Reinhold Stephanes (born August 13, 1939, Porto União) is a Brazilian economist and politician affiliated with the Social Democratic Party, who is currently serving as the Secretary of Public Management of Paraná.[1][2][3] He was Minister of Agriculture, Labor and Social Security during the Collor, Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Lula administrations.

Reinhold Stephanes
Secretary of Public Management of Paraná
Assumed office
1 January 2019
GovernorRatinho Júnior
Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply of Brazil
In office
22 March 2007 – 31 March 2010
Personal details
Born (1939-08-13) August 13, 1939 (age 84)
Porto União, Santa Catarina (state), Brazil
Political partyNational Renewal Alliance (1977-1979)

Democratic Social Party (1980-1985) Democrats (1985-2000) Brazilian Democratic Movement (2000-2011)

Social Democratic Party (2011-presente)

Personal life edit

A descendant of Germans,[4][5][6][7] Reinhold Stephanes is the son of Oswald Stephanes and Lili Schumann Poll Stephanes, farmers from Paraná.[1][6] His parents migrated from Rio Negro to Santa Catarina, and Reinhold was born in the Porto União region. He speaks Portuguese and German.[6] He was raised in União da Vitória, and at the age of ten he moved to Rio Negro. At the age of twelve, he settled in Curitiba, going to live at the boarding school of the Curitiba Technical School.[6]

At eighteen, he joined the army, staying there for five years, first as a soldier, then as a corporal.[6] In 1963 he graduated in economics from the Federal University of Paraná[2] and specialized in economic development from ECLAC/UN in the same year. In 1966 he finished a specialization in public administration in Germany.[6]

He is the father of Reinhold Stephanes Junior, an economist,[6] former state deputy, and currently a substitute federal deputy for the Social Democratic Party.[8]

Public life edit

In 1963 he was technical assistant in administration to the Central Budget Directory of the Paraná state government.[1] He was economic advisor to the Curitiba City Hall's Treasury Department in 1964.[1] In 1965 he was supervisor of Economic and Social Planning at the Curitiba mayor's office.[1]

In 1966 he was appointed Curitiba's Municipal Secretary of Finance, a position he held until 1967 under Mayor Ivo Arzua Pereira.[2] Still in Curitiba's City Hall, he was General Inspector of Finances from 1967 to 1970.[1][2]

In Curitiba he also worked as a university professor, teaching at the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná from 1966 to 1967.[1][2] On March 22, 2007, he was appointed Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply in the second Lula Administration.[2] On March 31, 2010, he left the Ministry to run again for Federal Deputy, having been reelected with 95,147 votes.

House of Representatives edit

 
Stephanes next to Anderson Adauto, mayor of Uberaba, Aécio Neves and Lula, at the opening of the 73rd ExpoZebu, in Uberaba.

He was a federal deputy in the periods 1979–1983, for the dissolved National Renewal Alliance, 1983–1987, for Democratic Social Party, 1991–1995, for Democrats; 1995–1999, also for Democrats; 2005–2006, for the Brazilian Democratic Movement, and was reelected for the 2007-2011 legislature, also for Brazilian Democratic Movement.[1]

In 2016, he was denounced for his participation in the airline ticket scandal, which occurred when he was a federal deputy in 2009.[9] He allegedly continued to use the airfare quota to which he was entitled as a deputy, after being appointed minister, despite Act 42 of the Bureau of the House of Representatives, from 2000, stating that deputies cannot use the quota while their alternates are in office.[10]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Perfil de Reinhold Stephanes no portal do Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil". FGV - Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Perfil de Reinhold Stephanes no portal do Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil". FGV - Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  3. ^ "Reinhold Stephanes assume Secretaria da Administração". Agência de Notícias do Paraná. 2 January 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  4. ^ "Reinhold Stephanes Ministro da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento - Mapa". Página Rural. 19 November 2007. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  5. ^ "Câmara reúne alemães em sessão solene". Câmara Municipal de Curitiba. 24 June 2005. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g José Wille (30 October 2018). "Reinhold Stephanes foi o paranaense mais chamado para cargos em Brasília". Paraná Portal. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  7. ^ Celso Nascimento (24 January 2010). "Reinhold Stephanes, o polêmico". Gazeta do Povo. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  8. ^ Manu Nunes (5 February 2019). "Stephanes Junior, do Paraná, toma posse na Câmara". PSD na Câmara. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  9. ^ "Procuradoria denuncia 443 por 'farra das passagens' na Câmara, diz site". Folha de S.Paulo. UOL. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
  10. ^ "Ministros-deputados usam passagens da Câmara". Congresso em Foco - UOL.