Wolfgang Vehse

Wolfgang Vehse (born September 27 , 1945 in Osterburg ) is a German civil servant and politician.

Career

Vehse was born in the Altmark . His family soon moved to the Federal Republic of Germany. Vehse attended the grammar school in Limburg an der Lahn , where he passed the Abitur at the Tilemann School in order to then study law at the Universities of Marburg and Kiel .

After passing both legal state examinations and in 1975 carried Promotion to Dr. jur. In 1977 he got a job at the Bavarian State Ministry for Economics and Transport. From 1988 he was head of the 'Foreign Trade and Development Aid' division, and then in 1990 he was appointed Director of 'Relations with the Federal Government, the EU Commission' and for International Relations at the Treuhandanstalt in Berlin. From 1995 to 1996 he was a member of the cabinet of EU Commissioner Martin Bangemann in Brussels. From January 1, 1997, he was State Secretary in the Saxon State Ministry for Economics and Labor . In August 2002 he was put into temporary retirement by the new Saxon Prime Minister Georg Milbradt.

Involvement in the QMF scandal

In 2004, a corruption scandal was legally processed in Saxony, which involved the unjustified use of funds from the European Social Fund in the amount of 21 million euros, the so-called QMF scandal . In this process Vehse was accused of embezzlement and unofficial false testimony before an investigative committee by the Dresden public prosecutor's office before the Dresden district court. Vehse himself insisted on his innocence and applied for an acquittal through his lawyer , while the prosecutor pleaded for imprisonment. The Dresden Regional Court acquitted Vehse of the charge of infidelity due to a lack of evidence on September 12, 2008, but sentenced him to a fine of 27,000 euros instead of a 5-month suspended prison sentence because of undecided false testimony before the investigative committee of the Saxon state parliament . The prosecutor had applied for a 10-month suspended sentence. Vehse appealed against this judgment to the Federal Court of Justice , which on March 25, 2009 dismissed this appeal as unfounded. Vehse did not return to public service after his temporary retirement. He has been working as a lawyer since 2010.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Vehse: The subject of the other performance suit in the administrative process . Dissertation . Marburg 1975, DNB 760719470 .
2. ^ EU funding scandal in Saxony: charges against Vehse. In: The world. May 5, 2004.
3. ^ Thoma Hartwig in Dresdner Latest News. August 12, 2005.
4. ^ Saxon newspaper. September 12, 2008.
5. ^ Saxon newspaper. September 12, 2008.