Jens-Holger Kirchner

Jens-Holger Kirchner (2014)

Jens-Holger "Nilson" Kirchner (born November 19, 1959 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ).

From 2006 to 2016 he was district councilor in the Berlin district of Pankow , and from 2011 he was also deputy district mayor . From 2016 until his retirement in December 2018, Kirchner was State Secretary in the Berlin Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection .

Life

Jens-Holger Kirchner was born on November 19, 1959 in Brandenburg an der Havel in what was then the GDR . He grew up in Woltersdorf near Erkner . In 1973 the family moved to the Berlin district of Köpenick , where he graduated from the Polytechnic High School in 1976 . Since he was not allowed to attend the extended secondary school , Kirchner first completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter at the Komische Oper and at the same time made up his Abitur in evening school .

After completing his training, Kirchner moved to the Prenzlauer Berg district . There he occupied an apartment and started a family. The family broke up a little later, and Kirchner was drafted into military service in the National People's Army . As part of the Prenzlauer Berg network play / culture association , Kirchner was committed to child and youth welfare in the district.

At the time of the fall of the Wall, Kirchner was politically involved in the round table of the Prenzlauer Berg district and chose the local politics of Prenzlauer Berg and Pankow as his focus.

Kirchner is a trained educator. He has been married since 2012 and has two children.

politics

District Politics (1990-2016)

After the Berlin elections in 1990 , he entered the Prenzlauer Berg District Assembly for the PDS for the first time , to which he was a member until 1992. Kirchner later joined the Prenzlauer Berg electoral community and was re-elected to the Prenzlauer Berg district council.

At the end of the 1990s, Kirchner's party became part of the regional association of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , and in 2001 he became a member of the Berlin Greens. Parallel to his commitment at the local level, Kirchner completed his studies and then worked as an educator.

In the 2001 elections , he entered the district council assembly of the merged district of Pankow for the Greens and was also elected its head.

In 2006 he was re-elected to the District Assembly. The now numerically strengthened faction of the Greens was entitled to a city council post in the district office for the first time. Kirchner was then elected as the new district councilor for public order.

After the Berlin elections in 2011 , he took over the urban development department as a district councilor and was also elected deputy mayor of the Pankow district.

In his time as a city councilor for public order as well as for urban development, Kirchner made a name for himself beyond the district and city limits by making some controversial decisions on the renovation of streets in Prenzlauer Berg ( Oderberger Straße and Kastanienallee ) and the publication of the results met by hygiene controls at restaurants in the district. He also introduced comprehensive parking management in the district, which led to resentment among residents of the district. At the same time, Kirchner also made progress in his two offices with political decisions that later set a precedent in the entire state of Berlin, including the expansion of protected areas and a strict interpretation of the laws on holiday homes .

Kirchner was described by the Berlin media as “not very diplomatic” and “Berlin's toughest city council”.

In the elections for the district assembly in 2016 , Kirchner ran as the top candidate of the Greens with the aim of becoming district mayor. This failed, however, because his party, behind the Left , was only just the second strongest force in the district with 20.6 percent. A red-red-green counting community at the district level then elected Sören Benn (Linke) as the new district mayor.

Kirchner was then re-elected as district councilor and deputy mayor.

State politics since 2016

After the elections to the Berlin House of Representatives, which took place at the same time, the SPD, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and Die Linke formed a red-red-green state government . As part of the personnel concept, Kirchner was temporarily acted as the Senator for Transport , but ultimately the Greens nominated the non-party WWF manager Regine Günther .

Kirchner was finally nominated as State Secretary for Transport in the Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection . The new Senate Müller II was finally appointed and sworn in in the Berlin House of Representatives on December 8, 2016 after he had resigned from his previous offices in the Pankow district.

In the summer of 2018, Kirchner fell ill with colon cancer and was initially on sick leave. In order to be able to continue working, Senator Günther decided in December to have Kirchner put into temporary retirement - according to media reports against his will . Kirchner himself had planned to be able to resume his service in spring 2019. Despite considerable criticism, Kirchner was retired on December 11, 2018 at Günther's request and Ingmar Streese was appointed as his successor.

Kirchner was given the option by the Senate of being reassigned to the Berlin Senate Chancellery after he had recovered. After his recovery, Kirchner returned in May 2019 and started working in the Senate Chancellery as a staff unit manager for “major projects”, among other things responsible for the development of Tegel Airport and the Siemens campus.

Web links

Commons : Jens-Holger Kirchner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ The district office The college of the district office Pankow of Berlin. District Office Pankow, accessed on November 20, 2016 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Jens-Holger Kirchner: MY VITA. (No longer available online.) In: jensholgerkirchner.de. Archived from the original on November 7, 2016 ; Retrieved November 17, 2016 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Thomas Loy: Jens-Holger Kirchner - the undiplomat. In: Der Tagesspiegel . February 11, 2011, accessed November 17, 2016 . 
4. ^ Office for Culture and Education, FB Museum / District History Work, Museum Association Pankow: The first free and democratic local elections in Pankow, Prenzlauer Berg and Weißensee twenty years ago. (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: berlin.de. District Assembly Pankow, June 10, 2010, accessed on September 11, 2018 . 
5. ^ Sabine Rennefanz : Jens-Holger Kirchner. The special way from Pankow. In: Berliner Zeitung . April 4, 2013, accessed November 17, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Juliane Wiedemeier: MR NILSON. In: Prenzlauer Berg News. September 14, 2011, accessed December 9, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Berlin's toughest city council is disempowered. In: BZ October 29, 2011, accessed on November 17, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Ulrike Scheffler: Profile of the new mayor of Pankow. Via Kosovo to Pankow. In: Der Tagesspiegel. October 28, 2016. Retrieved November 10, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Sabine Beikler: Jens-Holger Kirchner Transport Secretary. In: Der Tagesspiegel. December 2, 2016, accessed December 9, 2016 . 
10. ↑ ODK: We are looking for a city councilor for urban development who can get the citizens' offices up and running. In: Prenzlberg voice. December 7, 2016, accessed December 9, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Stefan Jacobs, Klaus Kurpjuweit, Ulrich Zawatka-Gerlach: Kirchner will probably not traffic senator. In: Der Tagesspiegel. November 18, 2016, accessed December 9, 2016 . 
12. ↑ Ingmar Streese appointed as the new Secretary of State for Transport - Jens-Holger Kirchner is put into temporary retirement. Press release. In: berlin.de. Senate Chancellery Berlin , December 11, 2018, accessed on December 11, 2018 . 
13. ^ Peter Neumann: Ex-State Secretary healthy again. Traffic expert Jens-Holger Kirchner returns. In: Berliner Zeitung. May 8, 2019, accessed May 9, 2019 .