Folkert Kiepe

Folkert Kiepe (born May 7, 1947 in Oberhausen / Rhineland ) is a German lawyer and administrative specialist. who worked for the German Association of Cities in urban development and transport policy from 1985 to 2012 , from 1991 to 2012 as the responsible councilor. In doing so, he advocated integrated urban development and traffic planning as well as early on for a fundamental “traffic turnaround” with massive expansion of the so-called environmental network. Since July 2012 he has been working as a lawyer and partner of counsel in the law firm Becker Büttner Held in Cologne. Kiepe is married and has two sons.

Life

After high school graduation in Oberhausen , officer training in Hamburg and a bank traineeship, Kiepe began studying politics and law at the universities of Cologne and Bonn in 1969, and was involved in university politics from 1970–1972. a. 1971 as federal managing director of the Social Democratic University Association and joined the SPD . He completed his studies in Freiburg with the first state examination in 1975, and completed his legal traineeship at the beginning of 1978 with the second state examination at the State Judicial Examination Office in North Rhine-Westphalia .

After a brief activity as a lawyer in Cologne, he joined the city of Cologne as an administrative lawyer in the autumn of 1978 . There he was initially responsible in the legal department for public and private construction law as well as public property law, then as an advisor to the city director and then as a departmental lawyer with the councilor for urban development, environmental protection and economy, responsible for all legal matters of the offices of this department as well as regional planning.

In March 1985, Kiepe moved to the German Association of Cities in the Transport, Building and Civil Engineering Department. At the beginning of 1991 he was elected by the - meanwhile all-German - main committee of the German Association of Cities (under the presidency of the Lord Mayors Manfred Rommel and Herbert Schmalstieg ) as an alderman and head of the department for urban development, building, housing and transport. From May 2004 to September 2006 he also took on the culture department and, from March to October 2011, he also took on the environment and economy department. After being re-elected twice, he left the service of the City Council when he reached the age limit in summer 2012. Since July 2012 he has been working as a lawyer and partner of counsel in the law firm Becker Büttner Held in Cologne, specializing in urban development, building law, traffic planning law and the financing of urban development and traffic infrastructure projects.

engagement

In his municipal practice, Kiepe has dealt intensively with the topics of administrative reform , regional planning , urban development , building law , housing and transport and has published numerous articles on these. In doing so, he was always guided by the models of decentralized spatial and administrative structures, local self-government and the model of the European city with mixed use and short distances.

Kiepe also promoted these goals and instruments in the institutions outside of the City Council, in which he (e) participates in various functions. This applies above all to his work as a knowledgeable citizen in the planning and transport committee of the Bergisch Gladbach City Council (1984–1994), but also for his involvement in the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning , the Academy for Spatial Research and Regional Planning , im Advisory council for spatial planning at the Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Urban Development (until 2013), in the German Association for Housing, Urban Development and Regional Planning , in the Federal Association for Housing and Urban Development (vhw), on the supervisory board of the State Development Corporation of North Rhine-Westphalia and on the advisory board for housing promotion of the NRW.Bank (until 2012), in the German Transport Science Society, as well as in various specialist committees of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , the German-Russian Forum, the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gesellschaft and the German section of the International Institute for Administrative Sciences.

Publications

• "For a turning point in transport policy" , in: der Stadtetag 1994, p. 657 f.
• “The European City” , in: Festschrift for Michael Krautzberger “Sustainable Urban and Spatial Development”, Beck-Verlag, Munich 2008, pp. 119–128
• “Intermunicipal cooperation - only sectoral or in urban regions?” , In: Festschrift for Bernhard Stüer “Bau- und Fachplanungsrecht”, Beck-Verlag, Munich 2013, pp. 525-530
• “Perspectives for the European City - Nine Requirements for Action ”, in: Forum Wohnen und Stadtentwicklung, Issue 1/2018, pp. 46–50
• Commentary on the state building regulations of North Rhine-Westphalia, loose-leaf, 3 volumes, 1985–1999
• "Building Code for Planners in Pictures", 4th edition, Cologne 2014
• "Handbook of municipal transport planning", (together with Bracher, Holzapfel, Huber, Reutter, Schwedes and others) 4 volumes, Bonn 1992 ff.
• "InfrastrukturRecht", Beck-Verlag, Munich (as co-editor)
• "Current challenges in urban development" , in: Texts on Urban Architecture 2018, Institut der Stadtbaukunst Bremen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ City Day up to date. Retrieved December 12, 2018 . 
2. ^ League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Folkert Kiepe becomes Partner of Counsel at Becker Büttner Held. Retrieved December 12, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Exhaust protection: Driving bans for old diesel planned from 2006 . In: Spiegel Online . August 13, 2005 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 12, 2018]).
4. ↑ Helmut Frangenberg: Alliance calls for a survey of residents: Protest against underground tunnels in Cologne is growing. November 30, 2018, accessed December 12, 2018 (German). 
5. ↑ Folkert Kiepe list of publications. Retrieved January 17, 2019 .