#Christian Olearius

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Christian Olearius. German.

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Cum-Ex-Strafverfahren gegen Scholz-Geprächspartner Olearius eingestellt

PI schreibt: »Von MANFRED ROUHS | Das Landgericht Bonn hat am Montag das Cum-Ex-Strafverfahren gegen den Hamburger Warburg-Banker Christian Olearius eingestellt. Das Gericht sieht den früheren Bankchef als nicht verhandlungsfähig an. Ein Gutachter hatte bescheinigt, die Aufmerksamkeit des 82-Jährigen könne jeweils nicht länger als 45 Minuten am Stück in Anspruch genommen werden. Angesichts der Fülle der anstehenden […] http://dlvr.it/T8jHsW «

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J.S. Bach: Cantata No.30 "Freue dich, erlöste Schar", BWV 30 - 5. Aria: ...

La cantata Freue dich, erlöste Schar venne composta da Bach a Lipsia intorno al 1738, è basata sul Vangelo di Luca dov'è narrata la nascita di Giovanni Battista, e fu eseguita il 24 giugno dello stesso anno. Il testo del primo movimento è di Johann Olearius, mentre i rimanenti sono probabilmente di Christian Friedrich Henrici.

📖 Luca 1: 57-80

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Prozess gegen Christian Olearius (Heute Journal)

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Neumanns Finale & Platonische Liebe

Die Gebrauchtwoche 15. – 21. Mai Manche Gerichtsentscheidungen sind von einer Bedeutung, die weit über den medialen Rummel darum hinausgeht. Der Beschluss des Bundesgerichtshofs zum Beispiel, das öffentliche Interesse an Tagebucheinträgen des furchtbaren Warburg-Bankers Christian Olearius in der Süddeutschen Zeitung zum Cum-Ex-Skandal sei größer als die Schutzwürdigkeit seiner Privatsphäre,…

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Olearius non olet, Geld stinkt nicht. SPD non olet?

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Kognitivtest für Olaf Scholz? Rücktritt der Cum-Ex-Chefermittlerin und Gedächtnislücken des Kanzlers

NachDenkSeiten: »Am 22. April hatte die Cum-Ex-Chefermittlerin Anne Brorhilker Ihre Kündigung eingereicht. Deren Ermittlungen hatten auch Kanzler Scholz angesichts der aufgedeckten Verbindungen zum Finanzkriminellen Christian Olearius in erhebliche Erklärungsnot gebracht. Diese Kontakte hatte er zunächst geleugnet und sich dann auf angebliche „Erinnerungslücken“ berufen. Nur einen Tag später, am 23. April, hatte der Olaf Scholz bei einemWeiterlesen http://dlvr.it/T62Wjd «

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Auch FinanzbeamtInnen haben ein Gewissen

Bei Cum-Ex hinter die Kulissen geschaut

Worum geht es?

Wir hatten vor einiger Zeit schon einmal im Thema Cum-Ex im Rahmen von Transparenz und Informationsfreiheit gestochert. Bei der Warburg Bank ging es konkret darum, dass am 17. November 2016 die Hamburger Finanzbehörden überraschend  entschieden hatten, auf die Rückzahlung der 47 Millionen Euro aus den Cum-Ex-Geschäften der Bank zu verzichten. Im Vorfeld dieser Entscheidung gab es viele merkwürdige Vorgänge

anfänglich sah es so aus, als ob das Finanzamt die veruntreuten Gelder zurückfordern wollte,

so steht es in einem 29-seitigen Bericht am 5. Oktober 2016 an die Finanzbehörde,

Privatbankier Christian Olearius und der Miteigner der Bank, Max Warburg, besuchen am 26. Oktober 2016 Bürgermeister Olaf Scholz, der sich an die Geprächsinhalte heute nicht mehr erinnert,

am 9. November 2016 ruft Olaf Scholz Olearius an und rät ihm "das Schreiben" direkt an Finanzsenator Peter Tschentscher zu schicken,

der Brief ging noch am gleichen Tag "wegen der Bedeutsamkeit des Vorgangs" per Bote an Finanzsenator Tschentscher,

Tschentscher empfängt daraufhin zwei Tage später die Leiterin des Finanzamtes für Großunternehmen,

am 14. November 2016 Kommt der Brief bei der zuständigen Finanzbeamtin P. an,

am 17. November 2016 wurde in einer Sitzung mit Daniela P., ihrer Chefin, der Leiterin des Finanzamtes für Großunternehmen sowie weiteren Verantwortlichen der Finanzbehörde, entschieden auf das Geld (zu Lasten der Steuerzahler!) zu verzichten,

das Finanzamt sah die Ansprüche aus 2009, rund 47 Millionen Euro, offenbar steuerlich als verjährt an.

Dies veranlasste Daniela P. zu einer SMS an eine Kollegin über die WDR Kollegen bei ihrer Recherche zum Thema Cum-Ex gestolpert sind mit dem Inhalt: Ihr teuflischer Plan sei aufgegangen. Ihr Plan, schrieb die Beamtin weiter, sei mit freundlicher Unterstützung von S I und zur großen Freude von 5 aufgegangen. Dabei ist S I ihre Chefin und das Amt 5 die Finanzbehörde unter Senator Tschentscher. Auf Nachfrage der Rechercheure des WDR bestätigte das Justizministerium in NRW den Ablauf, will jedoch  keine Angaben zu dem laufenden Ermittlungsverfahren machen. Immerhin verurteilte das Landgericht Bonn die Warburg Bank im Frühjahr 2019 doch noch zur Rückzahlung der Millionen und stellte fest, dass die Bank an kriminellen Cum-Ex-Geschäften beteiligt war. Wann werden Politiker und auch ausführende Beamte endlich auch finanziell verantwortlich für ihr Tun?

Mehr dazu bei https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/wdr/cum-ex-warburg-finanzbehoerde-101.html

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“One official who played an important role in the elimination of both Abu Talib Khan and Imam Quli Khan [during the rise to power of Shah Safi] was Mirza Muhammad “Saru” (blond) Taqi Khan. A scion of a middle-ranking, rather poor family, and castrated after being accused of sodomy, he was neither a member of the Qizilbash nor a representative of the ghulams. He exemplifies what Kathryn Babayan calls the “broader conception of so called ghulamhood,” which “not only encompassed the converted Christian slaves or the lovers of the Shah, the shah-sevan, but also allowed a castrated commoner such as Mirza Taqi to enter the arena of politics.”

Exemplifying the ‘meritocratic’ tendencies of Safavid administrative practice, Mirza Taqi does not seem to have relied on family connections when he first made a name for himself as financial supervisor (mushrif) of the ruler of Ardabil, Zu’l Fiqar Qaramanlu. He next held the same post in Ganja, Shirvan, and later became vizier to the ruler of Qarabagh. He was subsequently appointed vizier to revenue-rich Mazandaran, to become governor-general (vazir-i kull) of the equally lucrative region of Gilan in 1617–18—whether through bribery, as his enemies alleged, or as a reward for having overseen the completion of the famous paved causeway that ran along the southern shore of the Caspian Sea. Upon taking up his post in Gilan, he set out to investigate the financial dealings of Mirza Isma`il, his predecessor in Biya Pas, the region’s western half. He also drew up a balance sheet of the losses suffered by the royal treasury as a result of the Gharib Shah rebellion. Mirza Taqi continued to enjoy the shah’s favor during the transition of power from `Abbas to Safi, surviving the massacres. As Willem Floor points out, this probably reflects his good standing with grand vizier Khalifah Sultan. Two years into the reign of Shah Safi, Mirza Taqi was sent to Baghdad to supervise the renovation of the `atabat, Iraq’s Shi`i shrines.

In August 1633, Mirza Taqi succeeded Mirza Abu Talib Khan as grand vizier. According to Tavernier, Shah `Abbas I was responsible for this appointment, for he left a note to his successor urging him to elevate Mirza Taqi to the highest bureaucratic post. We are otherwise poorly informed about the circumstances of Mirza Taqi’s promotion. Mirza Abu Talib had been his enemy for a while, and Mirza Taqi may have had a hand in his predecessor’s downfall, but proof for this is lacking. The Khuld-i barin states that Mirza Taqi acquired a position of influence because of his friendship with Ughulru Beg, a ghulam, but the sources do not provide any details about the consequences of that connection either.

Political connections no doubt played a role in the choice of Mirza Taqi, but his close relationship with the shah may have been decisive.  According to Adam Olearius, he gained the post because he had made the shah his sole inheritor while promising to regale him regularly with rich presents. Equally significant may have been his organizational and financial talent. Previous grand viziers such as Hatim Beg Urdubadi and `Ali Kirmani, too, had served as mustawfi (comptroller) before acceding to the highest bureaucratic post. The Dutch called Mirza Taqi the best administrator in the entire country. 

Mirza Taqi proved to be a competent grand vizier. He also was the first in a long time to take an active, hands-on approach to his job. He immediately set out to increase royal revenue, reduce spending, and combat corruption. He arranged for a number of provinces to be converted from mamalik (a form of prebendalism in which landed property was alienated as fiefs to military groups) to khassah (state or crown) land.  He also cut back on military expenditure, in a policy that clearly targeted the Qizilbash. He further continued the policy that he had initiated while serving as governor of Mazandaran, curbing the power of that province’s traditional elite, the Sayyids of Mar`ashi, by making sure that his own relatives were put in charge of the territory. His brother, Muhammad Salih Beg, was appointed in 1634, and when he died his son, Qasim Beg, took control of Mazandaran, ruling the province until the end of Shah Safi’s reign.

Mirza Taqi ruffled many feathers with these policies. He had a run-in with Husayn Khan Beg, the nazir, who supervised the shah’s household. He also confronted Khajah Mahabbat, a eunuch, the sahib-i jam`, rish-sifid (department head of the royal treasury) as well as the supervisor of the royal harem, who was replaced by Khajah Mushfiq after being investigated for corruption. Another official he took to task for financial irregularities was Mirza Ma`sum, the mustawfi baqaya (comptroller of arrears) who had been instrumental in bringing down Mirza Taqi’s predecessor, Mirza Abu Talib Khan. Mirza Taqi also investigated the malversations of `Ali Quli Beg, the shahbandar (harbor master) of Bandar `Abbas, who fled to India in an attempt to escape the consequences of the inquiry. The grand vizier, finally, proved to be an able negotiator in dealing with agents of the VOC and EIC, conceding but little to these foreign merchants while keeping a keen eye on the financial interests of the Safavid crown. As chair of the royal council, Mirza Taqi continued to wield extraordinary power at the court until the end of his life. After the accession of Shah `Abbas II in 1642, he headed a ruling troika which operated at the command of Anna Khanum, the shah’s grandmother, until the monarch reached maturity. Some even argued that the country was run by him and the queen-mother. ... Mirza Taqi’s tenure as grand vizier from 1634 to 1645, in particular, proved to be a mixed blessing with regard to state finances. In many ways he was an excellent administrator. Relatively un-corrupt and relying on broad experience gained in the course of a long career in financial administration, he found numerous ways to increase royal revenue.  Yet not everyone benefited from Mirza Taqi’s projects and policies, and the army suffered greatly. The grand vizier alienated a number of important officials with his heavy-handedness, some of them strong characters and competent military commanders. One was `Ali Mardan Khan, the able governor of Qandahar, who, faced with a grand vizier demanding large payments and intent on having him dismissed, rebelled and proceeded to offer the strategically important stronghold of Qandahar to the Mughals, thus necessitating a costly Safavid campaign. 

Another was Imam Quli Khan. This powerful governor of a large swath of the country’s southern regions was brought down in a conspiracy led by Mirza Taqi and the queen-mother. For decades, Imam Quli Khan and, before him, his father Allah Virdi Khan had been among Shah `Abbas’s most reliable commanders, assisting him in conquering the entire southern half of the country. Allah Virdi Khan is said to have commanded 50,000 troops, who “ranked with the best in the world.” The son was as competent a general as the father. He, too, led some of the best troops in the country, a reported 10,000 foot soldiers and cavalrymen. His elimination in 1632 thus dealt a severe blow to Iran’s military strength—as did the conversion of state land to crown land in general. A generation after Imam Quli Khan’s death the Dutch declared southern Iran vulnerable to attack from the Arab shores of the Persian Gulf, insisting that the soldiers recruited from areas south of Isfahan were “all peasants with little military experience.”

Modern historians have hailed Mirza Taqi as a paragon of ghulam ascendance, singling out his various building activities. But these same activities also siphoned off resources that might, and arguably should, have gone to the defense of the country. Politics beyond architectural patronage probably played the determining role in his stinginess vis-à-vis the army. The grand vizier is known deliberately to have withheld funds from the military in an effort to undermine the Qizilbash. He thus decided to curtail the salaries of the qurchis. In this he worked closely together with the women and eunuchs of the inner palace, both groups that were fervently anti-Qizilbash. In 1635, forced to prop up the army in the face of Ottoman attempts to regain Mesopotamia, he asked the Dutch for an 8,000-tuman loan so as to be able to pay the troops. The sum he received, 4,200 tumans, clearly fell short of the need, for a year later reports spoke of scenes of mass desertion by unpaid Safavid soldiers fighting before Baghdad. .... Mirza Taqi was eventually brought down by the new shah. Mounting the throne at the tender age of nine, `Abbas II was at first supervised and overshadowed by a few high-ranking courtiers led by Mirza Taqi. Once he reached maturity, he emerged as a forceful leader determined to take control. A triumvirate consisting of the grand vizier Mirza Taqi, Muhammad `Ali Beg, and Jani Khan Shamlu, who worked in alliance with the queen-mother, Anna Khanum, effectively wielded power at the court for the first three years of Shah `Abbas II’s reign. The second of these served as nazir-i buyutat (steward of the royal household). Jani Khan, an originally rather humble member of the Shamlu tribe, had earned his stripes in the military, until in 1637 he was appointed qurchibashi in addition to receiving the governorship of Kirman. In 1643 Jani Khan became related to grand vizier Mirza Taqi through his daughter, who was given in marriage to Mirza Qasim, a nephew of the grand vizier.

This liaison solidified a family alliance that also included Anna Khanum and that was designed to do away with a mutual rival, the formidable Rustam Khan, a ghulam who wielded tremendous power as sipahsalar and beglerbeg of Azerbaijan. When `Abbas II had this popular official killed, he apparently did so at the instigation of his mother, Jani Khan and Mirza Taqi. Mirza Taqi himself soon came to grief as well, his fate entwined with that of Jani Khan. The outline of their fall is as follows: The marriage alliance between the two clearly did not outlive its immediate objective, for Jani Khan would soon emerge as the main conspirator in the assassination of Mirza Taqi. The resentment fueling the plot involved disagreement over fiscal and military policy, with Jani Khan favoring a strong military and Mirza Taqi, taking the side of the cash-strapped court, determined to cut the salaries of the Qizilbash dominated army. Various sources suggest that Jani Khan sought to poison Shah `Abbas II’s mind against the grand vizier, insinuating that he was driving the country to ruin and posed a threat to the shah himself. Acting on the shah’s authority, Jani Khan on 11 October 1645 went to Mirza Taqi’s house and cut the octogenarian grand vizier down. The subsequent investigation into the vizier’s assets brought fabulous riches to light. According to the Dutch, a notebook kept by Mirza Taqi was found that revealed that the grand vizier had amassed the jaw-dropping sum of 340,000 tumans in gifts in the previous four years—compared with 40,000 for the shah, who ordered a comparative assessment. In late October seven camels transported jewels and treasure, cash, gold, and silver totaling 250,000 tumans from the now deceased vizier’s mansion to the royal treasury.”

-  Rudi Matthee, Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan. London: I. B. Tauris, 2012. pp. 40-43, 116-117. Painting is by an unnamed Mughal painter, Mirza Muhammad ‘Saru’ Taqi Khan. Painted in his lifetime. 

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- bird berlin / bhf ottersberg / 8pm ”Bird Berlin ist eine One-Man-Glitzer-Show. Zu den Beats seines iPods singt und tanzt diese optische Täuschung soft bekleidet und leichtfüßig wie eine Elfe. Lasst euch die Lichtbrechungen an seinem glänzenden Körper nicht entgehen und tanzt ein letztes mal den Birdi mit ihm.“

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