Walther Otremba

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Walther Otremba (born September 23, 1951 in Ahrensburg ) is a former German political official ( CDU ). From September 2006 to March 2011, he was a civil servant state secretary in various federal ministries and thus a political official.

Life

education

Otremba is the son of Erich Otremba . He first attended the Stormarn School in Ahrensburg and then passed the Abitur in 1971 at the Hansagymnasium Cologne . From 1971 to 1977 he studied economics at the University of Cologne and graduated on November 14, 1977 with a degree in economics . On July 3, 1980 he was promoted to Dr. rer. pole. PhD . He then worked between 1980 and 1983 as a research assistant for the Monopolies Commission .

Work in federal agencies

In 1983 he became a consultant in the policy department of the Federal Ministry of Finance . From 1986 to 1990 he was an economic policy advisor and speechwriter in the ministerial office and from 1991 he was appointed head of the department for fundamental questions of financial policy, from 1994 he was head of the subdivision for fundamental questions of financial policy and from 1998 to 1999 he was head of the subdivision for macroeconomic and financial analyzes and Projections, business statistics was.

From 2002 to 2006 he was chairman of the board of the Federal Agency for Post and Telecommunications and on September 1, 2006 he became a permanent state secretary in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology . In the course of the financial crisis from 2007 onwards, he played a key role in committees, including the financial market stabilization fund .

State Secretary

After a brief activity from 2009 as a permanent state secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance, he was appointed permanent state secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defense on January 27, 2010. On March 4, 2011, Otremba was given temporary retirement by the new Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière without giving any reason .

Walther Otremba was a member of the supervisory board of Deutsche Bahn .

CEO

After his temporary retirement , Otremba moved to the Verband der Briefdienste e. V.

Private

Otremba is married, has four children and lives in Sankt Augustin .

Fonts

  • Walther Otremba: Market access restrictions as a problem of competition policy. Dissertation at the University of Cologne. Mannhold, Düsseldorf 1980.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schäuble loses State Secretary for Finance. In: Handelsblatt . January 27, 2010, accessed on September 2, 2014 : “Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg announced on Wednesday that Otremba would succeed Peter Wichert as his State Secretary. Zu Guttenberg and Otremba had already worked closely together in the Ministry of Economic Affairs. At the beginning of the legislative period, Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble appointed the economic and financial expert from Ahrensburg in northern Germany to be his State Secretary responsible for tax policy. "
  2. ^ De Maizière fires Guttenberg's State Secretary. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . March 4, 2011, accessed on September 2, 2014 : “The CDU politician is dismissing State Secretary Walther Otremba, who was previously responsible for the Bundeswehr reform. De Maizière wants to ask Chancellor Angela Merkel in a letter to apply to the Federal President to transfer Otremba into temporary retirement . "
  3. ↑ Ralf Beste, Christoph Schwennicke: The crafty spit . In: Der Spiegel . No. 21 , 2011, p. 34-35 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Board of the Association of Letter Services e. V. Accessed May 30, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Christoph Schlautmann: BBD chairman Walther Otremba: Der Post-Jäger. In: Handelsblatt. December 27, 2017, accessed February 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Otremba, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Ahrensburg