Karl Nolle
Karl Heinrich Nolle (born March 9, 1945 in Hattendorf ) is a German entrepreneur and SPD politician. He was a member of the Saxon State Parliament from 1999 to 2014 .
biography
In his youth, Nolle was involved in the peace and anti-nuclear movement. In the Socialist Committee for Eastern Europe he supported opposition movements in Poland , Czechoslovakia and the GDR , as well as working against the Chilean Pinochet dictatorship . Nolle was the organizer of the socialist conferences in Kassel, Marburg and Bochum.
Karl Nolle comes from a family with long social democratic traditions. The trained electrical mechanic studied history, political science, sociology and psychology in Hanover from 1970 to 1976 . There he founded a small printing company in 1968. From 1973 to 1976 he was their joint partner with Gerhard Schröder .
According to Nolle, he has lived in Dresden since the fall of the Berlin Wall . In March 1991 he acquired the ailing Dresdner Offsetdruck GmbH from the trust . Since April 1991 he has been running it under the new company Druckhaus Dresden GmbH (DHD). In 1994 he set up the Museum Lichtdruckwerkstatt Dresden there and ran it until 2004 as a “working museum”.
In May 1995, Nolle sold SOAK Druck- und Verlags GmbH in Hanover, which he has owned since 1973. Since October 1995, he has been managing partner of Junius-Verlag Dresden / Hamburg.
In May 1997, Nolle initiated the establishment of the employee participation GmbH at Druckhaus Dresden, which owns 25% of the company.
He appears as the patron of various citizens' initiatives and events and is chairman of the Dresden Civil Society for the Promotion of Culture, which he founded .
Karl Nolle and his wife retired as the responsible managing directors from Druckhaus Dresden on April 1, 2011, but still held shares in the company. In 2013 the company filed for bankruptcy.
Political career
During his school days, Nolle belonged to the falcons from 1958 . In 1963 he became a member of the SPD and IG Metall for a long time . In 1968/69 Nolle became involved in the APO in Hanover. After the Jusos turned to the left , Nolle held various functions from 1968 and was most recently the deputy chairman of the Juso district of Hanover.In 1981 he was a founding member of the Green / Alternative Citizens List (GABL) Hanover, in which he worked until 1984.
In 1986, because of his call to cast the second vote for the Greens, he was excluded from the SPD. In August 1998 he rejoined the SPD.
After his election to the Saxon state parliament, Nolle was the economic and energy policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group. In March 2006, after disagreements with Economics Minister Thomas Jurk , Nolle returned the function of economic policy spokesman to the parliamentary group. He was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the "SachsenLB" investigative committee. Nolle also belonged to the investigative committees “Paunsdorf” (investigative committee into the “influence” of CDU Prime Minister Kurt Biedenkopf and other government members on leases for the Paunsdorf administrative center, 2000) and “Sachsenring” (investigative committee into failures and wrong decisions of the state government and its members in control of the Landesbank Sachsen, 2005). Since April 2012 he was one of 19 members of the first Saxon NSU investigative committee “Neo-Nazi Terror Networks in Saxony”.
In 2001 Nolle and the SPD supported the candidacy of the FDP politician Ingolf Roßberg in the election for mayor, which was launched by the OB initiative for Dresden .
In the state elections in 2014 , he decided not to run again after fifteen years as a member of parliament and left parliament when the 6th Saxon state parliament met in 2014.
He also takes a media position on current political issues such as neo-Nazism, for example in an interview in the left-wing daily Junge Welt .
Nolle as a corruption investigator in Saxony and CDU allegations
Nolle became known for clarifying corruption and other misconducts of Saxon CDU politicians. In 2002, he gained nationwide media attention in particular during the affair surrounding the company car and apartment of Kurt Biedenkopf and his wife.
Nolle was also involved in the prosecution of the unjustified use of flood aid funds by Minister Christine Weber and the commission payments to State Secretary Wolfram Köhler , whose resignation he was instrumental in initiating. He informed about the involvement of the then Prime Minister Georg Milbradt in the affair surrounding the Sachsen LB and thus contributed to his resignation (as well as the board of the Sachsen LB) in 2008. Although the SPD had formed a coalition with the CDU since the end of 2004, Nolle also pushed ahead with parliamentary investigations into the Saxon swamp (suspected numerous criminal structures in higher offices), which earned him criticism from within the party.
In connection with the above-mentioned events, he also repeatedly criticized the Saxon public prosecutor's offices for their inaction in investigations.
On April 23, 2009, an indiscretion made it known that the Dresden public prosecutor's office was investigating Nolle because of initial suspicion of subsidy fraud. Since the investigation against Nolle began shortly before his book was published and was leaked to the press, the public prosecutor's office was accused by the Left Party and the newspapers Neues Deutschland and Junge Welt of possibly acting politically. The public prosecutor brought charges and after two and a half years the Leipzig Finance Court decided that Nolle had behaved correctly. Attempts to waive Nolle's immunity were made twice in this context, the first application was rejected by the immunity committee, the second application was rejected by the attorney general.
In June 2009 Nolle published the book Sonata for recorders and shawms together with Michael Bartsch , Christoph Jesteadt and Michael Lühmann . To deal with the collaboration between today's CDU functionaries in the SED regime .
In October 2011, Nolle hit the headlines again when he attested to the Dresden police and public prosecutor that “the rule of law and the constitution” had in parts “got completely out of hand”.
Works
- Posts in: East Germany a region behind? Perspectives and alternatives. Junius Verlag, Dresden 2001, ISBN 3-88506-014-0 .
- Sonata for recorders and shawms - On dealing with the collaboration between today's CDU functionaries in the SED regime. Self-published by Karl Nolle, Dresden 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-028062-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dresden Latest News, September 9, 2015. [1]
- ↑ Leipziger Volkszeitung: Nolle: "Jurk is an incompetent Minister of Economics" , March 14, 2006
- ^ 2. Committee of Inquiry into Criminal and Corruption Networks in Saxony. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 23, 2014 ; accessed on February 1, 2014 . 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.
- ^ Saxon conditions - the rule of law in Saxony stands on shaky feet. In: Junge Welt, August 29, 2019.
- ↑ Example: Freie Presse Chemnitz: No rest for Attorney General Schwalm before retirement , June 2, 2007 , copy on Karl Nolle's website
- ↑ jW: Persecutor of the day: Karl Nolle , April 24, 2009
- ^ New Germany: Flutes as Boomerangs , April 24, 2009
- ↑ FDP politician: Nolle has to apologize for the dictatorship comparison. In: Young Freedom. October 25, 2011.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nolle, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nolle, Karl Heinrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur, politician (SPD), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hattendorf |