10/21/2020 9:37 am
Turning point at MIT: Semmler follows freedom
Chairman resigns after 22 years – Holzheim entrepreneur leads CDU medium-sized companies
Ralf Semmler is the new chairman of the Mittelstandvereinigung (MIT) of the CDU in the Göppingen district. The 51-year-old entrepreneur from Holzheim replaces Eddy Freiheit, who was no longer running after 22 years. The members praised Freedom’s services to the middle class in the district and elected him honorary chairman. Freedom also received the silver badge of honor from the MIT regional association.
A breath of fresh air is blowing in the SME association in the Göppingen district. In his inaugural speech, the newly elected chairman Ralf Semmler announced that he would hold monthly members’ meetings in the future. In addition, MIT wants to get more involved in economic policy and confront MPs with ideas for a policy that is more friendly to SMEs. For Semmler, far too much policy is being made against medium-sized companies, such as the General Data Protection Regulation. The bureaucracy makes life difficult for small and medium-sized entrepreneurs. This should not go on like this, said Semmler, to the applause of the members.
Semmler, head of the Tacho-Control company in the Voralb business park, had prevailed against Lukas Mürdter, who was also running, in the board elections. In his introductory speech, the 30-year-old Mürdter, a member of the management team at Pusch-Data (Eislingen), called on SMEs to show how economy, ecology and digitization can be used successfully. The MIT members elected Mürdter as one of three deputies of Semmler. The CDU Landtag candidate and attorney Sarah Schweizer from Göppingen and Uhingen tax advisor and attorney Thomas Rapp, who is also the treasurer of the MIT regional association, were also deputy chairmen.
The members elected Klaus Straub from Bad Überkingen as the new treasurer. He replaces Michael Mühlhäuser, who held the office for 18 years, which the outgoing chairman Eddy Freiheit praised. Klaus Hauser (Göppingen) became the new secretary. The committee also includes Rüdiger Gramsch for press and public relations work and Hans-Jörg Andonovic-Wagner (Eislingen) as the Internet officer. The committee is completed by seven assessors. Hannelore Grössl (Eislingen) and Lothar Lehner (Geislingen) were elected as cash auditors.
However, the general assembly was marked by the departure of Eddy Freiheit, who resigned from the chairmanship after 22 years. Freedom’s companions praised the commitment of the graduate engineer and energy expert to medium-sized companies in the district at a small celebration that took place in the run-up to the new board elections. For example, Hermann Färber, member of the Bundestag, Göppingen Lord Mayor Guido Till, the district chairman of the Federal Association of Medium-Sized Enterprises (BVMW), Lothar Lehner and the deputy chairman of the MIT district association North-Württemberg, Walter Frank from Ruppertshofen. He also remembered the services of Freiheit in the district and state association and presented the outgoing chairman with an original printed deck chair on which freedom could now rest. In the general assembly, the CDU district chairman Kai-Steffen Maier, the CDU member of the state parliament Nicole Razavi and the state parliament candidate Sarah Schweizer found words of appreciation for freedom, which has organized countless political events and meetings for its members.
In the presence of the MIT country manager Ulla Müller-Eisenhardt, the newly elected chairman Ralf Semmler was able to present the state association’s silver medal and certificate to Freiheit – a visible expression of the recognition of Eddy Freiheit’s services to the SME organization. The members thanked the outgoing chairman of Kreis-MIT with standing ovations. Freiheit himself took advantage of the general assembly and took stock of his tenure, remembered important events, prominent guests and numerous political initiatives and the time when he was also chairman of the Göppingen CDU city association.
(Source: MIT press officer / Image: Rüdiger Gramsch)
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