Dieter Spöri

Dieter Spöri ( born May 15, 1943 in Stuttgart ) is a German politician of the SPD. He was from 1992 to 1996 Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Affairs of Baden- Württemberg. From 2006 to 2012 he was president of the Network European Movement Germany.

First study and professional activity

Spöri studied in Tübingen economics and was there, beside Rudolf Hickel, as one of the leading members of the student movement of 1968. After graduating with a degree in economics Spöri was, among others, 1970-1974 Deputy director of the Institute for East German Economic Research in Stuttgart and to 1975 lecturer in economic Policy at the University of Stuttgart. Spöri was established in 1973 at the University of Konstanz Dr. rer. soc. doctorate. His dissertation was titled Regional economic policy and spatial distribution of income: a critical assessment of regional policy: the case of Baden-Württemberg.

Party

Spöri joined the SPD in 1970, in which he said state board in Baden -Württemberg and from 1988 to 1998 belonged to the National Executive Board, among others, from 1975 to 1998. Spöri ran three times as a top candidate of the SPD in Baden- Württemberg for the post of prime minister. In the Baden-Württemberg state election 1988, he ran against Prime Minister Lothar Späth. The election brought no major changes in the results: The CDU was able to hold a vote share of 49.1 percent of the vote and a loss of 2.9 percentage points to its absolute majority mandates. In contrast, stagnated the SPD with a score of 32.0 percent of the vote and a minimum loss of 0.4 percentage points. In the state elections in 1992 Spöri ran against Erwin Teufel. In this election, both major parties suffered significant loss of votes (CDU 39.6 %, a loss of 9.5 percentage points; SPD: 29.4 % of the vote, down 2.6 percentage points). Due to the catchment of the Republicans in the state legislature, however, both parties formed a coalition in which Spöri Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Affairs of the Grand Coalition under Erwin Teufel was. After the SPD with 25.1 percent available to that worst result reached under his third top candidate in the state election in 1996 since the country establishment and Erwin Teufel, the grand coalition aufkündigte favor of a now possible coalition with the FDP, Spöri withdrew from politics, brings to but always in a discussion on the future of his party. 2010 called Spöri together with other SPD politicians to a referendum on the Stuttgart 21 project for reconstruction of the main station on.

Mandates and public offices

From 1976 to 1988 Spöri was Member of Parliament for the constituency of Heilbronn. Here he was, among others, from 1984 to 1988 tax policy spokesman of the SPD parliamentary group and chairman of the finance committee of the German Bundestag. In his first top candidate in 1988 Spöri won the direct mandate in the Heilbronn constituency and changed by the Bundestag in the state parliament of Baden -Württemberg. Here he also became the group chairmen and thus elected opposition leaders. After his second top candidate in 1992 Spöri was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Affairs. In this office he remained until 1996. Among other things, he was from 1993 to 1994 chairman of the German Minister of Economics Conference. After his resignation from the ministerial office he still belonged to February 1997, a second mandate in the Heilbronn constituency at the Diet. Then he laid down his mandate, then the deputy Mario Capezzuto occupied.

After the party politics

From 1999 to 2008 Spöri was represented in the federal government, based in Haus Huth at Potsdamer Platz for Daimler AG in Berlin. Until 2007 he was a member of the board of the software company SAP. On 1 September 2008 Dieter Spöri is in the function of chief representative and shareholder in personnel consulting firm Pmci. Since his retirement from Daimler Spöri are increasingly critical commentaries on current European and German economic policy as well as on party funding.

European policy

During his time as Baden -Württemberg Minister of Economy Dieter Spöri participated actively in European policy discussions. A special focus he stood in the years 1994 - 1996 by his criticism of the premature in his eyes introduction of the euro. Spöri went primarily for a consistently strict compliance with the Maastricht convergence criteria strong, which would gemündet at the appropriate time in a kind of "mini- monetary union between Germany and France." This variant, however he regarded as a major threat for German jobs that could be lost due to the inevitable further devalued competition from countries outside the monetary union. He therefore proposed a postponement of the introduction five years ago, countries like Italy or Spain time for necessary economic adjustment processes to create.

In September 2011, Dieter Spöri gave the news portal EurActiv an interview, by entering into raised not only in his mid-1990s criticisms of the monetary union, but decided against a domestic political electioneering "Greece -bashing " pronounce: "You have to know that such a insolvency, now playing with some ordinary seaman, a high-risk adventure with an uncertain outcome is completely, which also Portugal, Spain, Italy and others could be drawn into the maelstrom into crisis. Since some are playing with fire. "

From June 2006 to July 2012 Spöri was president of the Network European Movement Germany, following in the former EU Commissioner Monika Wulf- Mathies ( re-elected 2008 and 2010). In July 2012, Spöri was replaced as president by Rainer Wend after the maximum three terms of office and appointed Honorary President of the European Movement Germany.