Klaus Wedemeier

Klaus Wedemeier ( born January 12, 1944 in Hof an der Saale ) is a Bremen's merchant and politician (SPD ) and he was mayor from 1985 to 1995 and President of the Senate of Bremen.

Biography

Family, education and vocational

In 1956 his family moved from Bavaria Hof an der Saale to Bremen. Wedemeier trained as a wholesale and foreign trade merchant. He was from 1961 a clerk in the electrical wholesale trade. In 1969 he was authorized signatory and 1972 authorized officer of a housing association. In 1976, he worked as a clerk in the food retail sector. After time as mayor, he joined in 1995 as General Manager in the services of the Düsseldorf Vebacom (telecommunications companies VEBA ) a; the company existed until 1999. He is Managing Partner of We2 Communication GmbH.

Wedemeier is married with Ute Wedemeier.

Policy

Party

Wedemeier occurred in the 1960s in the SPD. From 1970 to 1976 he was state chairman of the Young Socialists ( Young Socialists ). In addition he acted as chairman of his local branch SPD Bremen Horn Achterdiek. Since 1972, he served on the Board from 1976 to 1980, he served as Chairman of the SPD subdistrict Bremen-Ost in the SPD Bremen. From 1985 to 1995 he was a member of the Advisory Bureau of the SPD Federal Executive, and from 1989 to 1996 chairman of the Social Democratic Association for Local Politics (Federal SGK ).

Citizenry

In 1971 he was elected to the Bremen State Parliament, which he first - served until 1999 - with the break in the time as mayor. He was a member of various deputation (including financial deputation ) and the Budget Committee of the Parliament. In 1979 he was elected to succeed Egon Kähler chairman of the SPD parliamentary fraction of Bremen; He was followed in 1985 Konrad Kunick.

Senate

1985, after the resignation of Hans Koschnick (SPD ), Wedemeier was elected President and Mayor of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. He was also until 1995 Senator for Church Affairs. In the Senate, I Wedemeier 1985-1987 only, the SPD was represented.

He joined the parliamentary election in 1987 for the first time as the leading candidate of the SPD and managed to hold the absolute majority for the SPD ( 50.5 %). The Senate also Wedemeier II from 1987 to 1991 was a one-party government by the SPD. In his time, the Senate was around 1987 large portions of the housing company Gewoba for the country secure in the resolution of the new home.

At the 1991 election, however, the SPD slumped from 38.8 % of the vote and lost so that after twenty years of an absolute majority. Wedemeier therefore included a traffic light coalition, the Senate Wedemeier II (1991 to 1995) with FDP and Alliance 90/The Greens. In the debate about the reform of the fiscal equalization he effected in 1992 for an appropriate consideration of Bremen. With the implementation of a judgment for financial equalization before the Federal Constitutional Court, inter alia, he reached the constitutionally recognized right to federal grants and it flowed Bremen in the years to more than ten billion marks to. The preservation of the former Klöckner- steel works as Bremen's industrial site since 1994 steel works Bremen could be achieved by 1993/94 with the help of the Senate. The traffic light coalition collapsed in January 1995. When it early elections, the SPD was able to hold just under 33.4 % of the votes of the CDU as the strongest force ( 32.6 %). Wedemeier then declared his resignation. His successor Henning Scherf (SPD ) was elected.

From November 1 1993 to October 31, 1994 Wedemeier was President of the Bundesrat. From 1985 to 1995 he served as mayor a member of the Presidium of the German Association of Cities.

From 1995 to 1999 Klaus Wedemeier was again a member of the Bremen City Parliament.

More Memberships and Public Offices

  • From 1994 to 1999 Member of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union.
  • Chairman of the Board of the Business Association Weser.
  • Chairman of the Board of the Federal Weser e.V.
  • Managing Partner of We2 Communication GmbH.

Honors

  • 2004 Wedemeier received the Bremen Gold Medal of Honor for his outstanding contributions to the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen.
  • He was honored in 1996 as an honorary doctorate ( Dr. hc ) from the U.S. Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.

Works

  • Wanted and enforced: The SPD parliamentary fraction of Bremen by the turn of the century to the present. Publishing for Social Sciences, Bremen 1983 /2012.
  • Our Wilhelm Kaisen. Northwest German publishing house, 1987.
  • Courage to Remember. Lest we forget. Donat Verlag, Bremen 1994, ISBN 3,924,444,811th
  • Remembering for the Future. Bremen 1989 ISBN. 3927857017th
  • Heinrich Albertz: Deportation Bremer Jews to Minsk. Edition prying, Bremen 1999.
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