Werner Hoyer (politician, 1951)

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Werner Hoyer (2017)

Werner Hoyer (born November 17, 1951 in Wuppertal ) is President of the European Investment Bank and a German politician ( FDP ). Since 2012 he has also been President of the Institute for European Politics . From 1994 to 1998 Hoyer was Minister of State in the Foreign Office and from 2002 to 2009 deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group . From October 2009 to December 2011 he was again Minister of State at the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs .

Life and work

After graduating from the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hanover in 1970 , Hoyer studied economics at the University of Cologne , graduating in 1974 with a degree in economics. He then worked as a research assistant at the University of Cologne until 1984. In 1977 he received his doctorate here as Dr. rer. pole. with the thesis Wealth Effects of Money - Theoretical approaches to the role of money as an asset in the economic process . During this time he also wrote the well-known economics textbook Fundamentals of Microeconomic Theory together with Rolf Rettig (since the 4th edition in 2003 also with Klaus-Dieter Rothe ). From 1985 to 1987 he was head of the business and information department at Carl-Duisberg-Gesellschaft e. V. in Cologne. Until 1994 he had a teaching position for foreign trade at the University of Cologne . He is a member of the non-partisan European Union Germany .

Werner Hoyer is married and has two children.

Party work

He has been a member of the FDP since 1972. Here he was initially involved with the Young Liberals , whose national board he was also a member from 1983 to 1986. From 1984 to 1992 he was chairman of the FDP district association in Cologne. Since 1984 he has been a member of the FDP state executive in North Rhine-Westphalia , and since 1994 also the federal executive . From 1993 to 1994 Werner Hoyer served as General Secretary of the FDP federal party.

From his time as general secretary the Hoyer often wrongly attributed the designation of the FDP as the "party of the higher earners". In fact, this formulation was used without Hoyer's knowledge in an election program draft for the 1994 Bundestag election campaign , without being adopted in the actual election program of the FDP for 1994. The original formulation by Hoyer, an ironic quote from an earlier statement by Rudolf Scharping (at that time candidate for chancellor of the SPD), was: "We are the party of high earners because we want everyone to earn better". The shortened version of the sentence was picked up polemically by the press and Hoyer assumed political responsibility as Secretary General.

Since 2000, Hoyer has been chairman of the FDP district association in Cologne, and from 2006 to 2009 he was also a member of the FDP presidium. From 1997 to 2000 he was initially Vice-President and from 2000 to 2005 President of the European Liberal Democratic Party (ELDR). Werner Hoyer is an honorary member of the FDP district association Cologne- Lindenthal (previously the local association Junkersdorf-Lövenich-Weiden-Widdersdorf), of which he was chairman in the 1980s.

MP

NRW Innovation Minister Andreas Pinkwart (left) and Werner Hoyer (right) on September 5, 2009 at a federal election event in Cologne

From 1987 to 2012 he was a member of the German Bundestag . From 1989 to 1993 he was parliamentary managing director and from 1990 to 1994 security policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group . From October 2002 to October 2009 he was deputy parliamentary group chairman and chairman of the parliamentary group working group on international politics. In addition, he was the group's foreign policy spokesman during this period. Werner Hoyer has always entered the German Bundestag via the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia . On January 1, 2012, he renounced his parliamentary mandate to move to the top of the European Investment Bank (EIB). Jörg von Polheim moved up for him in the Bundestag.

Memberships

Government offices and European Investment Bank

After the 1994 federal election , Werner Hoyer was appointed Minister of State in the Foreign Office on November 17, 1994 . Hoyer was specifically responsible for European policy and the negotiator of the German delegation in the government negotiations for the further development of the Maastricht Treaty . With the change of government after the Bundestag election in 1998 , he left the government on October 26, 1998.

From October 2009 Werner Hoyer held the same office in Merkel II's cabinet . Contrary to Hoyer's first term of office as Minister of State, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle deliberately refrained from adding the restrictive addition “for European Union affairs”. As Chairman of the European Secretaries of State and a member of the Federal Cabinet, he played a prominent role in the European coordination of the Federal Government.

Hoyer's relationship with Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has been described as tense. A change of Hoyer to a new office therefore became more and more likely. After Hoyer's unsuccessful application as ambassador to Washington , he was pushed through as a German candidate for the position of President of the European Investment Bank .

The European Council gave the green light to Hoyer's candidacy in autumn 2011; the Board of Governors appointed him as President of the EIB on January 1, 2012.

On July 27, 2017, the Board of Governors of the EIB confirmed his re-appointment.

Publications

  • Werner Hoyer, Rolf Rettig, Karl-Dieter Rother: Basics of microeconomic theory . 3. Edition. Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8041-2026-1 .

Awards

See also

Web links

Commons : Werner Hoyer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New President of the IEP: Dr. Werner Hoyer. European Movement Germany , February 14, 2012, accessed on February 14, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Excerpt from the biographical outline , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 06/2012 of February 7, 2012.
  3. ^ Wulf Schmiese : Ideal cast . In: FAZ , November 6, 2009, p. 1
  4. ^ NWZ: Mariano Rajoy and Werner Hoyer ( Memento from January 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Kölnische Rundschau: On the person - Jörg von Polheim
  6. ↑ Westerwelle opponents should lead the investment bank. (No longer available online.) Financial Times Deutschland , October 3, 2011, archived from the original on October 4, 2011 ; Retrieved October 21, 2011 .
  7. ^ New President of the European Investment Bank: Werner Hoyer. European Movement Germany , January 4, 2012, accessed January 4, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Werner Hoyer appointed President of the European Investment Bank for a second term eib.org, July 27, 2017.
  9. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  10. ↑ Dr. Werner Hoyer voted “European Banker of the Year 2019”. In: dfv media group, June 25, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Hoyer, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH 17th November 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal