Andreas Pollak (politician)

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Andreas Franz Pollak (born January 5, 1960 in Karlsruhe ) is a German politician and former member of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party . From 1994 to 1999 he was a member of the Saarland state parliament .

Life and work

Pollak graduated from high school in 1980. This was followed by a degree in business administration and business informatics in Karlsruhe and Hagen . He then went on to study human medicine in Saarbrücken and Homburg . He passed his medical state examination and doctorate in 1993. Through his job he became a delegate in the Saarland Medical Association and spokesman for the list “ AiP and young doctors”. He is married to the politician Barbara Spaniol .

Political activity

In 1985 he joined the party Die Grünen and from 1990 was its spokesman in the Homburg city council. He resigned from the city council on June 29, 2006.

He belonged within the party as a member of the Saarpfalz district executive and the state executive. He was also the parliamentary manager of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group in the Saarland state parliament. On October 16, 1994 he was elected to the Saarland state parliament. There he held the office as third secretary.

Prison sentences and scandals

After scandals, Pollak left active politics and eventually the Greens. In the internal party disputes he still played a role, since his wife Spaniol was a member of the state parliament of the Greens.

During his time as a member of the state parliament, Pollak was accused of stealing three bath mats in a hardware store. Investigations into theft were closed in 1997 against payment of a sum of DM 10,000. When the press worked through this case, it turned out that Pollak had to serve a four-year prison sentence for fraud in the early 1980s. However, he kept this from the party when he was nominated as a member of the state parliament, which after it became known, led to a falling out with party chairman Hubert Ulrich and to a subsequent party expulsion procedure . In 1998 he was asked to resign his mandate by 37 votes to five. Pollak refused this. However, he evaded the process of elimination through his voluntary resignation from the party. In the 1999 state elections, the Greens, under the new leadership of Christian Molitor, after party chairman Hubert Ulrich had also resigned due to a scandal, were not re-elected to the state parliament with only 3.2% of the vote.

This rift and its consequences were later, after Spaniol's conversion to the left and the state elections in 2009 , one of the reasons for the failure of a planned coalition with the SPD and the left. Ulrich made reservations about working with the Left, mainly because two of the Left MPs, Barbara Spaniol and Ralf Georgi , were "externally controlled" by Pollak.

In May 2011, Pollak, whose license to practice as a doctor was suspended until February 24, 2015, was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison by judgment of the Saarbrücken regional court. He was found guilty of having "billed medical services not provided in numerous cases at the expense of the health insurances and thus caused a loss of approx. 400,000 euros". The defense, which had demanded acquittal, announced a revision before the BGH in Karlsruhe. In July 2012, the Federal Court of Justice confirmed the judgment of the Saarbrücken Regional Court, so that Pollak had to go to prison on August 27, 2012, from which he was released on July 28, 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Simone Kaiser: Red warning lights . In: Der Spiegel . No. 35 , 2007, p. 44 ( online - August 27, 2007 ).
  2. ↑ homburg.de , accessed on August 5, 2009
  3. ^ Minutes of the state parliament of the first session of the 11th electoral period , accessed on August 5, 2009
  4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of December 7, 1998 , accessed on August 5, 2009
  5. ↑ Der Spiegel of September 8, 1999 , accessed on August 5, 2009
  6. ↑ a b Saar-Grüne: The vote of confidence , Tagesspiegel, October 19, 2009
  7. ↑ sueddeutsche.de : “The problem is the left” , May 17, 2010.
  8. ^ The green tank , Der Spiegel, September 7, 2009
  9. ↑ The doctor should be jailed for over three years ( memento from June 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Saarbrücker Zeitung
  10. ↑ Pollak now in custody; Doctors newspaper, August 27, 2012 ( Memento from October 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Pollak, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pollak, Andreas Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH 5th January 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe