Mario Mettbach

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Mario Mettbach (born July 24, 1952 in Hamburg ) is a German politician who was active in various parties.

job

Mettbach, who comes from a Sinti family , worked as a forwarding agent in Hamburg until 1973 and then became a soldier, and from 1985 a professional officer . As part of his training as an officer in the military technical service , he was trained from 1980 to 1982 as a state-certified business economist at the Army College for Economics, Technology and Education in Darmstadt.

Political biography

He was a member of the CDU from 1980 to 1993 and of the STATT party from 1993 to 1998 , for which he was a member of the Wandsbek district assembly for four years until 1997 . In 2000 he co-founded the Rule of Law Offensive (PRO) party . For this he moved in October 2001 into the Hamburg citizenship ; on October 30, 2001, he became the new government's Senator for Construction and Transport . Mettbach was the first member of the Sinti ethnic group to hold a government office in Germany. The expansion of the HVV public transport to include continuous operation on weekends fell into his office .

In the spring of 2003, the PRO federal party conference elected him as its first federal chairman. After Ronald Schill's dismissal as Senator for the Interior and Deputy Mayor, Mayor Ole von Beust (CDU) appointed Mettbach as his deputy.

On December 6, 2003, he deposed the state chairman of Hamburg Ronald Schill on the basis of a decision by the federal executive committee and initiated a party expulsion procedure .

After the defeat of the rule of law offensive party in the state elections on February 29, 2004 , Mettbach left the rule of law offensive party, like almost all the top staff, and rejoined the now ruling CDU in March 2005.

After leaving politics

When his transitional allowance as a former senator ran out in April 2006 , Mettbach received a contract as a logistics consultant for the Hamburg Economic Development Corporation (HWF), in which the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg is a partner. In June 2006, the contract was canceled by mutual agreement because Mettbach had contacts with the investment entrepreneur Burim Osmani . A report by the BND had brought Osmani close to organized crime .

After Mettbach attempted suicide in Hamburg in early 2007, he withdrew to Thailand , where he was lost in 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sven-Michael Veit: The original in the shell. in: Daily newspaper from January 16, 2004 (accessed February 15, 2078).
  2. ↑ Martin Kopp, Katja Gerhartz: U-Bahn trains will soon also run at night. The world online . January 30, 2004, accessed August 27, 2017.
  3. ↑ Claudia Sewig: At the weekend, the HVV runs all night. Hamburger Abendblatt . December 7, 2004, accessed August 27, 2017.
  4. ^ Schill party before the split. The world online . December 9, 2003, accessed August 27, 2017.
  5. ↑ Were the blows of fate too much for the ex-senator? Mario Mettbach wanted to take his own life. Hamburger Morgenpost . January 6, 2007, accessed August 27, 2017.
  6. ^ Christian Kersting: Ex-Senator Mettbach at the end. Call for help from vacation paradise. December 30, 2008, accessed August 27, 2017.
  7. ↑ Julia Seifert: The short careers of the Schillians. October 31, 2011, accessed August 27, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Mettbach, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU, STATT party, Rule of Law Party, CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg