Hartmut Röseler

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Hartmut Röseler (born March 11, 1942 in Berlin ) is a German politician ( CDU ). He was deputy mayor from 1971 to 1975 and from 1971 to 1979 district councilor for public education in Charlottenburg . From 1967–71 and 1979–81 he was a district councilor in Charlottenburg and from 1981 to 1985 he was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives .

Life and politics

Hartmut Röseler, who was born in Berlin as the son of Rudolf Röseler, went to school in Denmark before the family could return to Germany in 1948. Via the refugee reception center in Uelzen we went to Goslar, where Röseler attended grammar school after elementary school. In the fall of 1953 the family moved back to Berlin. In 1961 Röseler passed the Abitur at the Waldoberschule. From 1962 he studied business administration and political science at the Free University of Berlin . During his studies he worked as managing director of the Berliner Ringes Politischer Jugend (RpJ) and later as a personal and press advisor to the Senator for Health Care, as a lecturer in adult education and at a school for educators. After graduating in 1969, he worked in training at Renault's German headquarters. From 1979 the political scientist worked as a freelance rhetoric and communication trainer and joined the Horst-Rückle-Team (Böblingen) in 1980. In 1983 he co-founded Team Connex in Böblingen.

In 1970 Röseler married Gisela Busse, who was then the FDP parliamentary group secretary in the Berlin House of Representatives.

In 1957 he joined the German Young Democrats . In 1959 he became a member of the FDP . As a schoolboy he made political trips abroad to France, Austria and Italy. Later Röseler organized trips for the young democrats to maintain the military cemetery in Milano Marittima / Cervia and, according to the 1st pass agreement in Berlin, trips for the physically handicapped and pensioners to the pass offices and to East Berlin. As a student he traveled a. a. to Turkey, Tunisia, Great Britain and Israel. Then he managed international youth encounters a. a. to Turkey and from 1964 maintained (controversial) contacts with the East Berlin LDPD and the FDJ (DT 64). In 1965 he organized an event with the Berlin SDS chairman Tilman Fichter in the Audimax of the TU Berlin with the then still provocative title "May 8th - 20 Years of Liberation Day" (Panel participants included Roland Reichwein, son of the resistance fighter Adolf Reichwein and the ( former SFB journalist Matthias Walden). In 1966 he became state chairman. On the eve of July 20, 1966, he was next to Mayor Heinrich Albertz and Alfred Mozer ( Head of Cabinet of EEC Vice-President Sicco Mansholt ) commemorative speaker at the Plötzensee Memorial in Berlin . In 1968, in parallel to the worldwide petition by around 200 intellectuals and musicians (including Francis Travis , Igor Stravinsky , Herbert von Karajan ) , Röseler campaigned against the South Korean military rulers and publicly for the release of the composer Isang Yun, who was abducted from West Berlin to South Korea and imprisoned there . Isang Yun was released in February 1969 and returned to Berlin. He thanked the deputy district mayor for his helpful commitment. Yun worked in Berlin until his death in November 1995.

After party quarrels, Röseler joined the CDU. From 1971 he held executive offices within the CDU in the local association and at the district level. In 1967 he was elected to the district assembly of Charlottenburg as the youngest German local politician to date . With his maiden speech he made headlines as the “People's Tribune” ( Berliner Morgenpost ), in which he advocated renaming the Kaiserdamm , which was renamed shortly after Adenauer's death . In 1971, after his re-election, he took over the functions of Deputy District Mayor and City Councilor for Education in the first CDU-FDP coalition after the Bonn transition to the social-liberal coalition Brandt / Genscher . Röseler was committed to setting up all-day schools and providing intensive schooling for Roma children at their place of residence. In Charlottenburg schools he introduced “AGs for trial sports” (including judo, sailing, riding, fencing - with the Austrian fencing Olympian Bruno Jerebicnik). He was a co-founder of the Charlottenburg school sports club a. a. with the German Olympian Bodo Tümmler . With representatives of the then Dresdner Bank subsidiary Bank für Handel, he initiated the "Drumbo Cup" as a school soccer tournament, which Commerzbank has now expanded to include girls in Germany as the largest indoor soccer tournament for elementary school students in Germany. Representatives He organized u. a. a first exhibition of Russian non-conformist painters "Soviet 'unofficial' art" around Oskar Rabin (Alexander Glezer collection). When Röseler demanded in 1978 that the students in Germany (like those in other countries) should learn their national anthem , he was also accused of nationalism across the region ( Die Zeit No. 21/1978). From 1979 to 1981 he was again a member of the Charlottenburg municipal parliament. In 1981 he moved into the Berlin House of Representatives as a directly elected member .

In 1959, as a guest of the Austrian student body , he took part in a parallel action by the democratic youth associations from western countries at the communist 7th World Festival of Youth and Students in Vienna . In 1969 he discussed a communal exchange between Berlin-Charlottenburg and the 5th district of Budapest a. a. with Günter Grass at the University of Budapest with students and in 1973 with District Mayor Roman Legien on the occasion of the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students on East Berlin's Alexanderplatz with young people from different countries. He was German co-chairman of the "Free Society for the Promotion of Friendship with the Peoples of Czechoslovakia" founded by chess grandmaster Ludek Pachmann in 1976. Röseler kept in contact with Marta Kubišová on Charter 77 and smuggled medicines into the CSSR when she visited Prague. Röseler had brought Pachmann to Berlin in 1974 after his chess club Solingen had unloaded him from its own chess tournament after a Soviet protest in 1868 . For a long time he was a member of the board of the charitable Schullandheimwerk Charlottenburg , the Charlottenburg school sports club and member of the board of trustees of the Käthe Dorsch Foundation .

In 1985 he retired from politics and moved to Belgium. He later left the CDU.

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. 312.