Christian Ude
Christian Ude ( born October 26, 1947 in Munich) is a German politician ( SPD). Since 1993 he has been mayor of the Bavarian capital, Munich.
Background and education
Christian Ude was born as the second child of the culture editor Karl Ude and his wife Renée in Munich. He grew up in a left- liberal dominated middle class family in Munich-Schwabing. After graduating from high school in 1967 at the Oskar -von-Miller -Gymnasium in Munich, he was until 1969 a volunteer and later editor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. The focus of his journalistic activities were youth, school and university policies and municipal reporting. A study of the sociology and history, he graduated in parallel until 1969, however, which he broke off without a degree.
As of the summer semester 1969 graduated Ude studying law at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich and passed 1977, the first legal state exam. After the second legal state exam in Munich in 1979, he was with predicate itself Ude was from 1979 to 1990 practiced as a lawyer. In 1983 he married eight years older SPD Councilwoman Edith von Welser, who brought six children into the marriage.
SPD politician since 1966
Even as a high school student came Ude 1966 in the SPD. From 1972 to 1978 he worked as a volunteer spokesman for the Munich SPD. In 1980 he founded as an editor, the " city magazine ", which was published by the SPD - Municipal Group. In the local elections in March 1990, Christian Ude was elected to the City Council of Munich and May 2, 1990 through this for deputy mayor of Munich.
Lord Mayor of Munich since 1993
On September 12, 1993, he was mayor of the city of Munich and successor of George Kronawitter. Three times he was re-elected on 13 June 1999 with 61.2 % of votes, on 3 March 2002, 64.5 %, and on 2 March 2008 with 66.8 %. After Ude had initially ruled out a candidacy for a fourth term for the election in March 2008, he changed his mind later and was formally nominated by his party as a candidate for mayor in November 2007. The legal age limit excludes a renewed candidacy in the local elections of 2014.
Ude is advocate of municipal autonomy. On 2 June 2005 he was in Berlin as successor mayor of Frankfurt Petra Roth ( CDU) was elected Chairman of the German Association of Cities and confirmed on 24 May 2007 in this office. In this capacity he was in particular an for another financial distribution between the federal, state and local governments. On 14 May 2009 Ude was in turn replaced in Bochum by Petra Roth in the presidency and took over the office of vice president. On 5 May 2011, he was elected President of the German Association of Cities again in Stuttgart and Petra Roth again took over the office of Vice President. On March 15, 2013 Ude was from the office of President of Cities Ulrich Maly.
From 15 July 2013 to Election Day on September 15, Christian Ude was on leave with the omission of his salary at his own request, to operate its top candidate in the state election in 2013 for the SPD. The official business conducted at this time Christine Strobl and Hep Monatzeder.
Leading candidate for the parliamentary election in 2013
In August 2011 it was announced that Christian Ude stand as a top candidate of the SPD in the regional elections in 2013 and wanted to compete against the incumbent Prime Minister Horst Seehofer.
On October 21, 2012 he was elected to the state convention in Nuremberg with only one dissenting vote for the top candidates. He arrived as the leading candidate of the National Federation of the SPD in Bavaria 20.6 % of the valid votes.
Controversies
Partial harsh criticism Ude learned in the context of plans for a reconstruction of the Olympic Stadium. Also controversial - and ultimately failed in court - is advocated by Ude and planned by the Munich Public Transport System project of the so-called tram Nordtangente through the English Garden. Large parts of his party and the Greens criticize Ude, because he campaigned for the construction of a third runway at Munich Airport Erding and this even named as a prerequisite for his candidacy as prime minister, for which it party colleagues " coercion and blackmail" accused. The third runway was rejected in a 2012 referendum. The proposed Ude instead of the Transrapid Express train is also highly controversial.
A programmatic distance is not only the Bavarian SPD, but also to the Greens, whose rejection of major projects Udes view, " traits of a religious war " wear. After he was removed in Munich moved stumbling blocks again, Ude lack of sensitivity was accused. Sharp criticism garnered Ude in 2003 when he called for a demonstration against U.S. policy in Iraq during the Munich Conference on Security Policy.
Despite the support of a city council majority Ude could not enforce its position on several referendums. In June 1996, the citizens' petition was "Three tunnel needs of the Ring" in the referendum confirmed. In 2003, Ude lost against his predecessor George Kronawitter the debate on the construction of high-rise buildings in Munich. A slight majority of Munich voted in referendum that no new building may be higher than the Frauenkirche and outside the middle ring, which had to be several construction projects such as the new headquarters of the Süddeutsche Verlag discarded or realized lower.
Others
Besides his work as Mayor Ude is temporarily worked as a book author and comedian. He regularly writes columns in Munich tabloid evening newspaper and alternating with Peter Gauweiler in the Münchner Merkur. He is also a member of the sports club TSV 1860 Munich and sat for 13 years until 2009 in the Supervisory Board. Ude is one of about 4,000 members of the Munich Association against fraudulent pouring ( VGBE ). In the Disney production Chicken Little, he borrowed the mayor of Oakey Oaks his voice.
He was also opposed to the now failed Transrapid train to Munich Franz Josef Strauss Airport in the Erdinger Moos. In contrast, he advocates an express train, the realization of which is still largely open. Ude is a member of the Supervisory Board of Munich Transport Company and the Munich Community College.
Since 2004 he has been a visiting professor at Nankai University in the Chinese city of Tianjin. In October 2009, he was awarded the title of " Advisory Professor" from Tongji University in Shanghai.
On 20 November 2007 Ude stressed on a support assembly of the Pink List Munich before the election: " Please take note that you are dealing with a professing and practicing hetero - and that's a good thing. " Background of allusion to a quote of his Berlin colleagues Wowereit were speculations about a possible homosexuality.
Christian Ude is champion of the whereabouts of the municipal water supply in the public sector.
Awards
Publications (selection)
- Ways out of the housing shortage. Munich 1990.
- My premature memoirs. Munich 1993.
- The boss. Munich 1999.
- I am building a stadium and other heroic tales. Munich in 2004.
- With Peter Gauweiler: correspondence. Prince Edition in Keyser Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86886-016-0.
- With Peter Gauweiler: correspondence two. Prince Edition in Keyser Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86886-017-7.
- With Peter Gauweiler: Exchange of letters three. Prince Edition in Keyser Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86886-020-7.
- With Peter Gauweiler: correspondence four. Prince Edition in Keyser Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86886-023-8.