Bertram Fleck

Bertram Fleck (born September 25, 1949 in Mainz ) is a German CDU politician . From May 3, 1989 to April 28, 2015, he was District Administrator of the Rhein-Hunsrück district .

Life and work

Bertram Fleck graduated from the Bischöflichen Willigis-Gymnasium in Mainz in 1968 and did military service from 1968 to 1970. From 1970 to 1975 he studied law in Mainz and Freiburg and passed the first state examination in 1970 and the second in 1979. From 1980 Fleck worked in the financial administration of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate and at the end of the 1980s was active as an advisor to the then Rhineland-Palatinate finance minister and later Prime Minister Carl-Ludwig Wagner . In addition, he was active in local politics in the Mainz-Drais local council and in a committee of the city of Mainz. He is also the deputy chairman of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley World Heritage Association .

On May 3, 1989, Fleck was elected for the first time to the district administrator of the Rhein-Hunsrück district and was introduced to his office by the then Prime Minister Carl-Ludwig Wagner . In 1998 he won his re-election against Norbert Neuser (SPD) and was elected to his third term of office on September 17, 2006 as the only applicant with 84.71 percent. In 2013 he announced that he would no longer run for the autumn 2014 election. His successor, Marlon Bröhr , was sworn in on April 28, 2015.

Bertram Fleck is divorced and has three children.

Positions and political activity

From the beginning of his tenure, Fleck relied on decentralized power generation in his district. In 1999, the district began expanding renewable energies. Today 1500 regenerative energy systems cover almost 60 percent of the electricity demand in this region. Bertram Fleck was honored in 2018 when the Rhein-Hunsrück district was awarded the “Energy Commune of the Decade” jury prize by the Berlin Renewable Energy Agency (AEE).

With the end of the Cold War and the withdrawal of US troops from the Hunsrück, 15,000 migrants from the former Soviet republics moved to the region. Fleck helped shape their integration, for example, with expatriate school models in Sohren and Boppard or the project “Work and education instead of social welfare”. In addition, on the initiative of the district under Fleck, the “East-West Integration” educational project of the German Adult Education Association (Volkshochschulverband), the Aussiedler Lotsenprojekt and the Büchenbeuren meeting house, which won a prize in the 1997 federal competition “Exemplary integration of Aussiedlers in the FRG”, emerged.

In 1991, Fleck set up the Hunsrückbahn interest group with the aim of reactivating the Hunsrückbahn on the route from the local community of Langenlonsheim to Hahn Airport .

When searching for a region in the Hunsrück to the creation of a national park by the Ministry of Environment Rhineland-Palatinate spot advocated for the region Soonwaldsteig from which this next to the district of Birkenfeld located Hochwald is the option. However, since the Soonwald extends over both the Rhein-Hunsrück district and the Bad Kreuznach district , the project requires the support of both districts. Due to the critical attitude of the Bad-Kreuznach district, Fleck viewed the project in 2012 as a failure and criticized above all the negative attitude of the district administrator Franz-Josef Diel there .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis: Who will succeed Bertram Fleck? , Rhein-Zeitung from November 9, 2013
2. ↑ District assembly circular 11 of May 13, 2015
3. ↑ Municipal value creation through renewable energies ( Memento from September 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Agency for renewable energies
4. ↑ Climate protection success stories [1]
5. ^ Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis: Rhein-Hunsrück-Kalender, Heimatjahrbuch 2015, 71st year
6. ↑ National Park: District Administrator Fleck sees hardly any chances for the Soonwald ( memento of the original from May 20, 2012 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. Rhein-Zeitung from May 18, 2012