Katrin Lompscher

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Katrin Lompscher, 2017

Katrin Lompscher (born April 7, 1962 in Berlin ( East )) is a German politician of the Die Linke party . She was Senator for Health, Environment and Consumer Protection in the State of Berlin from November 2006 to November 2011 and Senator for Urban Development and Housing from December 2016 to August 2020 .

Life

Lompscher grew up with two siblings in East Berlin, their father is the psychology professor Joachim Lompscher . From 1978 to 1981 she trained as a construction worker with a high school diploma . From 1981 to 1986 she studied at the Weimar University of Architecture and Construction , which she graduated with a degree in urban planning. After the birth of her son, she started working as a research assistant at the GDR Building Academy , Institute for Urban Development and Architecture. This facility was renamed the Deutsche Bauakademie in 1990 and existed until the end of 1991. From 1992 to 1996 she was a research assistant at the successor institute, the Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning in Berlin and Erkner .

Political career

In 1981 Lompscher joined the SED , but held no party office there. After German reunification , she remained a member of the party renamed the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS, since 2007: Die Linke). From 1996 to 2000 she was a research assistant in the PDS parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives . From December 2001 to October 2006, Lompscher was district councilor for urban development in the Berlin-Lichtenberg district office and was therefore responsible for urban planning, surveying, the building and housing supervisory office and the building and transport office. In November 2006 she took over the post of Senator for Health, Environment and Consumer Protection in the red-red state government under Klaus Wowereit . The introduction of the environmental zone in Berlin, which the Berlin Senate had already decided in 2005 due to exceeding the EU limit values ​​for pollutants, also fell into her portfolio . Since the founding of the Berlin regional association of the party Die Linke on July 1, 2007, she was its deputy chairwoman until October 21, 2012.

From 2011 to 2017 she was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives . Lompscher was deputy parliamentary group leader and spokesperson for urban development, building and housing.

Since a continuation of the red-black government was impossible after the Berlin election in 2016 , the SPD formed the new state government together with the Left and Alliance 90 / The Greens . On December 8, 2016, Lompscher took over the department for urban development and housing in the Müller II Senate . She resigned from the House of Representatives on January 31, 2017; Philipp Bertram moved up for them. Lompscher resigned from her senatorial position on August 2, 2020 after it became known that she had not paid back remuneration for supervisory board positions in state-owned companies as prescribed to the state treasury for years.

criticism

Holm affair

In her function as building senator, she proposed Andrej Holm as State Secretary for Housing to the Berlin Senate at the beginning of December 2016 , who was then appointed by the Senate. When it became known that Holm to 1990 as full-time employees in the GDR - Ministry of State Security was busy, but the information activity Stasi against his former employer for his Humboldt University had forged, Holm resigned.

"Non-Construction Senator"

A commentator for Der Tagesspiegel wrote on July 6, 2018 that Lompscher was a senator for the prevention of construction. Previously, the numbers for affordable new buildings had been revised downwards several times. Lompscher made a bizarre personnel decision when she occupied the central department for Berlin's housing construction with the non-specialist youth councilor Obermeyer. In May 2018, the CDU demanded Lompscher's dismissal. In September 2017, the managing directors of the six state-owned housing associations signed a fire letter to Lompscher. Despite the acute housing shortage, it is slow and cumbersome to initiate new building projects and only sparingly free rural building areas. They also criticized the way building applications and settlement projects were processed . According to a list by the Berlin Chamber of Commerce and Industry , there were only half as many established development plans in 2018 as in 2016, the last year of Lompscher's predecessor's office.

Participation in the "rent madness" demonstration

On April 6, 2019, the Senator for Construction took part in the big "#Mietenwahnsinn" demonstration. This caused a sensation because Lompscher, as a member of the Berlin state government, protested against housing conditions for which her party or she was responsible for many years. When asked, Lompscher let her spokeswoman say that she was "privately" at the "#Mietenwahnsinn" demonstration.

Tax affair

In July 2020, a request from AfD MP Kristin Brinker to the Senate Finance Administration revealed that Lompscher did not disclose her remuneration for activities in administrative and supervisory boards of state-owned companies totaling 15,427 euros at the tax office in 2017, 2018 and 2019 had, which means that the due repayments of around 5900 euros to the state treasury had not been made. In response to journalistic inquiries, Lompscher made up for the payments in July 2020. From this situation, she declared on August 2, 2020 that she had repaid the difference, announced her resignation and thus resigned from the Senate.

Positions

Lompscher, who describes herself as a “pleasure smoker”, spoke out in her time as health senator for strong non-smoker protection, but against a “militant smoking ban”.

As Senator for Urban Development, in 2017, in a phase of the housing shortage, she declared that her changed building regulations pursued “Berlin goals for environmental and climate protection” and strengthened “escape route concepts in favor of the existing tree population and thus for the benefit of the urban climate”.

She advocates the reconstruction of Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Berlin Building Academy .

She is an advocate of the Berlin rent cap , which many lawyers describe as possibly not in conformity with the constitution.

literature

  • Andreas Wassermann: Lid on it . In: Der Spiegel . No. 44 , 2019, pp. 46 f . ( online - October 26, 2019 ).

Web links

Commons : Katrin Lompscher  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Lompscher. Retrieved on August 3, 2020 (en-EN).
  2. ↑ Welt.de of June 2, 2008
  3. ↑ Jens Anker: Left Senators give seats: Philipp Bertram moves up. Retrieved February 3, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Berlin Senator for Construction Lompscher resigns. WELT, August 2, 2020, accessed on August 2, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Der Tagesspiegel , July 6, 2018: After a bizarre personnel decision. Michael Müller would have to fire Katrin Lompscher .
  6. ↑ tagesspiegel.de: "Dismiss Mrs. Lompscher" (comment)
  7. ↑ berliner-zeitung.de May 10, 2018: CDU calls for the dismissal of Katrin Lompscher
  8. ↑ https://www.bz-berlin.de/berlin/kolumne/frau-lompscher-ist-eine-bausenatorin-die-nicht-baut
  9. ↑ Tagesspiegel.de September 12, 2017: Berlin Housing Market. Lompscher is accused of slowing down new buildings .
  10. ↑ tagesspiegel.de
  11. ↑ a b bz-berlin.de of April 7, 2019: On a demonstration against high rents, Berlin's Senator for Construction demonstrates against its own coalition
  12. ↑ Julia Löhr in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from June 18, 2019, Berlins Mietbremserin , page 22 ( online )
  13. ↑ Because of incorrectly billed payments. Berlin's Senator for Construction Katrin Lompscher resigns. Tagesspiegel-online, August 3, 2020.
  14. ↑ https://www.rbb24.de/politik/beitrag/2020/07/nebenverdienst-senatorin-senat-berlin-rueckrechnung-lompscher.html
  15. ↑ Berlin Senator withholds 6000 euros - embarrassing for Lompscher. In: ntv. July 29, 2020, accessed July 29, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Katrin Lompscher declares resignation from the office of Senator for Urban Development and Housing. In: Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing. August 2, 2020, accessed August 2, 2020 .
  17. ^ Katrin Lompscher: The flexible from the east. Deutsches Ärzteblatt 2006; 103 (49): A-3353 / B-2920 / C-2801.
  18. ↑ tso / ddp: Designated Senator for Health against “militant smoking ban”. In: Tagesspiegel. November 8, 2006, accessed February 22, 2007 .
  19. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/trotz-wohnungsnot-berliner-senat-erschwert-ausbau-von-dachgeschossen/20117454.html
  20. ↑ Answer to Written Question No. 18/15693 of July 19, 2018 about Schinkelsche Bauakademie: What influence does Berlin have on reconstruction and use? (PDF)
  21. ↑ Senate puts rent caps on the way. In: stadtentwicklung.berlin.de. October 22, 2019, accessed November 29, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Rent caps in Berlin could be unconstitutional. In: rbb24.de. June 29, 2019, accessed January 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Lompscher, Katrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Die Linke), MdA, Senator in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin