Heribert Rech

Heribert Rech, 2013

Heribert Rech (born April 25, 1950 in Östringen , district of Karlsruhe ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and was Minister of the Interior of the State of Baden-Württemberg from July 14, 2004 to May 12, 2011 and at the same time state representative for displaced persons, refugees and resettlers.

Career

Heribert Rech comes from a Danube Swabian displaced family from Parabutsch in the Batschka . He attended elementary school in Bad Schönborn -Langenbrücken (Karlsruhe district) and then the grammar school in Heidelberg. Also in Heidelberg, he completed his law studies at the University of Heidelberg . In 1977 he passed the first state examination. After the assessor exam in 1979, he worked as a lawyer until June 2001. From June 13, 2001 to July 14, 2004 he was Political State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg. On July 14, 2004, Heribert Rech was appointed Minister of the Interior of the State of Baden-Württemberg.

From 1992 to 2001, Rech was deputy chairman of the CDU district association Karlsruhe-Land and from 1992 to 2016 he was a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg as a directly elected member of the constituency 29 Bruchsal . In 2005 he was elected to succeed Thomas Schäuble as district chairman of the CDU North Baden.

Rech is Catholic, widowed since 1997 and has two grown daughters.

criticism

Rampage in Winnenden

Rech gained nationwide attention when, on the day after a 17-year-old went amok in Winnenden, he presented preliminary results of an alleged announcement by the perpetrator on the Internet, which did not stand up to further examination. An LKA official investigated a lead and the investigative team forwarded the preliminary information directly to the public prosecutor and the interior minister.

Police operations during protests against Stuttgart 21

During a demonstration against the Stuttgart 21 project on September 30, 2010, clashes broke out between the police and demonstrators. Tear gas, pepper spray, water cannons and batons were used against the demonstrators; among the demonstrators were children who took part in a school demonstration. The Interior Ministry under Rech initially justified this by stating that the demonstrators had thrown cobblestones at the police - but this was withdrawn by the Interior Ministry in the evening.

Interior Minister Heribert Rech justified the massive police operation on ZDF: “If children are brought to the front line by their mothers, by their fathers, if they are instrumentalized, if mothers and children stand in the way of the police, then they have to be taken away with simple physical violence. ”Rech said something similar on the radio station SWR1 Baden-Württemberg, whereupon the moderator Christoph Zehendner made it clear that the children came from a registered student demo at a school in Stuttgart. Then Rech said that the student demo had gone completely different than announced.

According to police inspector Schneider, the demonstrators first used pepper spray against police officers. “The massive resistance meant that the police had to use pepper spray, water cannons and, in individual cases, batons,” said Schneider. “We would have liked to have done without it.” At the press conference, the police cited video material as evidence, among other things.

As a result of the controversial police operation lost computing on 4 October 2010, the patronage of Child and Youth Protection Association Kids for Kids eV The association explained this as he announced in a press release, defenseless by the "relentless show of force of the responsible state government and its subordinate police force against Children, young people and citizens ”.

At the beginning of October 2010, Dietrich Wagner , who was a participant in the demonstration on September 30th and whose eyes were hit by a water cannon, filed a criminal complaint against Rech. Wagner became almost completely blind as a result of this incident. The police explicitly contradicted Wagner's information from his "memory protocol". "We kept pulling the man behind the barricades aside," says Stuttgart Police President Siegfried Stumpf . “But he kept walking back. He stood directly in the beam. ”There is a photo taken by the police that gives the impression that Wagner was standing alone in a victorious pose in the beam of a water cannon.

Costs Stuttgart 21

In 2008, as the responsible Minister of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg , Rech declared in relation to the costs of the Stuttgart 21 station project: "I don't know of any major project of this dimension in Germany, if not in Europe, that is as solidly calculated as this project." it is criticized that the statement does not coincide with the assumed significant cost increases from 3 to 4 billion euros to 8 to 10 billion euros.

Web links

Commons : Heribert Rech - Collection of Images

Wikinews: Heribert Rech - in the news

Wikiquote: Heribert Rech - Quotes

Single receipts

^ Rüdiger Soldt: Minister Rech in the criticism: It should be a quick success of the investigation ; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 13, 2009.
↑ Florian Gathmann: Amok investigation breakdown ; Spiegel-Online, March 13, 2009
↑ Police crush protests with violence ; n-tv.de, September 30, 2010
^ Escalation in Stuttgart: Minister defends police operation - Merkel worried ; Zeit Online from October 1, 2010
^ Police accuse S-21 opponents ( memento of October 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ); Report on web.de (no longer available online.)
↑ Stuttgart police blame demonstrators for violence ( Memento from December 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ); Stuttgarter Zeitung, October 5, 2010
↑ "Stuttgart 21" -Verletzter provides criminal charges against Minister ; nachricht.at, October 6, 2010
↑ Almost blind activist wants Mappus to apologize ; in: Spiegel Online from December 28, 2010
^ Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, October 8, 2010, p. 21
↑ Sebastian Kemnitzer Hans Hinterberger: Billion Grave Stuttgart 21: When the tunnel becomes a threat . June 25, 2019 ( br.de [accessed July 1, 2019]).
↑ Couldn't it be a little cheaper? The major construction sites in Stuttgart and Cologne devour billions. Deutschlandfunk Kultur, June 12, 2013, accessed on July 1, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Right, Heribert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (CDU), MdL, Minister of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg
DATE OF BIRTH	April 25, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	Östringen , Karlsruhe district

[1] Rüdiger Soldt: Minister Rech in the criticism: It should be a quick success of the investigation ; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 13, 2009.

[2] Florian Gathmann: Amok investigation breakdown ; Spiegel-Online, March 13, 2009

[3] Police crush protests with violence ; n-tv.de, September 30, 2010

[4] Escalation in Stuttgart: Minister defends police operation - Merkel worried ; Zeit Online from October 1, 2010

[5] Police accuse S-21 opponents ( memento of October 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ); Report on web.de (no longer available online.)

[6] Stuttgart police blame demonstrators for violence ( Memento from December 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ); Stuttgarter Zeitung, October 5, 2010

[7] "Stuttgart 21" -Verletzter provides criminal charges against Minister ; nachricht.at, October 6, 2010

[8] Almost blind activist wants Mappus to apologize ; in: Spiegel Online from December 28, 2010

[9] Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, October 8, 2010, p. 21

[10] Sebastian Kemnitzer Hans Hinterberger: Billion Grave Stuttgart 21: When the tunnel becomes a threat . June 25, 2019 ( br.de [accessed July 1, 2019]).

[11] Couldn't it be a little cheaper? The major construction sites in Stuttgart and Cologne devour billions. Deutschlandfunk Kultur, June 12, 2013, accessed on July 1, 2019 .