Bernhard Vogel
Bernhard Vogel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Minister-President Peter Altmeier | Helmut Kohl | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Eduard Orth | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Hanna-Renate Laurien | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | 19 December 1932 Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany | (age 91)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relatives | Hans-Jochen Vogel (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Heidelberg University Munich University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bernhard Vogel (German pronunciation:
Early life and education
Vogel was born in Göttingen. He received his Abitur in Munich in 1953, and began studies in political science, history, sociology, and economics, first in Heidelberg and then in Munich. He received his doctorate in 1960, while working as a research assistant at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Heidelberg. He became a lecturer there the following year, also working in adult education.
Political career
In 1963, Vogel was elected to the municipal council of Heidelberg, but resigned two years later, following his election to the Bundestag. He joined the governing board of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany in the Rhineland Palatinate in 1965. From 1965 to 1967, Vogel was a member of the German Bundestag, a position from which he resigned to assume the job of State Minister of Culture and Education in Rhineland-Palatinate under Minister President Peter Altmeier. He continued in the same cabinet position under Altmeier's successor in 1969, Helmut Kohl. In 1973, when Kohl became chair of the national CDU, Vogel succeeded him as state party chair in Rhineland-Palatinate.
In December 1976, Vogel became Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate to replace Kohl, who had been elected a federal deputy. Vogel immediately assumed the presidency of the Federal Council until 31 October 1977, at the same time becoming chairman of the supervisory board of the
After his resignation, Vogel concentrated on the management of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, of which he became chairman in 1989. After the resignation of the first Thuringian Prime Minister
Life after politics
From 2001 until 2009, Vogel served again as president of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Berlin.
In 2012 Vogel was awarded the Mercator Visiting Professorship for Political Management at the Universität Essen-Duisburg's NRW School of Governance. He gave both seminars and lectures at the university.[2]
Vogel was nominated by his party as delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2022.[3]
Other activities
Corporate boards
- Deutsche Vermögensberatung (DVAG), member of the advisory board[4]
Non-profit organizations
- donum vitae, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2001)[5]
- CARE Deutschland-Luxemburg, member of the board of trustees[6]
- Eugen Biser Foundation, member of the board of trustees
- European Foundation for the Speyer Cathedral, member of the board of trustees[7]
- Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), member of the board of trustees[8]
- Willy Brandt Foundation, member of the board of trustees[9]
Personal life
Vogel is a devout
References
- ^ Historischer Überblick lztthueringen.de
- ^ "- Wie Politik die Zukunft gestaltet". Deutschlandfunk (in German). Retrieved 24 May 2018.
- ^ 17th Federal Convention, 13 February 2022, List of Members Bundestag.
- ^ Tobias Romberg (19 May 2011), Ritter der Schwafelrunde Die Zeit.
- ^ Donum vitae gründet Stiftung Die Tageszeitung, 18 May 2001.
- CARE Deutschland.
- ^ Board of Trustees Archived 29 December 2018 at the Wayback Machine European Foundation for the Speyer Cathedral.
- ^ Board of Trustees Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
- ^ Board of Trustees Willy Brandt Foundation.
- Vogel, Bernhard; Roman Herzog; Michael Borchard; Uwe Spindeldreier (2002). "Lebensstationen". Sorge tragen für die Zukunft: Reden 1998–2002 (in German) (1st ed.). Berlin: Christoph Links Verlag. pp. 237f. ISBN 3-86153-283-2.
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