Henning Voscherau
Henning Voscherau [ fɔʃəʁaʊ̯ ] ( born August 13, 1941 in Hamburg ) is a German lawyer and former notary. He is a politician of the SPD, gas lobbyist and was from 1988 to 1997 First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.
Family
He is the son of actor Carl Voscherau, the nephew of popular actor Walter Scherau (actually Walter Voscherau ) and brother of Eggert Voscherau. Since 1971 Voscherau is married to his wife Anne Rose; a pharmacist. The couple has a son and two daughters.
Career
Voscherau studied after graduating from high school Oberalster Law and Economics at the University of Hamburg. In 1969 he completes his studies with his doctorate. From 1974 ( with an interruption from 1988 to 1997 ) to 2011, he worked in Hamburg as a notary. Since 2011 he leads with his son, the lawyer Carl-Christian Voscherau, a shared office.
Political career
Voscherau describes himself as " born social ", including his parents and his grandfather in the SPD. He enters the SPD in 1966. His political career began in 1970 with the election to the District Assembly Wandsbek, where he remained until 1974, when he was elected to the Hamburg Parliament. Since 1981 he was a member of the national executive of the SPD in Hamburg. In 1982 he became leader of the SPD and remained in this position until 1987, before he was elected on June 8, 1988 as the successor of Klaus von Dohnanyi as First Mayor of Hamburg. From November 1 1990 to October 31, 1991 Voscherau was President of the Bundesrat. On October 8, 1997, he resigned after his desired coalition with the party instead did not materialize and instead a red-green alliance was concluded that he did not approve. He then retired from active politics, but remained a member of the SPD Federal Executive until 2001.
Possible top candidate in 2008
After a due ballot theft failed SPD internal member survey on the question whether Mathias Petersen and Dorothee Stapelfeldt challenger by Ole von Beust (CDU ) should be at the 2008 state election in Hamburg, Voscherau have a good chance to be the top candidate of the SPD again. In a letter to the state chairman, he shared on 5 March 2007, however, he had decided because of the fear not to be permanently supported, and out of consideration for his family not to stand.
Other activities
In April 2012, Henning Voscherau Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the South Stream Transport AG, a joint venture between Gazprom and the Italian energy company Eni.
Henning Voscherau belongs since 2003 to the Board of the German National Foundation on, there is vice chairman of the Senate, still it belongs to the Board of Trustees of Hamburg Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius ZEIT Foundation and is both the Supervisory Board and Board of Trustees member of the private Hamburger Bucerius Law School.
Others
Following the resignation of Christian Wulff he was in February 2012 as a candidate for the office of President in the conversation.
Directed in 2001 by Dieter Wedel Six divider Semmeling The affair, which takes place in Hamburg, has, despite contrary protestations, numerous parallels to the person Henning Voscherau, his successor Ortwin Runde and the Hamburg SPD. The character played by Robert Atzorn mayor of Hamburg, " Dr. Klaus Henning " applies in contrast to its native, arrested in the party successor Axel Ropert, as an intellectual integrity politician who resigns due to family problems and a looming with the Green Alliance. Voscherau not recognize himself in the role of Dr. Henning but again; a scene forge an intrigue in the Social Democrats in the opera he described as impossible, " because there is not enough come together members of the SPD. "