Stefan Mappus

{{short description|Former German politician}} {{Multiple issues| {{Expand German|topic=bio|Stefan Mappus|date=December 2009}} {{BLP sources|date=February 2010}} }} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Stefan Mappus | honorific_suffix = | image = Stefan Mappus 2011 (cropped).jpg | image_size = | caption = Mappus in 2010 | office = Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg | president = Horst Köhler<br />Christian Wulff | chancellor = Angela Merkel | term_start = 10 February 2010 | term_end = 12 May 2011 | predecessor = Günther Oettinger | successor = Winfried Kretschmann | office2 = Chairman of the CDU Baden-Württemberg | term_start2 = 20 November 2009 | term_end2 = 30 March 2011 | predecessor2 = Günther Oettinger | successor2 = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1966|4|4|df=y}} | birth_place = Pforzheim,<ref name="autobio">{{cite web|url=http://www.stefan-mappus.de/person/werdegang.html|title=Werdegang von Stefan Mappus|work=Personal Website|publisher=Stefan Mappus|language=German|access-date=10 February 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100213081731/http://www.stefan-mappus.de/person/werdegang.html|archive-date=13 February 2010}}</ref> West Germany | death_date = | death_place = | party = CDU | relations = | alma_mater = University of Hohenheim | occupation = | spouse = {{Marriage|Susanne Verweyen-Mappus|2001}} | signature = | website =  | footnotes = }}

'''Stefan Mappus''' (born 4 April 1966) is a German politician from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He was the 8th Minister President of the state of Baden-Württemberg from 2010 to 2011<ref name="spiegel mappus mp">{{cite web|url=http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,676984,00.html|title=Mappus übernimmt Amt des Ministerpräsidenten|date=10 February 2010|publisher=Spiegel Online|language=German|accessdate=10 February 2010}}</ref> and chairman of the CDU Baden-Württemberg from 2009 to 2011.<ref name="autobio"/>

With the March 2011 Baden-Württemberg state election coming up, incumbent Minister President Günther Oettinger in late 2009 was, according to a wiki-leaked diplomatic cable from the United States Embassy in Berlin, "kicked upstairs by CDU leader and Chancellor Angela Merkel as New EU Energy Commissioner in Brussels due to being an unloved lame duck at an important CDU bastion."<ref>https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09BERLIN1636_a.html</ref> Mappus took over in February, and by summer polls indicated that his CDU-FDP coalition might lose against a Green-SPD coalition. His tough stance for the major Stuttgart 21 railway reconstruction project, symbolised by bloody eye injuries to an elder activist, Dietrich Wagner, did not help. The Greens won the election, and Mappus announced his resignation of the party chair.

Currently, he is a Member of the Board of Advisors of the Global Panel Foundation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://globalpanel.org/boards|title=Global Panel Foundation – Meeting the World in Person|website=globalpanel.org|access-date=17 June 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920100036/http://www.globalpanel.org/boards|archive-date=20 September 2012}}</ref>

== EnBW affair== The public prosecutor's office in Stuttgart opened an investigation on 11 July 2012 against prime minister Stefan Mappus, several other ministers and Dirk Notheis, former head of Morgan Stanley Germany, in connection with the state's controversial purchase of a stake in utility Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg.<ref>[http://www.krgv.com/news/morgan-stanley-executive-investigated-in-germany Morgan Stanley executive investigated in Germany], KRGV.com, 12 July 2012</ref> Morgan Stanley's German operations, headed by Notheis, in 2010 advised Baden-Württemberg on the purchase of a roughly 45% stake in EnBW from French state-controlled utility Électricité de France for nearly 4.7 billion euros (about $5.77 billion) valuing the asset at a multiple of 6x operating profits.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://poland.edf.com/press/news/edf-accepts-the-offer-of-the-land-of-baden-wurttemberg-for-edf-internationalys-interest-in-enbw-82656.html&return=54241%2526page%253D7|title=EDF in Poland – News|website=poland.edf.com|accessdate=17 June 2017}}</ref> Also advising was Stuttgart law firm Gleiss Lutz. The transaction was signed four weeks after a decision by the German federal parliament to extend the maturities of existing nuclear power plants for another ten years on top of their existing license. Four months after the transaction, on 15 March 2011, the accident in a nuclear power plant in Fukushima/Japan happened, resulting in the decision by the Federal government to phase out nuclear generation, which adversely affected EnBW and its value. In addition to several fairness opinions as to the valuation of EnBW provided to the stakeholders at the time of the transaction, in total seven reviews over the EnBW share valuation were conducted over the process of the investigation. The dominating majority of reviews came to the conclusion that the price paid for the EnBW shares was fair. A review conducted by Professor Wolfgang Ballwieser deviated from the valuation consensus, however fell into great controversy after a material miscalculation of approximately €1b was discovered in Ballwieser's valuation.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.zeit.de/2014/04/energieversorger-enbw-stefan-mappus|title=Stefan Mappus: Im Schwabensümpfle|first=Marc|last=Brost|date=24 January 2014|publisher=|accessdate=17 June 2017|newspaper=Die Zeit}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.enbw-deal-hat-sich-gutachter-um-eine-milliarde-euro-verrechnet.4b0d0138-bc0f-4dad-b96b-734c22688e3d.html|title=EnBW-Deal: Hat sich Gutachter um eine Milliarde Euro verrechnet?|first=Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Stuttgart|last=Germany|publisher=|accessdate=17 June 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.enbw-affaere-neue-vorwuerfe-gegen-gutachter-der-staatsanwaltschaft.055753d7-e4bd-48d5-abdb-f9452b553005.html|title=EnBW-Affäre: Neue Vorwürfe gegen Gutachter der Staatsanwaltschaft|first=Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Stuttgart|last=Germany|publisher=|accessdate=17 June 2017}}</ref><ref>Die Zeit, 24 January 2014</ref>

The investigation was withdrawn by the State Attorney in October 2014 without any obligations at all to Mappus and the other individuals.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.staatsanwaltschaft-stuttgart.de/pb/,Lde/Startseite/PRESSEMITTEILUNGEN/Ermittlungsverfahren+wegen+des+EnBW_Deals+mit+Einstellungsverfugung+abgeschlossen?QUERYSTRING=enbw|title=Ermittlungsverfahren wegen des EnBW-Deals mit Einstellungsverfugung abgeschlossen|first=Claudia|last=Krauth|date=29 October 2014|website=www.staatsanwaltschaft-stuttgart.de|accessdate=17 June 2017}}</ref> Stefan Mappus and all others were cleared and informed in letters addressed to their respective lawyers dated 29 October 2014, in which they were also granted the right to make claims for damages.

==Personal life == Mappus is a Protestant and comes from a shoemaker-family in Mühlacker-Enzberg.<ref>{{cite web|title=Enzberger zu Stefan Mappus: "Immer noch einer von uns"|trans-title=|periodical=Pforzheimer Zeitung|publisher=|url=http://www.pz-news.de/Home/Nachrichten/Pforzheim/Enzberger-zu-Stefan-Mappus-Immer-noch-einer-von-uns-_arid,174691_puid,1_pageid,17.html|url-status=dead|access-date=2010-02-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110424023905/http://www.pz-news.de/Home/Nachrichten/Pforzheim/Enzberger-zu-Stefan-Mappus-Immer-noch-einer-von-uns-_arid%2C174691_puid%2C1_pageid%2C17.html|archive-date=24 April 2011|last=Nadine Schmid, Viola Kraus|date=2010-02-08|language=German|pages=|quote=}}</ref> Since 2001 he is married to in Kleve born Susanne Verweyen-Mappus, they have two sons and live in Pforzheim.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/2253789_0_9223_-stefan-mappus-haudrauf-muss-harmonie-stiften.html |title=Haudrauf muss Harmonie stiften |access-date=2010-02-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091028053204/http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/2253789_0_9223_-stefan-mappus-haudrauf-muss-harmonie-stiften.html |archive-date=28 October 2009 }} von Andreas Müller, Stuttgarter Zeitung vom 27. Oktober 2009</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

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