Rolf Böhme

Rolf Böhme ( born August 6, 1934 in Konstanz ) is a German lawyer and politician of the SPD.

He was from 1978 to 1982 Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Finance and from 1982 to 2002 mayor of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau.

Education and work

Böhme studied law in Munich and Freiburg. In 1965 he joined the Baden-Württemberg tax administration, he was admitted as a lawyer specializing in tax law in 1968. In 1969 his doctorate in law. at the University of Freiburg with the work The limitation of State liability to the state administration.

Since 2003, Böhme is a partner in Freiburg office of the law firm Graf von Westphalen and is particularly in the area of ​​Public Law and Project Development. He was also adviser to the former Schily.

Member of Parliament

From 1972 until his resignation on December 2, 1982 Böhme was a member of the German Bundestag. He is always drawn on a state list Baden- Württemberg in the Bundestag.

Public offices

On February 16, 1978, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Federal Minister of Finance in led by Chancellor Helmut Schmidt federal government. At a cabinet reshuffle, he retired on 28 April 1982 from the Office.

On November 16, 1982, he was the second ballot - opposition candidate was Sven von Ungern- Sternberg - elected im Breisgau Mayor of Freiburg and thus the successor of Eugen Keidel. When he did not run in 2002, the Green Dieter Salomon became his successor. The city of Freiburg named the Great Hall of the Böhme largely funded concert hall after him. During his tenure, the construction of B was relieved of through traffic 31 east, with large parts of the route with a tunnel Freiburg East. Through a regional garden show, the district Betzenhausen received new impetus. Economy, tourism, energy and public transport were greatly enhanced by dedicated activities. In particular was of Rolf Böhme the Transboundary cooperation, eg by the foundation of Freiburg Regio society through joint council meetings with the neighboring city of Mulhouse and its involvement in the tri-national advisory board of the Euro Airport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg.

On April 27, 2002 him the Medal of Merit of the State of Baden -Württemberg and on 27 June 2005 by Otto Schily was awarded in Berlin, the Federal Cross of Merit in Stuttgart.

Family

Rolf Böhme is the grandson of the Social Democrat Heinrich Delp, who was until 1931 Chairman of the Hessian Parliament and until 1933 the city of Darmstadt mayor. H. Delp died at Dachau concentration camp in 1945 a few days after the liberation.