Joachim Wolbergs

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Joachim Wolbergs (born March 2, 1971 in Regensburg ) is a German local politician (until April 29, 2019 SPD , since April 11, 2019 electoral association "Bridge - Ideas Connect People"). In 2008 he became 3rd Mayor , from May 1, 2014 to April 30, 2020 he was Lord Mayor of the city of Regensburg. Since January 27, 2017 Wolbergs was temporarily suspended from duty.

Life

Wolbergs was born in Regensburg in 1971. In 1991 he made on Albrecht Altdorfer-Gymnasium high school . For a long time he was the student representative and also district student representative for the Upper Palatinate administrative district in Bavaria . He then did 15 months of community service at the workers' welfare organization in outpatient care for the elderly and the sick. From 1993 to 2008 Wolbergs was managing director of Speicher-Events GmbH, among others. He was politically committed to the SPD early on .

In the mayor election in March 2008, Wolbergs came into the runoff election, which he lost to incumbent Hans Schaidinger . On May 5, 2008 he was elected 3rd Mayor of the city of Regensburg. In the mayoral elections in 2014 , he ran again and was elected in the runoff election with 70.24% of the vote on March 30, 2014. He took office on May 1, 2014.

Until 2017, Wolbergs was chairman of the SPD sub-district of Regensburg, chairman of the SPD local association Regensburg-Stadtsüden, deputy SPD district chairman in Upper Palatinate and a member of the state board of the BayernSPD .

On April 29, 2019, Wolbergs submitted his resignation to the SPD after the SPD had asked him to leave it a week earlier. The SPD justified this with the founding of the electoral association “Bridge - Ideas Connect People” by Wolbergs.

Wolbergs is married and has two children. His wife commented on her husband's donation affair in a novel and in interviews. The two children gave information about the family problems in the school newspaper of their high school.

Election statistics

Results of the mayoral elections in 2008

Surname Hans Schaidinger Joachim Wolbergs
1st ballot 0March 2, 2008 43.5% 27.0%
2nd ballot March 16, 2008 52.1% 47.9%

Results of the mayoral elections 2014

Surname Christian Schlegl Joachim Wolbergs
1st ballot March 16, 2014 32.29% 49.96%
2nd ballot March 30, 2014 29.76% 70.24%

Results of the mayor elections 2020

On March 15, 2020, Wolbergs stood as candidate for mayor (initiative Die Brücke ) in the city of Regensburg in the 2020 municipal elections , received 17.71% of the valid votes and reached third place after Astrid Freudenstein (CSU, 29.48%) and Gertrud Maltz-Schwarzfischer (SPD, 22.15%). He missed the runoff election on March 29th. His term of office as Lord Mayor ended on April 30, 2020.

Criminal proceedings on charges of corruption

On June 14, 2016, Wolbergs was confronted by the Regensburg public prosecutor's office with the charge of accepting benefits ; his local SPD association had received high donations from three building contractors . Wolbergs announced extensive cooperation with investigating authorities. He saw no reason to suspend official business and initiated disciplinary proceedings against himself with the Bavarian State Prosecutor's Office in order to exonerate himself from suspicion of an official offense. On January 18, 2017, he was with two other people because of danger of collusion in remand taken. The public prosecutor accuses Wolberg of bribery . On January 27, 2017, the public prosecutor announced that he had been temporarily relieved of his duties. After an examination date on February 1, 2017, the district court of Regensburg ordered the Wolbergs to remain in custody. Since then, Lord Mayor Wolbergs has been represented on an interim basis by second mayor Gertrud Maltz-Schwarzfischer . On February 28, 2017, the Regensburg Regional Court suspended the arrest warrant with conditions.

The public prosecutor's office in Regensburg announced on July 27, 2017 that they had brought charges against the Wolbergs for bribery, taking advantage and violating the law on political parties at the commercial criminal chamber of the regional court in Regensburg.

In December 2017 it became known that Wolbergs had already been warned by email on February 10, 2015 by the Bavarian SPD state headquarters that great caution should still be exercised, especially with donations from construction companies etc. Any appearance that donations are intended to serve specific or definable projects must be excluded here. The Bayern-SPD explained that on February 10, 2015, “the Bayern-SPD neither had positive knowledge of a possible illegal acceptance of donations by the Regensburg-Stadtsüden local association, nor was there any cause for mistrust”.

First trial 2018/2019

On March 1, 2018, the Regional Court of Regensburg announced that main proceedings were being opened against Wolbergs for taking or granting advantages and for violating the law on political parties. Accusations of corruption or bribery as well as the anti-competitive agreements in tenders are not tenable at least at the moment. All arrest warrants (which had already been suspended) were overturned.

The process began on September 24, 2018. 98 days of negotiations were planned. On May 6, 2019, the public prosecutor's office pleaded for four years and six months imprisonment for Wolbergs due to bribery, acceptance of benefits and violations of the party law. The defense, on the other hand, pleaded for acquittal on May 20, 2019, because there was neither evidence nor incriminating witness statements, but only circumstantial evidence. On July 3, 2019, Wolbergs was acquitted on most counts. In two cases - the court judged this to be a mistake in the prohibition - he was found guilty of accepting benefits totaling € 150,000. The court refrained from determining the sentence, as the proceedings "practically ruined" him; the provisional impeachment remained in place. On July 3, 2019, the public prosecutor's office announced an appeal against the judgment. Wolbergs also wants to go into revision.

Second process 2019/2020

At the beginning of October 2019, a second corruption process began against Wolbergs at the Regensburg Regional Court. The public prosecutor's office is accused of taking bribes and accepting benefits; In this process, too, donations from the construction industry to Wolbergs' former SPD local association are the focus. Three contractors are also charged, one of whom has already accepted the penalty order.

In the judgment of June 17, 2020, Wolbergs was sentenced by the criminal chamber of the Regional Court of Regensburg to a prison sentence of one year, suspended on probation, for corruption in one case. He was acquitted on the other charges. Wolberg's defense lawyer announced after the verdict that he wanted to go into appeal. Another accused building contractor was sentenced to a fine of 70 daily rates of 900 euros each (a total of 63,000 euros).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Wenleder, Sebastian Grosser: Wolbergs wants to create the re-election as mayor with the "bridge". In: br.de. April 11, 2019, accessed May 9, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b Marcel Kehrer: Mayor Wolbergs is temporarily suspended. (No longer available online.) In: br.de. January 27, 2017, archived from the original on August 6, 2017 ; accessed on January 27, 2017 .
  3. ↑ That's me. In: joachimwolbergs.de, accessed on January 18, 2017.
  4. ↑ Suspended Mayor Wolbergs leaves SPD. In: Mittelbayerische.de. April 29, 2019. Retrieved April 29, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Christian Eckl: In school newspaper: Children of Wolbergs tell about arrest. In: pnp.de. March 20, 2019. Retrieved March 20, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Election of the Lord Mayor. City of Eegensburg, accessed on March 15, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Ernst Waller: Two million e-mails in focus. In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung . August 5, 2016. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Searches on suspicion of accepting and granting benefits. (PDF; 251 kB) Press release. Public Prosecutor Regensburg, June 14, 2016, accessed on January 18, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Possible party donation affair: Wolbergs knows back allegations. In: Welt Online . June 15, 2016. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
  10. ↑ Isolde Stöcker-Gietl, Marion Koller, Andrea Fiedler u. a .: OB goes on the offensive. In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung. June 17, 2016, vol. 72, No. 38, p. 1 ( online version of June 16, 2016).
  11. ^ Isolde Stöcker-Gietl: Mayor Joachim Wolbergs remains in custody. In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung. January 18, 2017. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
  12. ↑ Andrea Rieder, Micha Matthes, Isolde Stöcker-Gietl: Wolbergs remains in custody. Mittelbayerische.de, February 1, 2017, accessed on February 1, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Joachim Wolbergs comes out of custody. In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung. February 28, 2017. Retrieved March 2, 2017 .
  14. ^ Isolde-Stöcker Gietl: Regensburg OB Wolbergs is charged. In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung. July 27, 2017. Retrieved July 27, 2017 .
  15. ↑ CS: SPD warned Regensburg Mayor Wolbergs against party donations. In: pnp.de. December 22, 2017. Retrieved December 24, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Isolde Stöcker-Gietl: Wolbergs: "I'm a free person again". In: Mittelbayerische.de. March 1, 2018, accessed March 1, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Start of the process: Mayor Wolbergs is in court for accepting benefits. In: pnp.de. September 24, 2018. Retrieved September 24, 2018 .
  18. ^ Andreas Wenleder, Kilian Neuwert, Uli Scherr: Public prosecutor's office demands 4.5 years imprisonment for OB Wolbergs. (No longer available online.) In: Mittelbayerische.de. May 7, 2018, formerly in the original ; accessed on May 8, 2019 (the mementos cannot be accessed on May 20, 2019).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.br.de
  19. ^ Isolde Stöcker-Gietl: Wolberg's defense lawyer pleads for acquittal. In: sueddeutsche.de. May 20, 2019, accessed May 21, 2019 .
  20. ^ Patrick Guyton: Corruption process in Regensburg: Joachim Wolbergs' sad victory . In: The daily newspaper: taz . July 3, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( online [accessed July 3, 2019]).
  21. ↑ a b Regensburg's corruption process becomes a case for the Federal Court of Justice. In: pnp.de. July 3, 2019, accessed July 4, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Quasi-acquittal for Wolbergs , sueddeutsche.de July 3, 2019, accessed on July 3, 2019
  23. ↑ Wolbergs is working on a comeback: Revision announced. In: pnp.de. July 4, 2019, accessed July 6, 2019 .
  24. ↑ NewsBlog: The second Wolbergs trial. In: Mittelbayerische.de. January 15, 2020, accessed January 16, 2020 .
  25. ^ "At no point behave illegally". In: sueddeutsche.de. May 19, 2020, accessed May 26, 2020 .
  26. ^ Regensburg: Joachim Wolbergs convicted of bribery. In: idowa.de. June 17, 2020, accessed June 17, 2020 .
  27. ↑ Wolbergs now threatens to lose his pension - Corruption affair in Regensburg. In: Mittelbayerische.de. June 17, 2020, accessed June 17, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Wolbergs, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 2nd 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg