Stephan Albani

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Stephan Albani (born June 3, 1968 in Göttingen ) is a German physicist and politician ( CDU ). He has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 2013 federal election.

Personally

Stephan Albani did his Abitur in 1987 in Norderstedt . From 1989 to 1994 he studied physics at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen with a degree in physics.

He is married, Protestant, has three children and lives in Petersfehn in the Ammerland.

economy

Stephan Albani has been a co-founder and managing partner of Hörzentrums Oldenburg GmbH, an affiliated institute of the University of Oldenburg and the Evangelical Hospital Oldenburg, since 1996 . In 2001 he became managing director of the HörTech GmbH competence center, whose shareholders are the University of Oldenburg (51%) and the Hörzentrum Oldenburg GmbH (49%).

He was a member of the Federal Association for Economic Development and Foreign Trade (BWA EBD ) since 2005, initially as a senator. In 2007 he was elected Vice President and head of the Innovation Commission in Berlin.

In 2007 Albani became executive director of the Excellence Initiative Cluster Auditory Valley, which was supported by a cooperation between the Universities of Hanover / Oldenburg. This research and development cluster is striving to develop a new hearing system industry with its globally recognized expertise in all aspects of hearing.

The state initiative “Innovative Lower Saxony - Forging the Future” entrusted him with the deputy head of the health and nutrition working group in Hanover in 2008. In 2009 Albani became a member of the Economic Council of the CDU and was involved in the innovation and growth working group in Berlin.

The Lower Saxony Ministry of Economic Affairs appointed him to the Advisory Board of the Lower Saxony State Initiative LifeSciences in Hanover in 2010.

In 2011 he headed the health working group of the state initiative “Innovative Lower Saxony - Forging the Future” of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economics in Hanover.

Stephan Albani took over the management of the Translational Research Center (TRC) as part of the Hearing4All Cluster of Excellence. The background was the successful application of the University of Oldenburg together with the Medical University of Hanover and the Leibniz University of Hanover with the application for the Hearing4All cluster of excellence in June 2012. The TRC has the task of translating the results of the cluster's research into products.

politics

Stephan Albani is vice chairman of the CDU district association Ammerland and vice chairman of the CDU city association Bad Zwischenahn.

In July 2012, Albani was nominated by the CDU as a direct candidate for the Bundestag constituency Oldenburg - Ammerland and in the 2013 Bundestag elections moved into the Bundestag's 6th place on the state list of the CDU Lower Saxony.

He is a full member of the Committee for Education, Research and Technology Assessment and of the Enquete Commission for Vocational Education and Training in the Digital Working World . He is also an alternate member of the Committee on Health , the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs and the Subcommittee on Global Health. Albani is chairman of the German-Irish parliamentary group.

In addition, he is involved in the coastal working group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group as well as in the small and medium-sized parliamentary group. He is also a member of the Aerospace Parliamentary Group and the Employees' Group in the German Bundestag.

Further memberships are the parliamentary group SADC, the parliamentary group Nordic States and the Stephanuskreis of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group.

He was also a member of the parliamentary advisory board “Population and Development” of the German Foundation for World Population . In 2014, Stephan Albani was appointed to the CDU's federal technical committee "Education, Research and Innovations", after having been head of the "Science, Culture, Church" technical committee of the CDU regional association in Oldenburg for several years. Stephan Albani is also involved in the two specialist committees “Science and Culture” and “Health” of the CDU in Lower Saxony .

He is one of the 75 Union MPs - 68 from the CDU (26.9% of all CDU MPs) and 7 from the CSU (12.5% ​​of all CSU MPs) - who voted for same-sex marriage in July 2017 .

Criticism of secondary employment

In addition to his mandate, Stephan Albani also has two notifiable sideline activities. He is the managing director of the Hörzentrum Oldenburg and includes level 1 remuneration (between 1,000 and 3,500 euros per month). He is also the managing director of HörTech gGmbH and includes level 2 remuneration (between 3,500 and 7,000 euros per month). In summary, these figures result in earnings of between 4,500 and 10,500 euros per month in addition to the mandate.

A transparency study sees a potential conflict of interest between Albani's activities and the reporting "Accelerate the transfer of research results and innovations in health care".

On August 17, 2017, the Nordwest-Zeitung reported on Albani's secondary employment. The fact that Albani, as a member of the Committee on Health and the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment of the German Bundestag, has a say in taxpayers' money, from which he may benefit himself through his sideline work as managing director of federally funded companies, is "fairly obvious," said Martin Reyher from parliamentwatch.de . Also LobbyControl called Albanis sideline as a "clear case of self-consciousness." In an interview with the newspaper, Albani stated that he was "only at the side of the two companies in an advisory capacity" with 3 to 4 hours a week "and thus had additional income of almost 42,000 euros gross in 2016. The continuation of the company in addition to the Bundestag mandate is an economic necessity: Should he leave the Bundestag, "then I'll fall into the abyss".

Albani was then sharply criticized in letters to the editor of the Nordwest-Zeitung . Several letters calculated that Albani's remuneration in his secondary activities for "3 to 4 hours a week" was around 210 euros per hour. A more positive letter to the editor argued that Albani was maintaining "ground contact" through its economic activities. Albani commented on the allegations on his homepage. Here he again emphasized that the continuation of the company would be necessary in the event of leaving the Bundestag. He rejected the allegation of bias in the committee work. As a committee member, he has no influence whatsoever on whether the companies he advised receive funding. Albani categorizes his work for HörTech on his homepage as level 1 according to the rules of conduct of the German Bundestag (up to 3,500 euros per month), but on the homepage of the Bundestag this is listed as level 2 (up to 7,000 euros).

engagement

Albani is a member of the Rotary Club and the Bundeswehr Social Welfare Service . He is also a member of the non-partisan European Union Germany , which advocates a federal Europe and the European unification process.

In addition, he is a member of the “ Korvette Oldenburg ” friendship group , which aims to sponsor the German Navy ship of the same name.

Web links

Commons : Stephan Albani  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presidium | BWA. In: www.bwa-deutschland.com. Retrieved December 3, 2016 .
  2. ^ German Bundestag - MPs. Retrieved March 8, 2020 .
  3. ↑ DW: Marriage for everyone: which MPs voted for and which voted against. In: welt.de . June 30, 2017. Retrieved October 7, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b biography at the German Bundestag. Retrieved March 20, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Transparency International study on potential conflicts of interest. Retrieved March 20, 2016 .
  6. ↑ "Stephan Albani:" Then I fall into a bottomless pit, "Nordwest-Zeitung from 08.17.2017. Retrieved on September 2, 2017 .
  7. ^ "Understanding and criticism of additional income", Nordwest-Zeitung, August 26, 2017. Retrieved September 2, 2017 .
  8. ^ "Homepage of Stephan Albani MdB, section" Additional income ". Retrieved on September 2, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Stephan Albani. In: Website of the Europa-Union Germany. Retrieved August 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Albani, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd June 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen