Jürgen Roters

Jürgen Roters with chain of office (2012)

Jürgen Roters (2010)

Jürgen Roters (born January 15, 1949 in Coesfeld ) is a German lawyer , administrative officer and sports functionary . He was Lord Mayor of the City of Cologne from October 21, 2009 to October 20, 2015 . Roters is married, has three children and has been a member of the SPD since 1967 .

education and profession

After graduation in 1968 at the High School Nepomucenum in Coesfeld studied Roters 1968-1974 jurisprudence and the second legal put 1978 state exam from. He then worked in the service of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for the district government of Münster , in the Ministry of Culture and from 1982 to 1988 as a lecturer and department head at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration in North Rhine-Westphalia. From 1988 to 1994 he was personal advisor and office manager to the North Rhine-Westphalian Interior Minister Herbert Schnoor .

In 1994 he was chief of police in Cologne and in 1999 as the successor to Franz-Josef Antwerpes the district president of the administrative district of Cologne appointed. After the state elections won by the CDU and FDP in 2005 and the subsequent change of government, he was given temporary retirement . He then worked as a freelance author and reviewer.

Sports

In the 1960s Roters was German youth champion over 1,500 meters, 3,000 meters and in the forest and cross-country run. In 1973 he took part as a track and field athlete at the Universiade in Moscow , where he was seventh over 1,500 meters, and in the international match between Germany and the USA in Munich . Since 1990 he has competed in 25 marathons at home and abroad.

He was one of the initiators of the Cologne Marathon , served as 1st Chairman of the “Cologne Marathon Association” for 13 years and since 2011 as its President. He is also the president of the athletics team of the German Sport University Cologne , was chairman of the administrative board of ASV Cologne and chairman of the branch of the German Olympic Society Rhineland.

politics

Jürgen Roters at the "Candidate Check for the 2009 Local Election". Stage program for the CSD street festival / ColognePride 2009

On August 18, 2008, Jürgen Roters was nominated by the Cologne party branches of the SPD and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen as a joint candidate for the mayoral election in Cologne in 2009 and elected mayor on August 30, 2009 with 54.7 percent of the votes. On October 21, 2009 he took over the office from his predecessor Fritz Schramma . His term of office ended normally on October 20, 2015. City Director Guido Kahlen took over the official business for one day on October 21, before Henriette Reker , who was elected as Cologne's new mayor, accepted her election on October 22.

During his tenure as Lord Mayor, Jürgen Roters was a member of the board of the North Rhine-Westphalia City Council and a full delegate of the German City Council in the World Council of the World Organization of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), as well as a deputy member of the Executive Bureau , the board of the association. On March 5, 2012, Roters was elected Chairman of the Local Employers 'Association of North Rhine-Westphalia (KAV NW), the largest local employers' association in the Federal Republic of Germany, for the electoral term until 2013.

In 2009, Roters had sharply criticized the practice of the “booty maker system” in the affair surrounding dubious consultancy contracts with Sparkasse KölnBonn , which led to the resignation of Cologne CDU politicians Rolf Bietmann and Josef Müller . However, he then had to admit that in 2006 he himself had received a “consultancy contract” from the same donor from whom he had received a personal fee for an expert opinion as a freelancer. According to Roters, this consultancy contract was - in contrast to the contracts of the same donor with CDU politicians - a "normal process". The CDU politician Bietmann had got involved in a similar way to the allegations directed against him. In fact, Roters had drawn up an expert opinion, but it was useless for his client, as it was submitted too late and as a result the content was outdated. Nevertheless, the fee of 35,000 euros was paid without any reductions.

other activities

Roters has been chairman of the Heideportal Gut Leidenhausen sponsoring association since 2009, which is dedicated, among other things, to converting the threshing floor of Gut Leidenhausen into a multimedia exhibition hall and to strengthen the recreational and nature conservation landscape.

Roters was chairman of the supervisory board of Köln-Musik and Koelnmesse . He is also the honorary chairman of the support association of the “Sommerblut” cultural festival. V., honorary chairman of the Eifel National Park Association. V. as well as honorary member of the Children's Hospital Amsterdamer Strasse Cologne e.V. V.

Before his time as Cologne mayor, Roters lived in the Unterbach district of Düsseldorf for 22 years and successfully campaigned against a container station planned near the Unterbacher See leisure and nature reserve .

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005. Published by Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion and Project Society.

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Roters  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jürgen Roters on the website of the city of Cologne

Individual evidence

1. ↑ About us: The team behind the Cologne Marathon. Cologne Marathon Veranstaltungsungs- und Werbe GmbH, accessed on June 5, 2017 . 
2. ^ Announcement from ASV Cologne for Laufen-in-Koeln , June 30, 2011
3. ↑ Inge Schürmann: Lord Mayor Henriette Reker has accepted office. In: press release. City of Cologne - Office for Press and Public Relations, October 22, 2015, accessed on June 5, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Press release of the City of Cologne from March 6, 2012
5. ^ ^{A b} Carsten Fiedler, Detlev Hüwel, Gerhard Voogt: City chiefs demand clarification. In: RP Online. RP Digital GmbH, February 4, 2009, accessed June 5, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Kristian Frigelj: Cologne savings bank scandal over consulting contracts is expanding. In: The world. February 5, 2009. Retrieved June 5, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Andreas Damm: Rolf Bietmann confirms consulting contract. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. January 20, 2009. Retrieved June 5, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Kristian Frigelj: Kölle and "dat leeve Jeld". In: Welt am Sonntag. February 8, 2009, accessed June 5, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Roters also worked for the Sparkasse. In: Köln.de. NetCologne GmbH, February 4, 2009, accessed on June 5, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Peter Littek, René Schleucher: Jürgen Roters Interview: The Cologne-Düsseldorf. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung. April 13, 2012, accessed June 5, 2017 .