Detlev Samland

Detlev Samland (born May 1, 1953 in Essen , † July 8, 2009 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD ). From 1989 to 1999 he was a member of the European Parliament and from 2000 to 2001 Minister for Federal and European Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Life

After graduating from high school, Samland studied urban and spatial planning in Dortmund and worked as a graduate engineer at the Institute for Technology Transfer at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

From July 25, 1989 to July 19, 1999, he was a member of the European Parliament for the 3rd and 4th electoral terms and from July 22, 1994, until he left, he was Chairman of the Committee on Budgets . In the local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1999, Samland ran as the SPD candidate for the office of Lord Mayor of the city of Essen , but failed in the first ballot on September 12, 1999, surprisingly because of Wolfgang Reiniger ( CDU ).

From June 27, 2000 to April 17, 2001, Samland was Minister for Federal and European Affairs in the portfolio of the Prime Minister and authorized representative of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia at the federal level in the state government led by Prime Minister Wolfgang Clement (SPD). As a member of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia , Samland was also a member of the Federal Council . After it became known in early 2001 that he had not paid tax on the Supervisory Board's remuneration of around DM 100,000 , he resigned from his position.

Samland took part as a member of the 9th, 10th and 11th Federal Assemblies for the election of the Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany - in each case on the election proposal of the SPD parliamentary group in the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament .

Detlev Samland most recently worked as European Director Public Affairs in the Berlin office of the communications consultancy "Pleon". He died of heart failure on July 8, 2009 in Berlin. His grave is in the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof in Berlin-Mitte .

In 2013, the Bundestag administration classified two party donations from the Hellweg hardware store chain in the amount of DM 10,000 each, received and incorrectly declared in 1999 by Samland and the then SPD member of parliament, Willi Nowack , as a violation of the party law . As a result, the SPD sub-district of Essen had to repay the donation and also pay a fine to the Bundestag administration.

See also

• Cabinet Clement II

literature

• Detlev Samland , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 45/2001 of October 29, 2001, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)

Web link

• Entry on Detlev Samland in the Members' database of the European Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mayor election : District-free city of Essen. State Office for Data Processing and Statistics NRW, accessed on January 8, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Sloppiness and self-confidence. In: Spiegel Online. April 17, 2001, accessed January 8, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Wolfgang Kintscher: Essen's SPD has to pay a fine of 30,000 euros for disguised donations. In: DerWesten.de. Funke Medien NRW GmbH, July 5, 2013, accessed on January 8, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Frank Stenglein: Essen SPD has to pay a fine of more than 30,000 euros. In: DerWesten.de. Funke Medien NRW GmbH, July 6, 2013, accessed on January 8, 2017 .