Reinhard Klektiven

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Reinhard Klektiven (2018)

Reinhard Klektiven (born August 16, 1942 in Berlin ) is a former German politician ( SPD ).

From 1998 to 1999 he was Prime Minister of the Saarland and from 1999 to 2000 Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Housing .

Life and work

Klimm grew up in Engter near Osnabrück. He graduated from the Ernst Moritz Arndt Grammar School in Osnabrück . There he trained as a cellist during his school days at the conservatory. After graduating from high school, he studied history at Saarland University .

Klimmen works as a book author and columnist in the field of literature. He is married and has three children and four grandchildren. He is a member of the PEN - Center for German-Speaking Authors Abroad and the Saarland Künstlerhaus.

Klimm has been collecting traditional African art for several decades and since 2002 has also increasingly appeared in public as a collector. His collection has been exhibited in various locations in Germany and most recently under the patronage of Gerhard Schröder in St. Petersburg , Russia. Critics allege that the collection contains copies and forgeries, which Klicht denies, citing scientific reports.

After that, the previously announced exhibitions of the objects in Prague and Luxembourg did not take place. In 2012, some of the objects were exhibited together with items from other lenders in Baden-Baden; it was expressly pointed out that the authenticity of the objects was not the central theme of the exhibition.

Political party

Klimmen has been a member of the SPD since 1964 and has held a large number of offices. Between 1970 and 1975 he was chairman of the Saarland Young Socialists , from 1976 to 1996 chairman of the Saarbrücken SPD. He was a member of the SPD party executive from 1991 to 2001. In 1990 he led the federal election campaign for Oskar Lafontaine .

He was a member of the party's media commission from 1979 to 2002, from 1986 he was its deputy chairman, from 1990 to 1999 chairman. He was also a member of the policy committee that developed the 2007 Hamburg program.

In 1996 he was elected as the successor to Oskar Lafontaine as the state chairman of the Saarland SPD . He resigned from this office in 2000 as a consequence of his resignation as Federal Transport Minister. Since 2008 he has been Vice President of the SaarLorLux -Internationale, an association of social democratic and socialist parties in Lorraine, Luxembourg, Wallonia, the German-speaking Community in Belgium , Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland.

MP

Reinhard Klimmen was a member of the Saarland state parliament for the SPD from 1975 to 1999 , and from 1985 to 1998 chairman of the parliamentary group of the SPD, which ruled with an absolute majority .

Between 1979 and 1982 he was deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. His focus was on education policy , especially vocational training and media policy . He was particularly interested in cross-border cooperation with France and Lorraine .

In the course of the red light affair around Oskar Lafontaine, connections from Klektiven in red light districts became known. He was in contact with the underworld great Hugo Lacour, who is convicted of armed robbery and murder. Der Spiegel reported that in 1989 Klimm wrote to "Dear Hugo" in an exchange of letters that he had spoken to Justice Minister Arno Walter about a murder trial against Lacour and that he wanted to keep Lacour up to date on the current state of affairs.

Public offices

In 1998 he became Prime Minister of Saarland after Oskar Lafontaine moved to Bonn as Federal Minister of Finance . He lost his office after the 1999 state election , in which the SPD lost five percentage points under him, but had missed the renewed absolute majority by just one seat, to the election winner Peter Müller ( CDU ).

Gerhard Schröder appointed him on September 29, 1999 as Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Housing to succeed Franz Müntefering in his cabinet.

On the evening of November 15, 2000, Klektiven resigned as Federal Transport Minister. Previously, the Trier district court had issued a penalty order in the amount of 90 daily rates (27,000 DM) for aiding and abetting infidelity , which he accepted. The penalty order was issued because of questionable financial transactions in the context of Klimmt's honorary work as president of the Saarland soccer club 1. FC Saarbrücken . The banks had granted the association an extension of the overused credit lines only on the condition that Klendet would become president of the association, which the association accepted, since otherwise the association would have had to go bankrupt. In the first few days of his tenure at 1. FC Saarbrücken, Klektiven signed sponsorship agreements with the Caritas company Trier , which his predecessor had negotiated . Klimmen later admitted that he had not checked the contracts sufficiently.

His successor in the office of Federal Minister of Transport was Kurt Bodewig , previously Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Transport.

In 2016, he was appointed to the ZDF television council as a representative from the public sector of art and culture in Saarland .

Honorary positions

Honors

Works (selection)

  • I live on this limit. The seven chapters of affection. Gollenstein, 2004, ISBN 3-935731-47-7 .
  • Everywhere and anywhere. From the world of books. Gollenstein, 2006, ISBN 3-938823-18-6 .
  • Habari Africa, beauty and magic in the art of Africa. Gollenstein, 2010, ISBN 978-3-938823-70-5 .
  • with Werner Matthias Ried: On the rails with the greater region. For a renaissance of the railway in SaarLorLux. Nomos, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8329-6064-3 .
  • with Herbert Günther: Die Molschder 1903 to 2003, 100 years of 1. FC Saarbrücken. 2003.
  • Soccer love. Aphid, 2015, ISBN 978-3-930771-98-1 .
  • Half five and whole guys, Saarland in the 50s. Emons, 2014, ISBN 978-3-95451-404-5 .
  • with Patrick Rössler: In rows. The paperbacks of the 1950s and their designers. 2 volumes. Achilla, Butjadingen / Hamburg / Saarbrücken 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-052234-5 .

See also

Web links

Commons : Reinhard Klektiven  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Weigand: The politician as a book lover. Reinhard Klektiven and his collections. In: From the Antiquarian Bookshop 5/1999, A269-A271; here A270
  2. ↑ Focus No. 28/2010, p. 62.
  3. ↑ http://osradio-podcast.de/2010/07/02/habari-afrika-werke-aus-der-sammlung-klektiven-einer-falschung-aufgesessen/  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: Der Link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / osradio-podcast.de  
  4. ^ Press release from the Museum for Art and Technology of the 19th Century, Baden-Baden. Retrieved February 6, 2018.
  5. ↑ a b c Announcement of the resignation of the Federal Minister of Transport. In: Eisenbahn-Revue International . Issue 12/2000, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 530.
  6. ^ ZDF television council members by sending organizations. Retrieved November 24, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Members of the television council by sending organization
  8. ^ State press conference Saar
personal data
SURNAME Climbs, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin