Herman-Hartmut Weyel

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Herman-Hartmut Weyel on the day of the public tour of the new Mainz synagogue
Image and text from the Federal Archives : Anna Seghers was awarded honorary citizenship of the city of Mainz. On this occasion, Klaus Höpcke , Deputy Minister for Culture of the GDR, was in her Berlin apartment (from right to left) ; Dr. Harder, President of Gutenberg University Mainz; Mayor Anton Maria Keim , Klaus Bölling , head of the permanent representation of the FRG in the GDR, Weyel (SPD parliamentary group leader in Mainz); Lord Mayor Jockel Fuchs (standing), Dr. Storch (FDP parliamentary group leader in Mainz), Ms. Fuchs and other personalities present. (1981)

Herman-Hartmut Weyel (born July 20, 1933 in Prenzlau ) is a Mainz local politician of the SPD . From May 4, 1987 to May 3, 1997, he succeeded Jockel Fuchs as Lord Mayor of Mainz.

politics

The administrative lawyer Weyel worked in the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Justice from 1962 to 1982. Since 1969 he was a member of the Mainz city council for the SPD. In 1979 he took over the chairmanship of his party in the city council, which he held until 1983. From April 1, 1983 to April 1987 he was an alderman for the city of Mainz. Weyel is still the chairman of the association "United Mainz", which is trying to reorganize the districts of Mainz on the right bank of the Rhine .

Weyel is also a member of the board of directors of the SPD local association Mainz-Oberstadt- Ebertsiedlung .

Lord Mayor of Mainz

Herman-Hartmut Weyel ran together with Eckhart Pick to succeed Mayor Jockel Fuchs, who retired on April 30, 1987. On November 16, 1986, the sub-district party congress of the SPD in the Electoral Palace elected him as a candidate for the mayor's office with 98 out of 195 votes. His competitor Pick received 92 votes. As the strongest faction in the city council, the SPD had the right to propose a successor to the mayor's office. Since the CDU also signaled support for the SPD candidate, Weyel was elected mayor in 1986 by a large majority in the city council to succeed Jockel Fuchs . Weyel took office on May 4, 1987.

Weyel's tenure was marked by the noticeable ebb of the rapid Mainz upswing of the 1960s and 1970s, which is associated with the names of his two popular predecessors, Franz Stein and Jockel Fuchs. The number of jobs fell by around 10% during Weyel's tenure, mainly due to the closure of the wagon factory and the armor factory . Most of the time, however, unemployment remained below the state and national average.

The Mainz housing market was quite difficult until the mid-1990s due to the lack of new building areas. After the US-American NATO forces withdrew due to the end of the East-West conflict , the settlement at the Mainz-Finthen airfield, which was formerly used for military purposes, was declared the Layenhof district . However, since further barracks areas became available for civilian settlement in Mainz-Gonsenheim and on Bruchweg , there was no massive expansion of Layenhof.

On the initiative of Weyels and the building department Heidel and Schüler , the site at the southern entrance to Mainz was redesigned ( Römerschiff-Museum , DB-Cargo-Zentrum , Hyatt-Hotel, and Fort Malakoff Park , an office built by the Siemens-Nixdorf Group. and business center). The Rhine terrace in front of the Fort Malakoff center forms the transition from the green area in front of the Uferstrasse to the Rhine mole and is “accepted” by the Mainz population, among other things because of its proximity to the cultural center (“Kuz”).

The residential complex on Kästrich, built in 1989 on the site of the former Mainzer Aktien Bierbrauerei , is considered particularly successful for the cityscape .

Weyel, who is always strongly oriented towards consensus between the two largest parties, advocated the political “Mainz Model”, a broad coalition between the SPD, CDU and FDP. Even when there was an arithmetical majority for red-green in the city council in 1989, it took until 1992 for this coalition to come about, in which for the first time a head of the Greens was elected to the city council, with votes against from the CDU and FDP, which have now become opposition . Since the SPD and the Greens lost their majority in the city council in 1994, there was again a majority in the city council made up of bourgeois parties and the SPD, to the exclusion of the Greens and the Republicans .

Events during his tenure

Housing complex on the Kästrich
1988
  • Founding of the Mainz casino
  • Protection of the monument zone "An der Favorite - Karthaus" as an example of settlement and villa construction in the early 20th century (Fort Kartaus was laid down in 1922)
  • 1989–1994 Red-Green cooperation in Mainz
  • 1989 Kästrich residential complex
1991
  • Protection of the monument zone "Am Judensand 57-69", former "Peace powder magazine No. 20" (old cartridge)
  • Frankfurter Hof
  • Inauguration of a senior citizen center on the Frankenhöhe
  • Inauguration of the Sat.1 broadcasting center
  • Laying of the foundation stone for the new Südwestfunk studios on Wallstrasse
  • Opening of the St. Rochus Social Center in Mombach
  • Inauguration of a new service building for the Waterways and Shipping Directorate Southwest
  • Adoption and dissolution of the 3rd Battalion of the 8th US Infantry Division from the Gonsenheim Lee Barracks
1992
  • The BFE Studio and Media Systems are located in Gonsenheim
  • Adoption and dissolution of the 118th Support Battalion from Lee Barracks Gonsenheim
  • A development plan for the area around the winter harbor is presented
  • Foundation of the Mainz- Louisville friendship group
  • Upgrade of the French representation to the French consulate general
  • Protection of the monument zone "Weißliliengasse / Willigisstraße"
  • Protection of the monument zone "Uferstrasse / Fischtorplatz "
  • Protection of the monument zone "Fischergasse / Rotekopfgasse"
  • Protection of the monument zone " Peter-Cornelius-Platz "
1993
  • Layenhof
  • "Historisches Mainz" (labeling of historical buildings with boards)
  • Under protection of the settlements Baentschstraße
  • Redesign of the Bischofsplatz
  • Opening of the new fire station 1 in Bretzenheim
  • First groundbreaking for the small house of the Mainz State Theater
  • Protection of the monument zone "Bretzenheimer Mühle"
  • Protection of the monument zone "Fort Josef" in the second fortress ring
  • Protection of the monument zone " Fort Weisenau " of the third fortress ring
  • Protection of the “Jakobsbergstraße” monument zone, formerly the monastery-owned rented houses of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Jakob .
1994
Former DB Cargo building in Mainz
  • Museum of Ancient Shipping
  • Expansion of the banks of the Rhine in the south of the city center: Fort Malakoff Park, Hyatt Hotel, DB Cargo Center
  • Protection of the monument zone " Southeast Old Town ". Secular and ecclesiastical buildings illustrate the city's history from the early Middle Ages to the 19th century
1997
  • Protection of the monument zone “Kästrich 9-47” along the medieval city wall

Fast night

You can see him year after year as a fast night at the Rose Monday procession in the infantry of the Weisenau Burggrafengarde.

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vereintes Mainz eV ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.akk-mainz.de
  2. ↑ Presentation of the board on the homepage of the local association
personal data
SURNAME Weyel, Herman-Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Lord Mayor of Mainz (1987–1997)
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Prenzlau