Erich Riedl (23 June 1933 – 8 September 2018) was a German politician, representing theChristian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU). He was the parliamentary state secretary for theFederal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy from 1987 to 1993.[1]
After the expulsion of his family from theSudetenland, Riedl completed hisAbitur inMünchberg inUpper Franconia in 1952 and subsequently became an inspector for theGerman Federal Post Office. Until 1959, he worked as a Post-Inspector at the Postscheckamt inNuremberg. Riedl studied business administration alongside his work, and was subsequently taken over to the higher postal service.[clarification needed] In 1962, he earned his doctorate. At theUniversity of Erlangen-Nuremberg, he worked on banking supervision in the transport industry, especially in Germany.
In 1965 Riedl became political spokesman of the Federal Ministry for Post and Telecommunications underRichard Stücklen (during the first cabinet ofLudwig Erhard). Stücklen, who held the office from 1957 to 1966, became chairman of the CSU group in January 1967; Riedl was, from 1966 to 1969, Stücklen's personal spokesman.
Riedl was a member of theBundestag from 1969 to 1998. In 1969 and 1972, he was elected to the Bundestag via the Bavarian national list, and was subsequently a directly elected representative from theMunich South electoral district. From 1971 to 1994, Riedl was deputy chairman of the CSU inMunich. He was also Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Budgets from 1982 to 1987.
After theWest German federal election of 1987, Riedl was appointed parliamentary Secretary of State to the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, during the chancellorship ofHelmut Kohl. He left office on 22 January 1993 in a cabinet reshuffle and was succeeded byReinhard Göhner (CDU). During this period he served under three economy ministers:Martin Bangemann,Helmut Haussmann andJürgen Möllemann, all from theFree Democratic Party (FDP).
At the 1998 Bundestag election, Riedl lost his constituency toChristoph Moosbauer [de] (SPD) and left the Bundestag.
Due to the suspicion of the advantage with tax collectors aroundKarlheinz Schreiber in 1996, his immunity as a Bundestag deputy was lifted;[2] theAugsburg public prosecutor ordered his house to be searched.[3] On 14 November 1997, the Bundestag restored his immunity after the investigation by the Augsburg prosecutors failed. Later, the prosecutors office in Augsburg had to cease the investigation against Riedl in accordance with § 170 Abs.2 of theStrafgesetzbuch fornolle prosequi.
In 2009, authorWilhelm Schlötterer [de] published a book entitledMacht und Missbrauch Von Strauß bis Seehofer - Ein Insider packt aus (English: Power and Abuse from Strauss to Seehofer - an insider speaks out), which alleged that on 29 October 1996, the Chief Prosecutor informed the Attorney General that the investigating prosecutor would cease the proceedings against Riedl. The Bavarian Minister of Justice at that time,Hermann Leeb [de], forbade the competent prosecutor to stop the investigations.
By November 1997, the Bundestag restored Riedl's immunity beyond all factional borders.[4] After the Bundestag elections in 1998, Riedl was no longer a member of parliament and therefore had no immunity, and the investigation against him was reopened and kept open until March 2000, though there was no new evidence or any investigations against him.[5]
From 1974 to 1981, he was the president of the football clubTSV 1860 Munich and led the club temporarily back into theBundesliga; he is regarded as partly responsible for a license withdrawal in summer 1982, which resulted in the forcible demotion of the team to theBayernliga.[citation needed]
Riedl later became a government consultant in Angola. From June 2014 to his death, he was the first chairman of the German-Angolan Economic Initiative (DAWI).[6]
Riedl was married and had three children. He died on 8 September 2018.
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