something special here!
From: MPs Watch written on 04/10/2010 at 22:09 in General, Lobbying, transparency of Martin Reyher
Carl-Friedrich Arp Ole Freiherr von Beust is a man of principles . Almost nine years he served his native city of Hamburg was the first mayor, before he announced his resignation in July. To Beust'schen principled one example, the taxpayer is not at the age of 55 years "to lie on the bag," even though he already had pension entitlements of kanpp 10,000 euros. His bread will the former mayor earning for the first time itself.
As the magazine Focus reported recently, Ole von Beust has now found a new employer: As a "Senior Advisor" to the mayor to use AD for the consulting firm Roland Berger this month on his knowledge and contacts in politics and business.
One wonders, however, why this is necessary at all, because the contacts from Roland Berger to elites in government, business and science in the Hanseatic city are already excellent:
* Elbphilharmonie: "Not more than 95 million €" should the controversial major project originally cost the taxpayer, now there are 323 million Euro. The contracts with construction company Hochtief Hartmut Wegner had worked, a former project manager at Roland Berger. After his departure at the consulting firm he joined in 2002 the urban project implementation company ReGe responsible for the construction of the Elbe Philharmonic. In 2004, Wegener also project coordinator "Elbphilharmonie" of the Senate Beust. After several failures, bad luck and mishaps around the big project he had to take at the 2008 ReGe his hat.
also elsewhere encountered in the Elbe Philharmonic Hall in the name of Roland Berger. Their consultants assessed "in a" Pro-Bono Campaign "" the economic viability of the Game operations and made recommendations for the organization of the Operating Company from ". Furthermore, recommended the Berger-people included the creation of an Elbe Philharmonic Foundation (pdf). A manager was quickly found: Wibke Kähler-Siemssen, the previous four years Senior Consultant at Roland Berger.
* Science Senator Jörg Dräger (2001-2008): Also Dräger once stood at Roland Berger's contract (1996-1998). 2007, the nonpartisan research Senator awarded a contract for the creation of a 200,000 euro expensive city marketing concept for the so-called "Talent City of Hamburg" (pdf) - to his former employer Roland Berger. It was striking that the cost for the study was just below the sum, from the EU-wide competition is needed (pdf). At the end of the cost of tender then climbed still subject to border: Roland Berger, the Hanseatic city sent a total bill of € 239 400 €, additional market research with "valuable insights" were necessary, it was called in support. 
* University of Hamburg: On 1 December 2006 (pdf) came Katrina Vernau to her service as Chancellor of the University of Hamburg - they, too, a long-standing consultant Roland Berger, as can be read on the company's Web site. Together with two other people had Vernau Berger-two years before the consulting firm blv Founded consult, for which they 31 December 2006, then worked during her time as a university chancellor, as executive director. To consult the website of blv it says: "As a long-term employees by Roland Berger Strategy Consultants (www.rolandberger.com) in the" Public Sector / Non-profit organizations, "the company we are still on friendly terms. We maintain close contact with the Hamburg office and especially to Dr. Burkhard Schwenker, Chief Executive Officer. "(Schwenker, it was the way, Ole von Beust to Roland Berger took.) A possible conflict of interests of the Chancellor joined the Senate in a letter of 2007. Guarantor (pdf) is the supervisory authority by science. Their former boss: Ex-Roland Berger-Jörg Dräger, who had let himself will keep asking questions about a possible conflict of interest (pdf). The president of the University of Hamburg is connected to Roland Berger. Together with the company's founder sits Dieter Lenzen, changed in March 2010 from the Free University of Berlin in the Hanseatic city, the Board of Trustees of the Roland Berger Foundation. * Hamburg Tourismus GmbH: On behalf of the urban marketing company Roland Berger created in early 2010 a study (pdf) on target groups that are tasty as Hamburg Attraction should be done.
* Hapag-Lloyd: Also in need of Hamburg-based company has taken the Roland Berger consultants for expertise just the latest under the microscope. "To assess the long-term prospects, we have given an opinion at Roland Berger in order," the former mayor of Beust said in July 2009 in an interview. The city of Hamburg is co Hapag-Lloyd. * Financial
Senator Carsten Frigge: The former State Economic and current finance minister was 1995-1997 in the management of Roland Berger & Partner. Some contacts from the consultant time have survived to this day, such as the Chairman of the embattled HSH Nordbank, Hilmar Kopper, to do with the finance minister of its own motion regularly added. "I've known him a long time in my consulting work at Roland Berger," Frigon told recently in an interview with the Hamburg evening paper, "as we have advised the German bank and he was CEO there. And the contact continued in private. "Later, Frigge benefited from the acquaintance of his Berger-time and professionally. As in 1997 from the management at Berger and retired self-employed with the consulting firm C4, made Kopper was the first customers.
The Practical in the musical chairs game up between politics and business advice: Everyone knows everyone, and probably often also estimated. This is the basis for the views of the benefits one of the contacts of the other and vice versa. Last year, as company founder Roland Berger was personally manage for the grand coalition, the Opel-rescue, were interesting for the Federal Government in "his national and international contacts." Conversely, Roland Berger secured in the summer of 2009, the services of the CDU politician Friedbert Pflueger, who sits as a member of the Berlin State Parliament and formerly one group chairman and top candidate of his party. For Consulting Services Pflueger EU should establish a department for which his contacts safe than current board member of the European People's Party (EPP) and a former Chairman of the European Committee in the Bundestag are not the worst condition.
So now replaced Hamburg's mayor Ole von Beust ex-pages. "Revolving door" effect of this smooth change of leaders between politics and business is called - a practice that not only since former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (to Gazprom) and ex-Economy Minister Werner Müller (to RAG AG) is known. The problem with it: A specific interest group is given privileged access to political decision-making. The Organization Lobby Control described the problem this way:
former top politicians are in for companies as lobbyists, consultants or members of the board or supervisory board so popular because they bring two priceless resources: first, detailed knowledge of internal processes in the political process and secondly still warm contacts with policy makers. In order to secure the company a special access to policy, it priority over other interests. The chat with former colleagues, politicians ... can be worth more than pages of comments and input at hearings.
Beust's future work should be for the clients of Roland Berger precisely those "close contact with international thought leaders in politics, business, industry organizations, academia and the relevant media" produce, which promotes the consulting firm on its website.
Against the background of the personnel exchange between policy makers and consultants revealed another problem. The federal and state governments now often draw back to the external expertise of private consultants. But the Hamburg state government, Ole von Beust has awarded over the past two and a half years, 98 reports to external companies, as a Senate response to an inquiry by the Left Party, brought to light (pdf) (Roland Berger received no instructions at this time). If - as at the federal level - sometimes by millions of orders from authorities is to compete with the many consulting firms are the contacts of former politicians to their former place of activity, at least no competitive disadvantage in the Auftragsaquise.
the accusation that some consultancies will be preferred for procurement by public authorities, there are always. CDU and CSU have it from the Schroeder government's action, which is said to have concluded between 1999 and 2004 24 consulting contracts to Roland Berger (pdf), including only 19 by the Federal Ministry of Defence. The former Lower Saxony Minister President Christian Wulff 2004, threw his predecessors Sigmar Gabriel and Gerhard Schröder, they can be written by Roland Berger report complacency, where the fee has been patched to advertise the jobs do not. And finally, the aforementioned contract of Beust's science advisor and former Senator Jörg Dräger fell to his former employer under the suspicion of nepotism. Roland Berger was commissioned as a result of so-called "restricted tendering", an invitation from the selected consultants to submit an offer. Senator Dräger was how after a parliamentary inquiry by the opposition out, the chairman of a board that awarded the contract finally Roland Berger. Surprised asked the opposition (pdf), "what qualifies as Roland Berger so in terms of universities to act. Otherwise it has always done the CHE ... "
these days is now former mayor Ole von Beust his work in the Hamburg office of Roland Berger. If he does not disappoint his new employer, he should in future hold quite a few chats with former political colleagues.
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