Jens Boehrnsen

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Jens Böhrnsen (2008)

Jens Böhrnsen (born June 12, 1949 in Bremen ) is a German lawyer and politician ( SPD ). From 2005 to 2015 the former administrative judge was the seventh President of the Senate and Mayor of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen as well as Senator for Church Affairs , and from 2007 also Senator for Culture. He resigned from these offices on July 15, 2015 with the election of his successor Carsten Sieling . From 2005 to 2007 he was also the Senator for Justice and the Constitution .

biography

Böhrnsen was born in the Gröpelingen district of Bremen . The father Gustav Böhrnsen , as a KPD member involved in the resistance against National Socialism , was chairman of the works council of Großwerft AG Weser for more than two decades as well as head of the SPD parliamentary group for one legislative period. 1968 Böhrnsen took part in the demonstrations against the tram prices .

After graduating from high school in 1968 at the Waller Ring high school in the Walle district , Böhrnsen studied law at the University of Kiel from 1968 to 1973 . In 1973 he passed the first state examination in law in Schleswig-Holstein , in 1977 the second in Hamburg and then became an assessor in the Bremen administration. From 1978 to 1995 he was judge at the administrative court in Bremen , until 1980 on probation and 1991 to 1995 as presiding judge of the 6th chamber. Böhrnsen has been a partner in a Bremen law firm since the beginning of 2016.

Böhrnsen is the father of two sons from his first marriage. His second wife Luise Morgenthal died unexpectedly on March 7, 2007 at the age of 58 from the effects of a cerebral haemorrhage. Böhrnsen has been married to the headmistress Birgit Rüst since December 2011.

politics

Jens Böhrnsen and the then Federal President Horst Köhler before the Schaffermahlzeit 2009

Böhrnsen joined the SPD in 1967 at the age of 18. From June 8, 1995 he sat for the SPD parliamentary group in the Bremen citizenship and in 1999 became chairman of the parliamentary group .

In a member survey of the Bremen SPD on October 15, 2005, he was nominated to succeed Henning Scherf as President of the Senate and Mayor of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (72% or 1,924 votes for Böhrnsen, 27% or 721 votes for Willi Lemke ). On November 8, 2005, Böhrnsen was elected President of the Senate and Mayor of Bremen with 62 votes . He continued the grand coalition with the CDU Bremen ( Senate Böhrnsen I ) until the end of the electoral term , but increasingly distanced himself from the coalition partner and let his preference for a coalition with the Bremen Greens shine through when he entered the election campaign, which was tailored to his person moved to the 2007 general election without a coalition statement. In the election on May 13, 2007, the SPD under Jens Böhrnsen received 36.8% of the vote and thus significantly less than in 2003, but due to the likewise heavy losses of the CDU, it was clearly the strongest party and entered a coalition with the Greens, their good Climate was praised from the start. On June 29, 2007, Böhrnsen was confirmed as President of the Senate and Mayor in office with 47 votes ( Senate Böhrnsen II ).

From March 2006 to 2015, Böhrnsen was chairman of the mediation committee between the Bundestag and the Bundesrat, alternating quarterly with a member of the Bundestag, and was deputy chairman of Federalism Commission II (2007–2009) .

From November 1, 2009 to October 31, 2010, Böhrnsen was President of the Federal Council, as scheduled . After Horst Köhler's resignation from the office of Federal President on May 31, 2010, Jens Böhrnsen temporarily took over the official duties and powers of the Federal President in this capacity in accordance with Article 57 of the Basic Law until the new Federal President Christian Wulff took office after his election on June 30, 2010 . On November 1, 2010, the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Hannelore Kraft took over the office of President of the Federal Council, while Böhrnsen was the first Vice-President of the Federal Council until October 31, 2011.

In the citizenship election on May 22, 2011 , Jens Böhrnsen received 143,807 votes in the personal election due to the new electoral system, which corresponds to 67 percent of all votes for SPD candidates and 27 percent of all votes for candidates in this election; he was well ahead of all the other applicants. Both parties of the red-green coalition gained, while the CDU and FDP lost. On June 30, 2011, Böhrnsen was confirmed in his office as mayor by the Bremen citizenship. He received 57 of 83 votes with one abstention and continued the red-green coalition ( Senate Böhrnsen III ).

In 2014, the Bremen Senate decided that in future the costs of police operations in Bundesliga soccer games with potential risks would be borne by the club or association. The German Football Association reacted by moving the European Championship qualifier against Gibraltar from Bremen to Nuremberg. Böhrnsen criticized this reaction of the DFB as unfair pressure against a democratically legitimized decision.

For the general election in May 2015 , Böhrnsen was nominated by the Bremen SPD as a top candidate with 97% approval of the nomination party congress and relied on classic social-democratic and local-political issues of education and social policy. In terms of federal politics, the longest-serving head of government in a federal state at the time urged to accelerate the expansion of energy lines and the reorganization of federal-state financial relations, which must take place by 2020 according to the resolutions of Federalism Reform II ( debt brake ).

In the general election on May 10, 2015, Böhrnsen received 93,903 votes. Because the SPD lost more than five percentage points of the vote, Boehrnsen declared the next day that he did not want to run again as head of government. Böhrnsen had been criticized for being "submerged" in this election campaign instead of looking for the political debate.

His successor in the offices of Senate President and Mayor and Senator for Church Affairs and Culture was Carsten Sieling on July 15, 2015 (see Senate Sieling ). Bremen's political scientist Lothar Probst judged Böhrnsen's administration that he had rather reluctantly worked in the background instead of looking for the conflict and, as the city's most popular mayor , was able to break out of the shadow of his predecessor Henning Scherf , but was perceived as not assertive. Radio Bremen commented that there was not much left of Boehrnsen's term of office, which was due to the limited scope for action due to the constant budgetary emergency; he had failed to show future prospects for Bremen in the reorganization of financial relations between the federal government and the states in the course of the Federalism Reform II. Böhrnsen announced that he would withdraw from the daily political public, but would continue to get involved in society.

Other engagement

Böhrnsen is a member of ver.di , the Arbeiterwohlfahrt , the German-Israeli Society and the Bremen Evangelical Church in Bremen. He is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Wohnliche Stadt Foundation.

See also

Web links

Commons : Jens Böhrnsen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: Jens Böhrnsen  - in the news

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Seitz: My father and I. Celebrities tell. Kösel, Munich 2012, p. 11 .
  2. ↑ a b c Mayor Jens Böhrnsen (SPD). ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bremen.de , last changed on November 25, 2015.
  3. ↑ René Bender: Bremen: Ex-Mayor Jens Böhrnsen becomes a partner at Trentmann. In: JUVE Verlag for legal information , November 23, 2015.
  4. ^ Birgit Bruns: Private ceremony in Bremen-Vegesack. Böhrnsen's secret wedding. In: Weser-Kurier .de , January 7, 2012; Business leaders: Jens Böhrnsen.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Wirtschaftswoche . Retrieved May 23, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.wiwo.de  
  5. ↑ Michael Scherer: Local politics in Bremen. In: Andreas Kost, Hans-Georg Wehling (Hrsg.): Local politics in the German states. An introduction. 2nd, updated and revised edition. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2010, pp. 120–147, here p. 136 .
  6. ↑ Jörn Ketelhut, Roland Lhotta , Mario-Gino Harms: The Bremen citizenship as “co-regent”. Hybrid parliamentarism in a two-city state. In: Siegfried Mielke , Werner Reutter (ed.): State parliamentarism: history - structure - functions. 2nd, revised and updated edition. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2012, pp. 219-252, here p. 232 .
  7. ↑ Jörn Ketelhut, Roland Lhotta , Mario-Gino Harms: The Bremen citizenship as “co-regent”. Hybrid parliamentarism in a two-city state. In: Siegfried Mielke , Werner Reutter (ed.): State parliamentarism: history - structure - functions. 2nd, revised and updated edition. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2012, pp. 219–252, here p. 233 .
  8. ^ Farewell to the Federal Council. Jens Böhrnsen says goodbye to politics. In: Bundesrat.de , July 16, 2015.
  9. ↑ Böhrnsen takes over Köhler's official business. In: Spiegel Online , May 31, 2010.
  10. ^ Lothar Probst: Effects of the new electoral systems in Hamburg and Bremen. In: AWAPP.Uni-Bremen.de , July 2011, p. 11 (PDF) ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 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 / www.awapp.uni-bremen.de
  11. ↑ Jörn Ketelhut, Roland Lhotta , Mario-Gino Harms: The Bremen citizenship as “co-regent”. Hybrid parliamentarism in a two-city state. In: Siegfried Mielke , Werner Reutter (ed.): State parliamentarism: history - structure - functions. 2nd, revised and updated edition. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2012, pp. 219-252, here p. 234 .
  12. ↑ Mayor Böhrnsen re-elected. In: Focus , accessed June 30, 2011.
  13. ↑ International game withdrawal Bremen: "No contact". In: Frankfurter Rundschau , July 26, 2014.
  14. ↑ Bremer SPD is again with Böhrnsen. In: NWZ online , September 26, 2014.
  15. ↑ Jochen Gaugele, Martin Greive: Stromtrassen-Streit. Böhrnsen calls Seehofer "small minded". In: Die Welt , February 15, 2015.
  16. ↑ Federation-Länder financial relations. Jens Böhrnsen: Berlin has a duty. In: Weser-Kurier .de , February 14, 2015.
  17. ↑ Citizenship election 2015: Preliminary result is certain. Press release. In: Wahlen.Bremen.de , May 13, 2015, p. 2 (PDF) .
  18. ↑ Consequences after the SPD election debacle. Jens Böhrnsen resigns. In: Weser-Kurier.de , May 11, 2015.
  19. ↑ a b Jens Böhrnsen's last working day. What remains? ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2015 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. In: Radio Bremen , July 14, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radiobremen.de
  20. ↑ Eckhard Stengel: In profile. Carsten Sieling wants to let go of Bremen. In: Badische Zeitung , July 16, 2015.
  21. ↑ Karl Henry Lahmann: Jens Böhrnsen - a balance. ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2015 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: Radio Bremen , July 14, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radiobremen.de
  22. ↑ Jürgen Hinrichs: Former Mayor of Bremen Jens Böhrnsen: "I am at peace with myself". In: Weser-Kurier.de , July 15, 2015.
  23. ↑ organs of the foundation. Board of Trustees. ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2015 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. In: WohnlicheStadt-Bremen.de , as of September 1, 2011.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wohnlichestadt-bremen.de
personal data
SURNAME Boehrnsen, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), President of the Senate and Mayor of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen