Karl Heinz Laudenbach

Karl Heinz Laudenbach (born July 3, 1957 in Bad Kissingen ) was Lord Mayor of Bad Kissingen from 2002 to 2008 .

Karl Heinz Laudenbach

Life

Police service

Laudenbach attended secondary school in Bad Kissingen and joined the police in 1974. After he had obtained the higher education entrance qualification on the second educational path, he studied at the Bavarian Civil Service College and the Police Leadership Academy in Münster and qualified as a graduate in administration . He held various management positions in the Bavarian police and rose to the position of detective director . After working as head of the border police station Bad Reichenhall highway and border police inspections Lindau and Pfronten, as well as boundary commissioner of the Bavarian police for Austria , which Switzerland and Liechtenstein , he became head of the central drug control in Bayern at the state police .

In Laudenbach's area of ​​responsibility, some investigation methods were introduced for the first time on a trial basis in the 1990s, which, as the “Lindau model” of mobile border controls, became the basis of the later Bavaria-wide veil search near the border.

Activity as Lord Mayor

In 2002 the non-party Laudenbach was elected as the CSU candidate for Lord Mayor of Bad Kissingen. Laudenbach placed a focus of his work as Lord Mayor on bringing the traditional spa town of Bad Kissingen back more international attention.

Laudenbach first gained notoriety beyond Germany through a regulation that stipulated high fines for spat and wild pissers or the throwing away of cigarette butts in the city and brought Laudenbach headlines such as “Germany's toughest mayor” or “OB merciless”.

The establishment of a German-Chinese soccer academy (DCFA), operated by Laudenbach, brought Bad Kissingen a lot of attention in China in 2004 . A permanent training base in the spa town was supposed to bring young Chinese soccer players to the top of the world until the 2008 Olympics in Beijing . However, when promised funds failed to materialize and sponsors dropped out, the project ended with the DCFA becoming insolvent. The Chinese footballers were also unsuccessful in terms of sport.

Laudenbach also made contacts in South America , so that the Ecuadorian national team moved into their quarters in Bad Kissingen during the 2006 World Cup .

Laudenbach did not run for the next mayor election in 2008.

prison sentence

In August 2013 Laudenbach was arrested on charges of accepting benefits and tax evasion . According to the investigations of the public prosecutor's office, Laudenbach had illegally collected a commission of 434,000 euros and evaded taxes of 317,000 euros for brokering a real estate business in Bad Kissingen. The district court Würzburg , he was sentenced a year later for about two years and eight months in prison. After serving two-thirds of the sentence, including pre- trial detention , he was released early in May 2015 and the remainder of the sentence was suspended.

Honors

National Order of Merit "Al Mérito" of the Republic of Ecuador with the rank of Gran Oficial

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mayor Laudenbach turned 50 , Main Post , July 3, 2007
2. ↑ OB Merciless: A title acts as an incentive , Allgäuer Zeitung , January 7, 2003
3. ↑ OB Laudenbach turned 50 , Main Post , July 3, 2007
4. ↑ Busses for Spucker in a Franconian health resort , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 28, 2003
5. ↑ Football academy officially presented in China, Main Post, November 30, 2004
6. ^ Football academy cannot pay coaches , Die Welt , March 15, 2007
7. ↑ Soccer World Cup: Ecuador says yes to Bad Kissingen , Main Post , November 15, 2005
8. ↑ Laudenbach has to go to prison , Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 21, 2014
9. ↑ Laudenbach is released early from prison , Main Post , May 7, 2015
10. ^ High distinction for Mayor Laudenbach , Osthessen-News , May 6, 2007