Reinhold Kreile

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Reinhold Kreile (born December 1, 1929 in Aschaffenburg ) is a German lawyer specializing in tax and copyright law and a politician ( CSU ).

Life and work

After attending the Humanistic Gymnasium in Heidelberg and graduating from the Theresien-Gymnasium in Munich , Kreile studied law , economics and musicology at the universities in Munich and Darmstadt . Kreile, who comes from a not overly well-off family, financed his studies as an organist and music critic for the Frankfurter Hefte , as well as a music journalist for the Hessischer Rundfunk . He belonged to a Frankfurt group of young authors in the circle of Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno and Max Horkheimer , the editorial team of the HR evening studio around Alfred Andersch as well as Gruppe 47 and Hans Werner Richter , with whom he had a lifelong friendship.

As a 24-year-old trainee lawyer, he belonged to the minority of German lawyers who publicly defended the then heavily controversial ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court on the involvement of the professional civil servants in the Nazi dictatorship . Kreile called the decision in an essay published in the Frankfurter Hefte the "Magna Charta of self-reflection". It was founded in 1956 with the work of foreign policy and state jurisdiction in Eugen Kogon to Dr. jur. doctorate and admitted to the bar in 1958. He then worked in a tax law firm and had been a specialist lawyer for tax law in Munich since 1965. As a long-time legal advisor for VG Wort , he was involved in the development of the library fee and essential aspects of German copyright law . His son Johannes Kreile joined the firm in 1986, and after 1988 he joined Ludwig Stiegler in a supra-regional and cross-party law firm.

From 1955 to 1981 he wrote music reviews under changing pseudonyms, mainly of the Bayreuth Richard Wagner Festival for the Munich Merkur .

Kreile was a member of various supervisory boards , such as Adca -Bank and BATIG Gesellschaft für Beteiligungen . As chairman of the supervisory board of Friedrich Flick Industrieverwaltung KGaA from 1977 to 1986 he got caught up in the Flick party donation affair and was questioned by the Bundestag investigative committee . He then worked unsuccessfully to organize an amnesty for the offenses in the wake of the affair.

Kreile was chairman of the board of directors of Deutschlandfunk from 1973 to 1990 and chairman of the supervisory board of the Münchner Gesellschaft für Kabel-Kommunikation (MGK Munich) from 1974 to 1999. From 1990 to 2005 he was Erich Schulze's successor on the board and general director of the Society for Musical Performance and Mechanical Reproduction Rights (GEMA). In this capacity he was President of the European Committee of the Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Auteurs et Compositeurs (CISAC) from 1992 to 1995 and its President of the Executive Office from 1996 to 2000. He also served as Vice President of the Groupement Européen des Sociétés d'Auteurs et Compositeurs (GESAC), an association of European collecting societies, of which he was President from 2000 to 2005. From 1992 to 1996 and from 2004 to 2005 he was President of the Board of Directors of the Bureau International de l'Edition Mecanique (BIEM). He is also the editor of the magazine for copyright and media law .

From 1980 Kreile was a lecturer at the University of Television and Film Munich , and since 1984 he has held a professorship there in the Production and Media Management department . He has been an honorary professor since his retirement .

At the end of 2005 he retired from GEMA. Towards the end of his term of office, he devoted himself to the fight against digitization. He described GEMA as a “lighthouse of culture” and “solid as a rock in the waves of digitization”. GEMA had successfully managed to avoid “nonsensical competition”. For him, the Internet is "nothing more than a virtual department store" that needs to be incorporated into a hostile takeover. He has been working as a lawyer of counsel for the Noerr law firm since 2006 . Kreile was on the board of trustees of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation for a long time . He sits on the board of the Richard Strauss Society , Munich and was a long member of the board of the Richard Wagner Foundation , Bayreuth, in his role as “friend of the Wagner family and lawyer”.

Kreile is described as a "man at the interface between politics and economics". Dieter Spöri , who was a SPD representative for a long time with Kreile on the Bundestag Finance Committee, said of his role: "Kreile is not a lobbyist, [he is much more] a highly intelligent system, vastly superior to all others in the coalition." He "works quietly." , without sharpness, without any parliamentary peacock wheel ”and was“ there as a tough, powerful representative of business interests ”.

Kreile is married; his son Johannes Kreile is a media lawyer, partner in the law firm Noerr and honorary professor at the University of Television and Film Munich.

Political party

Kreile is a member of the CSU and for a long time was Franz Josef Strauss's financial policy advisor . The relationship goes back to the fact that Kreile was a college friend of Marianne Strauss . In this function he founded the mailbox company Eureco Büro für Wirtschaftsberatung GmbH und Co. KG for Strauss and his wife Marianne in 1964 , to companies from BMW , Bertelsmann , Daimler-Benz and Dornier to companies from the Flick empire and the Taurus -Film GmbH from Leo Kirch paid huge sums of money without any recognizable consideration. Between 1964 and 1968 alone, 490,892 marks were received in Eureco accounts.

MP

Kreile was a member of the German Bundestag from 1969 to 1987 and from July 11, 1988, when he replaced the retired MP Alfred Sauter , until his resignation on February 22, 1990. He was always drawn into parliament via the state list of the CSU Bavaria . In the Bundestag he was at times the financial policy spokesman for the Union parliamentary group as well as a member of the legal and finance committees and temporarily chairman of the finance committee. As a member of parliament, he was in charge of the reform of corporation tax at the beginning of the 1970s and for many years as the CSU representative for tax law and financial issues, he was a guest in the federal cabinet.

Honors

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Bruhn : Menschliches, Zwischenhenschliches . In: Becker, Lerche, Mestmäcker, pages 127-133
  2. ^ Heinz Friedrich : Beginnings . In: Becker, Lerche, Mestmäcker, pages 323-330
  3. ↑ BVerfG, December 17, 1953 - 1 BvR 147/52
  4. ↑ Reinhold Kreile: A German Magna Charta of self-reflection . In: Frankfurter Hefte. Magazine for culture and politics. 9th year, issue 2 (February 1954)
  5. ↑ Georg Kahn-Ackermann : Reinhold Kreie - companion . In: Becker, Lerche, Mestmäcker, pages 187–190
  6. ↑ a b Johannes Kreile : The jubilee as a "legal" father . In: Becker, Lerche, Mestmäcker, pages 363-366
  7. ↑ Companies and facts . Time online. December 2, 1977. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
  8. ↑ a b c d e Permanent advisor . The mirror. March 24, 1986. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
  9. ↑ a b Reinhold Kreile in the Munzinger archive , accessed on March 2, 2012 ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  10. ↑ Helmut Oeller : Reinhold Kreile as a university professor . In: Becker, Lerche, Mestmäcker, pages 465-468
  11. ^ Retired professors (PDF) University of Television and Film Munich. Archived from the original on March 26, 2014. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
  12. ↑ a b Honorary Professors at the HFF Munich (PDF) University of Television and Film Munich. Archived from the original on January 18, 2016. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
  13. ↑ Speech by the chairman of the board, Reinhold Kreile, on the 66th financial year 1999 at the general meeting on July 5, 2000
  14. ↑ Gunther Latsch, Klaus Wiegrefe: A life for industry . In: Der Spiegel, August 22, 2015, pp. 26–29
  15. ^ Franz Klein : The tax politician Reinhold Kreile in the German Bundestag . In: Becker, Lerche, Mestmäcker, pages 349-357
predecessor Office successor
Erich Schulze GEMA board chairman
1990–2005 		Jürgen Becker
personal data
SURNAME Kreile, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (CSU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Aschaffenburg