Gerd Weiland (politician)

Gerd Weiland (born January 2, 1940 in Hamburg ) is a German politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1960, Weiland studied law . In 1965 and 1970 he passed his legal state exams. This was followed in 1967 with his doctorate on the subject of "Regulatory Competencies of the Bundesbank ".

He worked in the chemical-pharmaceutical industry from 1968 to 1971 . He then works as a freelance lawyer .

He is married and has two children.

politics

From 1970 to 1997 he was a member of the Hamburg Parliament . Among other things, he sat on the citizens' committee and was chairman of the budget committee from 1972 to January 1994 with small interruptions.

Gerd Weiland became known to a wider public as chairman of the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the so-called Stoltzenberg scandal. It was about the causes that had led to the death of a boy on the heavily contaminated site of a former poison gas factory in Hamburg-Eidelstedt. In close collaboration with the CDU MP at the time, Martin Willich , Weiland uncovered significant failings by politics and administration. For the alleged culprits named in the committee of inquiry , however, the result was largely inconsequential.

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• Citizens' Handbook - Citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, 15th electoral period. Hamburg 1994
• ZEIT online September 19, 1980 "Silence in the City-State - A lesson on the art of sweeping political failure under the carpet