Peter Schulz
Peter Schulz ( born April 25, 1930 in Rostock, † May 17, 2013 in Hamburg ) was a German lawyer and politician (SPD). He was from 1971 to 1974, First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.
Life
His father Albert Schulz from 1945 until he was deposed in 1949 Lord Mayor of Rostock. Peter Schulz took high school in 1949 in Rostock. After the escape of the family from the GDR, he studied law at the University of Hamburg. In 1954 he passed the first and 1958 the Great State Examination. The admission to the bar was made in 1959. A year later he founded with Alfred Phillipp today firmierende as Schulz Noack Bärwinkel law firm with offices in Hamburg, Rostock and Shanghai.
Peter Schulz was with the doctor Sonja Schulz (born Planeth ) married, with whom he became the father of two children.
Policy
Already during his studies was Schulz state chairman of the Young Socialists and National Secretary of the Socialist German Student League. In 1961 he became a deputy of the Hamburg Parliament. In 1965, he headed the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee, which investigated the death of a prisoner in a calming of the Hamburg cell detention center. Considerable failures and cover-ups by the prison authorities and the prosecution were revealed. In 1966 he was elected (Senate ) in the state government and took over the management of the restructured judicial authority. In 1970 he took over the office of second mayor and moved to the authority for school, youth and vocational training. On June 9, 1971 Schulz was elected as the successor of Herbert soft man for the Lord Mayor. At this time he was the youngest first mayor since 1678th
With the Green City Action accents he sat first in the state environmental policy. His tenure also the Radical adoption of the Hamburg Senate, with the rejection of applicants for the public service has been made possible was if there were doubts about their loyalty to the constitution. His plan in the area Bill Werder / Allermoehe to build a new residential area for 60,000 people failed because of the resistance of the left wing of the party and the coalition partner FDP. Then a much smaller residential area was later realized in the same place. After heavy losses in state elections in 1974 Schulz resigned on 4 November 1974. His successor was Hans -Ulrich Klose. Schulz worked since then as a lawyer in his firm.
1978 Schulz was unanimously elected President of the citizenry. He held that post with a brief interruption in the years 1982 to 1986. 1989/90 Schulz was in his hometown of Rostock legal adviser of the city government and helped in the reconstruction of the local SPD. Later he became the Honorary Consul of Norway and President of the Bar Court of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Honors
Publications
- Origins of our freedom. From the American Revolution to the Bonn Basic Law. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-455-08330-7.
- A chance -less proposal for judicial reform. In: Helmut Schmidt ( eds.): Explorations. Contributions to the understanding of our world. Protocols of the Freitagsgesellschaft ( = Ullsteinhaus 36268 ). Ullsteinhaus, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-548-36268-0.
- Rostock, Hamburg and Shanghai. Memories of a mayor of Hamburg. edition prying, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8378-2001-0.
- Legal developments in China. In: Helmut Schmidt (eds. ): Wells. New contributions to the understanding of our world. Protocols of the Freitagsgesellschaft. Siedler, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-88680-967-7, pp. 53-66.
Senate
- Senate Schulz I (1971-1974)
- Senate Schulz II ( 1974)