Günther Krause

Günther Krause ( * September 13, 1953 in Halle ( Saale) ) is an engineer and former German politician ( CDU). He came in 1990 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister of the GDR, 1990-1991 Federal Minister for Special Affairs, and from 1991 until his resignation in 1993 the Federal Minister for Transport.

Life and career

After graduation in 1972 Krause did his military service with the NVA and then graduated from 1974 to 1978 to study at the School of Architecture and Building, Weimar, Section computing and data processing, which he finished as a graduate engineer. From 1978 to 1982 he worked in residential construction combine in Rostock. From 1982 to 1990 he was then working at the engineering school Wismar. 1984 he obtained his PhD Dr.-Ing. at the College of Architecture and Civil Engineering in Weimar with the work A Contribution to the machines based configuration in the wall construction and in 1987 his habilitation for Dr. sc. in Wismar with the work of a single CAM / CAPP development technology - the precondition for decentralized use of micro- computer technology in the shipping industry.

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1990 Krause was appointed honorary professor at the Technische Hochschule Wismar. Since 1993 he runs as an independent contractor for a company for heating bill in Eastern Europe. In 1994 he was briefly on the board of I.G. Farben I.A.

Günther Krause lives in Admannshagen and has three children and four grandchildren. He is married to his second wife Heike Krause -Augustin since April 2004.

Party

Krause joined during the 1975 GDR CDU. From 1987 to 1989 he was Chairman of the CDU district in the district of Bad Doberan. In March 1990, he was elected chairman of the newly formed National Association of the CDU in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. He held until his resignation in 1993 this function.

Member of Parliament

Krause was 1990 Member of Parliament since the first free parliamentary elections on 18 March 1990 to the end of the GDR on October 2. From 10 April 1990, he served as chairman of the CDU vo / DA Group. On 3 October 1990 he became a member of the German Bundestag. In the general election in 1990 he was with 45.2% of votes directly elected representative of the constituency Wismar / Doberan. In the general election in 1994, Krause did not occur at and retired from the Bundestag.

Public offices

From mid-April to 2 October 1990, he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister of the GDR. In this role he was also on the eastern side negotiator in the talks on the closed on 2 July 1990 German - German Unification Treaty and has signed him on 31 August 1990 together with Wolfgang Schäuble.

After reunification on 3 October 1990 he was appointed Federal Minister for Special Affairs in the run of Chancellor Helmut Kohl Federal Government. After the parliamentary election in 1990, he was appointed on 18 January 1991 the Federal Minister for Transport. Following the resignation of the then Federal Minister of Transport, Christian Schwarz -Schilling, he was commissioned on 17 December 1992 by Chancellor Helmut Kohl with the supervisory commissioner of the Federal Ministry of Post Ministry of Transport, which he took over until the appointment of a successor on 25 January 1993.

In 1996, he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Mayor of Rostock.

Affairs

On 6 May 1993 Krause resigned from his position as Minister of Transport back, soon afterwards by the Chair of the CDU in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Now divorced from him - - Wife alimentierte cleaning help with state funds for long-term unemployed, as well as his move from DDR reason, several treated as affairs in public events, such as the sale of the East German motorway service areas in 1990 and the so-called Housekeeper affair in 1993, when his were Berlin office to the former family residence Börger end, he let himself be funded by the state with around 6,000 DM. The Federal Court has the reimbursement of removal costs, after examination, however, not be contested.

Krause had to swear an oath in 2001. He was sentenced on 23 December 2002 by the Regional Court of Rostock for embezzlement, fraud and tax evasion to a term of imprisonment of 3 years and 9 months. This judgment was set on 7 July 2004 by the Federal Court on the basis of statute of limitations in part and reversed in the remaining counts and remanded for a new trial in the district court. He was sentenced on 30 October 2007 to a term of imprisonment of 14 months on probation. Krause has been guilty in the Court's bankruptcy offenses in four cases and the Insolvenzverschleppung view and cheated in the conduct of its business structure Invest GmbH into bankruptcy its employees out of their wages. He has filed an appeal with the Supreme Court.