Ulrich Junghanns

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Election poster for the state elections in Brandenburg in 2004

Ulrich Junghanns (born May 25, 1956 in Gera ) is a German politician (formerly DBD , now CDU ). From November 2002 to November 2009 he was Economics Minister of the State of Brandenburg and from February 20, 2007 to October 20, 2008 Deputy Prime Minister of Brandenburg . From January 27, 2007 to October 20, 2008, he was also state chairman of the Brandenburg CDU .

Life and work

After graduating from POS from 1972 to 1974, Ulrich Junghanns completed an apprenticeship as a horse manager at the Moritzburg Stallion Depot .

In 1973 he acted as an extra in the film Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella , to be seen in several scenes as a rider.

From November 1974 to April 1976 he did his basic military service in the NVA . He completed the three-year study of public administration at the “Edwin Hoernle” Weimar School of Political Science in 1979 as a political scientist and then worked as an employee of the Greiz District Council .

In 1986 he completed a five-year correspondence course at the Academy for Political Science and Law of the GDR in Potsdam-Babelsberg with a degree in political science .

From 1998 to 2002 he was the managing director of GreenWay Systeme GmbH in Frankfurt (Oder) , which manufactures traffic navigation systems and traffic jam warning systems. After it became known that GreenWay Systems had received state contracts without a tender, Junghanns came under fire. However, the allegations could not be substantiated with regard to the fact that the contract was awarded in 2000 - i.e. two years before Junghann became Minister.

Ulrich Junghanns is Protestant and lives with his wife in Frankfurt (Oder). He has two grown sons.

Political party

Election poster for the 1994 federal election

Ulrich Junghanns entered the age of 18 in 1974 block party Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany (DBD) a. In 1981 he switched to an employment relationship with the DBD and "made a steep career as a functionary". He was the first secretary of the DBD Greiz and in 1983 was finally appointed political employee on the party executive committee of the DBD. He later became chairman of the DBD district board in Berlin. Junghanns was still defending the wall on July 3, 1989 : "As far as the wall is concerned, we will not allow ourselves to be talked out of its protective function - simply because we feel protection from everything that is rampant behind the wall of brown plague."

In 1990 he became the first deputy chairman of the Democratic Peasant Party in Germany. After the board of directors of the DBD had decided to merge with the CDU on June 25, 1990 and Günther Maleuda withdrew from the chair shortly thereafter, Junghanns became the acting chairman. The merger was therefore decided at an extraordinary party conference in accordance with Section 13 of the Political Parties Act . Even under his chairmanship, the DBD spoke out against the GDR joining the Federal Republic under Article 23 of the Basic Law.

Since 1990 he has been a member of the state board of the CDU Brandenburg. From 1990 to 1992 he was a member of the federal executive committee of the CDU. Since January 1999 he was deputy state chairman of the CDU Brandenburg. After the previous CDU state chairman Jörg Schönbohm no longer ran for election at the 2007 state party conference, Junghanns applied for this position. The election, in which he was supported by Schönbohm, Junghanns won just ahead of his opponent Sven Petke with 112 to 110 votes. Dierk Homeyer , the CDU member of the state parliament, proposed by Junghanns as general secretary of the CDU Brandenburg , did not receive the required majority at the state party conference. Shortly thereafter, there was an argument. “I see in your eyes the hatred that shaped this argument,” shouted the new chairman from the podium. After boos from delegates and a crisis meeting of the district chairmen, Junghanns apologized.

After bad results for the CDU in the local elections in Brandenburg on September 28, 2008, Junghanns resigned on October 20, 2008 from his position as state party chairman.

MP

He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1990 to 1998 . In 1990 he won the direct mandate in the constituency of Frankfurt (Oder) - Eisenhüttenstadt - Beeskow and in 1994 he entered parliament via the state list of the CDU Brandenburg.

In 1993 he ran for election as mayor of the city of Frankfurt (Oder). He received 12.5 percent of the vote. From 1994 to 2002 Junghanns was city councilor and chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in Frankfurt (Oder).

From October 2004 to 2009 Junghanns was a member of the Brandenburg State Parliament . He was unable to prevail against Frank Hammer from the PDS in the constituency of Frankfurt (Oder) . Junghanns moved into parliament via the CDU's state list.

Junghanns was no longer a candidate for the party for the 2009 state elections in Brandenburg.

Honor in the GDR

literature

Web links

Commons : Ulrich Junghanns  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The standing order - ex-company of the Minister of Economics rented a traffic jam warning system to the country - without tendering. In: Der Tagesspiegel , May 15, 2006
  2. ↑ Reliable supports. From the glass house, Helmut Kohl criticizes the proximity of the SPD to the PDS: there are plenty of ex-GDR greats at home in his own party. In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 1994, pp. 26 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Great image. The Union tries to get rid of its recorder image - with the help of the GDR civil rights activists . In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , 1996, pp. 44 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Ulrich Junghanns, Chairman of the Berlin District Board: Berlin - socialist metropolis in the colors of the GDR . In: Bauernecho , July 3, 1989, p. 6.
  5. ↑ cf. also Peter Joachim Lapp: sale. The end of the bloc parties . Berlin 1998, p. 125, who is of the opinion that the majority of the members have rejected the merger.
  6. ^ Article 23 GG before reunification
  7. ^ Igor Göldner: The boss without a general secretary . ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: Märkische Allgemeine , January 29, 2007
  8. ↑ Schönbohm's candidate won, derailed and had to apologize . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , January 29, 2007
  9. ↑ Brandenburg's CDU boss throws down . ( Memento from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: netzeitung.de, October 20, 2008
  10. ↑ Results of the state election 2004
  11. ↑ Economics minister no longer wants to go to the state parliament . In: Der Tagesspiegel , December 11, 2008
  12. ^ Colleague Ulrich Junghanns - Chairman of the Berlin District Board . In: Bauernecho , November 5, 1988, issue 262, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Junghanns, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German DBD functionary, politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag and Minister of Economics of Brandenburg
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera