The Post, Cable, and Minister Schwarz-Schilling
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Very interesting articles from Der Spiegel in 1982. They’re mainly about coaxial TV cable, but we still feel the effects of Schwarz-Schilling today in broken internet connections (and RTL).
And two years later, it looked like this—even on the cover:
TL;DR: Until just hours before being sworn in as Post Minister, Schwarz-Schilling was a shareholder in a copper cable company that received a contract from the Post Office. While he was minister, his wife ran the cable company. Kohl says he wouldn’t have appointed him had he known. Schwarz-Schilling stayed anyway.
Update: And apparently his daughter has some involvement in Telekom’s current mess, too. (via @f30)