Carsten Linnemann has repeatedly summarized his political goals on the way to the Bundestag election in one sentence: “Just do it!” He even called his podcast. The 47 -year -old offspring of a bookseller family from Paderborn have so far been able to lose its impatience on the way to a “change of politics”. He has been calling for it for a long time and gives the impression that he personally connects his credibility with the fact that this change succeeds under a CDU-led government. The main topics are the economic and migration policy. If you sit with the sporty, slim Linnemann at a table, you shouldn’t expect it to be comfortable now. The CDU general secretary suddenly jumps up because he has received an important message on his smartphone, hurried step leaves the room and is just as in the past. Carsten Linnemann always turns up. What was the longing for through the much quieter Angela Merkel is expressed in the desire to make it easy to make. He radiates stems that the country’s problems are still not solved, and now? Now this man suddenly acts after the motto: just don’t do it. The former head of the Mittelstandsunion is reportedly offered by the Ministry of Economic Affairs in the next federal government and says no. Would you prefer to remain general secretary, although all experience teaches that the Chancellor does not leave her general secretary a lot of space for her own political advances? What is behind it when the best -known face of the turn in economic policy promised by the CDU thankfully rejects? Is Friedrich Merz less about the economic transition than another topic? Merz, the business chancellor? Linnemann’s notification, which was widespread on Tuesday afternoon, did not trigger not a big debate. Not even the medium -sized union cranked up. The Union people, who were publicly expressed, were essentially related to respect. The tenor of such statements is to be counted up to him that Linnemann continues to dedicate himself to the party. However, if one talks to Christian Democrats on a prerequisite, a more complex picture is created. Friedrich Merz is the boss on CDU pages during the coalition negotiations. That would never question the loyal Linnemann, to whom someone even says that he does not enforce his wishes enough. It was finally Linnemann who was behind the hall in 2018 at the Hamburg party conference that he should not give up after Merz was inferior in the fight for Merkel’s succession in the party chairman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. “Dear Friedrich, please stay with us!”, Linnemann’s desperately sounding request. Linnemann has been one of the Merz fans has been a matter of course since this appearance. External content activate Merz draws a significant part of his reputation from being a man of the economy, to be familiar with economic issues and to have them at the top of his list of priorities. However, if you look at how he puts his government together, there seems to be an even more important topic. Merz, who was a member of the European Parliament at the beginning of his political career, apparently wants to be an foreign and European Chancellor than a business channel. Already on the way to the Bundestag election, he maintained the contacts, especially with the French President Emmanuel Macron and the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, so intensely that the viewer could wonder whether the social democrat is still a chancellor or actually Merz.The Foreign Ministry wanted to have the 69 -year -old Merz as a chancellor in his time As also in his first legislative period in the Bundestag from 1994 to 1998. Konrad Adenauer led the Federal Republic to a growing Europe, Kohl created the euro, Merkel prevented the euro zone from breaking. Merz is now facing the huge task of making the frequent European Union a force that exists against the great powers of America, China and Russia. The Ministry of Economic Affairs can get under the bikes. For the first time since 1966. The impression would have to be very deceptive if he had made this decision with the intention of installing a minister on Werderschen Markt who outshines the Chancellor with brilliant ideas. Rather, Merz is likely to have seen often enough, as the foreign minister, which was usually made by the coalition partner, got the chancellor in his way or simply got nerves. The last example is the self -confident green Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, whose appearances in the Chancellery in no way caused consistent enthusiasm. Merz now wants to be able to switch and act internationally with the planned National Security Council from the Chancellery without being disturbed by the Federal Foreign Office. The SPD chairman Lars Klingbeil, experienced in coalition negotiations, is likely to have recognized the wish and used to his advantage. Since Merz also wanted to have a Digital Ministry, so it is shown- Klingbeil may have been easier to maintain the wish of his party to maintain the finance and the Ministry of Labor. In addition, the Ministry of Economic Affairs has been taken from previous competencies, the above all the energy policy remains. It is possible that Linnemann had no desire to become an upscale minister of energy. The dissatisfaction is not due to Linnemann’s fate. Now it is told everywhere that Linnemann would have liked to have become labor minister. One of the main issues would have been the reform of the previous citizen benefit that Linnemann and the CDU had always presented as a very important project. However, Carsten Linnemann in April in Berlinepamerz did not even have to negotiate, so that the SPD was awarded the house. For decades, the Social Democrats have been presenting the Minister of Labor if they rule. Only from 2009 to 2013 when Angela Merkel ruled with the FDP, the CDU politician Ursula von der Leyen led the house. It is questionable whether Linnemann would have had a chance of becoming a labor minister if Merz would have been working more. However, it also belongs to the category of spoiled milk. This is what the economic wing in the Union on Causa Linnemann is largely silent, does not mean that there is no dissatisfaction. However, it becomes more at the course of the coalition negotiations and their result in economic and financial issues than to Linnemann’s fate. Now Linnemann has wistfully remembers social democrats like Gerhard Schröder, Franz Müntefering or Peer Steinbrück on the jumping board. They are attributed to the strength to tackle real reforms in economic and labor market policy, also together with the CDU. The Chancellor Schröder’s agenda policy or the introduction of the pension with 67 by Franz Müntefering together with Angela Merkel are mentioned as bright examples these days. Such reformers no longer find themselves among the Social Democrats, with whom one now wants to rule, one in the CDU.Nun remains general secretary. On the one hand, many party friends praise that he did a good job. On the other hand, Linnemann always gave the impression in the election campaign that a result for the CDU under 30 percent would also say something about his work. Now the result is significantly below – and Linnemann remains number two in the CDU according to the chairman Merz, which can use it well in the function. Linnemann enjoys respect in the party, and next year five state elections will take place, two of them in East Germany, where the situation of the CDU is particularly difficult in the competition for the AfD. There is a fear if you are chosen in Saxony-Anhalt in summer, an AfD politician can become prime minister for the first time. Hardly anyone knows most CDU general secretaries today. A few are remembered as formative figures, especially the legendary Heiner Geißler. However, the end of its term in office has been 36 years ago. After all, the post of Secretary General can be a springboard. One-Merkel-became CDU chairwoman and Chancellor. Another – Volker Kauder – Chairman of the Union faction. Carsten Linnemann will now have a little more time to think about what he would like to. Except for labor minister.
