Günther Beckstein

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Günther Beckstein
Deputy Minister President of Bavaria
In office
29 January 2001 – 9 October 2007
Prime MinisterEdmund Stoiber
Preceded byBarbara Stamm
Succeeded byMartin Zeil
Minister of the Interior of Bavaria
In office
17 June 1993 – 9 October 2007
Prime MinisterEdmund Stoiber
Preceded byEdmund Stoiber
Succeeded byJoachim Herrmann
Personal details
Born (1943-11-23) 23 November 1943 (age 80)
CSU
SpouseMarga Beckstein
ChildrenRuth
Frank
Martin
ProfessionLawyer

Günther Beckstein (German pronunciation:

CSU politician from Bavaria and was the 17th Minister President of Bavaria from 9 October 2007 to 27 October 2008. He is well known for his outspoken views on law and order
.

Biography

Beckstein was born in

dissertation
Der Gewissenstäter im Strafrecht und Strafprozessrecht (The Delinquent of Conscience in Criminal Law and Trial Law) which led to his Ph.D. Between 1971 and 1978, he worked as a lawyer.

Beckstein has been married to

Political career

Beckstein started his political career as the district chairman of the

Junge Union Nürnberg-Fürth (1973–1978) and then became vice chairman of the CSU district association Nürnberg-Fürth-Schwabach
. In 1991, he acceded its chairmanship.

Beckstein became a member of the Bavarian State Parliament, the

Ministry of Interior (Bayerisches Staatsministerium des Innern). In 1993, he became the Interior Minister of Bavaria, succeeding Edmund Stoiber
. In 2001, he was elected to the post of Deputy Minister-President of Bavaria.

Beckstein won seat in the Bundestag in the 2005 German federal elections but did not take up this position, preferring to stay in state politics.[1]

After Minister-President Edmund Stoiber had announced on 18 January 2007 to resign from his post in the autumn of 2007, the CSU Landtag fraction came to the arrangement for Beckstein to succeed Stoiber, after a power struggle with Erwin Huber,[4] selecting him with a vast majority.[5] On 9 October, the Bavarian Landtag elected him as the new Minister-President by a majority of 122 of the 178 votes cast.

His rise to the post of Bavarian prime minister was something of a novelty in the state as he is from Franconia—the northern half of Bavaria—and a Protestant. Traditionally, though not exclusively, Bavarian prime ministers have been from Altbayern—the south—and Catholics.[4]

On 1 October 2008, following the Bavarian state elections of 28 September, where his party lost its absolute majority of the seats for the first time in 46 years, Beckstein resigned from his post[6] but remained in office until a new Minister-President was elected on 27 October.[7][8]

Beckstein was a CSU delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2017.[9]

Views

Other activities

  • Deutsche Bank, Member of the Regional Advisory Board for Bavaria (since 2011)[14][15]
  • University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Member of the Board of Trustees[16]

References

  1. ^ a b "Official Bundestag website". Archived from the original on 23 August 2009. Retrieved 10 May 2008.
  2. ^ "EKD website, Archive 2018". 23 November 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  3. ^ Stadt Nürnberg: Statistic News of Nürnberg: election results of 1987 Archived 4 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ a b c "Günther Beckstein Sworn in as new Bavarian Premier". Deutsche Welle. 9 October 2007. Retrieved 10 May 2008.
  5. ^ "Beckstein nominated for Minister President of Bavaria". 1 August 2007. Retrieved 10 May 2008.
  6. ^ "Second CSU leader quits, raising risks for Merkel". Reuters. 1 October 2008. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
  7. Sueddeutsche Zeitung
    , published: 2 October 2008, accessed: 3 October 2008
  8. ^ Die bayerischen Ministerpräsidenten - Dr. Günther Beckstein Archived 25 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine Bavarian government website (in German) accessed: 28 October 2008
  9. ^ Mitglieder bzw. Ersatzmitglieder der 16. Bundesversammlung Landtag of Bavaria, press release of 22 November 2016.
  10. ^ Beckstein warns of Scientology's tutoring offensive Constitutional Protection Report for Bavaria, Unauthorized translation, August 2007, accessed: 10 May 2008
  11. ^ Dr. Guenther Beckstein Recipient of the Jerusalem Prize in Germany Archived 20 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine World Zionist Organisation, 10 July 2006, accessed: 10 May 2008
  12. ^ A New Critical Edition of Mein Kampf? Dialog International, German-American opinion, 5 May 2008, accessed: 10 May 2008
  13. Bavarian beer
  14. ^ Members of the Regional Advisory Board for Bavaria, 2011 Deutsche Bank.
  15. ^ Members of the Regional Advisory Board, 2017 Deutsche Bank.
  16. University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
    (FAU)

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Political offices
Preceded by
Minister president of Bavaria

2007–2008
Succeeded by