Bernadette Weyland

Bernadette Weyland (2017)

Bernadette Weyland (born October 29, 1957 in Münster ) is a German politician ( CDU ). From January 2014 to August 2017 she was State Secretary in the Hessian Ministry of Finance .

After graduating from high school in 1978, Weyland completed an apprenticeship as a bank clerk at the Stadtsparkasse Münster. In 1980 she began studying law at the University of Freiburg , which she completed in 1985 with the first state examination. After completing her legal preparatory service , she passed the second state examination in 1988 . In 1989, she was in Freiburg with a thesis on the coexistence of Erbscheinverfahren and streitigem method for doctor of law doctorate . After working as a freelancer for a law firm and a stay in the USA, she took on a teaching position at the Sparkassenakademie in Frankfurt am Main .

In 1996 Weyland joined the CDU Frankfurt am Main. Until 2006 she was a member of the local advisory board and head of the local advisory board 6. The local council 6 is the district parliament for a total of nine Frankfurt districts, which comprise the most populous area of ​​a local parliament (more than 100,000 inhabitants). Weyland has been a member of the CDU district executive since 2006.

Also from 2006 onwards she was city ​​councilor in Frankfurt am Main and from 2007 chairwoman of the committee for education and integration. From 2011 to 2014, Bernadette Weyland was the head of the city ​​council of Frankfurt am Main and thus “First Citizen of the City”.

Since January 19, 2014, she has been State Secretary in the Hessian Ministry of Finance. At the end of August 2017, she gave up the office to run as a candidate for the CDU in the mayoral election in Frankfurt am Main in 2018 . For this, she had her temporary retirement , which resulted in the start of the payment of a lifelong pension - in her case of 7,400 euros per month. Several media reported on the case and constitutional lawyers Ulrich Battis and Hans Herbert von Arnim see it as a violation of the law. Weyland believes this approach is harmless and announced that it would donate her civil servant pension to children with cancer during the election campaign.

In the first round of the mayor election on February 25, 2018, she achieved second place with 25.4 percent, behind the SPD candidate Peter Feldmann (46.0 percent). In the second ballot on March 11, 2018, she received 29.2% of the votes cast and was thus defeated by Feldmann, who received 70.8% of the votes.

Weyland is married. The couple have four children together.

Web links

Commons : Bernadette Weyland  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bernadette Weyland's CV on the website of the Hessian Ministry of Finance
• Bernadette Weyland's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Large majority for Weyland on faz. net; Retrieved April 28, 2017.
2. ↑ The golden handshake - broadcast from Report Mainz; accessed on February 23, 2018.
3. ↑ The Golden Handshake - How Political Officials Benefit from Temporary Retirement from Report Mainz; accessed on February 23, 2018.
4. ↑ Weyland justifies controversial retirement regulation ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on hr-online; accessed on February 13, 2018. 
5. ↑ Direct election 2018 in Frankfurt am Main. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 26, 2018 ; accessed on March 1, 2018 . 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.  
6. ^ Anja Laud / Sandra Busch / Götz Nawroth: Mayor election in Frankfurt: Peter Feldmann remains Mayor in Frankfurt. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . March 11, 2018, accessed March 11, 2018 .