Wilfried Lemke
Wilfried " Willi" Lemke ( born August 19, 1946 in Pönitz / East Holstein ) is a German politician (SPD) and sports official.
He's since April 11, 2008 Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General on Sport for Development and Peace.
From 1999 to 2007 he was a Senator for Education and Science and from 2007 to April 2008, Senator for the Interior and Sports of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen.
From 1981 to 1999 he was manager of Bundesliga club SV Werder Bremen and is there since 2005 Chairman of the Supervisory Board.
Biography
Family, education and vocational
After graduating from high school Oberalster in Hamburg Lemke completed a teacher training program of education and sports science at the University of Hamburg, which he finished with the first state exam. Subsequently, he was from 1971 to 1974 worked as a research assistant at the University of Bremen. After the end of his second job as a double agent for the KGB and Protection of the Constitution, he took over in 1974 the management of the SPD National Association Bremen until he joined in 1981 as manager of football club Werder Bremen. There he coined together with Otto Rehhagel significantly the "golden" 1980s and 1990s (1981 to 1995) of the association, where Werder Bremen once to win the European Cup Winners' Cup twice and was German champion and three times the DFB Cup winner. Since the spin-off profit- oriented and productive athletic departments of the overall association for Werder Bremen GmbH & Co KGaA in May 2003 Lemke is a member of the Supervisory Board since 2005 and is Chairman of the Supervisory Board. In November 2012, he was confirmed in his position as Chairman of the Board for another four years.
Willi Lemke is married for the second time and has four children.
Party
Following the announcement by Henning Scherf in September 2005 to resign as head of government of Bremen, Lemke joined in a survey of members of the SPD based on the new mayor. The base decided with 1924 votes for Böhrnsen as the new mayor.
Public offices
After the 1999 state election Lemke was elected on 7 July 1999 as a Senator for Education and Science in the Senate, led by President Henning Scherf Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen.
After the election, the Bremen Parliament 2007 Lemke took over in the new red-green coalition on 29 June 2007, the Office of the Senator for the Interior and Sport.
End of 2007, Lemke was proposed by the federal government for the Office of the UN Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace. After the budget committee of the German Bundestag had pledged to take over the financing of this office in the amount of 450,000 €, Lemke was appointed on March 18, 2008 by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki -moon as the successor to Adolf Ogi. Therefore Lemke stepped down as interior minister on April 6, 2008.
Since September 2010, Willi Lemke is an honorary professor at the University of Western Cape (UWC ) in South Africa.
Awards
- For his service as a UN ambassador Sports Willi Lemke was awarded the Berlin Peace Clock Award 2011.
- The National Association of Self-help pays tribute to his commitment to the disabled athletes with Bobby Media Award 2010.