Are Curnson Wildberger actually Germany’s Elon Musk?

Kirsten Wildberger himself was a little surprised to be appointed to the new cabinet of Chancellor Frederick Merz. All this happened “suddenly rather suddenly”, 55 -year -old said in one of his first public performance in late April, a formal handover in his predecessor, Volcker Witting office.Strictly, of course, Wildburger is not truly an predecessor, as his ministry for digitization and state modernization is completely new, but the Transport Ministry is the one where he and his team have been temporarily adjusted. Things are moving quickly: An independent, the new minister became a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of Merz only last week after being officially appointed. But Wildberger’s powers are important: five ministries, as well as the office of Chancellor, all have surrendered some of their scope to bundle together in their new department.Essentially, anything that involves the involvement of the state’s IT infrastructure, is now under the inspection of the wildburger, a person who was living a living by driving a seconomy by a person who operates consumer electronics stores across Europe till a fortnight ago.

GermanyDog?

What is the meaning of wildberger job in practice is yet to be seen, but the focus on efficiency and digitization, and the minister’s alleged position as an interlopper in the business world has compared with Elon Musk and the radical government said that his government is brought to the United States under the second administration of President Donald Trump.Nicklas Potrafke, director of the Center for Public Finance and Political Economy at the IFO Institute in Munich, argued that the quality of Wildberger and Musk may have quality, “disruption”.“I mean doing some things in a different way, thinking completely in a new way,” he told DW. “And to really change or destroy things that we know are important, like administrative processes. These are positive aspects that we can bring here with the effect that Elon Musk has done.”But Wildberger is unlikely to dismiss government employees and to swing a chainsaw at any time at any time political rally. For one thing, he does not know sympathy with far and wide. Wildberger said in an official statement, nor is the tone of Wildberger as aggressive as a musc for: “My goal is to create an optimal position for Germany to develop as a competitive and innovative digital location.”“This requires a modern, skilled and civil-oriented state and a administration that thinks digitally and acts.”As Der Speigel News Magazine said, Wildberger also said that he would work with “respect, curiosity, determination and teamplay” – as well, he added a dash of “friendly penance”.In a way, Potrafkes feel that comparison of musk is not really suitable. “Alon is Musk, I think, a very unusual personality, and very attractive,” he told DW. “Wildberger is almost not attractive.”There is also a more German difference: Musk is not officially part of the government, which means that it is not bound by day-to-day administration agreement.But wildberger definitely shares the taste of the musk to separate the business rules fundamentally. “For every law, two must be canceled. Is this possible?” He said on Tuesday, in a speech at a meeting of the CDU-Surrender Lobby Group The Economic Council.He has also mentioned two laws that he believes that it is mature to scraping: the supply chain law, designed to protect human rights and guards against the use of modern slavery in multinational supply chains, and the heating law, which is to make the heating system more climate-educated in new buildings.

Regulation vs ‘disintegration’

Potrafke admitted that it was threatened by putting business officials in the government. “There will be a bad result, of course if former businessmen make policies, such as on regulation, which benefit their own areas,” he said. “They can put wings to their nest, so to speak, because they know that they will one day leave politics and profit with their companies.”There are some rules that are to stop it. Unlike Musk, wildburger will be subject to its new AI rules, along with strict data privacy rules of the European Union. Wildberger stated that Artificial Intelligence represented a great development opportunity and intended to examine the new rules as to how they could be implemented in an innovation -friendly manner.Meanwhile, the powers of Wildberger will also be hedge by Germany’s federal system, which means that state governments and local district officials have a lot of power on their digital public services.A digital society network, a digital society network, Leena-Sofi Mueller said, “One of his big tasks will be to combine and find common land with states, because he cannot tell them what to do,” a digital society network, which is a digital society network, which works with both private sector and government. “It’s not just: does he have the power to rule, but can he be a good leader, can he create a team Germany?”

Why wildberger?

Chancellors are not breaking new land by putting the managers of the Merz Company in the cabinet. In fact, this is something about a German tradition, on both sides of political partition: In 1998, for example, the then social democrat Chancellor Garhard Shrodeer created Walner Muller, who was a member of a board of energy veteran RWE, their new economy minister, hoping to indicate clearly that his government would be more trade-supporting.But still, the appointment of Wildberger was a surprise for many people, even among those who were expecting the Merz government to establish the Ministry of Digitalization. “I believe everyone was surprised,” said Muller of Pahl D21. “I called some people in my network, and I was so, ‘Do you know her?” Nobody really knew him. ,Perhaps an additional surprise was an unusual special power given to the Ministry of Wildberger: Veto on other federal departments if they want the government to say “important IT expenditure”. In Germany, spending control is generally given only to the Ministry of Finance, although it is limited by constitutionally inherent principle that each government ministry has the right to decide its affairs.“This expenditure control is a strong means, but he cannot say: ‘You have to spend it on something else,” Muller said. “This is only a veto.”Muller hopes that Wildberger’s commercial background means that he will be more inclined to measure his ministry’s performance according to real indicators. Muller, whose organization’s initiative D21 conducts annual survey on people’s perspectives for D21 digitization, had its suggestions what these could be.“To get success for him, I would expect to look at the pick-up rate for digital services,” he said.This can not only be reflected on how people positively look at digital public services, “if people say,” The government really makes my life easier, “as Muller said, but also that German citizens develop digital skills.” If I see a positive tendency in those numbers, I would say that he would have done something, “he said.”This will actually be an important step in a county where talking about digital services often descends into the easy jokes about fax machines.