Martin Bangemann
{{Short description|German politician (1934–2022)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Martin Bangemann
| image =Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F052010-0020, Kiel, FDP-Bundesparteitag, Bangemann.jpg
| caption =Bangemann in 1977
| birth_date = {{birth date|1934|11|15|df=y}}
| birth_place = Wanzleben, Saxony, Prussia, Germany
| death_date = {{death date and age|2022|6|28|1934|11|15|df=y}}
| death_place = Deux-Sèvres, France
| office =Federal Minister of Economics
West Germany
| term_start = 27 June 1984
| term_end = 9 December 1988
| predecessor = Otto Graf Lambsdorff
| successor = Helmut Haussmann
| office2 = Chairman of the FDP
| term_start2 = 1985
| term_end2 = 1988
| predecessor2 = Hans-Dietrich Genscher
| successor2 = Otto Graf Lambsdorff
| party = FDP
| religion =
| occupation =Lawyer
| alma_mater = {{ubl|University of Tübingen|University of Munich}}
| majority =
| spouse =
| children = 5
}}
Martin Bangemann (15 November 1934 – 28 June 2022) was a German politician and a leader of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) from 1985 to 1988. He was German Federal Minister of Economics and European Commissioner.
Life and career
File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1986-0317-027, Berlin, Gespräch Honecker, Bangemann.jpg in Berlin 1986]]
Bangemann was born on 15 November 1934 in Wanzleben.{{Cite news |last=Schmitt |first=Jörg |date=2022-06-29 |title=Früherer Bundeswirtschaftsminister Bangemann ist tot |language=de |work= |publisher=Deutsche Presse-Agentur |url=https://www.welt.de/newsticker/dpa_nt/infoline_nt/Politik__Inland_/article239646391/Frueherer-Bundeswirtschaftsminister-Bangemann-ist-tot.html |access-date=2022-06-29 |via=Die Welt}} He studied law in Tübingen and Munich, and earned a Dr. jur. (not equivalent to J.D., but a PhD in law) in 1962 with a dissertation entitled Bilder und Fiktionen in Recht und Rechtswissenschaft (Imagery and fiction in law and jurisprudence).{{citation | last=Bangemann | first=Martin | title=Bilder und Fiktionen in Recht und Rechtswissenschaft | year=1963 | oclc=613907576 | language=de | page=}} He qualified as an attorney in 1964. In 1963, he joined the FDP.{{cite news | title=Früherer FDP-Chef Martin Bangemann ist tot | website=Die Zeit | date=29 June 2022 | url=https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2022-06/fdp-martin-bangemann | language=de | access-date=29 June 2022 | last1=Nguyen | first1=Chi }} He worked as a lawyer in Baden-Württemberg.{{cite web | title=Ehemaliger FDP-Chef Martin Bangmann ist tot | website=stern.de | date=29 June 2022 | url=https://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/frueherer-fdp-chef-martin-bangemann-stirbt-mit-87-jahren-32496872.html | language=de | access-date=30 June 2022}}
In 1972, he was elected to the Bundestag and became briefly Secretary General of the FDP.
Bangemann was a member of the European Parliament from 1973 to 1984; from 1976 to 1979 he was vice-chairman, from 1979 to 1984 chairman of the Liberal and Democratic Group. From 1978 to 1979 he was vice-chair of the Committee on Budgets.{{Cite web|title=Home {{!}} MEPs {{!}} European Parliament|url=https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home|website=europarl.europa.eu|language=en|access-date=11 May 2020}}
Bangemann was the German Federal Minister of Economics from 1984 to 1988.{{cite web | title=Ex-Bundeswirtschaftsminister Martin Bangemann gestorben | website=tagesschau.de | date=29 June 2022 | url=https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/fdp-bangemann-tod-101.html | language=de | access-date=29 June 2022}} Problems in his tenure were high unemployment and the steel, coal and shipyard crises.{{cite web | title=Ex-Wirtschaftsminister Martin Bangemann ist tot | website=BR24 | date=29 June 2022 | url=https://www.br.de/nachrichten/deutschland-welt/ex-wirtschaftsminister-martin-bangemann-ist-tot,TAAWrRy | language=de | access-date=30 June 2022}}
In 1988, Bangemann joined the European Commission. He was Commissioner for the internal market and industrial affairs in the Delors Commission from 1989 to 1995.{{cite web | title=Wirklich atemberaubend | website=Der Spiegel | date=7 May 1989 | url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/wirklich-atemberaubend-a-c631dda0-0002-0001-0000-000013493714 | language=de | access-date=29 June 2022}} He was then Commissioner for Industrial affairs, Information & Telecommunications Technologies in the Santer Commission from 1995 to 1999.{{cn|date=September 2023}}
As commissioner he led a "high-level group" that drew up the report "Europe and the Global Information Society" in 1994.[http://www.echo.lu/eudocs/en/bangemann.html Europe and the global information society: Recommendations to the European Council]. Version hosted on I*M Europe, by Directorate-General XIII of the European Commission."[http://aei.pitt.edu/1199/ Report on Europe and the Global Information Society: Recommendations of the High-level Group on the Information Society to the Corfu European Council. Bulletin of the European Union, Supplement No. 2/94.]" University of Pittsburgh – Archive of European Integration (AEI). This document contained recommendations to the European Council on the measures that Europe should take regarding information infrastructure. It became known as the "Bangemann report" and influenced many EU policies.{{cite book |first1=Hugh |last1=Mackay |first2=Wendy |last2=Maples |first3=Paul |last3=Reynolds |title=Investigating the Information Society |location=London/New York |publisher=Routledge & The Open University |year=2001 |isbn=0-415-26831-1 |page=8 }}
He then moved from European politics to the board of the Spanish group Telefónica.{{cite web | title=Früherer FDP-Chef Martin Bangemann gestorben | website=Der Spiegel | date=29 June 2022 | url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/frueherer-fdp-chef-martin-bangemann-gestorben-a-d6ccc55a-a09b-4f40-b52f-228c674da97e | language=de | access-date=29 June 2022}}{{cite web | title=EU-Kommission: Europa, deine Bangemänner | website=Der Spiegel | date=12 July 1999 | url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/eu-kommission-europa-deine-bangemaenner-a-31075.html | language=de | access-date=29 June 2022}} In addition, Bangemann ran a consulting agency.
He was married and had five children.{{cite web| url= http://ec.europa.eu/archives/1995_99/commissioners/en/bange.htm| title= Martin Bangemann| publisher=European Commission| access-date = 25 September 2010}}
Bangemann died from a heart attack at his home in Deux-Sèvres on 28 June 2022 at the age of 87.
References
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- {{Cite book|last=Walter|first=Franz|editor1-last=Forkmann|editor1-first=Daniela|editor2-last=Schlieben|editor2-first=Michael|title=Die Parteivorsitzenden in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1949–2005|trans-title=The Party Chairmen of the Federal Republic of Germany 1949–2005|series=Göttinger Studien zur Parteiforschung|date=June 2005|publisher=VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften|isbn=3-531-14516-9|pages=151–154|chapter=Die Integration der Individualisten. Parteivorsitzende in der FDP|trans-chapter=The Integration of the Individualists: Party Chairmen in the FDP}}
- {{Cite book|last= Dittberner|first= Jürgen|title=Die FDP: Geschichte, Personen, Organisation, Perspektiven ; eine Einführung|trans-title=The FDP: History, People, Organization, Perspectives; an Introduction|year=2005|publisher=VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften|language=de|isbn=3-531-14050-7|page=72}}
- {{Cite web | title=1st parliamentary term – Martin BANGEMANN – MEPs | website=European Parliament | date=15 November 1934 | url=https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/933/MARTIN_BANGEMANN/history/1 | ref={{sfnref | European Parliament | 1934}} | access-date=30 June 2022}}
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