Siegmar Mosdorf

Siegmar Mosdorf       (politician)
Born	29 January 1952 Erfurt, East Germany
Nationality	German
Alma mater	University of Konstanz
Spouse	• Susanne Weber-Mosdorf • Isolde Krupok
Party	Social Democratic Party of Germany
German politician from the Social Democrats close to German industry. Attended Bilderberg/2001. Later PR consultant  Member of the Bundestag  In office 1990 - 2002 Preceded by Karl Ahrens, Peter Petersen, Günther Straßmeir

Siegmar Mosdorf was a German politician from the Social Democrats close to German industry. From 1998 to 2002 he was Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Economics and Technology, when he attended the 2001 Bilderberg meeting.

Since 2002, he has been a propagandist and partner at the PR-consultancy firm Kekst CNC.

Education

After attending secondary school and commercial school, Mosdorf did his Abitur at the Wirtschaftsgymnasium in Hamburg. He studied economics, law and social sciences at the University of Konstanz and graduated with a degree in administration.

Career

From 1978 to 1982, Mosdorf worked as a consultant for economic policy matters for the works and supervisory boards of Daimler-Benz, Bosch, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Porsche at IG Metall before moving to the SPD in Baden-Württemberg as state manager.

Mosdorf joined the SPD in 1971. From 1982 to 1990 he worked as full-time state manager of the SPD in Baden-Württemberg. In July 2000, Mosdorf was a candidate in the party's primary election for the top candidate for the office of Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg, in which he was defeated by the state chairman Ute Vogt.

From 1990 to 2002 he was a member of the German Bundestag. In Parliament he was a member of the Committees on Economics and Technology, Foreign Affairs and Sport, among others. From 1995 to 1998 he was chairman of the Commission on the future of media in business and society - Germany's way into the information society. On October 27, 1998, Mosdorf was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Economics and Technology in the federal government led by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. In this office he was also the federal government's coordinator for aerospace engineering. On March 1, 2002, he left the government and did not run again for the German Bundestag.

From 1999 to 2003, Mosdorf was chairman of the supervisory board of the Mittelstandsbank of the German federal government, the German Equalization Bank (DtA), and from 1999 to 2012 member of the supervisory board of the DEG development bank.

Since March 2002 he has been a partner at the international management consultancy Kekst. From 2004 to 2006 Mosdorf taught at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

Other positions

Mosdorf was a board member of the Berlin Organizing Committee (BOC) for the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ifo Institute, the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation , a member of the Board of Trustees of the Carlo-Schmid-Foundation and the Heinrich-Schütz-Haus, a member of the Advisory Council of the German Cancer Research Center and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Economic Holding of the German Book Trade Association. Mosdorf is also a member of the Ludwig Erhard Foundation.

Personal life

Mosdorf was married to former WHO Deputy Director-General Susanne Weber-Mosdorf. In his second marriage he is married to the journalist Isolde Krupok. He has three sons.

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2001	24 May 2001	27 May 2001	Sweden Stenungsund	The 49th Bilderberg, in Sweden. Reported on the WWW.

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