Klaus Böger

Klaus Böger (born September 8, 1945 in Lauterbach , Hessen ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 1999 to 2006 he was Senator of the State of Berlin for Education, Youth and Sport.

Mandates

Who studied political science was in 1989 for the first time, elected to the Berlin House of Representatives where he was first elected as Deputy Chairman of the SPD faction 1,992th After Ditmar Staffelt's resignation , he took over the chairmanship of the SPD parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives in 1994 , which he held until 1999.

In the elections for the House of Representatives on September 17, 2006 , he decided not to run again.

Political party

For the election to the Berlin House of Representatives in 1999 , he applied internally for the top candidacy of the Berlin SPD, but was defeated by the former mayor Walter Momper .

Public offices

After the 1999 election, the grand coalition that had been in office since 1991 was continued, but Böger moved to the Berlin Senate as mayor and senator for education, youth and sport.

When the grand coalition broke up in June 2001, the governing mayor, Eberhard Diepgen, and the four CDU senators ( Eckart Werthebach , Christoph Stölzl , Peter Kurth and Wolfgang Branoner ) were given a vote of no confidence by the SPD, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and PDS House of Representatives voted out.

After the SPD parliamentary group chairman Klaus Wowereit had been elected mayor, Böger, like the two other SPD senators ( Peter Strieder and Gabriele Schöttler ), announced his resignation in order to enable a uniform election of a PDS-tolerated red-green minority senate. However, he was subsequently re-elected to his offices.

After the victory of the Berlin SPD in the election to the Berlin House of Representatives on October 21, 2001, Klaus Wowereit formed a red-red coalition with the PDS, Böger retained his office as senator, but lost his position as mayor to Karin Schubert (SPD).

After the SPD and PDS had agreed to continue their coalition after the 2006 elections , Böger announced on November 7, 2006 that he was not going to take up a new term as senator. A year before the election, however, he was the only senator who expressed his wish to remain in office.

His successor as Senator for Education, Science and Research took over on November 23, 2006, Jürgen Zöllner , the sports division switched to internal administration under Ehrhart Körting (both SPD).

From 2009 Böger was President of the Berlin State Sports Association . He left office in November 2018.

Political content

During his time as parliamentary group leader of the SPD (1994–1999), Böger campaigned for the stability of the grand coalition in Berlin and initiated structural reforms such as the downsizing of government and parliament as well as the district reform in Berlin.

In the early days of his Senate activity, Klaus Böger pushed through the extension of working hours for teachers against considerable resistance . In addition, under Böger, the civil service of teaching staff was abolished in 2004, which subsequently led to a massive emigration of qualified young teachers to other federal states. In August 2004 the new Berlin School Act, for which Böger had campaigned vehemently, came into force. This makes Berlin the first federal state in which a new school law has been in force since the Pisa study was published .

As a senator approved of the German requirement in schoolyards. Böger took it for granted that German was the official and lingua franca of every Berlin school.

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. 96 f.