Werner Hoyer
Werner Hoyer ( born November 17, 1951 in Wuppertal) is the President of the European Investment Bank and a German politician ( FDP). Since 2012 he has also been President of the Institute for European Politics. Hoyer was from 1994 to 1998 Minister of State in the Foreign Office from 2002 to 2009, Deputy Chairman of the FDP parliamentary group. From October 2009 to December 2011 he was again Minister of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Life and career
After graduation in 1970 at the Kaiser -Wilhelm -Gymnasium in Hanover Hoyer studied economics at the University of Cologne, from which he graduated in 1974 as a graduate economist. He then worked as a research assistant at the University of Cologne until 1984. In 1977 he was here his doctorate. pol. with the work of wealth effects of money - Theoretical Approaches to the role of money as an asset object in the economic process. During this time he also wrote together with Rolf Rettig the famous economic textbook fundamentals of microeconomic theory (since the 4th edition in 2003 with additional Klaus -Dieter Rothe ). From 1985 to 1987 he was head of economic and information at the Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft eV in Cologne. Until 1994 he was a lecturer for Foreign Trade at the University of Cologne. He is a member of the bipartisan European Union Germany.
Werner Hoyer is married and has two children.
Party work
Since 1972 he is a member of the FDP. Here he became involved first with the Young Liberals, the federal board, he also belonged from 1983 to 1986. From 1984 to 1992 he was chairman of the FDP District Association Cologne. Since 1984 he is a member of the FDP Executive in North Rhine -Westphalia, since 1994, the National Executive Board. From 1993 to 1994, Werner Hoyer served as Secretary General of the FDP Federal Party.
From his time as Secretary General of the Hoyer comes often mistakenly attributed to the FDP designation as a " party of the better-off ." In fact, this formulation was used without Hoyer ' knowledge in a choice program design for the federal election campaign of 1994, without being decided in the actual election program of the FDP for 1994. The original formulation of Hoyer, an ironic quote from an earlier statement Rudolf Scharping (then chancellor candidate for the SPD ), was: " We are the party of high earners, because we want all deserve better." The phrase was picked up in the cut version polemically by the press and Hoyer took over as Secretary General of the political responsibility.
Since 2000, Hoyer is the Chairman of the FDP district association Cologne from 2006 to 2009, he was also a member of the Presidium of the FDP. From 1997 to 2000 he was the first Vice President from 2000 to 2005, President of the European Liberal Democratic Party ( ELDR). Werner Hoyer is an honorary member of the FDP Köln-Junkersdorf/Lövenich/Weiden/Widdersdorf local branch, which he was chairman in the 1980s.
Member of Parliament
From 1987 to 2012, he was a member of the German Bundestag. Here he was from 1989 to 1993 Parliamentary General Manager and from 1990 to 1994 security policy spokesman of the FDP parliamentary group. From October 2002 to October 2009, he was Group Vice- Chairman and Chairman of the Group's Working Group for International Policy. In addition, he was foreign affairs spokesman of the group during this time. Werner Hoyer is always drawn on a state list North Rhine-Westphalia to the German Bundestag. On January 1, 2012, he renounced his parliamentary mandate to switch to the top of the European Investment Bank ( EIB). For him, Jörg von Polheim moved by the Bundestag.
Memberships
Hoyer is a member of the European Union Parliamentarians German Bundestag.
Government offices and European Investment Bank
After the parliamentary election in 1994, Werner Hoyer was on 17 November 1994 as Minister of State at the Foreign Office. Hoyer was here specifically responsible for European affairs, and chief negotiator of the German delegation at the intergovernmental negotiations for the further development of the Maastricht Treaty. With the change of government after the parliamentary election in 1998 he resigned from the government on 26 October 1998.
Since October 2009, Werner Hoyer held the same office in the Merkel government. Contrary Hoyer's first term as Minister of State was deliberately omitted under Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle at the restrictive words " for European Union Affairs ". As chairman of Europe and Member Secretaries of State in the Federal Cabinet, he has a prominent role in European coordination of the federal government.
Hoyer's relationship with the Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle was described as tense. A change Hoyer in a new office was therefore more likely. After an unsuccessful interest Hoyer's position at the Ambassador in Washington, he sat down by a German candidate for the position of President of the European Investment Bank.
After the European Council gave the green light for the candidacy Hoyer in the fall of 2011, the Board of Governors has called him on January 1, 2012 for the EIB president.