Andreas von Schoeler

Andreas von Schoeler, 1975

Andreas von Schoeler (born July 4, 1948 in Bad Homburg in front of the height ) is a German politician ( SPD , formerly FDP ) and manager.

From 1976 to 1982 he was Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of the Interior and from 1991 to 1995 Lord Mayor of Frankfurt am Main .

Life

Schoeler is a lawyer . After leaving the office of mayor of Frankfurt am Main, he left politics and went into the private sector. There he was managing director of the consulting firm CSC Deutschland Solutions GmbH from 2000 to 2006 , before that he was Business Development Director Government at Andersen Consulting . From September 2006 to 2015 he was a member of the supervisory board of CSC Deutschland Solutions GmbH.

Andreas von Schoeler has been married to broadcast journalist Ulrike Holler since 1977 . They have two sons together.

politics

Schoeler had been a member of the FDP since he was 18, but after the break of the social-liberal coalition in 1982 with other left-liberal party members, he left the FDP and switched to the SPD.

Schoeler was a member of the German Bundestag from 1972 to 1982 . From 1972 to 1976 he was a representative of the FDP parliamentary group in the special criminal law committee of the German Bundestag and fought for a liberal solution in the reform of Section 218 of the Criminal Code (abortion). On December 16, 1976, Schoeler was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of the Interior ( Werner Maihofer ) in the federal government led by Chancellor Helmut Schmidt . After the break of the social-liberal coalition , he left office on September 17, 1982. He left the FDP parliamentary group on November 23, 1982 and resigned his mandate on December 8, 1982. Until then, he had always been elected to the Bundestag via the FDP's Hesse state list . In the 1983 Bundestag election , his attempt to enter the Bundestag again via the SPD's list failed.

In 1984 he was appointed Secretary of State for the State of Hesse under Horst Winterstein in the Börner III cabinet . After the defeat in the early state elections in Hesse in 1987 , he left the ministry. After a short time as a member of the management of Sony Deutschland GmbH with responsibility for corporate communications, von Schoeler became head of human resources, legal and economic affairs in Frankfurt am Main in 1989. When there were increasing conflicts between the Frankfurt SPD and the mayor Volker Hauff in 1991 , Schoeler succeeded him on May 8th. He was the youngest Lord Mayor in Frankfurt's history.

As Lord Mayor, he kept the economic department and led Frankfurt's application campaign as a location for the future European Central Bank . As chairman of the supervisory board, he promoted the internationalization of Messe Frankfurt . During his term of office, new high-rise locations were identified through an update of the high-rise master plan, the establishment of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund prepared and the new drug policy initiated, which on the one hand focused on help for addicts and on the other hand on police measures to dissolve the open drug scene. In the early 1990s, he arranged for Frankfurt to be the first major German city to authorize a private network operator, the Colt company, to set up a private fiber-optic network in the city.

In 1993 there was a crisis in the red-green coalition, as four members of the city parliament refused to support the candidate for the office of the head of the transport department Lutz Sikorski (Greens). Back then, Schoeler spoke of “four pigs” in the coalition. In 1995 the red-green alliance broke up because four city councilors from the red-green coalition did not vote for the health department head Margarethe Nimsch (Greens). Schoeler was then voted out as Lord Mayor to clear the way for new elections, and lost in the upcoming first direct Mayor election in Frankfurt am Main with 45.9% to 51.9% of the votes against Petra Roth , who held office then held 17 years.

In 2009 Schoeler took over the chairmanship of the Society of Friends and Patrons of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt . This support association was activated under his leadership. Schoeler committed himself to the expansion of the museum and the renewal of its permanent exhibition. He called on citizens and businesses to make donations. By the beginning of 2020, citizens, companies and private foundations had donated a total of 6 million euros to the museum.

honors and awards

• 1995 Silver seal of honor from the Frankfurt am Main Jewish Community for "his active advocacy and work for reconciliation and understanding between Jews and Christians, between Germans and Israelis and for his commitment to the Jewish community in Frankfurt am Main"

literature

• Hilmar Hoffmann : Andreas von Schoeler. In: ders .: Frankfurt's Lord Mayor 1945–1995. A contribution to the cultural history of the city. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2012, pp. 510-547, ISBN 978-3-942921-89-3 .

See also

• Cabinet Schmidt II - Cabinet Schmidt III

Web links

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

• Literature by and about Andreas von Schoeler in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Die Welt, June 7, 1995 .