Berndt Röder

Berndt Röder (born 3 December 1948 in Lünen ) is a German politician ( CDU). He was from October 1984 to February 2011 consistently a member of the Hamburg Parliament.

Life

Roeder walked into Lünen, Hamburg and Athens to school. In 1968 he left the Albert -Schweitzer -Schule in Hamburg with the Abitur. He then graduated in law at the University of Hamburg. Since 1977, Roeder has been a lawyer and managing director of the Newspaper Association of Hamburg and the Association of Newspaper Publishers northern Germany.

He is married for the second time and has three children.

Policy

Röder joined in 1968, the CDU and was from 1974 to 1984 district deputy of District Assembly Hamburg -Nord. 1982 briefly and again in October 1984 he is a member of the Parliament of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. From 1997 to 2004 he was its First Vice President and March 2004 to February 2010 its president.

In June 2004, Roeder was criticized after he had pressed a specially set alarm button in the spaces of citizenship law firm to measure the time until the arrival of the police. The State Security Division of the National Criminal Investigation Department and the prosecutor then determined for misuse of emergency contact devices against him. The method has been adjusted against payment of a fine of 2500 €. He had, moreover, the city half of the costs incurred for the abuse report.

In February 2010 came again to criticism of Roeder after he turned to the state councils of the Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency and therefore pressure on the Hamburg city cleaning exercised to make clear its secluded residential street of ice. At the same time all had hamburgers side streets on a thick, glassy ice sheet since saw the city cleaning only be able to clear the main roads. Roeder stated as the reason for this special treatment to him it had gone to a nearby convention center. On February 20, 2010, he then declared his resignation as president of the Hamburg Parliament.

At the end of the 19th legislature in February 2011 Roeder resigned as a member of the Hamburg Parliament.