Erich Pätzold (politician)

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Erich Pätzold (born June 8, 1930 in Sömmerda ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 1973 to 1981 he was Berlin Senator for Health and Environmental Protection and from 1989 to 1991 Berlin Senator for Home Affairs.

Life

Erich Pätzold grew up in Düsseldorf , his parents' hometown, until the family moved to Berlin in 1936 . Despite a very good Abitur in 1948 in Berlin-Weißensee , he was refused to study chemistry at the Friedrich Wilhelm University (from 1949 Humboldt University) in East Berlin for political reasons .

In 1948 he began to work as a candidate in the Berlin administration. In 1950 he joined the SPD and the ÖTV trade union . From 1953 to 1958, he studied law, economics and administrative sciences for ten semesters at the Berlin Administrative Academy and passed his exams as a graduate cameraman and administrative assessor (qualification for higher administrative service). In the course of his career in the Senate Department for Finance, he was appointed to the Government Council in 1959 and to the Upper Government Council in 1962. He was a policy officer for public finance and budget law. In this function, he drafted the state budget and the law on own operations (instead of the still applicable, fragmented municipal law from the time of National Socialism ) and a new budget system.

politics

His political path began in the Wedding district . 1963/1964 he was parliamentary group chairman in the district assembly , from 1964 to 1970 district councilor for finances in the district office of Wedding. He initiated the first resolutions of the SPD state party congress on administrative reform, but the Senate and unwilling administration fizzled out. He had to clear up extensive embezzlement in the Weddinger youth welfare office against the resistance of the youth councilor and the district mayor ; the criminal police that were involved remained inactive. He received support from the Berlin Superior Court .

In the Weddinger SPD he was deputy chairman from 1967 to 1971 and chairman from 1971 to 1986. From 1967 to 1984 he was a member of the Berlin state executive committee of the SPD, from 1971 to 1976 as state treasurer on the executive board. He restructured the debt-laden party finances and companies.

From 1970 to 1973, Erich Pätzold was State Secretary of the Senate Department for Finance at the Berlin headquarters . In 1973 he was elected Senator for Health and Environmental Protection and remained in this position until Hans-Jochen Vogels took office in January 1981. He implemented a broad-based hospital modernization program. He countered the inefficient and uneconomical increase in the number of hospital beds with binding hospital requirement planning and an economically oriented state hospital law, which also gave the city hospitals performance-enhancing autonomy. He modernized the public health service with a state law that replaced the old law from the time of National Socialism. At the federal level, Erich Pätzold was spokesman for the SPD health and environment ministers.

From 1975 to 1989 he was an elected member of the Berlin House of Representatives in the Wedding district .

During the opposition period from 1981 to 1989, Erich Pätzold was the domestic policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group. He was deputy chairman of the Main Committee of the House of Representatives and the Parliamentary Control Commission for the Protection of the Constitution ; He also chaired the Lummer- - Inquiry Committee held. In 1982 he drafted the comprehensive proposals of the SPD parliamentary group for a radical administrative reform. In the resulting set up by the Chamber of Deputies commission of inquiry , he was vice chairman and the author of the 1985 report submitted with comprehensive reform orders that were adopted by the House of Representatives unanimously.

In the red-green Senate coalition from 1989 to 1991 Erich Pätzold was Senator for the Interior.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, his main task was to organize the reunification of the Berlin constitutional and administrative institutions, especially the police, and to urge the federal government, based on local knowledge, to make clear regulations on the GDR inheritance. He ensured that SED assets of over DM 100 million that had been put aside could be legally confiscated.

The evacuation of Mainzer Strasse on November 14, 1990, ordered by Interior Senator Pätzold, led to a street battle for 13 occupied houses . The eviction is considered one of the most massive police operations in Berlin in the post-war period. Thereupon the red-green coalition broke up, and after the election in December 1990 the black-red Senate of Diepgen III ruled .

From 1994 to 2002 Erich Pätzold was the SPD spokesman on the steering committee of the Berlin Senate for administrative reform . The extensive constitutional and legislative changes of 1998 and 1999 to streamline the House of Representatives and Senate, to fundamental, economically oriented administrative reform and to strengthen the self-government of the Berlin districts , each initiated by resolutions of the SPD state party congress, originate from his pen, as well as the legislative changes for the first steps towards this a few years beforehand.

Senates

• Senate Schütz II - Senate Schütz III - Senate Stobbe I - Senate Stobbe II - Senate Momper

literature

• Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 282 f.
• Erich Pätzold , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 30/1995 of July 17, 1995, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

• SPD Berlin - biography

Individual evidence

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