Eckart von Klaeden
Eckart Peter Hans von Klaeden ( born November 18, 1965 in Hannover ) is a German lawyer, lobbyist and politician ( CDU). He is the Head of Policy and External Relations, Daimler AG.
Life
Background, education and vocational
Eckart von Klaeden was born the son of a pastor and a social worker in Hanover. The family of Klaeden was already in the early modern period the Altmark Junker state - their origin is now a district of the town Bismark ( Altmark) -, that is not a person, but " old" nobility. They were resident in Gohre in the Altmark since 1620. After graduation in 1985 at the Kaiser -Wilhelm -Gymnasium Hannover he made from 1985 to 1987 as a reserve officer candidate his military service in the Panzer Lehr Battalion 334 in Celle- shy from. He went through his training, inter alia, at the Panzertruppenschule in Munster. After promotion to captain in the reserve, he joined the strike force, and is now the rank of lieutenant commander of the reserve.
From 1987, he studied law at the Julius- Maximilians- University of Würzburg and the Georg-August -Universität Göttingen, which he ended with the First State Exam in 1993. The clerkship he finished in 1996 with the Second State Examination. He has since been admitted to the bar.
On November 1, 2013, was, as the successor of Martin Jäger, Head of Policy and External Affairs of Daimler AG.
Party race
From Klaeden is a member of the Junge Union and the CDU since 1983. From 1983 to 1985 he was state chairman of the Student Union in Lower Saxony. From 1987 to 1992 he was a member of the JU- national board and was from 1992 to 1995 JU regional chairman in Lower Saxony. From Klaeden from 1995 to 2013 Chairman of the CDU district association Hildesheim and belonged since 2004 to the CDU Federal Board. On November 27, 2006, he was elected national treasurer of the CDU. In November 2010, he gave this office again and was elected by the 23rd Congress to the presidency member. On November 11, 2013 submitted by Klaeden his seat in the CDU Presidium down. On December 8, 2013 it was announced that the Berenberg Bank paid in August of the same year 15,000 euros to CDU district association Hildesheim and of Klaeden few weeks at a congress of the bank in Munich held later a speech and then by the latter visited the Oktoberfest.
Deputies activity
From 1994 to 2013 was of Klaeden Member of the German Bundestag. Here he was from 2000 to 2005 Parliamentary Secretary of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. In 2005 he was chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the Visa inquiry. From 2005 to 2009 he was Chairman of the Working Group Foreign and thus foreign policy spokesman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. He was a member of the European Union Parliamentarians German Bundestag.
Eckart von Klaeden has moved since his first election in 1994, always on the state list of Lower Saxony in the Bundestag. Advertised he had in each case as a direct candidate in the constituency of Hildesheim, but always subject to the respective candidates of the Social Democratic Party, currently Bernhard Brinkmann. On May 28, 2013 were known that he was not a candidate in the general election again in 2013 for the Bundestag and change the end of 2013, Daimler AG.
Public offices
From Klaeden was on 28 October 2009 by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the Minister of State of the Federal Chancellery appointed as the coordinator of the Federal Government Bureaucracy Reduction and Better Regulation (equivalent to a Parliamentary Secretary ) after the previously designated for this office Peter Hintze and to remain in the Federal Ministry of Economics technology had requested. Due to the circumstances of his move from the Chancellor's Office to Daimler AG, the Berlin Public Prosecutor's Office initiated against Klaeden of an investigation for the initial suspicion of receiving bribes.
Personal
From Klaeden is Protestant, married and father of three daughters.
Memberships
From Klaeden is a member of the Göttingen Turnerschaft God Ingo- Normannia in Marburg Convention.
From 2005 to 2011 he was a member of the board of the German Protestant Church Congress.
He is a member of the board of Atlantic Bridge and member of the Advisory Board of the Atlantic Initiative.
Cabinets
- Cabinet Merkel II
Publications
- No special train to Moscow. German policy towards Russia must be European; a point of view. Edition Körber Foundation, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89684-135-3.