Heribert Rech

Heribert Rech ( born April 25, 1950 in Östringen, the district of Karlsruhe ) is a German politician ( CDU) and was dated 14 July 2004 to May 12, 2011 Interior Minister of Baden- Württemberg and at the same time the State Commissioner for Displaced Persons, Refugees and repatriates.

Career

Heribert Rech comes from a Danube Swabian family displaced from Para Butsch in Backa. He attended elementary school in Bad Schönborn- Langenbrücken ( Karlsruhe district ) and then high school in Heidelberg. Also in Heidelberg, he graduated in law at the University of Heidelberg. In 1977 he passed the first state exam. After the state examination in 1979, he was by June 2001 worked as a lawyer. From 13 June 2001 to 14 July 2004 he was Political State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior of Baden- Württemberg. On 14 July 2004, Heribert Rech, was appointed interior minister of Baden- Württemberg.

Calculation was from 1992 to 2001 Deputy Chairman of the CDU district association Karlsruhe- country and in 1992 a member of the Landtag of Baden- Württemberg as a directly elected member for the electoral district of Bruchsal 29 since 27 April. He was elected as the successor of Thomas Schäuble District Chairman of the CDU Nordbaden 2005.

Computing is Catholic, widowed since 1997 and has two grown daughters.

Criticism

Nationwide attention gained computing when he preliminary determination results of an alleged announcement of the offender presented the day after the rampage of a 17 -year-olds on the internet in Winnenden, which did not stand up to further review. A LKA officials had followed a Note, and the investigation team had the preliminary information forwarded directly to the Prosecutor and the Minister of the Interior.

At a demonstration against the Stuttgart 21 project came on 30 September 2010 clashes between police and demonstrators. This has been issued with tear gas, pepper spray, water cannons and batons against the demonstrators; among the demonstrators were among other children who took part in a student demonstration. The Interior Ministry computing justified this first with the statement that the demonstrators had thrown paving stones at the police - this was, however, withdrawn by the Interior Ministry in the evening.

Interior Minister Heribert Rech justified the massive police operation on ZDF: " When children are brought to the forefront of their mothers by their fathers when they are exploited, if they both mothers with the children of the police in the way, then they 'll just have to also be taken away by a simple physical violence. " computing Something like said so on the radio station SWR1 Baden- Württemberg, whereupon the moderator Christoph Zehendner made ​​it clear that the children came from a registered student demo of Stuttgart School. Then said computing that have been completely different but the student demo was as advertised.

According to police inspector tailor the protesters had first used pepper spray against the police. "The massive resistance has meant that the police had to use pepper spray, water cannons and batons in individual cases, " said Schneider. "We could have done without it." In the press conference, the police led, among other video footage as evidence.

As a result of the controversial police operation computing lost on 4 October 2010 eV the auspices of the Child and Youth Protection Association Kids for Kids. The association explained this as he announced in a press release by the " merciless power demonstration of the responsible provincial government and its subordinate police force against defenseless children, young people and citizens. "

Beginning of October 2010 filed a Dietrich Wagner, who was a participant in the demonstration on September 30 and whose eyes were hit by a water cannon, a criminal complaint against Rech Wagner almost completely blind by this incident. The police disagreed with Wagner's information from his "memory protocol " explicitly. "We have the man put aside again and again behind the barricades ," says the Stuttgart police president Siegfried Stumpf. " But he ran back to again and again. He himself has taken up directly into the beam. " There is a photo of the police, which gives the impression that Wagner stand in victory pose on a limb in the beam with a water cannon.