Bernward Rothe

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Bernward Rothe (* December 24, 1958 in Bonn ; † March 22, 2018 in Halle ) was a German lawyer and politician of the SPD , who was a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt from 1998 to 2016 and a member of the city council of Halle from 2014 to 2017 (Saale) was. He was the main initiator of the referendum to merge the federal states of Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia into " Central Germany ".

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1977, Rothe did his military service and became a non-commissioned officer in the reserve. From 1988 he was a trainee lawyer at the Cologne Higher Regional Court before becoming a member of the government council in 1991 for employment in the Halle district government . In 1996 Rothe became a senior councilor in the Merseburg Police Department . As a proponent of reducing the number of civil servants, Rothe was dismissed from civil servant status in 2010 at his own request and had been a lawyer since 2011.

Political party

In 1985 he joined the SPD. In 1994 he became chairman of the SPD local association Halle- Süd. From 2002 until the merger of the district associations in 2006, Rothe was chairman of the SPD district association Aschersleben-Staßfurt . From 2009 until the move to Halle (Saale) in 2013 he was chairman of the SPD local association Aschersleben and returned in 2016 as an assessor to the board of the SPD local association Halle-Süd.

MP

He represented the constituency of Aschersleben in the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt and was a member a. a. in the Committee on Home Affairs, the Committee on Petitions and the Committee on Legal Affairs, Constitution and Equality.

More membership and features

  • 1998 Chairman of the AWO district association Halle (Saale), most recently auditor
  • 2005 deputy chairman of the AWO -Landesverband Sachsen-Anhalt , most recently chairman of the arbitration commission

Restructuring of the federal territory

Rothe was committed to a reorganization of the federal territory. Specifically, he and Roland Mey from Leipzig wanted to merge the federal states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. The motion for a referendum to bring about a uniform nationality for this area was rejected on September 30, 2015 by the Federal Ministry of the Interior as "inadmissible and unfounded". The reorganization area designated in the applications is not a contiguous, delimited settlement and economic area within the meaning of Article 29 (4) of the Basic Law. On November 2, 2015, Rothe lodged a complaint with the Federal Constitutional Court against this decision as the initiative's shop steward. The constitutional complaint was rejected.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ex-city councilor and member of the state parliament from Halle Bernward Rothe dies at the age of 59 . Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , March 23, 2018, accessed on March 23, 2018.
  2. ^ Initiative for the reorganization of the federal territory . Bernward Rothe website, accessed on March 23, 2018.
    Referendum for Central Germany
  3. ↑ Michael Voss: The federal state of Central Germany? Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , July 3, 2015, archived from the original on June 7, 2016 ; accessed on March 23, 2018 . Felix Knothe: State merger of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. Bernward Rothes dream of Central Germany. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , August 21, 2014, accessed on March 23, 2018 . Thomas Beier: Country merger on an advertising tour: high approval rate in Jena. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung . April 11, 2015, accessed March 23, 2018 . Matthias Lohre: Central Germany: Unification again? In: The time . May 21, 2015, accessed March 23, 2018 . Popular initiative to merge countries? Bernward Rothe's initiative submits signatures. dpa article on mz-web.de , July 1, 2015, accessed on March 23, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Referendum in Central Germany. Country merger initiative, accessed on March 23, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Rejection of the application: Decision of the Federal Ministry of the Interior 09/30/2015. Country merger initiative, accessed on March 23, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Complaint of November 2, 2015 to the Federal Constitutional Court regarding the admission of a referendum in accordance with Art. 29 para. 4 GG in the Leipzig / Halle (Saale) area. Country merger initiative, November 2, 2015, accessed on March 23, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Federal Constitutional Court, decision of March 13, 2019, 2 BvP 1/15
personal data
SURNAME Rothe, Bernward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 2018
Place of death Hall