Andreas Hollstein

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Andreas Hollstein (2017)

Andreas Hollstein (born May 6, 1963 in Altena ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and has been the mayor of the Westphalian city ​​of Altena since 1999 . In the 2020 local elections , he will run as a CDU candidate for the office of Lord Mayor in Dortmund .

Life

Origin and professional career

Andreas Hollstein was born on May 6, 1963 in Altena, in the Sauerland , and grew up there. After graduating from high school in Altena, he did military service until 1984 and then studied law at the University of Bonn . In 1990 he passed his first state examination in law at the Cologne Higher Regional Court and was then from 1991 to 1994 trainee lawyer at the Hamm Higher Regional Court . This was followed by the 2nd state examination in law. In 1999 he received his doctorate in law from the Distance University in Hagen . Doctoral supervisor was the Greek socialist Dimitris Tsatsos .

After completing his studies, he was Head of the Politics, Protocol and Culture Department at the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Bonn from 1993 to 1994 . From 1994 Hollstein was also the honorary deputy mayor of Altena. From 1995 to 1999 he was a research assistant to the Bundestag member Wolfgang Lohmann (CDU) in the Bundestag and there also speaker of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group for  social assistance and the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act .

Mayor of Altena (1999 to 2020)

In 1999 Hollstein was elected full-time mayor of his hometown for the first time and was later confirmed in office several times. Furthermore, he was also active in the management of Stadtwerke Altena. In 2019, Hollstein announced that he would not run again in the 2020 mayoral election in Altena. He will leave office in autumn 2020.

Mayor candidate in Dortmund (2020)

In November 2019 it was announced that Hollstein as a candidate of the CDU for the office of mayor in Dortmund candidate.

Private

Hollstein managed the table tennis Bundesliga team of TTC Altena (today VfB Altena) on a voluntary basis and was also a youth coach there.

Hollstein is married and has four children. From 2013 to the end of January 2018 he was President of the Sauerland Mountain Association (SGV).

attack

Hollstein was attacked on the evening of November 27, 2017 at around 8 p.m. in a kebab shop in Altena. The 56-year-old perpetrator put a knife about 30 centimeters long against Hollstein's neck and injured him there. The owner of the shop and his son overpowered the drunk attacker, who had loudly disparaged Hollstein's liberal refugee policy. Andreas Hollstein was taken to the hospital in an ambulance, but was soon released again. "I had hands-on people by my side and I am glad that I am still alive," said Hollstein on the same day on the news site "Lokalstimme.de".

In an initial statement, the investigating authorities considered a political motive to be likely.

On March 21, 2018, the public prosecutor brought charges against the alleged perpetrator. The District Court Hagen sentenced the perpetrators on 11 June 2018 for aggravated assault and kidnapping with a threat to two years' imprisonment , which the probation was suspended.

politics

In October 2015, a firefighter and an accomplice in the Altena arson attack set fire to a house in which several migrant families lived. As a motive, the man stated that he was afraid of "break-ins, theft, acts of violence and also sexual assault" by the refugees. The district court of Hagen sentenced him to six years imprisonment for serious arson and his acquaintances to a five-year prison term.

Hollstein and his city administration initiated that the 18,000-inhabitant city of Altena in the Sauerland took in more refugees from 2015 than was prescribed by the municipal distribution quota. Hollstein is co-author of the book Mein Kampf - gegen Rechts , published in 2016 , in which eleven people report how they were confronted with right-wing extremist ideas and right-wing extremist violence from their position and how they stood up against it.

In an interview, Hollstein explains about the integration of refugees to be admitted:

“We have been using the concept for ourselves, for three or four years actually, that we no longer have any refugee homes, but only rented empty living space where we accommodate in residential groups. Since the beginning of last year the numbers have soared, we have only been accommodating people in decentralized apartments and not in apartments next to each other, so that in principle we are forcing the local population and those new to us to enter into a dialogue with one another and not avoid this dialogue because of the language. In our opinion, this does not create parallel societies , but rather we have to come to terms with one another. "

In May 2017, Altena received the National Integration Award 2017 from Chancellor Angela Merkel . "I think we will get Germany led into a good future - and it is colorful," said Hollstein at the time. In September 2018 he became the Europe Prize Winner of the UNHCR's Nansen Refugee Prize.

According to Hollstein's testimony, he repeatedly received death threats after the assassination attempt, including after the arrest of a suspected right-wing extremist in the course of the investigation into the murder of the Kassel District President Walter Lübcke in June 2019.

Web links

Commons : Andreas Hollstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Britta Bürger: Altena's mayor Andreas Hollstein - "I want a society in which protection is not necessary". (mp3 audio, 35.2 MB, 38:31 minutes) In: Deutschlandfunk-Kultur broadcast “Radiofeuilleton - In Conversation”. January 3, 2020, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Dr. Andreas Hollstein. In: der-demografiekongress.de. WISO Institute for Economic and Social Affairs GmbH, accessed on January 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b CV. (pdf, 14 kB) In: Altena.de. November 19, 2019, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Andreas Fasel: "Altena will not die". In: Welt am Sonntag . April 1, 2006, accessed September 10, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Lars Becker: "CDU Dortmund elects Andreas Hollstein as OB candidate". In: Westfälischer Anzeiger . November 26, 2019, accessed January 29, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Andreas Böhme: The rescuers from the kebab shop. In: waz.de . November 29, 2017. Retrieved November 29, 2017 .
  7. ^ A b Attack in kebab shop: Mayor of Altena attacked with knife. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . November 28, 2017, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  8. ↑ a b c Sauerland: knife attack on the mayor of Altena. In: Spiegel Online . November 27, 2017, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  9. ^ North Rhine-Westphalia: Charges after knife attack on Mayor of Altena. In: Zeit Online . March 21, 2018, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  10. ^ Rudi Pistilli: suspended sentence for Altena attack. In: ikz-online.de . June 12, 2018, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Christoph Heinemann: Mayor of Altena - "I can only pray that the Chancellor stays on course": Andreas Hollstein in conversation. In: Deutschlandfunk . February 26, 2016, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Kathryn Porteous, Shi Han Liu: Andreas Hollstein, Europe region finalist for the 2018 Nansen Refugee Award. In: unhcr.org. September 10, 2018, accessed January 5, 2020 . Josie Le Blond: German mayor sets example of how to welcome refugees: Andreas Hollstein and his town of Altena are the Europe finalists for UNHCR's annual Nansen Award. In: unhcr.org. September 10, 2018, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Michael Stempfle: After the murder of Lübcke: New death threats against politicians. In: Tagesschau.de . June 20, 2019, accessed January 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hollstein, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Altena