Alfred Gomolka

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Alfred Gomolka (born July 21, 1942 in Breslau ; † March 24, 2020 in Loitz ) was a German politician ( CDU ). From 1990 to 1992 he was the first Prime Minister of the newly founded state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in Eisenach in 1960 , Gomolka studied geography and German in Greifswald until 1964 . In 1965 he passed his examination to become a qualified geographer. He worked as a teacher in Sollstedt for a year and worked from 1967 to 1979 as a research assistant at the Geography Institute of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald . In 1971 he received his doctorate (dissertation A) with the work investigations into the coastal conditions and the coastal dynamics of the Greifswalder Bodden and finally in 1988 his habilitation (dissertation B) with the work investigations on geomorphological changes on lagoon coasts in the last three centuries with special consideration of the Greifswald Bodden .

From 1979 to 1983 Gomolka was City Councilor for Environmental Protection and Water Management at the City Council of Greifswald and until 1984 City Councilor for Housing Policy . From 1985 he was again assistant, from 1989 lecturer for physical geography at the University of Greifswald.

From 1992 until his retirement in 2007 he was professor for regional planning and cultural studies at the University of Greifswald. His hydrographic reports on the coastal conditions in the Greifswalder Bodden are still used today, for example for the construction of the Nord Stream pipeline in Lubmin . In the fishing port of Freest on the Peenestrom there is a large display board with the results of his scientific research work on the coastal conditions on the island of Ruden .

Alfred Gomolka was married and had four children.

Political party

Candidate poster for the state election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 1990

In 1960 Alfred Gomolka became a member of the GDR CDU . In 1968, he came out again, but in 1971 again a member of the GDR - Block Party . From 1974 to 1984 he was a member of the Greifswald CDU district executive. After the political change in 1989, he was district chairman of the CDU in Greifswald from February to November 1990 and again from 1992 to 2001. For a long time he was also a member of the CDU state executive committee for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

On November 24th, 2009 Gomolka was elected chairman of the Seniors' Union Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. On March 4, 2015, Gomolka handed over the office to Helga Karp. Since then, Gomolka has been honorary chairman of the Seniors' Union Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

MP

Alfred Gomolka was a member of the 10th People's Chamber of the GDR (April 5 to October 2, 1990), which was determined by free election for the first time. He was then a member of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament in its first electoral term (October 26, 1990 to November 14, 1994).

Gomolka was a member of the European Parliament from July 19, 1994 to July 13, 2009 . As a CDU member, he belonged to the EPP-ED group . He headed the "Delegation for relations with Latvia " or the "Delegation in the EU - Latvia Joint Parliamentary Committee". This European Parliament working group examined and ultimately approved Latvia's application for membership of the European Union . After Latvian accession to the EU, Gomolka was awarded the Three Star Order in 2007 , Latvia's highest honor for foreign citizens.

Prime Minister

First visit of Prime Minister Alfred Gomolka to Hamburg's First Mayor Henning Voscherau

After the first state election in the restored state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on October 14, 1990, a coalition of CDU and FDP was formed . On October 27, 1990, Alfred Gomolka was elected the first Prime Minister of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania by the state parliament with 36 votes against 29 votes and with one abstention . On November 1, 1991, he took up the post of President of the Federal Council ; the new federal states were thus included in the traditional rotation of the Federal Council presidency in accordance with the Königstein Agreement . However, Gomolka's presidency ended prematurely when he left the state government on March 19, 1992.

At the beginning of 1992, Gomolka came under pressure in the so-called shipyard crisis surrounding the sale of the former GDR shipbuilding combine to Bremer Vulkan AG. Gomolka was the only German politician to oppose the complete sale of the East German shipbuilding combine to the Bremen company because he feared that the productive shipbuilding industry would be sold off in favor of West German competition. The state chairman of the CDU Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Federal Minister of Transport Günther Krause succeeded in replacing the Prime Minister who was reluctant to sell. The situation came to a head when Gomolka dismissed the Minister for Justice, Federal and European Affairs Ulrich Born (CDU) from his office on March 13, 1992 because of “disloyalty”. Thereupon the CDU parliamentary group, led by its chairman Eckhardt Rehberg, withdrew his trust. On March 16, 1992 Gomolka announced his resignation from the office of Prime Minister, on March 19 the previous Secretary General of the CDU Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Berndt Seite, was elected by the state parliament as his successor.

Bremer Vulkan AG was awarded the contract for the East German shipyards immediately after Gomolka's end of office as Prime Minister with the blessing of the Federal Government and the Treuhandanstalt . Until it went bankrupt in 1996, it illegally diverted EUR 350 million in EU funds to the West German shipyards that were intended for the East German shipyards.

Social offices

Alfred Gomolka was Vice President of the Paneuropean Union Germany. Until 2009 he was also chairman of the German Baltic Sea Coast Protection Association. V. He was also chairman of the ITER Förderverband Region Greifswald e. V. , who implemented the site application for the former Lubmin nuclear power plant near Greifswald for the ITER fusion research reactor . After Prime Minister Harald Ringstorff (SPD) had not forwarded the completed application and Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD) withdrew his predecessor Helmut Kohl (CDU )’s promise to support the application in 2003 , the association was dissolved. Only a few years later, the landing station for the Nord Stream pipeline of the Russian energy company Gazprom was built at the site of the planned ITER in Lubmin . Indications that Gerhard Schröder had withdrawn the ITER site application in view of his later work for Gazprom and Nord Stream could not be substantiated.

literature

See also

Web links

Commons : Alfred Gomolka  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Prime Minister Alfred Gomolka has passed away. Retrieved March 25, 2020 .
  2. ^ Ex-MV Prime Minister Alfred Gomolka has died. Retrieved March 25, 2020 .
  3. ^ Reinhard Schreiner: Names and dates from six decades of party work. (PDF; 1.6 MB) The chairmen and managing directors of the CDU state, district and district associations since 1945 (new states from 1990). Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Scientific Services, Archive for Christian Democratic Politics, 2012, p. 153 , accessed on June 16, 2016 .
  4. ^ Election and promise of the Prime Minister. (PDF; 385 kB) In: Plenary minutes 1/2. State Parliament Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, October 27, 1990, pp. 31–33 , accessed on June 16, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Krause against Gomolka . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 1992, pp. 16 ( online ).
  6. ↑ "You have to hit it" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 1992, pp. 135-136 ( online ).
  7. ↑ Communications from the President; Election and pledge of the new Prime Minister. (PDF; 1.7 MB) In: Minutes of the plenary 1/46. State Parliament Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, March 19, 1992, pp. 2337-2341 , accessed on June 16, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Site report for the ITER application Greifswald Lubmin. (PDF; 2 MB) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on June 16, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Gomolka, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdVK, MdL, MdEP, Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 2020
Place of death Loitz