Birgit Breuel

Birgit Breuel (née Münchmeyer; born 7 September 1937 in Hamburg-Rissen) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as president of the Treuhand Agency and as Commissioner General of Expo 2000 in Hannover. She later worked in several honorary positions.

Birgit Breuel
Breuel in June 1991
President of the Treuhandanstalt
In office
13 April 1991 – 31 December 1994
Appointed byHelmut Kohl
DeputyHeinrich Hornef
Preceded byDetlev Rohwedder
Succeeded byHeinrich Hornef (as President of the Bundesanstalt für vereinigungsbedingte Sonderaufgaben)
Minister of Finance
of Lower Saxony
In office
9 July 1986 – 21 June 1990
Minister-PresidentErnst Albrecht
Preceded byBurkhard Ritz
Succeeded byHinrich Swieter
Minister for Economics and Transportation
of Lower Saxony
In office
28 June 1978 – 9 July 1986
Minister-PresidentErnst Albrecht
Preceded byErich Küpker
Succeeded byWalter Hirche (Economy, Technology and Transport)
Member of the
Hamburg Parliament
In office
14 April 1970 – 28 June 1978
Preceded bymulti-member district
Succeeded byManfred Sander
ConstituencyChristian Democratic Union List
Personal details
Born
Birgit Münchmeyer

(1937-09-07)7 September 1937
Hamburg-Rissen, Nazi Germany (now Germany)
Political partyChristian Democratic Union
Spouse
Ernst-Jürgen Breuel
​
(m. 1959)​
Alma materUniversity of Hamburg (no degree)
University of Oxford (no degree)
University of Geneva (no degree)
Occupation
  • Politician
  • retail merchant
  • Executive

Early life and education

Birgit Münchmeyer came from a Lower Saxony family of traders and private bankers. She is the daughter of merchant bankers who owned the bank Münchmeyer & Co..[1] On 8 August 1959 she married the Hamburg merchant Ernst-Jürgen Breuel (born 7 October 1931 in Hamburg).

Breuel studied political science at the Universities of Hamburg, Oxford and Geneva.

Political career

Career in state politics

In 1966, Breuel entered into the CDU. From 1978 to 1986 she was State Minister of Economy and Transport in Lower Saxony, then to 1990 was the State Minister of Finance in the cabinet of Minister-President Ernst Albrecht. She also served on the boards of various German corporations, including Volkswagen.[2]

Treuhandanstalt

In 1990, Breuel was elected to the executive board of the Treuhand - a holding firm responsible for the sale of East German state assets. A year later she became the successor of Detlev Karsten Rohwedder. While Rohwedder had been cautious about the sale of most state assets, favouring a worker-owned solution if possible, Breuel favoured quick privatization. She departed in 1995 from this office.

Expo 2000

Breuel then became Commissioner-General of the World Expo Expo 2000 in Hanover.[3]

Literature
  • Birgit Breuel (Hg.): Ohne historisches Vorbild. Die Treuhandanstalt 1990 bis 1994 - eine kritische Würdigung. Berlin 2005 ISBN 3-936962-15-4
  • Deutsches Geschlechterbuch. Band 128 der Gesamtreihe (Hamburg Band 10), p. 69/70, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1962, ISSN 1438-7972.

See also

References
  1. "Birgit Breuel". Fembio.org. Retrieved August 27, 2009.
  2. Stephen Kinzer (3 November 1991), Facing Down Protests, Eastern Germany Goes Private New York Times.
  3. Paulo Prada (22 October 1999), As Host of Expo 2000, Hannover Prepares for Prominence, Growth Wall Street Journal.


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