Ingo Wolf

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Ingo Wolf (2013)

Ingo Wolf (born March 26, 1955 in Braunschweig ) is a German politician of the FDP and was Interior Minister and Sports Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2005 to 2010 . From 2015 to 2017, Wolf was chairman of the legal committee of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament .

education and profession

Wolf attended the municipal high school Kreuzgasse in Cologne from 1965 to 1973 . He had to interrupt his law studies, which he began at the University of Cologne in 1973 , for his military service from 1974 to 1975. In 1980 he passed the first state examination and in 1983 the second state examination . From 1983 to 1984 Wolf was a civil judge at the Aachen Regional Court, then until 1989 executive assistant at the Institute for Energy Law at the University of Cologne, where he received his doctorate in 1989 on the subject of contractual liability restrictions of civil law partners towards creditors outside the company . Wolf was admitted to the bar in 1989.

From 1990 to 1993 he was deputy city ​​director and from 1993 to 1999 senior district director and thus district police chief in Euskirchen . Wolf has been a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2000. From 2005 to 2010 Wolf was Minister of the Interior and Minister of Sports for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . Since then he has been the spokesman for the FDP in the Committee for Europe and One World, chairman of the constitutional commission of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and a member of the sports committee. Wolf has been chairman of the legal committee of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament since 2015.

In February 2011 it became known that the federal government intends to propose Ingo Wolf for election to the office of Vice President of the Federal Audit Office . However, there was no majority in the political committees.

Political party

Ingo Wolf (right) with Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Andreas Pinkwart

Wolf has been a member of the FDP since 1988. From 2000 to 2003 he was chairman of the Euskirchen FDP district association. From 2002 to 2014, Wolf was chairman of the FDP district association in Aachen and was a member of the executive FDP state executive committee until 2012 according to Section 21 of the state statutes .

Wolf was a member of the Euskirchen district council from 1999 to 2005, where he chaired the FDP parliamentary group from 1999 to 2004. From 1999 to 2005 he was a member of the Euregiorat (the highest body of the Euregio Rhine-Waal ) and a co-opted board member of the NRW district council and the presidium of the NRW Association of Towns and Municipalities .

MP

Ingo Wolf was on June 2, 2000 to May 30, 2017 Member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia with the constituency Euskirchen I . From October 17, 2002 to November 8, 2002, he was also a member of the Bundestag for the North Rhine-Westphalian state list, which he resigned when he was elected to succeed Jürgen Möllemann on October 29, 2002 as chairman of the FDP parliamentary group in North Rhine-Westphalia has been. He held this office until 2005. In 2014, Ingo Wolf announced at the district party conference of the FDP Aachen that after 15 years at the municipal level and 17 years as a member of the state parliament and a short-term member of the Bundestag, he would no longer run for the state parliament.

minister

After the state elections in 2005, Prime Minister Jürgen Rüttgers appointed the top candidate of the FDP state list, Ingo Wolf, as interior minister in his cabinet , which was also responsible for the sports department. As a liberal Minister of the Interior, Wolf said he paid attention to the “balance between freedom and security”. He therefore refused to tighten the law as long as the implementation of existing laws could be improved.

Functional reform

Under the leadership of the Ministry of the Interior , the largest functional reform to date since the state of North Rhine-Westphalia was founded was carried out. As a result of the restructuring that was ordered, around 140 special authorities and 12,000 administrative posts in the state's personnel budget were cut. At the same time, 136 independent organizational units were dissolved. Including the lower special authorities with subsequent integration into district governments (38 authorities with over 3000 posts as of January 1, 2007) (date of the law December 12, 2006). The environmental administration was largely communalized on January 1, 2008 (9,600 out of 13,000 plants were relocated to districts and urban districts), the number of branches in road construction was reduced from 17 and 9 (cabinet resolution of July 4, 2006), and 11 pension offices and municipalization were dissolved of tasks as of January 1, 2008, reduction from 1,800 positions to 1,348. In the district governments, he implemented a restructuring that resulted in the dissolution of 5 departments and 56 divisions. As a result of the reform, the Ministry of the Interior reduced the number of units by 10. With a 1.5% annual downsizing with the exception of schools, justice, police and finance, Wolf wanted to continuously expand the state's financial scope.

Domestic politics and police

With the political goal of “the top priority is internal security”, Minister of the Interior Wolf implemented his concept of “more investigations instead of administration”. After completion of the reform, NRW should have the flattest hierarchy of all police forces in Germany. He shifted 500 jobs back to the operational area (Police Organization Act I, January 2, 2007). This was achieved by relocating almost 2000 positions (including approx. 300 from the area of ​​the district government) of the motorway police to 5 large district police authorities (Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Münster, Bielefeld) and the merging of 3 independent police headquarters (PP) - Leverkusen with PP Cologne , Mülheim with PP Essen , water police with PP Duisburg . With the subsequent Police Organization Act in 2007 (July 2, 2007), Wolf abolished the district government as a police authority and instead set up a central state control center. With the amendment to the Police Act (February 23, 2010), Wolf aimed for an internal modernization of the police with a focus on core tasks. With the successive introduction of the directorate structure in the district police authorities, the administrative level “police inspections” in the 47 district police authorities was reduced by 42 (from 119 to 77).

Under Wolf, the police force in North Rhine-Westphalia was significantly increased in personnel. He reintroduced 2 regional rider squadrons in Düsseldorf and Dortmund after they were abolished by the previous government. In addition, 841 positions were retained despite the increase in weekly working hours from 38.5 to 41 hours. With 1100 new police candidates every year from 2008 instead of 500, as planned by the previous government, the already emerging problem of demographic change should be cushioned. On December 15, 2008, it also issued guidelines for the police to protect national minorities from discrimination.

The poor equipment of the police, which was often criticized to date, was successively renewed from 2006 to 2010. In addition to changing the police uniforms to blue, all police officers received new functional uniforms, new protective vests, service weapons, helmets and multi-purpose sticks. With an investment volume of approx. € 715.3 million (2005–2010), 20 new buildings were implemented and 14 further construction projects for police use were planned.

During the government, there has been a 3% decrease in reported crimes since 2005 and an increase in the clearance rate from 46.7% to 50.8%, the highest clearance rate at the time since 1963. The number of road deaths fell to the lowest number during this period since 1963 (85% less). This means that NRW took first place among the regional states.

In October 2009, Wolf initiated the early retirement of the Bochum police chief Thomas Wenner . Reasons were not given. In addition to the fact that Wenner was responsible for the cancellation for security reasons of the Loveparade 2009 in Bochum - which the state government wanted very much - it is said that SPD member Wenner took a highly controversial position on Wolf in the dispute over organized crime and so that the SPD opposition should have supported in the state parliament.

In the course of the preparations for the Love Parade 2010 in Duisburg, which later resulted in a serious accident with 21 deaths, the Bundestag member Thomas Mahlberg demanded the replacement of Duisburg Police President Rolf Cebin in 2009 , who had called for the event to be canceled for security reasons. Cebin's approach resulted in “negative reporting throughout the republic”, Mahlberg therefore asked Wolf “to free Duisburg from a heavy burden and to dare to start a new staff in the Duisburg police headquarters”. Rolf Cebin was retired in May 2010 due to old age. His successor then no longer saw any problems with security.

In August 2006, Wolf presented the draft for a new law for the protection of the constitution, which makes it possible to considerably expand a number of special powers granted to the protection of the constitution in the context of the fight against terrorism . According to this, it should also be possible to monitor the activities of domestic terrorist cells on the Internet because the security situation had changed with the unsuccessful terrorist attacks. Now it is concrete, "said the interior minister in relation to the attacks on local trains in Cologne that were prevented in the same month. And before the third reading in December: “With this change in the law, the protection of the Constitution is technically on par with those who are enemies of the Constitution.” He was met with heavy criticism from the opposition parties in the state parliament, who refuse such surveillance. On February 27, 2008, the Federal Constitutional Court declared the law to be incompatible with the Basic Law and to be null and void.

Local and electoral law

The Municipal Code Reform Act (effective October 17, 2007) extended the terms of office for mayors and district administrators (main administrative officials) from 5 to 6 years. With the ensuing decoupling of the elections of the main administrative officials and local councils, local democracy was to be strengthened. In contrast, the local elections should be tied to the European elections in order to generate synergy effects for both elections. On the one hand, it has been possible to reduce the cost of the elections and increase participation in the European elections. The abolition of the runoff election through the Local Election Reform Act was controversial. In addition, during his time as Minister of the Interior, the council citizens' decision was introduced at the municipal level.

Sports

Sports Minister Wolf advocated the creation of 5 sports schools for the first time in North Rhine-Westphalia: in Düsseldorf, Solingen, Minden, Dortmund and Münster (cabinet decision of September 12, 2006). The then tight sports clubs should be supported with the loan program for sports facility financing for clubs with a total volume of € 50 million per year for 2008–2010 (€ 150 million total volume for 2008–2010). During his term of office, Wolf also got involved in the competitive sports promotion project "Momentum" (DSHS Cologne) with a contribution of 500,000 euros per year.

family

Ingo Wolf is married and has three children.

Memberships and functions

Others

Ingo Wolf played for more than a decade as a pre-stopper in the field hockey Bundesliga at Rot-Weiß Köln .

Awards

In August 2018, Wolf was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in recognition of his outstanding achievements in politics and in honorary positions .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. April 22, 2015, accessed April 23, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger: New job for Ingo Wolf. February 22, 2011, accessed December 4, 2017 .
  3. ^ District assembly of North Rhine-Westphalia
  4. ↑ Frederik Schorn is a candidate for the FDP in the Landtag. August 26, 2016. Retrieved September 26, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Police Organization Act NRW (POG NRW). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on April 23, 2015 . 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.polizeirecht.de
  6. ↑ Guidelines for the Police of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
  7. ↑ Government balance sheet of the Minister of the Interior. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 4, 2012 ; accessed on March 15, 2015 . 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.ingo-wolf.info
  8. ↑ Press release from the NRW Interior Ministry. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; accessed on April 23, 2015 . 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.mik.nrw.de
  9. ^ Spiegel Online: Love Parade disaster: No resignation, nowhere
  10. ^ Letter to the Minister of the Interior, Dr. Ingo Wolf from Thomas Mahlberg Member of the Bundestag ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. . February 9, 2009.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cdu-duisburg.de
  11. ↑ Love Parade of Inconsistencies - Number of dead rises to 20 . Tagesspiegel, June 26, 2010.
  12. ↑ From now on, silent observer ( memento of the original of July 30, 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. , in: RP Online from May 27, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rp-online.de
  13. ↑ Frontal21, report on the question of guilt of the events at the Love Parade 2010, broadcast on July 27, 2010.
  14. ^ Decision of the Federal Constitutional Court
  15. ↑ Team - AmerikaHaus eV NRW. Retrieved June 27, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Profile of the NRW state parliament. Retrieved April 23, 2015 .
  17. ↑ Profile of the FDP ( Memento of the original from July 12, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dr-ingo-wolf.wcsite.liberale.de
  18. ↑ Torsten Beulen: Dr. Ingo Wolf: A lot for NRW . In: rheinische-verbindungenblaetter.de . ( rheinische-verbindungenblaetter.de [accessed on August 27, 2018]).

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personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Ingo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig