Katherina Reiche and Guttenberg – a brand new dream couple of politics? | EUROtoday

It is a pair who stimulates the creativeness. The designated Federal Minister of Economics Katherina Reiche is in a relationship with the previous Federal Minister of Economics Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg. Of all issues, two from the identical division you need to juchzen right here, though this actually has the least which means on this context, particularly since most German Guttenberg keep in mind primarily as a dashing minister of protection. But there are various different causes, “of all things!” to name.

Of all issues, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, the person whose first marriage was already appropriate because the German model of the Kennedys for the title leaves of the republic. Of all issues, KT and Katherina, CSU and CDU, they as soon as reluctantly reluctantly on a contemporary trimming Union. Both have been of all political pupils Angela Merkel – and of all individuals underneath Friedrich Merz, their relationship now formally finds the general public.

So: lastly somewhat glamor in federal politics once more? Anyone who hopes for will probably be slowed down by the sober language, during which media lawyer Christian Schertz confirmed the liaison on Monday. Katherina Reiche and Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg had a relationship a while in the past, the lawyer reads the German Press Agency (dpa), maybe additionally as a result of their political reporting is mostly not dominated by love tales. Schertz formally made it in the summertime of 2024 in particular person media after Reiche and Guttenberg celebrated New Year’s Eve in Kitzbühel and had even been noticed and even photographed collectively on the Chio using match in Aachen a couple of months later.

“Related to the relationship”: that sounded extra like an organization fusion than after love, extra after conclusion of the contract than after emotion. The sober sound might have been desired by Schertz ‘shoppers. Because each, wealthy and Guttenberg, solely know too properly what it means when the non-public life is illuminated.

It was greater than 20 years in the past when Katherina Reiche has already been related to a cupboard publish, not less than for promoting functions. Union Chancellor candidate Edmund Stoiber from the CSU, the then 28-year-old Brandenburg CDU member of the Bundestag had appointed his competence group in July 2002 on the specific suggestion of the CDU chairman. Angela Merkel had additionally pressed that Reiche received accountability for household coverage. That was an union -internal hit as a result of wealthy, then the mom of a kid and with the second straight pregnant, was within the relationship standing of the so -called “wild marriage” together with her accomplice Sven Petke, on the time General Secretary of the Brandenburg CDU.

Reich was a liberal East German like Merkel, was dedicated to using embryonic stem cells in analysis and was not in any other case for the conservative mainstream. The Union’s Catholic Church and the normal battalions made cellular, even with the participation of properly -known girls who noticed their political skins swimming away. But Stoiber stood and requested any critics to not contact Ms. Reiche, however on to him. Reiche accommodated her opponents by delivering the following crafty provocation: “For us it is clear that we want to get married,” she mentioned about herself and her accomplice, “but how and where and when to leave us.” In reality, Reiche solely married in 2003 when Stoiber had lengthy since misplaced the election. The Petke/Reich couple is now separated.

Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, alternatively, fulfilled many longings of the conservatives and past. With his stubbornness on the Opel Rescue at state prices, he grew to become a favourite for market liberals as an financial minister. As Defense Minister, he solved the monetary issues of the Bundeswehr by speaking the Union dizzy till she abolished conscription, which she regretted in the present day. With the Times Square in New York within the background, he introduced himself as a person of world. And together with his spouse Stefanie on the facet, he was photographed for a mirror title (“The Fabulous Guttenberg”) during which a “couple run to the Chancellery” was forecast.

Angela Merkel was sitting there and noticed it with pleasure. The enthusiastic reader of tabloids, during which she additionally persecuted gossip about French presidents and her amorous affairs equivalent to Nicola Sarkozy and Carla Bruni, as soon as in a small group that somewhat little bit of shine in politics would do fairly properly. In 2010, she made Christian Wulff the Federal President and thus Bettina Wulff the brilliant presidential spouse.

When Guttenberg received criticized for plagiarism in his doctoral thesis, the Chancellor initially defended him on the grounds that she ordered him as a minister “and not as a scientific assistant”. She might now not save him. But you stayed involved, not less than as soon as Guttenberg Merkel visited later within the Chancellery.

At the tip of 2022, the broadcaster RTL signed, to which the stern heard, Guttenberg for the moderation of an annual evaluate and a few documentaries. As a springboard again into politics, he didn’t need this to be understood. “I have to disappoint everyone who thinks something like this,” he mentioned on the time stern. “As far as my vanity is concerned, I already had a very unhealthy overdose. You don’t need that again.”

One can solely guess whether or not Katherina Reiche has suggested with Guttenberg about her future job. If so, it could be fascinating to know whether or not he gave her to grasp simply as clearly what he thinks of Berlin’s firm and the general public round it. “Attention is even more attention today than a balancing act between Shitstorm, Häme and Cancel Culture,” mentioned Guttenberg 2022 stern. The political spectrum, in line with Guttenberg, can also be “enriched by wonderful mess and rank games”. He must “be pushing”, Guttenberg mentioned, to want for it once more. Now she does it.