Michael Glos
Michael Glos ( born December 14, 1944 in Brünnau ) is a German politician ( CSU).
He was from 2005 to 2009 Federal Minister of Economics and Technology and from 1993 to 2005 Chairman of the CSU party and First Deputy Chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group.
Education and work
Post-high school Glos served an apprenticeship to the miller. In 1967 he passed the master's examination. In 1968 he took over the management of the parent grain mills and agricultural concern in Prichsenstadt.
Party race
Glos is since 1970 a member of the CSU and in 1972 was the founding chairman of the CSU local branch in Prichsenstadt. From 1975 to 1993 he was chairman of the CSU district association Kitzingen. Glos belongs since 1976 to the board of the CSU district association of Lower Franconia and was from 1993 to 2011 District Chairman. During this time he was also a member of the Executive Committee and State Executive Committee of the CSU. Since 1993 he has been Honorary Chairman of the District Association and since 2011 of the District Association.
Deputies activity
Glos belonged from 1972 to 1978 the city council of Prichsenstadt and from 1975 to 1993 the council of the district of Kitzingen on.
From 1976 to 2013 he was a member of the German Bundestag. Here he was from 1987 to 1990 Chairman of the Group Working Group finances, while financial and tax policy spokesman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. From 1990 until the end of 1992, he was then Deputy Chairman of the Group for the area economy, transport, agriculture and small businesses. From 22 January 1993 to 21 November 2005 he was chairman of the CSU party and thus First Deputy Chairman of the CDU parliamentary group.
Glos is always drawn as a directly elected representative of the constituency of Schweinfurt in the Bundestag. He announced in March 2012, not to stand in the general election of 2013.
Public offices
On 22 November 2005 Glos was appointed Federal Minister of Economics and Technology, led by Chancellor Angela Merkel Federal Government. In this office he was considered as representative of a conservative -oriented economic policies, but occurred only rarely in the public eye out.
On 7 February 2009, he announced unexpectedly his willingness to resign the office as Federal Minister. According to media reports, he was cited as a reason in a letter to the CSU chairman Horst Seehofer, the new beginning in the CSU and its age. Seehofer was initially against the resignation, but agreed with him the next day to. On 9 February 2009 Glos asked the Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel officially to his dismissal. When his successor was February 9, 2009, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, Secretary General of the CSU proposed. On 10 February 2009 Glos was adopted from his office and Guttenberg, succeeded him.
In 2011, he said in an interview in retrospect that he had been surprised by his appointment as Minister of Economic Affairs in the fall of 2005 and was not prepared for the task: " I did not know even know where this Ministry was in the right. I even lived in the area, but it has never interested me. I had little idea of what are the duties of this ministry, what does it have to take care of everything. "
Others commitment
Glos is a member of the European Union Parliamentarians German Bundestag and the Board of Trustees of the Young Leaders Initiative Germany - Russia - the new generation. During his tenure as chairman of the CSU party, he was curator of the Initiative New Social Market Economy.
Private
Michael Glos is Catholic, married and has two children.
Awards
Cabinets
- Cabinet Merkel I