Hans-Harald Ehlert

Hans-Harald Ehlert (born April 24, 1962 in Detmold ) is a German politician and the founder and long-time managing director and partner of Treberhilfe Berlin .

Career

After graduating from high school in 1981, Ehlert studied educational sciences at the TU Berlin from 1981 to 1985 . After graduating as a qualified pedagogue , he received several teaching positions at the Technical University of Berlin until 1991, studied law at the Free University of Berlin until 1988 and ran a youth camp in Berlin-Wedding from 1986 to 1990 .

politics

Ehlert, who since 1991 SPD heard was from November 1999 to 2001 Member of the Berlin House of Representatives , in which he on the district list Schoeneberg was chosen. The electoral term was ended prematurely by the dissolution of the House of Representatives in the course of the Berlin banking affair . From 2001 he sat in the meantime for the SPD in the district assembly of Tempelhof-Schöneberg .

Managing Director of Treberhilfe

From 1988 to 2010 Ehlert was managing director of Treberhilfe , a non-profit company . Half of the partners in the gGmbH were Treberhilfe eV and the other half was Harald Ehlert. The Treberhilfe was due to opaque structures and business conduct from Ehlert (including Maserati with a driver as a company car, manager salary of more than - converted - 360,000 euros per year, luxury food at company costs, apartment in a villa on Lake Templin with housekeeper, gardener, boathouse, marble bathrooms and lavish celebrations in the park) excluded from the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband and the Diakonisches Werk in 2010 . However, this exclusion was conceded by the Berlin Regional Court because of some procedural errors in the exclusion process. The Berlin Diakonie and the Senator for Social Affairs at the time, Carola Bluhm , filed a criminal complaint against Ehlert on suspicion of infidelity . He had to resign as managing director, but passed on the business of Treberhilfe through the supervisory board under his influence. Therefore, several district offices stopped working with Treberhilfe. The employees of Treberhilfe also demonstrated publicly against the enrichment of the surpluses they had worked out. At Treberhilfe, they received 20 vacation days a year and a salary that was also below the tariff, with working hours that fluctuated depending on the occupancy of clients.

Ehlert defended his lifestyle as legitimate, a “perceived right” was of no importance to him. Employees, the Berlin Senate and other voices oppose this by stating that a social enterprise in particular is subject to moral obligations. Ehlert tried to prove to the last that his monthly salary of around 35,000 euros, his rent for the lake villa and other things were appropriate. The charitable status of Treberhilfe was revoked by the Berlin tax office due to Ehlert's business conduct.

When the Treberhilfe filed for bankruptcy in November 2011, it became known that Ehlert, despite his alleged withdrawal from the company, had received a monthly salary of more than 30,000 euros from the Treberhilfe until the end, while the clients were sued for lack of rent payments from the apartments and the Social workers haven't received a salary for months.

In December 2011 it became known that Ehlert had signed a purchase agreement with the then management of Treberhilfe, under the managing director Gideon Joffe , for the villa of Treberhilfe in Caputh am Templiner See, where Ehlert had lived for years. The purchase price stated 895,000 euros in the purchase agreement, although the book value was 1.82 million euros. The purchase price was not transferred and the bankruptcy administrator of Treberhilfe announced that it would commission an appraiser to evaluate the ensemble of buildings. The appraiser should consider whether the villa should be sold below value.

Later Ehlert tried unsuccessfully to file a lawsuit as an employee of the Neue Treberhilfe. In March 2013, his lawsuit at the regional labor court was finally dismissed in the second instance. In March 2013, Ehlert was still living in the apartment of the Treberhilfe villa in Caputh with a valid rental agreement that he had issued himself.

In July 2014 Ehlert was sentenced to one year probation and a fine for tax evasion at Treberhilfe. In February 2015, there was a fine of 32,000 euros for delaying bankruptcy and non-payment of social security contributions for employees amounting to almost 147,000 euros.

literature

• Berlin House of Representatives. Handbook for the 14th electoral term 1999-2004 . Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-922581-24-2 , p. 30 (biographies).
• Thomas Loy: Get the Maserati . In: Der Tagesspiegel , October 22, 2008.
• Regina Mönch: Maserati Biturbo with Hartz IV cylinder . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 71 of March 25, 2010, p. 32.
• Henning Sussebach and Stefan Willeke: The king of the lower ten thousand . In: Die Zeit , No. 27 of July 1, 2010, pp. 13–15.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung .
2. ↑ rp-online.de (Rheinische Post) from April 10, 2010 ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
3. ↑ Berlin Regional Court, decision of April 12, 2011, 6 O 281/10.
4. ^ Press release from Treberhilfe: ( Memento from December 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Here Ehlert tried to justify the below-tariff entry salary with the significantly higher average salary, which, however, included the above-average management salaries. In order to get into a higher salary level, the employees had to attend internal training courses held by other Treberhilfe employees, for which they should pay high compensation if they left the Treberhilfe.
5. ↑ Rheinische Post dated May 7, 2010: ( Memento of the original dated May 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. “Managers of charities and companies have come under fire because of expensive company cars and high salaries. Experts demand more transparency ”. The article quotes a donation expert from "Charity Watch" as follows: Anyone who leads an organization with its special aura must identify with the goals and must not have the mentality of an investment banker. You can get qualified managers for this task for less than 100,000 euros a year. 
6. ↑ paperpress.org of May 10, 2010 .
7. ↑ Der Tagesspiegel from January 15, 2011
8. ↑ Der Tagesspiegel from December 14, 2011
9. ↑ Manuela Heim: Treberhilfe lands in the arms of the Lord . In: taz, the daily newspaper, November 30, 2011, accessed on December 1, 2011.
10. ↑ Der Tagesspiegel from December 14, 2011
11. ↑ Der Tagesspiegel from March 22, 2013
12. ^ The daily newspaper of September 19, 2012
13. ↑ Treberhilfe: Harald Ehlert convicted again Der Tagesspiegel of February 13, 2015, accessed on February 13, 2017