Rupert Scholz

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Rupert Scholz (1988)

Rupert Scholz (born May 23, 1937 in Berlin ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and constitutional lawyer . He was Senator in Berlin from 1981 to 1988 and Federal Minister of Defense from 1988 to 1989 .

Life

education and profession

After graduating from high school in 1957, Scholz studied law and economics at the Free University of Berlin and the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich . He finished his studies in 1961 with the first state examination , did his doctorate in 1966 with Peter Lerche in Munich with the thesis The essence and development of municipal public institutions , passed his second state examination in 1967 and then also qualified as a professor in Munich in 1971 with the thesis The freedom of association as a constitutional problem . In 1972 he accepted the call of the Free University of Berlin as a full professor at the chair for public law. In 1978 he followed the call of the University of Munich to the chair of constitutional and administrative law, administrative theory and financial law. At the end of the summer semester 2005, Scholz retired. Scholz is now what is known as Of Counsel in the Berlin office of the international law firm Gleiss Lutz . In this function he wrote an expert opinion for the takeover of EnBW by the state of Baden-Württemberg , which was later criticized as unconstitutional by the state court of Baden-Württemberg for bypassing the state parliament. Scholz represented E.ON SE as a lawyer in the damages lawsuit brought by the energy companies E.ON , RWE and Vattenfall against the Federal Republic of Germany in the course of the nuclear phase-out .

Scholz is co-author and editor of the basic law commentary Maunz / Dürig / Herzog / Scholz, which is considered a standard work .

Party career

Scholz has been a member of the CDU since 1983. From 1998 to 2001 he was deputy state chairman of the CDU Berlin .

Member of Parliament

From 1985 to 1988 he was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives . From 1990 to 2002 he was a member of the German Bundestag . From 1994 to 1998 he was deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group . From 1998 to 2002 he was chairman of the legal committee .

Scholz was last enlisted in the German Bundestag (14th electoral term in 1998) via the Berlin state list. In the list for the 2002 Bundestag election , he was passed over by his party against his will and was not nominated again in his constituency ( Berlin-Tempelhof ).

Public offices

From 1981 to 1983 he was Senator for Justice under the Governing Mayor Richard von Weizsäcker , and from 1982 to 1988 under Weizsäcker and his successor Eberhard Diepgen he was also Senator for Federal Affairs of the State of Berlin.

On May 18, 1988, he was appointed to the cabinet of Chancellor Helmut Kohl as Federal Minister of Defense .

After he took office, there were several crashes of military aircraft, such as the Ramstein flight conference accident and a crash in Remscheid with numerous dead and injured. In this connection, Scholz had a violent controversy with his parliamentary state secretary Peter Kurt Würzbach , who wanted to temporarily impose a comprehensive low-level flight ban, which Scholz was reluctant to do because the plane that had crashed in Remscheid had crashed from a height of 1000 m. In the discussion about a ban on low-level flights, Scholz referred to the limited German competencies with regard to the Allies' flight activities. Other points of contention during his tenure were the planned extension of basic military service to 18 months and the cost of developing an air-to-air missile for the Jäger 90 .

When the cabinet was reshuffled in 1989, he was no longer taken into account and therefore resigned from the federal government on April 21, 1989 .

Other engagement

From 1996 to 2006, Scholz was a member of the supervisory board of the Hertha BSC football club , which he took over as chairman in 2000. Scholz is a curator at the Ernst Freiberger Foundation in Berlin and is a member of the Convention for Germany .

Private

Rupert Scholz is married to Helga Scholz-Hoppe , who has a doctorate in law , a former federal judge at the Federal Court of Justice and the Federal Administrative Court . Scholz is the doctoral supervisor of the CDU member of the Bundestag Jan-Marco Luczak .

Positions

In 2006, the former Federal Minister of Defense demanded that the Bundeswehr be armed with nuclear weapons in order to “be able to react appropriately to a nuclear threat from a terrorist state, in other words even with its own nuclear weapons in an emergency”.

In May 2018, Scholz called for the subjectively, at any time enforceable right of asylum to be converted into an institutional guarantee of an objective legal nature, as is the case in many neighboring European countries.

Awards

See also

literature

  • Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 335.

Web links

Commons : Rupert Scholz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: State Court condemns EnBW share buyback Press release of October 6, 2011 (pdf)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / archiv.baden-wuerttemberg.de
  2. ↑ Fabian Reinbold: Lawyers for breach of the constitution , Spiegel Online , October 28, 2011.
  3. ↑ Corporations argue in Karlsruhe for damages . March 15, 2016 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed December 11, 2016]).
  4. ↑ Nuclear phase-out as expropriation ?: Government and energy companies argue. In: n-tv.de. n-tv , March 16, 2016, accessed December 11, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Klaus Hempel: Karlsruhe decides on lawsuit against accelerated nuclear phase-out: Do energy companies have to be compensated? In: Bayerischer Rundfunk . December 6, 2016, accessed December 11, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Dickes Ding Peter Kurt Würzbach showed in front of his . In: Der Spiegel . No. 52 1988 ( online - Dec. 26, 1988 ).
  7. ↑ sport-find.de
  8. ↑ Volker Zeitler: Rupert Scholz takes over power at Hertha. In: The world . March 13, 2000, accessed January 31, 2019 .
  9. ↑ freiberger-stiftung.de
  10. ↑ Berliner Morgenpost: Dispensing with the laurel wreath , June 10, 2008
  11. ↑ Dr. Jan-Marco Luczak: About the person. Retrieved March 15, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Ex-Minister: Nuclear Weapons for Germany. In: Tagesspiegel . January 27, 2006, accessed January 31, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Ansgar Graw: “Wave of immigration overwhelms our right to asylum”. In: The world. May 2, 2018, accessed January 31, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Bavarian Order of Merit
personal data
SURNAME Scholz, Rupert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag and constitutional lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin