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Former Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) packs his bags: The CSU politician will withdraw from the Bundestag from April 1, 2024 (archive photo from June 2023). © IMAGO/Frank Hoermann/SVEN SIMON
Former Transport Minister Scheuer is retiring from politics. He initially didn't reveal anything about his future plans, but research indicates that he will work as a consultant in the future. The loser is the CSU parliamentary group.
Berlin - The former Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) sat in the Bundestag for almost 22 years, but now it's over: On April 1st, the CSU politician officially resigned from his Bundestag mandate - and expressly emphasized that it was "not an April Fool's joke" act.
Resignation of former Transport Minister Scheuer: CSU loses seat in the Bundestag
The end of the Bundestag is bad for his party: the Christian Socialists are not allowed to fill Scheuer's seat, which means the CSU parliamentary group will become smaller. What will happen next for Scheuer's career may already be clear: the former minister is said to have founded two companies weeks ago, as
Business Insider
researched.
The current electoral law does not provide for a replacement procedure for the CSU, as a party spokesman confirmed to the German Press Agency. The CSU will only have 44 members by the end of the legislative period. The background is the fact that the party won 45 direct mandates in Bavaria in the federal election and thus received more seats than the percentage of votes. It was not initially clear what motivated Scheuer to resign from his mandate early - the politician also did not comment on future plans.
After leaving the Bundestag: Former Transport Minister Scheuer will probably become a management consultant?
However, commercial register documents show that the CSU politician founded the companies Positanis Holding and Tancredis GmbH a few weeks ago and is listed as managing director of both, as
Business Insider
reported. The holding company is intended to manage the private assets of the Scheuer couple, which also include company investments.
Tancredits GmbH is intended to provide “management consulting services and related services”. In short: the former minister could possibly work as a management consultant in the future.
Scheuer leaves the Bundestag: Former transport minister maintains close ties to the auto industry
CSU leader Markus Söder once said about Scheuer that he knows of few ministers who bring so much money to Bavaria. The former transport minister is considered to be well connected in the economy, especially in the automotive industry. A Bundestag inquiry by the Greens revealed that Scheuer has had direct contact with automotive industry lobbyists 80 times since he took office as minister.
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For comparison: During the same period there was only one contact with environmental associations. The automotive logistics company Mosolf GmbH had already appointed the 49-year-old to the advisory board last October and has now followed up with an official announcement.
Scheuer's resignation from the Bundestag: Ex-minister and the toll disaster
“The appointment of Andreas Scheuer strengthens our strategic orientation, especially with regard to the development and development of the Asia-Pacific market,” said
CEO Jörg Mosolf after Scheuer left the Bundestag, according to
Spiegel .
The car toll disaster is also closely linked to the name Andreas Scheuer. The “foreigner toll” failed before the European Court of Justice. As a result, the federal government had to pay damages amounting to 243 million euros to the operators who were once responsible for the toll. However, there were no legal consequences for Andreas Scheuer
After Scheuer's resignation from the Bundestag: switching to business is not uncommon
The move from top politicians to business is not uncommon. Prominent examples: After the end of his chancellorship, former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD) accepted a position on the supervisory board of Nordstream AG, which is majority owned by the Russian Gazprom group, and later also sat on the supervisory board of the Russian oil company Rosneft.
Former Economics and Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) received a position on the supervisory board of Deutsche Bank, and ex-Health Minister Daniel Bahr (FDP) moved to Allianz Insurance
(bme with AFP/dpa) just a few months after leaving politics.