Werner Hoyer | |
---|---|
President of the European Investment Bank | |
In office 1 January 2012 –1 January 2024 | |
Preceded by | Philippe Maystadt |
Succeeded by | Nadia Calviño |
Minister of State for Europe | |
In office 28 October 2009 –31 December 2011 | |
Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
Preceded by | Günter Gloser |
Succeeded by | Michael Georg Link |
In office 17 November 1994 –27 October 1998 | |
Chancellor | Helmut Kohl |
Preceded by | Helmut Schäfer |
Succeeded by | Ludger Vollmer |
Member of the Bundestag for North Rhine-Westphalia | |
In office 25 January 1987 –1 January 2012 | |
Constituency | Free Democratic List |
Personal details | |
Born | Wuppertal,West Germany (current-day Germany) | 17 November 1951
Political party | Free Democratic Party |
Education | University of Cologne |
Werner Hoyer (born 17 November 1951) is a German economist and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) between 2012 and 2023. [1]
Hoyer graduated as an economist at the University of Cologne in 1974,and worked as a scientific assistant there until 1984. He earned from the same university a PhD degree in economics (i.e. German doctorate Dr. rer. pol.) in 1977,with a dissertation called Vermögenseffekte des Geldes –Theoretische Ansätze zur Rolle des Geldes als Vermögensobjekt im Wirtschaftsprozess (Wealth Effects of Money –Theoretical Approaches to the Role of Money as a Capital Property in the Economic Process). [2] From 1985 to 1987,he worked with the Carl Duisberg Society in Cologne. He taught international economics at the University of Cologne until 1994. Hoyer is a member of the Union of European Federalists (UEF).
In 1972,Hoyer became a member of the FDP,and was a board member of the Young Liberals from 1983 to 1986. He chaired the local party board in Cologne from 1984 to 1992,and became a member of the FDP board in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1984 and the federal FDP board in 1994. Under the leadership of Klaus Kinkel,he was Secretary General of his party from 1993 to 1994. From 1997 to 2000,he was Vice President and from 2000 to 2005,President,of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.
Hoyer first became a member of the Bundestag in the 1987 elections,and served as chief whip from 1989 to 1993 and his party's spokesman for security policy from 1990 to 1994. From 2002 to 2009,he was deputy chair of the FDP parliamentary group in the Bundestag under the leadership of successive chairmen Wolfgang Gerhardt (2002-2006) and Guido Westerwelle (2006-2009). Between 2005 and 2009,he also served as Deputy Chairman of the German-American Parliamentary Friendship Group.
Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office,1994–98
From 1994 to 1998,Hoyer was Minister of State at the Foreign Office in the Fifth Kohl Cabinet under Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel. In this capacity,he was the German representative in a high-level working group chaired by Spanish foreign minister Carlos Westendorp and set up to prepare the negotiations on treaty change which led to the Treaties of Amsterdam and subsequently,Nice. [3] In 1996,he was the German negotiator during an intergovernmental conference in Turin that was aimed at improvements in the European Union's decision-making processes,including the establishment of a High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. [4] He also repeatedly reiterated German determination to enter a single currency –the Euro –by 1999. [5]
Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office,2009–12
From October 28,2009 Hoyer was Minister of State at the Foreign Office in the Second Cabinet Merkel under Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle. During that time,he was Germany’s official in charge of German-French relations. [6] He resigned in 2012.
In August 2011,Hoyer issued a tough statement criticizing plans by Denmark to build new control posts between the two countries,insisting that this unilateral decision to increase customs procedures on the border violated European law. [7]
On the basis of a nomination by the German government,Hoyer was appointed as President and Member of the Management Committee of the European Investment Bank in 2012,succeeding Philippe Maystadt. [8] His competitors for the post were Maystadt himself and Magdalena Álvarez,at the time one of the EIB's eight vice-presidents. [9] In 2017,Hoyer was re-appointed for a second six-year term. [10]
In 2012,Hoyer called for a new Marshall Plan –a reference to the US-financed programme that revived European economies after World War II –to be launched to reanimate the Greek economy,involving both private and public investment. He said the EIB had the resources to invest in Greek infrastructure and support Greek banks to revive lending to businesses. [11]
Following his party’s strong performance in the 2017 German elections,Hoyer was cited as a possible candidate to succeed Wolfgang Schäuble and take over as Federal Minister of Finance. [12]
During his last annual results press conference in 2023,Mr. Hoyer unveiled the new EIB logo. [13]
Hoyer is married and has two children.
Guido Westerwelle was a German politician who served as foreign minister in the second cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel and Vice-Chancellor of Germany from 2009 to 2011,being the first openly gay person to hold any of these positions. He also led the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) from 2001 until he stepped down in 2011. A lawyer by profession,he was a member of the Bundestag from 1996 to 2013.
Jürgen Trittin is a German Green politician who served as Minister for the Environment,Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in the government of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder from 1998 to 2005.
Klaus Kinkel was a German statesman,civil servant,diplomat and lawyer who served as the minister of Foreign affairs (1992–1998) and the vice chancellor of Germany (1993–1998) in the government of Helmut Kohl.
Günter Rexrodt was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as Federal Minister for Economic Affairs in the fourth and fifth governments of Chancellor Helmut Kohl from 1993 to 1998. He lived in Berlin.
Alexander Sebastian Léonce von der Wenge Graf Lambsdorff,commonly known as Alexander Graf Lambsdorff is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP),part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe,who has been serving as the German ambassador to Russia since 2023.
Otto Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von der Wenge Graf Lambsdorff,known as Otto Graf Lambsdorff,was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). He was the German Federal Minister of Economics from 1977 to 1984,when he resigned due to corruption allegations.
Philippe M.P.J. Maystadt was a Belgian politician who served as Minister for Economic Affairs,Minister of Finance,and Deputy Prime Minister. He was President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) from 2000 to 2011.
Wolfgang Gerhardt is a German politician and was the leader of the Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP) from 1995 until he was succeeded by Guido Westerwelle in 2001.
Cornelia Pieper is a German politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP). She currently serves as German consul general in Gdańsk,Poland.
Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger is a German politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party and a prominent advocate of human rights in Germany and Europe. Within the FDP,she is a leading figure of the social-liberal wing. She served as Federal Minister of Justice of Germany from 1992 to 1996 in the cabinet of Helmut Kohl and again in the second Merkel cabinet from 2009 to 2013. In 2013,the new German government announced Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger's candidacy for the office of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
Christian Wolfgang Lindner is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as the Federal Minister of Finance since 8 December 2021. He has been the party leader of the FDP since 2013 and a Member of the Bundestag (MdB) for North Rhine-Westphalia since 2017,previously holding a seat from 2009 until 2012.
Nils Schmid is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Since 2018,he has been the SPD parliamentary group's spokesperson for foreign affairs in the German Bundestag.
Andreas Pinkwart is a German politician and academic who served as State Minister for Economic Affairs,Digitization,Innovation and Energy in the governments of Ministers-President Armin Laschet and Hendrik Wüst of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2017 to 2022. He previously was the Dean of HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and holder of the Stiftungsfonds Deutsche Bank Chair of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship.
Peter Hintze was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the German Bundestag from 1990 until his death in 2016.
Michael Georg Link is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has served a member of the Bundestag from 2005 to 2013 and again since 2017. In addition to his parliamentary mandate,he has been serving as the Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation at the Federal Foreign Office in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2022.
Matthias Kollatz is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who served as State Minister of Finance in the government of Mayor Michael Müller of Berlin from 2014 to 2021.
Bijan Djir-Sarai is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has served as a member of the Bundestag from 2009 until 2013 and since 2017.
Frank Schäffler is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has served as a member of the Bundestag from 2005 until 2013 and since 2017.
Florian Toncar is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2021. He has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg from 2005 until 2013 and since 2017.
Michael Stübgen is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as State Minister of the Interior and for Local Affairs in the cabinet of Minister-President of Brandenburg Dietmar Woidke since 2019. He previously served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Brandenburg from 1990 till 2019.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: url-status (link)Media related to Werner Hoyer at Wikimedia Commons