 21, 2011, accessed on October 12, 2011 (press release 344). 
2. ^ NKR members. National Regulatory Control Council, accessed January 6, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Inventory overview , accessed on December 9, 2015.
4. ^ Plan Germany, board of directors. (accessed on January 20, 2010)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Our structure. CARE Deutschland eV, accessed on March 12, 2019 .