Henning Binnewies

Henning Binnewies (born March 10, 1950 in Braunschweig ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 2006 to 2011 he was Lord Mayor of the Lower Saxony city ​​of Goslar .

Life

Henning Binnewies grew up in Braunschweig. From 1969 he studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . He worked at the university as a research assistant until 1979.

From 1979 to 1980 Binnewies was a government assessor for the administrative district of Braunschweig . From 1980 to 1990 he was head of Department IV in the Goslar district and was responsible for regulatory, road traffic, veterinary, waste management, public relations and economic development.

Goslar town hall

From 1990 to 2000, Binnewies worked in Hamburg , for the first five years, among other things, as head of the Office for Food, Agriculture and Marketing and from 1995, after the office was restructured, as head of the Office for Economy and Agriculture. There he represented the city in various supervisory bodies. Back in Lower Saxony, he headed the State Planning and Development Department in the State Chancellery of Lower Saxony from 2000 to 2003 and acted as the successor to Wolfgang Meyerding as Commissioner for State Modernization.

From 2003 to 2006, Binnewies was head of the department for agricultural administration, spatial planning, regional development, real estate and rural areas in the Lower Saxony Ministry for Rural Areas, Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection.

On November 1, 2006, he succeeded Otmar Hesse (SPD) as Lord Mayor of Goslar. After the first ballot, he had a rounded 43.1 percent of the vote compared to 34.4 percent of the CDU candidate Armin Kalbe. In the runoff election he won with 60.1 percent of the vote.

On February 24, 2010, the city council of Goslar applied for disciplinary proceedings against Henning Binnewies because of the city's over-indebtedness. Henning Binnewies then offered to resign from the office of Goslar Mayor on August 31, 2011. However, the political groups did not accept the conditions he had set for his resignation. On February 15, 2011 the council of the city of Goslar decided to initiate a procedure to vote out the mayor with 34 votes to 3. In a vote on April 10, 2011, the citizens of Goslar voted for the mayor to be voted out of office with 87.1 percent of the vote. The turnout was 43.5 percent. Henning Binnewies left office on April 11, 2011 after the official determination of the result. Until his regular end of office in 2014, he was entitled to almost 75 percent of his salary.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mayor election in Goslar 2006 on nls.niedersachsen.de
2. ↑ Goslar 2006 runoff election results on nls.niedersachsen.de
3. ↑ Five parliamentary groups vote for disciplinary proceedings - the SPD is left out .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Report in the Goslarschen Zeitung from February 24, 2010.  
4. ↑ Politics accepts Mayor Binnewies' offer of resignation .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article in the Goslarschen Zeitung from January 11, 2011.  
5. ^ Goslar residents vote out Mayor Henning Binnewies.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article in the Goslarschen Zeitung from April 10, 2011.  
6. ^ Goslar's Lord Mayor Henning Binnewies voted out of office.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Message from the city of Goslar dated April 10, 2011 on the voting procedure.  
7. ↑ Well looked after in Goslar . Beate Strobel, Focus 16/2011, p. 190, April 16, 2011.