Hans-Christian Koellmer

Hans-Christian Köllmer (born March 11, 1947 in Arnstadt ) is a German politician of the Free Voting Association Pro Arnstadt . From 1994 to 2012 he was mayor of his native city.

Career

The son of Dorothea Köllmer and the businessman Hans Joachim Köllmer was born in Arnstadt. There he attended from 1954 to 1964, a Polytechnic High School and began after an apprenticeship as a car - an electrician . In Erfurt he completed his 18-month military service with the NVA . After a short apprenticeship at the VEB service combine in Arnstadt, he took up a job in his parents' company, Fritz B. Köllmer, where he learned the trade of commercial clerk . 1975 took over Köllmer together with the daughter of the former innkeeper, Gabriele Viola Reumschüssel, the restaurant Triglismühle in Siegelbach . They have been married to each other since 1976 and today they have two children.

Arnstadt Town Hall (March 2010)

At the time of the fall of the Wall in 1989, Hans-Christian Köllmer was active in the citizens' movement Neues Forum and successfully ran for mayoral elections in the villages of Siegelbach, Dosdorf and Espenfeld the following year . After these districts were incorporated into the municipality of Arnstadt, Köllmer became mayor of the district. Soon afterwards he was a founding member of Pro Arnstadt , a local association of the Free Voting Community. In 1994 Köllmer stood as their candidate for the mayor's office of the city of Arnstadt and was able to win this election. He was confirmed in office in 2000 and 2006 (50.8% of the vote). For reasons of age, Köllmer did not run for the mayoral election in 2012.

Köllmer considers himself to be part of the “bourgeois conservative camp” with a “clear standpoint pro economy / industry”.

Media perception

In December 2000, when the FPÖ was involved in the federal government in Austria , Köllmer visited its party leader Jörg Haider . The meeting was criticized because the EU states officially boycotted the Austrian federal government and Köllmer disparagingly commented on the protest by Jewish communities and World War II veterans against Haider's visit to Rome. A formal motion to vote out in January 2001 failed with eleven to thirteen votes.

In 2002, during the public discussion about the private use of firearms after the rampage in Erfurt , Köllmer attached a sticker with the words “I am the gun lobby ” to his company car as part of a visor campaign . In a resolution by the city council in December 2002, Köllmer was instructed to remove the sticker.

In June 2009, with Köllmer's tolerance, the 8th Thuringian National Youth Day was approved in the centrally located castle park. A few hundred meters away, both a demonstration against the event and the long-planned traditional castle festival took place at the same time . When asked about this fact beforehand and confronted with the accusation of being a “little Nazi ”, Köllmer replied “I have too much socialism in the Nazi ”, which provoked strong protests.

In March 2010, he came under increasing criticism, which was later brought up in Poland in a report by Gazeta Wyborcza . In December 2009, Köllmer gave a speech at a federal assembly of the Citizens' Movement for Germany and at the end of January 2010 signed their open letter in support of Thilo Sarrazin , after the political scientist Gideon Botsch publicly accused Sarrazin of racism in a report in September 2009 because of his statements . When asked about his activities, in a newspaper interview in March 2010, Köllmer asked the question “Are Jews being excluded again today, like the Jews in the Third Reich?”, Which referred to right-wing groups and for which he later apologized. All of this, as well as Köllmer's announcement that he would join pro Germany and want to gain more validity in Thuringia, led to a dispute with Thuringia's Interior Minister Peter Huber and in many cases to calls for resignation, including from the German Bundestag Vice President Katrin Göring-Eckardt . A formal and altogether fourth motion to vote out in the city council did not get the required two-thirds majority and was rejected by eleven to thirteen votes. In June and October of the same year, Köllmer's actions were addressed in small inquiries , one to the Thuringian state government and one to the German federal government.

In December 2010, Köllmer had a poster hung up on which the financial policy spokeswoman for the Thuringian CDU parliamentary group, Annette Lehmann , was declared an "undesirable person". This was preceded by a dispute over the municipal financial equalization between several cities and the state of Thuringia as well as unsuccessful attempts at talks. The poster bore the city's official hallmarks and was financed from the Arnstadt budget. After a reprimand by the Thuringian municipal supervisory authority , it moved from the advertising column on the market to a side entrance of the town hall at the beginning of January .

Memberships

In addition to FWG Pro Arnstadt eV , Köllmer is a member of the following associations:

• German Red Cross
• Friendship association of the twin cities of Arnstadt
• Arnstadt fountain association
• Rifle Club Arnstadt

Web links

• Official website of Hans-Christian Köllmer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Results of the 2006 mayoral election in Arnstadt , website of the Thuringian State Office for Statistics , accessed on October 22, 2010
2. ↑ Description on hans-christian-koellmer.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 22, 2010  
3. ↑ Thomas Klämt: CDU Arnstadt: Collective memory loss or method? (No longer available online.) In: Free Word . March 13, 2010, archived from the original on July 25, 2010 ; accessed on February 5, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ Matthias Thieme: With an open "visor" . In: the daily newspaper . August 2, 2002, accessed February 5, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Resolution No. 2002/1080 of December 19, 2002. Removal of the sticker "I am the gun lobby" In: Official Gazette of the City of Arnstadt and its districts , page 5, on Arnstadt.de, January 18, 2003, accessed on November 9, 2010
6. ^ ^{A b} Olaf Sundermeyer: Right-wing populism. A mayor in Haider's footsteps. In: The time . June 9, 2010, accessed February 5, 2014 . 
7. ^ Irritating things from Arnstadt: Right-wing extremists celebrate "Thuringian Day" alongside the city's "traditional festival" . In: "Netz gegen Nazis", May 27, 2009, accessed on November 9, 2010
8. ↑ Bartosz T. Wielinski: Brunatny burmistrz. In: Gazeta Wyborcza . June 15, 2010, accessed February 5, 2014 (Polish). 
9. ↑ Open letter from the Bürger Movement pro Deutschland to Thilo Sarrazin, dated January 30, 2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , from a website of Pro Deutschland, accessed on November 9, 2010  
10. ↑ Sarrazin dispute begins a new round. Expert opinion speaks of racism . In: n-tv.de . January 8, 2010, accessed February 5, 2014 . 
11. ^ Criticism of Arnstadt's mayor after NS comparison. In: Free Word. March 8, 2010, accessed February 5, 2014 . 
12. ^ Arnstädter SPD demands resignation of the mayor. In: Thuringian General . March 10, 2010, accessed February 5, 2014 . 
13. ↑ Eberhardt Pfeiffer: Engagement with "Pro Deutschland": Köllmer angered the CDU. In: Thuringian General. March 29, 2010, accessed February 5, 2014 . 
14. ^ Criticism of Köllmer and Kreistag. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung . March 22, 2010, accessed February 5, 2014 . 
15. ↑ Comments on the motion to vote against HC Köllmer . spd-arnstadt.de, accessed on November 9, 2010
16. ^ Motion to vote against Köllmer rejected by 13:11 votes. In: Thuringian General. May 21, 2010, accessed February 5, 2014 . 
17. ↑ Contacts of members of the "Pro Arnstadt" parliamentary group to Pro Deutschland or other right-wing populist or right-wing extremist people and groups . docs.google.com, quoted from vin ljrt-online.de, June 14, 2010, accessed on April 9, 2012
18. ↑ Findings of the federal government on the activities of the party "pro Germany", especially on its federal party congress on July 17, 2010 in Berlin . bundestag.de, October 6, 2010, (PDF; 78 kB), accessed on February 16, 2011
19. ↑ (hum): Köllmer's poster campaign initially without consequences. In: Free Word. January 22, 2011, accessed February 5, 2014 . 
20. ↑ (ep): Local authorities reprimand poster campaign by the mayor of Arnstadt. In: Thuringian General. January 5, 2011, accessed February 5, 2014 .