Jochen Wolf (politician)

Jochen Wolf (born August 26, 1941 in Kleinolbersdorf , Chemnitz district , Saxony ; died before or on February 2, 2022 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

After school, Jochen Wolf initially worked as a professional driver; later he got his Abitur. From 1960 to 1961 he did military service in the National People's Army . In 1974 he completed distance learning at the University of Transport in Dresden with a degree in engineering and economics. He rose to department head in the only foreign forwarding company Deutrans in the GDR in its largest location in Potsdam .

At the time of the turnaround and peaceful revolution in the GDR , he founded the Social Democratic Party in the GDR in Brandenburg with others in October 1989 and became the first chairman of the SPD district executive in Potsdam , later a member of the SPD state executive in Brandenburg. In the first free state elections in Brandenburg in 1990 , he was elected to the state parliament for constituency 23 (Potsdam II). From 1993 to 1994 he was a member of the Committee for Economics, SMEs and Technology in the state parliament. Under Prime Minister Manfred Stolpe , Jochen Wolf was promoted to Minister for Urban Development, Housing and Transport in 1991. He resigned in August 1993 because of a real estate scandal. The real estate agent Axel Hilpert , who was the chief buyer of antiques in the so-called "Antik-Handel Pirna" of the Commercial Coordination Department (KoKo) in GDR times , had waived his commission on a property purchase and the minister had reciprocated by renting a field on the outskirts of a landscape protection area as building land. In December 1999, the district court in Potsdam sentenced Wolf to a fine of DM 8,400 for taking advantage.

In 1994 he left the SPD, but remained a member of the state parliament until the end of the legislative period. In 1995, Jochen Wolf obtained a position in the Brandenburg Ministry of Economics as a special representative for projects in Eastern Europe, which he held until 1997.

Jochen Wolf was married four times and had four children. The marriage with his first wife Kristina lasted from 1961 to 1967. After the divorce he married his second wife Erika in the same year, who later committed suicide . The third marriage with his wife Gabriele lasted only eight weeks in 1975. In 1979 he married his fourth wife Ursula.

Since his wife did not want a divorce, in 1998 his 25-year-old Ukrainian girlfriend tried to use Wolf's pistol to force Wolf's estranged wife to agree to the divorce. When that failed, the Ukrainian shot herself. Wolf then thought of revenge, wanted to have his wife killed and tried to hire a contract killer. After his arrest on July 27, 2001, he was sentenced to five years' imprisonment on February 27, 2002 for two counts of attempted incitement to murder his wife. In 2004 he was released from prison after serving his sentence and initially lived in Groß Glienicke .

After an incorrect publication, the spokeswoman for the city of Brandenburg an der Havel confirmed in March 2017 that, contrary to earlier reports, he was still alive and registered there. Three years earlier, the BILD newspaper had tracked down the supposedly dead politician.

Jochen Wolf was found dead in his apartment in Brandenburg/Havel on February 2, 2022. He was 80 years old.

See also

• Cabinet Stolpe I

literature

• Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Wolf, Jochen . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

web links

Commons : Jochen Wolf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Wolf, Jochen. In: ELVIS parliamentary documentation, Brandenburg state parliament. February 3, 2022. 
• Sentenced to five years for incitement to murder: Wolf set killer on his wife. In: RZ Online . February 27, 2002. Archived from the original on February 12, 2013 . 
• Andrea Beyerlein, Jens Blankennagel: Rise and Fall of Jochen Wolf. In: Berliner Zeitung . January 9, 2002. Archived from the original on April 12, 2013 . 

itemizations

1. ↑ Former Brandenburg Minister Jochen Wolf is dead.
2. ↑ the daily newspaper: Fate and the big bad wolf
3. ↑ Rheinzeitung, January 10, 2002: Rise and fall of ex-minister Jochen Wolf
4. ↑ BILD, August 29, 2014: Scandal Minister Wolf found the picture
5. ↑ Märkische Allgemeine, March 21, 2017: Potsdam-Buch erroneously reports the death of ex-minister Wolf
6. ↑ He was already considered dead - now he confesses his life: BILD found scandal minister Jochen Wolf. 29 August 2014, retrieved 3 February 2022 . 
7. ↑ Ex-Minister Jochen Wolf found dead in his apartment in Brandenburg an der Havel. In: Märkische Allgemeine , retrieved February 4, 2022.