Klaus-Rüdiger Landowsky

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Klaus-Rüdiger Landowski (* 21st July 1942 in Berlin ) is a CDU - politicians from Berlin. From 1975 to 2001 he was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives . From 1991 he was also chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives until he resigned in May 2001 in the wake of the Berlin banking scandal.

Life

Growing up in Berlin-Neukölln , after graduating from high school in 1962 , he studied law at the Free University of Berlin , where he met the later Governing Mayor Eberhard Diepgen , with whom he has had a close personal and political community since then. Both were part of the so-called K group in the Berlin CDU . During his studies he joined the singer shaft at Borussia Berlin, the Old Gentleman he is today. After the second state examination in 1972, he began as an executive assistant, then until 1978 as a legal advisor at the Berliner Pfandbrief-Bank (now Berlin Hyp ). Since April 1978 he was a board member of this bank and since August 1978 at the same time a board member of the housing loan institution Berlin (today Investitionsbank Berlin ). In addition to his professional activity, he is u. a. Member of the New Berlin Art Association .

Berlin banking scandal 2001

Klaus-Rüdiger Landowsky 2010

In 1993 he became CEO of the newly created Berliner Hypotheken- und Pfandbriefbank AG ( Berlin Hyp ). He stayed that way until he left in the wake of the Berlin banking scandal in 2001 . A civil law action for damages by Bankgesellschaft Berlin against the former manager of Berlin Hyp was dismissed in September 2003. The court found that Landowsky could not prove any wrongdoing. Since July 29, 2005, a criminal case has been running in which Landowsky and twelve other defendants were accused of endangering the bank's assets by lending unsecured loans to the AUBIS group for prefabricated buildings between May 1996 and September 1997. On March 21, 2007, Landowsky was sentenced by the Berlin Regional Court to a suspended sentence of one year and four months for infidelity in the allocation of millions of loans. The appeal against the judgment before the Federal Court of Justice was unsuccessful. In response to Landowsky's constitutional complaint , the Federal Constitutional Court overturned the judgment of the Berlin Regional Court and the decision of the Federal Court of Justice on June 23, 2010 and referred the matter back to the Berlin Regional Court for renewed hearing. In the decision, the constitutional judges tightened the requirements for a criminal conviction for infidelity in lending, but at the same time criticized the inadequate determination of the damage by the regional court. The Berlin Regional Court closed the proceedings on December 23, 2014 with the consent of the public prosecutor's office at the expense of the state treasury.

In another trial, Landowsky was charged with breach of trust in connection with the launch of real estate funds. The proceedings before the Berlin Regional Court in 2009 ended with an acquittal on February 14, 2011, as the court believed that the breach of trust could not be sufficiently proven. The reason given was that in order to be convicted of infidelity, specific damage to BerlinHyp must have been known at the time of the offense (regardless of how high the damage was later), but this could not be proven. The prosecution revision against the judgment, which was rejected by the Federal Court.

Thus, after more than 13 years, the legal processing of the banking affair has been completed without Landowsky being convicted.

politics

Landowsky joined the CDU in 1961. From 1975 to 2001 he was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives . During this time, he was deputy chairman of the parliament from 1981 to 1990 and CDU parliamentary group chairman from 1991 to 2001. In addition, from 1985 to 1991 he took on the role of Secretary General of the Berlin CDU. As part of the banking affair, he first had to give up the chairmanship of BerlinHyp. Shortly afterwards he had to hand over the chairmanship of the parliamentary group to Frank Steffel . To compensate, he became deputy chairman of the CDU Berlin; in the course of the collapse of the government coalition with the SPD, he gave up this office after a short time. When the House of Representatives was re-elected in 2001 , Landowsky did not run for parliament again.

As part of his work as an MP he was a member of the SFB - Broadcasting Council .

Awards

literature

  • Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 232 f.
  • Mathew D. Rose : An honorable society , Transit Buchverlag, Berlin, July 2003, ISBN 3-88747-179-2
  • Mathew D. Rose: Berlin, Capital of Felt and Corruption , Transit Buchverlag, Berlin, June 1999, ISBN 3-426-26930-9
  • Mathew D. Rose: Waiting for the Flood. About clique economy, self-service and the rampant public debt with special attention to our capital. , Transit Buchverlag, Berlin, September 2004, ISBN 3-88747-196-2
  • Gerd Nowakowski (Ed.): Die Drahtzieher, Jaron Verlag Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-932202-56-2
  • Michael Sontheimer , Jochen Vorfelder: Antes & Co. Stories from the Berlin swamp. Rotbuch Verlag, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-88022-324-6

Web links

Commons : Klaus-Rüdiger Landowsky  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Financial Times Deutschland (online edition): suspended sentence for key figure in banking scandal ( memento of July 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ).
  2. ↑ Süddeutsche: Federal Constitutional Court on Infidelity , August 11, 2010
  3. ↑ Tagesspiegel: Klaus Landowsky legally rehabilitated , January 5, 2014
  4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung : Second trial against Landowsky until 2008 . August 24, 2007, page 9.
  5. ↑ FAZ of February 15, 2011 and press release no. 17/2011 from the Berlin Regional Court: acquittal for all defendants in the “banking proceedings” against Klaus-Rüdiger Landowsky u. a. .
  6. ↑ Tagesspiegel: Klaus Landowsky legally rehabilitated , January 5, 2014
  7. ↑ This is our list of suggestions - part 4 - Berliner Morgenpost , morgenpost.de from August 20, 2003.
  8. ↑ Berliner Zeitung: The Third Order for Landowsky , June 12, 1998
personal data
SURNAME Landowsky, Klaus-Rüdiger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Landowsky, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdA
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin