Ingolf Rossberg

Ingolf Roßberg (born March 22, 1961 in Dresden ) is a former German politician (formerly FDP ). He was Lord Mayor of Dresden from 2001 to 2008 and works as a freelance consultant for traffic management for a Hamburg company. From 1980 to 2020 he was a member of the FDP and its predecessor parties.

education

Ingolf Roßberg initially completed an apprenticeship at the Deutsche Reichsbahn in Leipzig , which he completed as a skilled worker.

After his basic military service in the NVA , he studied from 1982 at the University of Transport in Dresden, where he received his diploma as a transport engineer . During this time he worked as a student trainee as a tram driver for the Dresden transport company . This was followed by a time as a research student at this university.

He was from the 2007 University of Ostrava , the doctorate as a Ph. D. granted.

Alderman in Dresden, Radebeul and Wuppertal (1990-2001)

1980 in the LDPD occurred Rossberg was from 1989 to 1990 for her member of the Dresden city council re-elected and was in November 1990 Group Chairman as one of the first freely elected Presidents since 1952. In the local elections in May 1990, he became in 1990 as Assistant Secretary for Urban Development ( former designation in Dresden: department head ), resigned his seat on the city council and worked in this capacity until 1994.

In the Dresden mayor election in 1994, he stood as a candidate for the FDP and was defeated by the incumbent Herbert Wagner ( CDU ). In parallel elections, he was elected to the Dresden City Council, of which he remained until the end of the legislative period in 1999.

Meanwhile, he was from 1994 to 2000 Deputy Mayor of Radebeul ( Deputy Mayor , after the entry into force of the new Saxon Municipal Code on 1 March 1995 Mayor ). During this time he wrote the monthly column in the Dresden culture magazine .

In 2000 Roßberg in Wuppertal was elected as an alderman for urban development, construction and traffic. He held the office for a year. This year, the North Rhine-Westphalia corruption affair took place in Wuppertal , a donation affair that Roßberg experienced directly in the city administration.

Lord Mayor of Dresden (2001-2008)

choice

At the end of 2000 he was asked by the non-partisan initiative OB for Dresden to run again as a candidate against the incumbent Lord Mayor Herbert Wagner. Rossberg's candidacy on the proposal of this citizens' initiative was supported by the SPD , Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , the PDS , parts of the FDP and other groups. Leading politicians of the FDP at the district, state and federal level, however, had tried to prevent his candidacy. Ingolf Roßberg was elected Lord Mayor of the state capital Dresden in the second ballot on June 24, 2001 with 47.1% against Herbert Wagner (40%) and Wolfgang Berghofer (12.2%) .

Essential decisions

During Roßberg's tenure, extensive renovations and new buildings were started or completed , especially in the city center, for example at Neumarkt and Postplatz.

In 2004 Roßberg brought the 2008 Chess Olympiad to Dresden.

With the controversial sale of the municipal housing association WOBA Dresden , Dresden became Germany's first major city free of debt in 2006 .

In Roßbergs tenure, the recording falls of the Dresden Elbe Valley from UNESCO - World Heritage Site . He was chairman of the Dresden Elbe Valley World Heritage Board of Trustees . From autumn 2005 until his suspension, Roßberg was criticized for his behavior in the controversy surrounding the Waldschlößchenbrücke and the possible withdrawal of the world cultural heritage title. He was accused of not responding quickly and seriously enough to UNESCO's criticism and thereby contributing to the escalation of the matter . However, Roßberg repeatedly pointed out that the bridge construction was part of the application to UNESCO: It covered around 10 km² and was assigned to the "Living cultural landscape" category, which was only created by UNESCO two years before the application by the City of Dresden.

accusations

In the days of the "flood of the century" in 2002 , Roßberg was head of the disaster management team at the top of Dresden's city council, and he later stumbled over Rainer Sehm, whom he had worked closely with to coordinate the reconstruction. Sehm had passed the fees paid by the city, although he was in private bankruptcy, past his insolvency administrator: of the allegations made against him in 2005, after several trials in 2008, only the allegation of aiding the bankruptcy in favor of the flood coordinator Sehm, who died in 2017, was legally valid. Roßberg denies this accusation of contingent intent to this day - he did not know anything about it, and if he had, he would never have "accepted" it "approvingly". Related disciplinary proceedings were discontinued in 2009 without reservation.

Functions

During his time as Lord Mayor, he acted as Chairman of the Administrative Council of the Stadtsparkasse Dresden . In this capacity, he was instrumental in promoting their unification with the districts, in particular the Sparkasse Westlausitz-Osterzgebirge to form the Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden , of which he was also the first chairman of the board of directors. As chairman of the board of directors of Dresdner Sparkasse, he was, by law, a member of the board of directors of Landesbank Sachsen and the Ostdeutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband . He was also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Frauenkirche Foundation .
He was elected as chairman of the supervisory board of Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG and Technische Werke Dresden GmbH, the holding company for technical companies in the city of Dresden. He was a member of the supervisory board of Verkehrsgesellschaft Meißen GmbH and Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe GmbH. He was also chairman of the supervisory board of Wohnbau Nordwest GmbH, whose merger with Südost Woba Dresden GmbH to form WOBA Dresden GmbH he pushed forward until the company was 100% sold to GAGFAH in 2006 .

Withdrawal from politics

At the end of the legislative period, he declared in early 2008 that he would not run again. He did not succeed in continuing his political career. Since autumn 2009 he has been working as a traffic engineer for a Hamburg company in Germany and abroad. He campaigned for the Dresdner Tafel e. V. a. Since 2011 he has been the first chairman (in office from 2011–2012, elected since 2012) of the German Johann Strauss Society based in Coburg and editor-in-chief of the magazine Neues Leben (named after the polka française Neues Leben , op. 278 by Strauss (Sohn)) works as a magazine for friends and lovers of the music of Johann Strauss (Sohn) and the Viennese operetta , where he is himself an author.

Private

Ingolf Roßberg is married and has three children. He lives with his family in Dresden-Plauen .

Web links

SPD state executive in North Rhine-Westphalia wants to fight corruption. Rossberg testifies. from NGO Internet newspaper of July 12, 2002, accessed on September 18, 2013.
Final process. Ex-Mayor Ingolf Rossberg starts again from Sächsische Zeitung December 29, 2012, accessed on September 18, 2013.

Individual evidence

↑ Roßberg is now Doktor Sächsische Zeitung from April 2, 2007, last accessed on September 18, 2013.
↑ Chronicle of the Wuppertal SPD donation scandal from the "Wuppertal Archive", accessed on September 18, 2013.
↑ "The bridge is being built and the world heritage remains" (Interview with Ingolf Roßberg) ( Memento from March 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Sächsische Zeitung from Jan. 2, 2006, accessed on Sept. 18, 2013.
↑ Ralf speech mouth: The affair Sehm: As the tide ultimately Dresden Ingolf Rossberg OB swept from office , online at LVZ.de accessed on June 21, 2018
↑ http://www.dnn.de/Dresden/Lokales/Rainer-Sehm-ist-im-Alter-von-66-Jahren-gestorben
^ Thilo Alexe: Roßberg will be a traffic advisor in Hamburg . In: Sächsische Zeitung of September 24, 2009 (online for a fee) , accessed on May 16, 2018.
^ Ten years of the Dresdner Tafel Sächsische Zeitung from October 11, 2012, accessed on September 18, 2013.
↑ Straussian a beat Neue Presse Coburg, October 25th 2011, accessed on 18 September, 2013.
↑ Ingolf Roßberg is the editor in charge of the issues from number 38 (2011). The first number in this series appeared in Hamburg in 1975, then under the title Flugschriften , after the title of a waltz by Johann Strauss (son).

predecessor	Office	successor
Herbert Wagner	Lord Mayor of Dresden 2001–2008	Helma Orosz

personal data
SURNAME	Rossberg, Ingolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (FDP), Lord Mayor of Dresden
DATE OF BIRTH	March 22, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden

[1] Roßberg is now Doktor Sächsische Zeitung from April 2, 2007, last accessed on September 18, 2013.

[2] Chronicle of the Wuppertal SPD donation scandal from the "Wuppertal Archive", accessed on September 18, 2013.

[3] "The bridge is being built and the world heritage remains" (Interview with Ingolf Roßberg) ( Memento from March 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Sächsische Zeitung from Jan. 2, 2006, accessed on Sept. 18, 2013.

[4] Ralf speech mouth: The affair Sehm: As the tide ultimately Dresden Ingolf Rossberg OB swept from office , online at LVZ.de accessed on June 21, 2018

[5] ttp://www.dnn.de/Dresden/Lokales/Rainer-Sehm-ist-im-Alter-von-66-Jahren-gestorben

[Job-6] Thilo Alexe: Roßberg will be a traffic advisor in Hamburg . In: Sächsische Zeitung of September 24, 2009 (online for a fee) , accessed on May 16, 2018.

[7] Ten years of the Dresdner Tafel Sächsische Zeitung from October 11, 2012, accessed on September 18, 2013.

[8] Straussian a beat Neue Presse Coburg, October 25th 2011, accessed on 18 September, 2013.

[9] Ingolf Roßberg is the editor in charge of the issues from number 38 (2011). The first number in this series appeared in Hamburg in 1975, then under the title Flugschriften , after the title of a waltz by Johann Strauss (son).