Klaus-Dieter Gröhler

Klaus-Dieter Gröhler

Klaus-Dieter Gröhler (born April 17, 1966 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and lawyer . He has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2013 . Here he is a member of the budget committee and the 1st committee of inquiry as well as a deputy member of the interior committee . He has headed the committee of inquiry as successor to Armin Schuster since September 26, 2019.

Life

Gröhler attended the Schiller-Gymnasium in Berlin-Charlottenburg and graduated from high school in 1984. A year later he began studying law at the Free University of Berlin . Since 1995 he is a lawyer with a focus on State - and administrative law .

In 1982 he joined the CDU , for which he worked from 1991 to 2000 as a member of the Berlin-Charlottenburg district council . From 1992 he was chairman of the building committee and since 1994 parliamentary group chairman.

Within his party, he has been chairman of the CDU local association Schloss (which was run as the local association Lietzensee from 1978 to at least 1986 ), member of the district executive committee of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and of the CDU state executive committee of Berlin. From 1996 to 2000 was Gröhler Government in the Senate Department for Construction, Housing and Transport and the Senate Department for Urban Development, and he also is since 1999 part-time auditor of the Joint Judicial Examination Office Berlin-Brandenburg for lawyers contender of the two German states.

Between January 1, 2001 and December 6, 2001, Gröhler was district councilor for economics, human resources and administration in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and has since been the responsible district councilor for construction at the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district office and deputy mayor .

Gröhler changed departments and has been deputy district mayor and district councilor for citizen services, further education, culture, building construction and real estate since October 27, 2011.

He was nominated in September 2012 as a direct candidate for the Bundestag for constituency 80 Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf . He won the direct election on September 22, 2013 . In the Committee on Budgets, he is the rapporteur for Section 6 “Home Affairs, Building and Home Affairs” and Section 21 “Data protection and freedom of information”. Furthermore chairman is the Group in the federal funding body and a member of the Trust Board for the secret budgets of the intelligence services of the Federation . He has also been Deputy Chairman of the Berlin State Group since 2017. Since September he has been chairman of the 1st committee of inquiry into the terrorist attack on Breitscheidplatz. He is also a deputy member of the Committee on Home Affairs and Home Affairs .

On April 5, 2019, he was elected as the successor to Stefan Evers as district chairman of the CDU Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf.

Public perception

As deputy mayor of the district and in particular as town councilor for construction in the densely populated district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf , which includes the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin), the Berlin University of the Arts and the Berlin Olympic Stadium and the one with City West (area around Kurfürstendamm ) Performs center functions for the whole of Berlin, Gröhler was often in the public eye.

Large-scale urban development projects

As part of the planning sovereignty of the district, he was jointly responsible for large-scale urban development projects that shaped the cityscape, and he often contributed and adopted his own positions. Since 2005/2006, Gröhler has been involved in the planning processes for the development of City West , such as the area around the Zoo station with Hardenbergplatz , the Zoobogen on Budapester Straße and the TU campus on Hardenbergstraße; partly also controversial about the politics of the Berlin Senate led by an SPD / Left Party coalition .

Renovation of the Schoeler-Schlösschen

As a member of the budget committee, Gröhler was able to campaign for the Schoeler-Schlösschen in Wilmersdorf to receive the urgently needed funds for the redevelopment and conversion of the oldest residential building in Wilmersdorf from the federal program "Redevelopment of municipal facilities in the areas of sport, youth and culture". As a building city councilor, he had already campaigned for the house and restored the baroque appearance of the house with the Berlin Monument Protection Foundation.

Cafe constituency

As a constituency office, Gröhler maintains a non-commercial café called “Café Wahlkreis”, which is intended to serve as a point of contact for the citizens of his constituency for exchange and information. Regular discussion events on political issues take place here. There was an attack on the café on the night of October 22, 2019. A discussion event had previously taken place with Felix Klein , Federal Government Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany and the Fight Against Anti-Semitism.

Jewish Campus Berlin

80 years after the November pogrom in 1938 , the new Jewish campus with kindergarten, elementary school, grammar school and event rooms was built in Wilmersdorf. The construction project is made possible by a resolution of the German Bundestag with 2 million euros from the federal budget. For the new building of the Jewish campus, Gröhler made a significant contribution to his colleagues. The aim is that Jewish life in Berlin can continue to develop in a diverse way and that Jewish culture becomes an even more important part of Berlin's diversity. After the Holocaust, this is anything but self-evident and therefore particularly worthy of support. The fact that the Jewish Campus is being built in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, that part of Berlin where most of the Jews in our city lived before the Nazi barbarism, is a special gift. For the 2020 federal budget, a further 12.866 million euros have been released to promote Jewish life in Germany.

Prohibition of stumbling blocks

At the beginning of 2005, Gröhler attracted attention at home and abroad because he forbade the laying of so-called stumbling blocks by the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district on the grounds that "the stones pose a risk of slipping for citizens". The memorial project of the Stolpersteine, which has an inscription on a brass plate with an edge length of 10 cm and is embedded flush in the pavement, is intended to remember the fate of the people who were deported and murdered by the National Socialists ; By April 2007 around 11,000 stones had been laid in 220 cities in Germany and other countries.

However, the ban did not hold up. So were z. B. Stumbling blocks financed by the CDU for Anna and Jenny Pelteson were laid on August 23, 2011 on Uhlandstrasse in a celebratory memorial event.

Outdoor fitness park

Gröhler initiated and sponsored the realization of an open-air fitness park in the Preußenpark in Wilmersdorf , which was inaugurated in May 2007 as “the first German fitness park on public land” and received widespread attention. The conception of the fitness park, which the media dubbed the “senior playground”, is based on Chinese training philosophies and is especially geared towards the older generation.

Closure of the brothels

Since the spring of 2007, Gröhler has been exposed to criticism because, as a district councilor for construction in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district, he had small commercial brothels closed in residential areas.

The basis for this is that the use of buildings to operate a business violates building planning law (Section 30 (1) BauGB) if the areas in question in the development plan are classified as residential areas within the meaning of Section 3 BauNVO in conjunction with Section 26 BauNVO or general residential areas in According to § 4 BauNVO in conjunction with § 26 BauNVO, since in pure or general residential areas only residential use is permitted, but not commercial use such as for the purposes of prostitution (§ 3 para. 2 or § 4 Paragraph 2 BauNVO). This corresponds to the established case law of the administrative courts. In doing so, Gröhler also refers to complaints from residents of such establishments, who may have a legally enforceable claim against the State of Berlin to intervene in the event of improper use.

In other districts, for example Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg , brothel-like establishments were tolerated. Such toleration, however, did not include legalization or the associated legal security for the companies concerned. The district mayor of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Franz Schulz ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ), even condemned the wave of closings in other districts as retrograde

From a legal point of view, the practice of prohibiting the use of residential brothels was covered by applicable building law; In building law - as always in administrative law - the principle of the primacy of the law applies , according to which the administration must observe the requirements of the law - here: the rules of the BauGB and the BauNVO. A general approval of prostitution in residential areas could therefore only be granted by the legislature. Nevertheless, several brothel operators affected by a usage ban tried to obtain approval for their operation - for example by way of a dispensation from the regulations of building planning law - before the administrative courts.

Particularly fierce criticism of this closure practice came from the ranks of the Federal Association for Sexual Services. V. and from Hydra e. V. , who saw the “introduction of restricted areas through the back door” by closing the residential brothels and simultaneously issuing operating permits only in commercial areas .

In November 2007, Gröhler's building authorities reached an out-of-court settlement with the operator of the nationally known sex club Bel Ami , which according to Playboy magazine is considered the “finest club in Germany” : The establishment, which is located in a residential area on Flatowallee in the Westend district , should stop its brothel operations at the end of March 2011; whatever happened in 2011.

Web links

Commons : Klaus-Dieter Gröhler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Klaus-Dieter Gröhler's website
• CV at the CDU / CSU parliamentary group
• Klaus-Dieter Gröhler on abgeordnetenwatch.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Internet presence of Klaus-Dieter Gröhler Member of the Bundestag
2. ^ Online information from the German Bundestag on MPs in the 18th WP
3. ↑ https://www.groehler.info/2_14_Lebenslauf.html
4. ^ Online presence of the Berlin CDU local association Schloss
5. ↑ Online information from the joint legal examination office of the states of Berlin and Brandenburg ( memento of the original from April 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ berlin.de ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  
7. ↑ groehler-in-den-bundestag.de ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  
8. ↑ bundeswahlleiter.de ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  
9. ↑ [1]
10. ^ German Bundestag - Biographies. Accessed May 31, 2020 . 
11. ^ Report on the planned renovation of Hardenbergplatz ( Der Tagesspiegel of December 20, 2006)
12. ↑ Start of construction on the zoo arch . In: Der Tagesspiegel , April 27, 2007
13. ↑ Urban planning for City West. In: Die Welt , May 8, 2007
14. ↑ [2] In: Berliner Morgenpost , December 12, 2019
15. ↑ [3]
16. ↑ [4] In: Der Tagesspiegel , December 12, 2019
17. ↑ [5] In: Berliner Morgenpost , December 12, 2019.
18. ↑ [6]
19. ↑ Klaus-Dieter Gröhler: Jewish life in Germany is funded with around 13 million euros in the 2020 federal budget. In: groehler.info. November 14, 2019, accessed February 13, 2020 . 
20. ↑ Sarah Ross: Dispute over stumbling blocks. Article from February 26, 2005 on AVIVA-Berlin.de , accessed on May 1, 2020.
21. ^ A sign against forgetting: Laying the stumbling blocks for Anna and Jenny Pelteson . August 23, 2011, on the web of Gröhler's party colleague Stefan Evers
22. ↑ Senior playgrounds are on the rise . In: Handelsblatt , March 12, 2007
23. ↑ Germany's First Playground for Seniors . Spiegel-Online-International , May 9, 2007 (English)
24. ↑ On the senior playground . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 3, 2007
25. ↑ Regulations on the development plan in the BauGB
26. ↑ See e.g. B. OVG Berlin, UPR 2003, p. 394; OVG Rhineland-Palatinate, DÖV 2004, p. 395; OVG Rhineland-Palatinate, judgment of May 11, 2005, 8 C 10053/05; VG Osnabrück, decision of April 7, 2005, 2 B 14/05.
27. ↑ For statements from the district assembly, see the CDU statement there
28. ↑ Brohm: Public Building Law . 3rd edition § 19 marginal no. 18th
29. ↑ I think this is an absolutely wrong development because it brings us back to this old discussion and topic: Prostitution is a special trade, it is ultimately an immoral trade, must be separated and ghettoized in a special way, and similar topics. I think that's wrong. So that education, but also the change in the perception of the population in the last ten, fifteen years would geworfen- overboard | Prostitution: Clients are undesirable in residential buildings. ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: RBB-Online , May 2, 2007. 
30. ↑ Districts lay brothels flat. In: taz , March 15, 2007.
31. ↑ Brigitte Schmiemann: Luxury sex club before the end. In: Berliner Morgenpost , November 3, 2007.