Germany's President Wulff goes down on issues of morality and miscontact; but it's little time crime compared to the corruption and realities embedded at CDU...
HERR SCHAUBLE & FRAU MERKEL@CDU :
EUROPEAN MASTERS OF POLITICAL CORRUPTION, BRIBES,
LAUNDERING and "BUNDESLOSCHTAGEN"
Wolfgang Schäuble
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Wolfgang Schäuble (born 18 September 1942) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), currently serving as the Federal Minister of Finance in the Second Cabinet Merkel.
From 1984 to 1991 he was a member of Helmut Kohl's cabinet, first as Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany and Chief of the Chancellery and then as Federal Minister of the Interior. Between 1991 and 2000, he was chairman of the CDU/CSU group in the parliament, and from 1998 to 2000 also CDU party chairman. He served again as Federal Minister of the Interior in the First Cabinet Merkel from 2005 to 2009.
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Schäuble's political career began in 1961 with him joining the Junge Union ("Young Union"), the youth division of the CDU. During his studies he served as chairman of the Ring Christlich-Demokratischer Studenten (Association of Christian-Democrat Students, RCDS), in Hamburg and Freiburg. In 1965 Schäuble also became a member of the CDU. From 1969 to 1972 he was district chairman of the Junge Union in South Baden. From 1976 to 1984 he served as chairman of the CDU National Committee for Sport.
After the CDU was defeated in the 1998 federal election, Schäuble became chairman of the CDU. He gave up this post in 2000 in the wake of the party financing scandal, over the acceptance of cash donation over DM 100,000 contributed by the arms dealer and lobbyist Karlheinz Schreiber back in 1994. Schäuble's successor was Angela Merkel.
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On 15 November 1984 Schäuble was appointed Minister for Special Tasks and head of the Chancellery by Chancellor Helmut Kohl. In this capacity he was put in charge of the preparations for the first official state visit of Erich Honecker, Chairman of the State Council of theGerman Democratic Republic (GDR), in 1987.
In a cabinet reshuffle Schäuble was made Minister of the Interior on 21 April 1989. In this role he also led the negotiations on behalf of theFederal Republic of Germany for reunification with the GDR in 1990. He is now Minister of Finance.
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In 1997 Helmut Kohl stated that Schäuble was his desired candidate to succeed him, but he didn’t want to hand over power until 2002 when the European monetary union would be completed with the introduction of the Euro. However, as the CDU/CSU lost the 1998 election, Schäuble never became Chancellor.
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Criticism of Schäuble centers on his law and order politics, especially in the field of counter-terrorism, for which he is denounced by some civil rights activists. Vocal opponents include the open-source software community.[9] The latest decisions of his ministry have led to a campaign dubbed Stasi 2.0 by its initiators, claiming intentional resemblance to the East German Ministerium für Staatssicherheit.[10]
CDU ... contributions scandal
In late 1999, it was discovered that the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) political party had accepted illegal donations while under the control of Chancellor Helmut Kohl in the 1990s.[1] This issue had been ongoing since 1995, but little progress had been made until the rival SPD initiated its own investigation in October 1999.
On 5 November 1999, the Augsburg prosecutor's office arrested former CDU treasurer Walther Leisler Kiep on charges of tax evasion in connection with a large donation to the CDU by arms dealer Karlheinz Schreiber in 1991.
Although Kohl initially denied knowledge of the donation or Kiep's actions, he was forced to admit by 30 November that the CDU used a network of secret bank accounts to conceal contributions, and in a December televisioninterview Kohl admitted to have illegally accepted several million DM, though he did not name the donors.[1] On 18 January, Kohl resigned his post as honorary chairman of the CDU.
After differing accounts of the whereabouts of Karlheinz Schreiber's DM 100,000 donation from current party chief Wolfgang Schäuble and treasurer Brigitte Baumeister, both were forced to step down. Schäuble's successor as party chief was Angela Merkel, the current chancellor.
In the following investigations it was determined that the CDU possessed numerous "shadow accounts", including among other things a Swiss slush fund code-named "Norfolk". These accounts were not listed in the CDU's reports and were obviously used to mask illegal donations to the party. This practice became known as "System Kohl". Kohl, however, never proved that the funds had been used privately to bribe officials.
Since such "shadow accounts" violated the party spending laws, Bundestag President Wolfgang Thierse stopped disbursement of public campaign-finance money to the CDU.
The affair became even more explosive when it was revealed that Kiep had accepted a donation in excess of 1.3 million marks from Schreiber on 26 August 1991.
As consequences of this affair an investigative commission was established and the campaign finance laws tightened to ensure greater transparency. Even today, however, much is still unknown about the extent of this affair. A destruction of documents at the end of the Kohl government in 1998 is alleged to be responsible for this gap in the record (German Wikipedia: Bundeslöschtage).
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The most well-known previous scandal was the 1982 Flick Affair.
In the months after the 1999 CDU scandal, further illegal funding affairs were uncovered, involving among others theHessian CDU and the Köln SPD. The North Rhine-Westphalian FDP's chairman, Jürgen Möllemann, also was implicated.
Hessian CDU Scandal After the federal CDU scandal came to light, the state CDU party of Hesse's involvement became known. Among other things, the former Minister of the Interior Manfred Kanther and state treasurer Casimir Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein had hidden further illegal donations as the inheritance of deceased Jews. The opposition in the Hessian state government claimed that these funds were used in particular for the financing of Roland Koch's electoral campaign (CDU Prime Minister of Hesse), and tried to have the election (which he won) voided; this attempt failed, however...
Stasi 2.0 is the catchphrase of a civil rights campaign currently under way in Germany.
The term is a portmanteau that originated in the blogosphere. The term combines the name of East Germany's former Ministry of State Security, commonly known as the "Stasi", with the concept of software versioning as used in the popular phrase "Web 2.0". The implication is that Stasi 2.0 is the modernized, updated and contemporary successor (or "version" in the software usage) of Stasi. The campaign focuses on the proposals of Wolfgang Schäuble, at that time Secretary of the Interior of Germany. Schäuble then proposed a preemptive security strategy, which critics contend bears similarities to the practices of the Stasi, but using current technology. His most disputed ideas involve his proposals for telecommunications data retention, his proposal to legalize military action of theBundeswehr inside German borders, and his support for covert "online searches" of suspects' computer equipment. His latest proposal in particular has met stiff opposition from many prominent German netizens, as well as the Chaos Computer Club.
Though Schäuble claims his proposals serve to protect a "Right to Security"[citation needed], no such right is recognized under the German constitution.
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