Rainer Wiegard

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Rainer Wiegard (2013)

Rainer Wiegard (born July 10, 1949 in Hamburg ) is a German politician ( CDU ). From 2005 to 2012 he was Minister of Finance and from July 22 to October 27, 2009 Minister of the Interior of Schleswig-Holstein .

Life and work

After graduating from secondary school in Bargteheide in 1966 , Wiegard completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk at Hako -Werke in Bad Oldesloe . From 1969 to 1971 he was a temporary soldier in the Bundeswehr and then an organizational consultant. From 1975 to 2000 he worked for the federal executive committee of the German employees' union in Hamburg, most recently as head of the finance and auditing department.

Rainer Wiegard lives in Bargteheide, is married for the second time and has four children.

Political party

Wiegard has been a member of the CDU since 1975 and was chairman of the CDU district association Stormarn from 1996 to 2006 . Since 2006 he has been honorary chairman of the Stormarn CDU district association. From 1977 to 1986 he was chairman of the CDU Bargteheide.

MP

From 1982 to 1986 he was a member of the district council of the Stormarn district. Then he was a member of the city council of Bargteheide until 1996 and also chairman of the CDU parliamentary group .

From 2000 to 2017 he was a member of the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein and from 2001 to 2005 he was the financial policy spokesman for his parliamentary group. He is also a member of the European Committee. In the early state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 2009 , he was elected with 37.8 percent of the first votes in the Stormarn constituency. In the 2012 state elections , he was re-elected with 38.8%. He did not run for the 2017 state election,

From 2007 to 2012 he was a member of the mediation committee of the Bundestag and Bundesrat.

Public offices

From April 27, 2005, he was a member of the cabinet of the grand coalition led by Prime Minister Peter Harry Carstensen (CDU) as Finance Minister of Schleswig-Holstein.

After the break of the grand coalition in July 2009, all SPD ministers were dismissed from their offices in the state government by Prime Minister Carstensen at the end of July 21, 2009. The management of the ministries concerned was divided among the remaining cabinet members, Rainer Wiegard was given responsibility for the interior ministry as the successor to Lothar Hay .

From October 27, 2009, Rainer Wiegard belonged to the second cabinet of Prime Minister Peter Harry Carstensen, which was supported by a CDU-FDP coalition, in turn as Minister of Finance. He pursued a strict consolidation course with the aim of presenting a balanced budget without new borrowing by 2020 at the latest and starting to repay old debts. He campaigned for Schleswig-Holstein to be the first federal state to include its own debt brake in the state constitution. He also promoted a simple, transparent and fair tax concept with fewer types of tax, simple tariffs, fewer exceptions and more flat rates. For income tax, he proposed a graduated tariff with four to five levels, and for value added tax, the elimination of the reduced tax rate with a reduction of the regular tax rate from 19 to around 16 percent. When the Albig Cabinet took office on June 12, 2012, he left office.

See also

Web links

Commons : Rainer Wiegard  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Special election edition of the Lübecker Nachrichten of September 28, 2009, p. 13
  2. ↑ Prime Minister Peter Harry Carstensen dismisses social democratic ministers ( memento of June 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), press release of July 20, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Wiegard, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the State Parliament, State Minister in Schleswig-Holstein
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg