Hermann-Josef Richter

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Hermann-Josef Richter (born February 1, 1944 in Nieheim ) is a former local politician ( CDU ), was honorary mayor of the city of Wuppertal from 1994 to 1999 and ran for the office of mayor there in 1999 without success .

Life and work

In 1956, Hermann-Josef Richter moved with his family from Nieheim in East Westphalia to Wuppertal. From 1965 he was initially head of accounting and later as authorized signatory and managing director of the Klauser shoe store chain . During his time as managing director, the Prange family's company expanded to become the eighth largest shoe retailer in Germany with 70 branches and in 2009 took over the German branches of the Salamander shoe brand . In 2012 he left the company. Since then, Richter has been chairman of "Haus & Grund Wuppertal and the surrounding area" and was chairman of the administrative board of Wuppertaler Stadtwerke .

Hermann-Josef Richter is married and has two children.

politics

Richter represented the district of Nachbarebreck in the city council of Wuppertal for more than two decades and in 1979 became chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the council and in 1990 district chairman of the Wuppertal CDU. From 1994 to 1999 he represented the city as honorary mayor. He played a key role in the construction of the technology center on Lichtenplatz . In the 1999 local elections, in which the mayor was determined by direct election for the first time, Richter lost in the runoff election on September 26, 1999 against incumbent Hans Kremendahl ( SPD ), although his party formed the strongest faction in the city council after the election.

After his electoral defeat, Hermann-Josef Richter resigned from all political offices, left the CDU and was henceforth active as chairman of the local community next-breck, in the hospice movement and in important retail issues in Wuppertal.

The Wuppertal party donation scandal

Richter had to answer in court for an accepted donation in the context of the 1998/99 election campaign and the associated allegation of infidelity . The public prosecutor's office assumed that Richter had knowingly accepted an influencing donation of 125,000 German marks from the Wülfrath building contractor Uwe Clees. Richter should have known that Clees combined his political benevolence with the donation for the planning security of his dream project, a Factory Outlet Center (FOC) on Eskesberg in Wuppertal. Uwe Clees was the only witness against the judge who testified that the judge had told him that “he would not be able to tackle the FOC issue before the election, but he would be his man after the election”. Richter kept this from his party. In addition, the donation came about at Richter's request.

Richter denied all allegations and stated that he had always and publicly been an opponent of an FOC. The court ruled on December 6, 2005, on acquittal. In contrast to the process surrounding the party donations to the Wuppertal SPD in 1999 and the acquittal of the SPD mayor Hans Kremendahl, who was accused at the time, the “Judge judgment” did not mention any loopholes in the law . The "Kremendahl case" was tried right at the beginning of the judgment. Clees had donated 500,000 German marks for the election campaign of the then Lord Mayor Hans Kremendahl, as he supported the FOC plans. Clees was convicted in the first instance , Kremendahl acquitted. The scandal was so significant that the court in the Richter case could not avoid a trial and public discussion of all allegations.

Honors

Hermann-Josef Richter has been awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1994) and has been the Wuppertal City Ring of Honor since 1997 . At the beginning of April 2014, the Wuppertal City Council awarded him the honorary title of " Former Mayor ".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commercial register announcement of February 23, 2012 (change). North Data GmbH, February 23, 2012, accessed December 17, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Board of Directors. Haus & Grund Wuppertal and the surrounding area, accessed on December 17, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Mayor election : District-free city of Wuppertal. State Office for Data Processing and Statistics NRW, accessed on December 17, 2016 .
  4. ^ The Wuppertal party donation scandal. In: local time. WDR Studio Wuppertal, February 8, 2006, archived from the original on February 27, 2006 ; Retrieved December 17, 2016 (Memento in the Internet Archive).
  5. ^ Hermann-Josef Richter. (No longer available online.) In: Wuppertal-Barmen - Life in Diversity. Project group “Barmen 2008”, February 10, 2010, archived from the original on May 18, 2014 ; accessed on December 17, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.barmen-200-jahre.de
  6. ↑ LG Wuppertal · Judgment of December 6, 2005 · Az. 22 KLs 85 Js 37/03 - 1/05 II. In: openJur 2011, 38964. openJur eV, December 6, 2005, accessed on December 17, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Hermann Josef Richter is now officially the former mayor. In: WZ Westdeutsche Zeitung. April 1, 2014, accessed December 17, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Hermann-Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Never home