Beate Weber-Schuerholz

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Beate Weber (2006)

Beate Weber-Schuerholz (born December 12, 1943 in Reichenberg ) is a German teacher and politician ( SPD ). As Beate Weber , she was a member of the European Parliament from the 1979 European elections until 1990 , also as chair of the committee for environmental issues, health and consumer protection . Afterwards she was mayor of her hometown Heidelberg for sixteen years (1990-2006).

Life

Weber was born in Reichenberg ( Reichsgau Sudetenland , now the Czech Republic ) in 1943 and spent her childhood in Heidelberg and school in Mülheim, Essen and Dortmund. From 1963 to 1966 she studied Russian and English at the Interpreting Institute of Heidelberg University , then until 1968 English and sociology at the Heidelberg University of Education . From 1968 to 1979 she worked as a primary and secondary school teacher at the International Comprehensive School in Heidelberg and at the Waldparkschule Heidelberg . She is divorced and has a daughter. In 2012 she married again and took the name Weber-Schuerholz.

politics

Weber has been a member of the SPD since 1970. From 1975 to 1985 she was a member of the Heidelberg City Council . In the first elections to the European Parliament in 1979 she ran on the list of the SPD and was a member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1990 , where she was deputy chairman from 1979 to 1984 and chairwoman of the committee on environmental issues, health and safety from 1984 to 1989 Consumer protection officiated. In 1990, the Heidelberg team elected Beate Weber Mayor. She was the first woman in this position in Baden-Württemberg. In 1998 she was re-elected, in 2006 she no longer stood for election. From 1975 to 2001 she was a member and deputy chairwoman of the Federal Party Council of the SPD and from 1994 to 2002 she was state chairwoman of the Social Democratic Community for Local Politics (SGK) of Baden-Württemberg. In 1998 she was even traded as a possible candidate for the federal presidency at short notice .

Environment Committee of the European Parliament

When she was elected to the European Parliament, she became Vice-Chair of the Committee on the Environment, Health and Consumer Protection. She criticized among other things they think about lax handling Germany with dioxin-containing pesticides . In 1984 she took over the chairmanship. When the Council of the European Union discussed catalytic converters and emissions values for cars in 1985 , they wrote to request participation in the discussion. After that request was denied, she decided to go-in but was kicked out. When in 1987 the reduction of the emission of gases that were blamed for the ozone hole was discussed, the environment ministers blocked a corresponding decision. Beate Weber said that this decision was "no longer rationally comprehensible." Whenever an environmental problem cannot be solved nationally, the EC system prevents international solutions. In 1990 she described the European Environment Agency as a "pure alibi event" in the discussion about environmental pollution in the Eastern European countries . When she left parliament before the end of the legislative period because of the election success in Heidelberg, she sued parliament for payment of a transitional allowance .

Lord Mayor of Heidelberg

During her term of office, the establishment of local community offices (town hall branches) and a framework plan with strong citizen participation for the city and all city districts fall. Weber campaigned for the expansion of local public transport in the city (trams, night buses and women's night taxi system) and the region (S-Bahn Rhein-Neckar from 2003) as well as cycling lanes on main roads. During her term of office, the introduction of a semester ticket for students from 1993 also fell. The new construction of the tram line in the Kirchheim district , which opened in 2006, was highly controversial .

Shortly after taking office in 1991, the old bell foundry - until then an artist's studio - was given to the alternative Heidelberg groups for temporary use until an investor was found for the site. In 1997 Weber promised that the city would provide a replacement if the bell foundry gave way to a new building. From 1995, the Heidelberg groups had access to the former “ Karlstorbahnhof ” station , which Weber had been campaigning for conversion into a cultural center since taking office. After the bell foundry was cleared and demolished in 1999 and the new buildings only built three years later, the city and representatives of the “Autonomous Center” could not agree on any alternative. Since then, AZ representatives have accused Weber of having broken their promise of “no eviction without replacement”. The city, on the other hand, criticized the AZ representatives for having too high demands. In addition, demonstrations with squatting for a new AZ led to many Heidelberg residents being against a new AZ.

During her tenure, Weber also pushed the expansion of childcare, senior and youth work, schools and education. Even the bourgeois opposition in the local council praised their projects in the areas of environmental and climate protection, sustainability and culture. In 2007 she was awarded the German Environment Prize for her commitment to environmental policy. In addition, in 1991 and 1992 Heidelberg concluded three further city partnerships with Bautzen , Simferopol ( Ukraine ) and Kumamoto ( Japan ).

However, Weber's attempts to put the historic old indoor swimming pool closed since 1981 were unsuccessful . The plans for a large cinema, a cultural center or a reopening as a swimming pool were not implemented. The construction of a new Heidelberg district called Bahnstadt , decided by the municipal council, could no longer be started due to delays in financial planning during her term of office, although the move in of the first residents of Bahnstadt was planned for the turn of the year 2006/2007. At the instigation of Weber, the city of Heidelberg tried since 1996 to the World Heritage List of UNESCO to come. This project failed in the run-up to 2005 and 2007, only to be finally given up in 2008.

Further projects were planned during her term of office, but not yet implemented. This concerns the “city on the river”, a traffic-calmed bank promenade on the Neckar, which failed mainly because of the question of whether it could be implemented with or without a car tunnel. The construction of the tram to Neuenheimer Feld was delayed due to massive resistance from the university. Weber also wanted a congress center at the main train station, while other politicians preferred the extension of the town hall. The latter was rejected by a majority of voters in a referendum in 2009. The city theater had to be temporarily closed in 2006 because of dilapidation, and in March 2008 the winners of the architectural competition were announced.

Memberships

Awards

literature

  • Beate Weber: In the roots of democracy. Selected speeches by a female mayor 1990–2006. Mattes, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-930978-99-1 .
  • Ilona Scheidle: Heidelberg women who made history. Portraits of women from five centuries. Verlag Diederichs, Kreuzlingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-7205-2850-4 , pp. 168-185.
  • Karl-Horst Möhl: "Die Rote Beate" - 100 caricatures. Beate Weber - 16 years mayor in Heidelberg, we are saving our theater from the sketchbook by Karl-Horst Möhl , Baier, Heidelberg [2006], ISBN 978-3-9810122-7-9 .
  • Ina Hochreuther: Women in Parliament. Southwest German delegates since 1919. Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-1012-8 , pp. 232-233.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c CV on beate-weber.de, accessed on October 5, 2011
  2. ↑ NOKZEIT April 29, 2012
  3. ↑ a b "She says what she wants and she does what she says". Ex-Mayor Beate Weber-Schuerholz has been an honorary citizen since yesterday . Rhein Neckar Zeitung , May 21, 2012.
  4. ↑ Woman for Rau? In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 1998 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Marion Schreiber: Striking, this parallel with Seveso . In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , 1984 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Marion Schreiber: For them I don't exist at all . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1986 ( online ).
  7. ↑ Marked cards . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1987 ( online ).
  8. ↑ Pure alibi . In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , 1990 ( online ).
  9. ^ Opinion of Advocate General Walter van Gerven of January 13, 1993; Retrieved October 5, 2011
  10. ↑ Lord Mayor Beate Weber ended her 16-year term of office in Heidelberg  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release of the City of Heidelberg from August 3, 2007@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.heidelberg.de  
  11. ↑ Does Heidelberg need a culture station? , Student newspaper ruprecht, issue 43, p. 2, from July 4, 1996
  12. ^ Chronicle of the Autonomous Center Heidelberg
  13. ↑ It's all piecemeal . In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 1995 ( online ).
  14. ↑ Summary of Weber's term of office by CDU councilor Jan Gradel (CDU), December 16, 2006  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 29 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.cdu-fraktion-hd.de  
  15. ↑ Environmental protection, economy and less bureaucracy can go hand in hand . Homepage of the German Federal Environment Foundation
  16. ↑ Development of the partnership with Bautzen.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Homepage of the City of Heidelberg, as of November 22, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.heidelberg.de  
  17. ↑ Development of the partnership with Simferopol.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Homepage of the City of Heidelberg, as of March 9, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.heidelberg.de  
  18. ↑ Development of the partnership with Kumamoto.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Homepage of the City of Heidelberg, as of July 20, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.heidelberg.de  
  19. ↑ UNESCO World Heritage List - Disappointment in Heidelberg over rejection.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release from the City of Heidelberg, June 29, 2007@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.heidelberg.de  
  20. ↑ Press release of the City of Heidelberg from March 11, 2008: Convincing ideas for the renovation of the Heidelberg Theater  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.heidelberg.de  
  21. ↑ stiftung-oekologie-u-demokratie.de
  22. ↑ Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dbu.de
  23. ↑ Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Finance and Economics April 28, 2012  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.baden-wuerttemberg.de  
  24. ↑ Honorary citizenship for Beate Weber-Schuerholz , www.heidelberg.de, website of the City of Heidelberg, accessed on February 12, 2019.
  25. ↑ Gothenburg Award for Sustainable Development for Beate Weber-Schuerholz , website of the Association for Ecological Economy , accessed on May 11, 2015.
  26. ↑ 2015 - Beate Weber-Schuerholz , winwingothenburgaward.com, accessed on February 12, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Weber-Schuerholz, Beate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weber, Beate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MEP, Lord Mayor of Heidelberg
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenberg