Dieter Salomon

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Dieter Salomon at the ZMF (2015)

Dieter Salomon (born August 9, 1960 in Melbourne ) is a German politician ( Alliance 90 / The Greens ). From 2002 to 2018 he was Lord Mayor of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau . Before that, he was a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg for the Greens from 1992 and chairman of the parliamentary group from 2000.

Life

Solomon's grandfather had emigrated to Australia with his third wife and eight children . One of these children was Solomon's mother, who met his father there. The Hessian had also come to Australia with a roofing company and later worked as a conductor for the tram and at Volkswagen .

When Salomon was three years old, the family moved to Missen im Allgäu . In 1968 the parents separated, Salomon and his three years younger sister grew up with their mother. His high school graduated Salomon 1979 at Gertrud-le-from-Fort High School in Oberstdorf . In 1981 he began studying political science , finance and Romance philology at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , which he completed in 1987 with the academic degree Magister Artium . In 1991 he received his doctorate in political science under Dieter Oberndörfer with the dissertation Green Theory and Gray Reality: The Greens and Basic Democracy as a Dr. phil. In 2011 he separated from his second wife, Helen Hall-Salomon. At the end of 2015, he married his new partner Helga Mayer in Melbourne. Salomon has a daughter from his first marriage.

Political career

Salomon has been a member of the Greens since 1980 and was active in various functions at the Freiburg district association. From 1990 to 2000 Salomon was a city ​​councilor in Freiburg and since 1992 a member of the regional parliament of Baden-Württemberg for the Freiburg II constituency ; from April 2000 onwards he exercised this function as chairman of the green parliamentary group and top candidate in the election campaign.

In 2002 Salomon ran for the mayoral election of Freiburg. In the second ballot on May 5, 2002, he was elected the first green mayor of a major German city for a term of eight years with 64.4 percent of the vote . In the Mayor election on April 25, 2010, Salomon was confirmed in his office for a further eight years in the first ballot with 50.5 percent of the votes cast.

Salomon has been a member of the Presidium of the German Association of Cities since 2002, and has been a member of the World Executive Committee of the International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) since 2004 . Since 2008 he has been chairman of the municipal employers' association (KAV) Baden-Württemberg.

In 2003 he came into criticism and headlines because of the organization of the birthday party for the controversial former Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg and Hans Filbinger , who was appointed naval judge in World War II .

In 2011, Salomon was elected as the successor to Ivo Gönner as spokesman for the major cities and thus vice-president of the Baden-Württemberg City Council. As the first Green politician, he was elected President of the Baden-Württemberg City Council in 2017.

At the beginning of his term of office he formulated the most pressing problems facing cities as the modernization of schools and social housing. He later referred to the integration of the refugees who were taken in during the refugee crisis in Germany from 2015 , as well as the financial problems of the cities.

In the Mayor election on April 22, 2018, he received 31.3% in the first ballot, 3.4 percentage points fewer votes than his challenger Martin Horn . In the second ballot on May 6, 2018, a new election with four candidates, Salomon was again defeated by 30.7 percent to the non-party Horn, which received 44.2 percent of the vote and took him on July 1, 2018 as the city's new mayor or administrator Freiburg im Breisgau. On the evening of the election, Salomon told the Badische Zeitung that he was going to retire after 16 years at the head of the city.

Since June 2019 he has been managing director of the IHK Südlicher Oberrhein.

Lord Mayor

As president of the Black Forest-Upper Rhine region, Salomon campaigned for cross-border cooperation between Germany, France and Switzerland within the framework of the so-called RegioTriRhena and continued this as part of the pilot project for the Eurodistrict for Freiburg , Mulhouse and Colmar . The active commitment to Franco-German cooperation was recognized with the award of honorary citizenship by Besançon and the award of the French National Order of Merit to Salomon in 2006.

Major urban political decisions were implemented with a majority of the Greens, the CDU, the regional list of young Freiburg and free voters, which aroused supraregional interest and internal party conflicts. Within the Federal Greens, Salomon and his coalition are prominent pioneers of alliances beyond red-green.

In the alternative scene, among other things, Salomon's actions against the Freiburg “Wagenburgler” in 2005 were controversial. As an opposition politician, Salomon had refused police operations to prevent alternatives from being occupied.

The conflict over the planned sale of the municipal Freiburg Stadtbau GmbH with 7900 apartments and 1000 apartments owned by the city to investment funds aroused national interest . The sale, which was expressly excluded in the OB election campaign, was decided by a black-green-free majority of the council in view of the budgetary situation of the city, but was rejected by the citizens in a referendum.

A ban on alcohol consumption in public that was passed by the black-green-free city hall majority in 2007 sparked protests. The ban was declared null and void by the Administrative Court of Baden-Württemberg , which was welcomed by parts of the city council, including the majority of the town hall. After this ruling, Salomon called on the then state government ( Oettinger II cabinet ) to change the law; the parliamentary group of the Greens unanimously supported Salomon.

During his tenure, the Green Alternative Freiburg split off from the Greens, which received two seats in the Freiburg City Hall in the 2009 local elections .

In July 2009, Salomon, in his role as president of the municipal employers' associations (KAV) Baden-Württemberg, attacked striking educators, which was criticized nationwide, in particular by union representatives. The last few years of his tenure were shaped by the refugee crisis in Germany since 2015 and high rents in Freiburg.

Publications

  • Green theory and gray reality. The GREENS and grassroots democracy . Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI). Simultaneously: Freiburg (Breisgau), Univ., Diss., 1991. Freiburg im Breisgau: ABI, 1992, 337 pages, ISBN 3-928597-03-5 (Freiburg writings on political science; 4)
  • Winfried Thaa , Dieter Salomon, Gerhard graves [eds.]: Greens in power. Resistance and chances of green-alternative government participation . Cologne: Bund-Verlag 1994, 212 p., ISBN 3-7663-2521-3

Web links

Commons : Dieter Salomon  - Collection of Images
Wikiquote: Dieter Salomon  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ election result
  2. ^ A b c Gerhard M. Kirk: Freiburg: Mayor election: Dieter Salomon grants insights into the photo album , Badische Zeitung from March 31, 2010, accessed on December 28, 2010
  3. ↑ Mayor Salomon separates from his wife in Badische Zeitung November 3, 2011.
  4. ↑ Mayor Dieter Salomon and Helga Mayer got married in Melbourne in: Badische Zeitung of January 11, 2016. Accessed on January 11, 2016.
  5. ↑ https://www.stimme.de/suedwesten/nachrichten/pl/Freiburgs-Rathauschef-Salomon-im-Amt-bestaetigt;art19070,1825377
  6. ↑ Curriculum vitae on the homepage of the city of Freiburg ( Memento from May 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Dispute over Filbinger's birthday And celebrate for me! Der Spiegel, August 5, 2003.
  8. ↑ Joachim Röderer: Filbinger in God's hands. TAZ , April 12, 2007.
  9. ↑ http://www.baden-wuerttemberg.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=244448
  10. ↑ http://www.schwaebische.de/region/baden-wuerttemberg_artikel,-Neuer-Staedtetagspraesident-Salomon- sucht-mehr-Mittel-fuer-Schulsanierungen-_arid, 10606194.html
  11. ^ Rüdiger Soldt: Lord Mayor Salomon is defeated in the first round of elections. Frankfurter Allgemeine from April 23, 2018.
  12. ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/freiburg-hat-einen-neuen-oberbuergermeister-gruener-salomon-in-freiburg-abgewaehlt-sieger-martin-horn-bei-wahlparty-zahn-ausgeschlagen/21250230.html
  13. ↑ Uwe Mauch: Martin Horn will initially become administrative administrator due to a lawsuit. Badische Zeitung, June 13, 2018, accessed on June 30, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung: Martin Horn is the new Lord Mayor of Freiburg . In: Swabian . ( schwaebische.de [accessed on May 6, 2018]).
  15. ↑ | Interview Badische Zeitung from May 6, 2018 | { https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOS3o7kY8-o}
  16. ↑ New duo at the top of the IHK Südlicher Oberrhein. Retrieved October 27, 2019 (German).
  17. ↑ Awarding the insignia of an officer in the National Order of Merit to the Mayor of Freiburg, Dieter Salomon  ( 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. Website of the French Embassy Berlin, July 28, 2006.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.botschaft-frankreich.de  
  18. ^ Karl Otto Sattler: Black and green simulation games stir up dust ( Memento from May 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), in Das Parlament , No. 40, October 4, 2005.
  19. ↑ The green OB sends the green Minna
  20. ↑ Lord Mayor Dieter Salomon names conditions for the sale of urban apartments - “Invest better than pay interest” ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Official Gazette of the City of Freiburg from April 15, 2006
  21. ^ "Locusts" ante portas. Baden-Württemberg: Fight for the sale of apartments in Freiburg "Parliament" with the supplement " From Politics and Contemporary History ", issue 40 of October 2, 2006
  22. ↑ How a graduate student overturned the alcohol ban
  23. ^ Badische Zeitung of July 29, 2009: Judgment on the ban on alcohol: Landtag greens stand behind Salomon
  24. ↑ Small green split in the southwest
  25. ↑ Day care strikes: Call for "social ostracism" ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Stuttgarter Zeitung from July 9, 2009
  26. ↑ "Verdi holds the children liable"
  27. ↑ zeit.de May 6, 2018 / Fabian Federl: Counted
predecessor Office successor
Rolf Böhme Lord Mayor of Freiburg im Breisgau
2002–2018 		Martin Horn
Barbara Bosch President of the City Council BW
2017–2018 		Peter Kurz
personal data
SURNAME Salomon, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne , Australia