Andy Grote

Andy Grote (2018)

Andy Grote (born June 14, 1968 in Erpen ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From April 2012 to January 2016 he was the district manager of Hamburg-Mitte and has been Hamburg’s Senator for Interior and Sports since January 20, 2016 , first in Senate Scholz II , then in Senate Tschentscher I and II .

Life and work

Grote grew up in Büsum , where his father was in charge of the spa administration. After graduating from high school, he was a temporary soldier in the Navy and - according to his own statements - was stationed on the destroyer Hessen in Wilhelmshaven . From 1990 to 1996 he studied law at the University of Hamburg . Between 1997 and 1999 he completed various positions in Hamburg and Washington, DC as part of his legal clerkship. Grote was assistant to the former Hamburg MP Ingo Kleist, who was assigned to the right wing of the party . In the years 2000/01 he was a scientific advisor for federal and European affairs in the authority for building and transport under Senator Eugen Wagner . From 2002 until his election as District Office Manager for Hamburg-Mitte in 2012, he worked as an independent lawyer, and from 2004 as a partner in the law firm Bernzen Sonntag Rechtsanwälte . His focus was on administrative law, public procurement law and social work law.

Grote is a member of the Übersee-Club e. V. Hamburg, the Europa Union and FC St. Pauli .

politics

District MP

At the age of 28 he joined the SPD, where he is a member of the St. Pauli-Süd district. From 1997 to 2001 he was a deputy in the authority for urban development and from 2002 a member of the Hamburg-Mitte district assembly . From 2004 to 2008 he took over the chairmanship of the SPD parliamentary group and was a. Member of the main committee and the urban planning committee.

Citizenship MP

In February 2008, Andy Grote moved in the state election in the constituency Hamburg-Mitte as a directly elected representative in the Hamburg Parliament one. In the Hamburg state election, 2011 he was able to defend his constituency mandate. He was the spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group for urban development . Due to his election as district manager of Hamburg-Mitte, Grote had to resign from his citizenship mandate in May 2012, when Loretana de Libero succeeded him in the citizenship.

District Head of Hamburg-Mitte

On April 26, 2012 Andy Grote was proposed by the district assembly Hamburg-Mitte as district office manager of Hamburg-Mitte. He had 33 votes in favor and 13 against. The coalition of the SPD and the Greens that supported it had 28 votes in the district assembly. Andy Grote took over the office of District Office Manager from Markus Schreiber , who resigned on February 10, 2012. Before his election, he promised to work for a lasting benefit from the Hamburg International Building Exhibition and for the improvement of youth welfare. After 37 weeks in office, Grote said he had initiated an extensive restructuring of the youth welfare office in Hamburg-Mitte. The Yağmur case , in which a child died under the protection of the youth welfare office in the Mitte district, falls during his term of office. A parliamentary committee of inquiry of the citizenship found deficits in the youth welfare system of the city of Hamburg.

senator

Grote was appointed as his successor on January 18, 2016 after Michael Neumann's resignation from the office of Interior and Sports Senator and was confirmed by the citizenship on January 20, 2016. The 73 of 118 votes that went to Grote corresponded to the red-green majority in the state parliament during the Senate Scholz II . In his first 100 days in office, Grote increased the shift work allowance for police officers and, with Justice Senator Till Steffen ( The Greens ), initiated the abolition of danger areas in police law. In 2016, he lifted the senatorial regulation that had been in force since 2008 , according to which refugees from Afghanistan in Hamburg received a residence permit without checking on a case-by-case basis.

After Peter Tschentscher was elected First Mayor, Grote has held the post of Interior and Sports Senator in the Tschentscher I Senate since March 28, 2018, and in the Tschentscher II Senate since June 10, 2020 .

attack

In an attack on Grote, who was chauffeured in the car by a bodyguard as a Senator for the Interior, on December 13, 2019, autonomous people attacked the car on Simon-Von-Utrecht-Strasse and the corner of Hein-Hoyer-Strasse and threw stones and bags of paint at it . The violent perpetrators also met a completely uninvolved road user in a BMW. Grote had wanted to take his two-year-old son to daycare. Nobody was hurt. The State Security Department subsequently initiated an investigation.

Corona party affair

Immediately after his re-appointment as interior minister in June 2020 fell Grote in criticism because in he club in the Port City despite the force at that time in Hamburg restrictions and prohibitions for celebrations during the COVID-19 pandemic a private party ( " Corona Party “) Celebrated on the occasion of his confirmation and only apologized afterwards when asked. The CDU , the Left and AfD therefore demanded Grotes' immediate resignation . The responsible fines office in Hamburg initiated proceedings against Grote because of possible violations of the rules . In August 2020, the authorities found that Senator for the Interior Grote had violated the Corona Containment Ordinance of the Senate, of which he was a member, and that he had organized a "prohibited private gathering" with his standing reception, which is why he was fined 1,000 euros was imposed. Grote said he had transferred the money promptly and acknowledged his guilt . He refused to resign. The CDU then demanded Grote's dismissal by First Mayor Peter Tschentscher (SPD). Since Grote had deceived Hamburgers for weeks and was not ready to take responsibility, other consequences would now have to be drawn in order to avert further damage to the Senate , politics as a whole and the decisive fight against the corona virus. Tschentscher did not comply with this demand and left Grote in office.

Based on Grote's “Corona Party” affair , the term “groten” established itself in the Hamburg party scene for holding celebrations while ignoring all distance requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic. Grote was also referred to in public as “Hamburg's Party Senator”.

Controversial house search for insult

In September 2021, Grote again came into the focus of a public discussion after the Hamburg police carried out a house search in an apartment in the St. Pauli district at 6 a.m. in order to secure possible storage media such as the smartphone of a resident registered there allegedly offended on Twitter . The starting point was his own tweet Grotes in May 2021, in which he accused the celebrating masses in the Schanzenviertel , who had violated the Corona distance rules, “ignorance” and “stupid action”. Among them, the accused had labeled Grote in a comment as " dick ". Due to a later filed criminal complaint by Grote, an investigation into the insult was triggered, including the house search by six officers. In public, the proportionality of these police measures was also questioned because of Grote's own violations of corona rules and his refusal to publicly admit them despite the fine , especially since the accused had already admitted to operating the Twitter account in question at a police summons, and he had been promised a discontinuation of the proceedings on the grounds of triviality . The entire incident came to be known as the so-called “dick gate ” or “ dick affair”.

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• Andy Grote on parliamentwatch.de

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Rundblick: parliamentary group elects the executive committee of the Hamburger Abendblatt dated June 24, 1991
3. ↑ ^{a b} Arnd Hemken: Andy Grote is the new boss in Mitte. hamburg.de GmbH & Co. KG, April 26, 2012, archived from the original on July 24, 2013 ; Retrieved May 12, 2013 . 
4. ^ The cable car, a pain for the Hamburg SPD , Hamburger Abendblatt
5. ↑ Office of the State Returning Officer, 2008: Elected in WK 1 (PDF; 13 kB)
6. ↑ Lena Kaiser: District Office Manager candidate Andy Grote - "Totally flattering". taz.de, April 4, 2012, accessed on May 12, 2013 . 
7. ↑ Marco Thielcke: In the Middle Kingdom. (No longer available online.) Hamburger Wochenblatt, January 16, 2013, archived from the original on February 25, 2013 ; Retrieved May 12, 2013 . 
8. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/article131467860/Grote-gibt-im-Fall-Yagmur-Versaeumnisse-des-Jugendamtes-zu.html .
9. ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/weltspiegel/der-fall-der-dreijaehrigen-yagmur-in-hamburg-untersuchungsausschuss-sICHT-verkettung-von-versaeumektiven/11145100.html .
10. ↑ Citizenship confirms Senator for the Interior Grote . NDR . January 20, 2016. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
11. ↑ Senator rule, tolerance or deportation on Deutschlandfunk
12. ^ Attack on the car by Interior Senator Grote , NDR, December 13, 2019. Retrieved December 14, 2019.
13. ↑ Celebration allegations: Grote also apologizes to the Senate , Norddeutscher Rundfunk, accessed on June 24, 2020
14. ↑ Corona fine for Interior Senator Grote , Norddeutscher Rundfunk, accessed on August 5, 2020
15. ↑ Fine against Hamburg's Senator for the Interior: Partying now go “groten” , TAZ, accessed on August 8, 2020
16. ↑ City Hall internal , BILD, accessed on August 8, 2020
17. ↑ "Pimmelgate" Hamburg's interior minister insulted - house search , Spiegel Online, accessed on September 9 2021st
18. ↑ Hamburg: House search after insulting Interior Senator Andy Grote (SPD) - debate about proportionality flared up , Deutschlandfunk, accessed on September 9, 2021.
19. ↑ Twitter user insults Hamburg's Senator for the Interior - Police house search , Die Welt, accessed on September 9, 2021
20. ↑ Pimmel affair: Andy Grote offended on Twitter - Shitstorm after raid , Hamburger Abendblatt, accessed on September 9, 2021.
21. ↑ "Pimmel Gate": Twitter user insults Senator of the Interior - House search! , Hamburger Morgenpost, accessed on September 9, 2021.
22. ^ House search because of a tweet: Andy Grote doesn't want to be a dick , TAZ, accessed on September 9, 2021.
23. ↑ Grote offended on Twitter: Trouble about a search , NDR, accessed on September 9, 2021.
24. ↑ Twitter Photo of the search warrant , Twitter, accessed on September 8 2021st