Klaus Bouillon

Klaus Bouillon (2015)

Klaus Bouillon (born November 19, 1947 in St. Wendel ) is a German politician ( CDU ). Between 1983 and 2014 he was mayor of St. Wendel. Since November 12, 2014, Bouillon has been Minister of the Interior of the Saarland in the Kramp-Karrenbauer II and III and Hans cabinets .

Life

Bouillon, the son of a railway official, passed his Abitur at the Ottweiler grammar school in 1966 and completed his military service as a reserve officer candidate in the army police force in 1967/68 . Between 1969 and 1974 Bouillon studied law at Saarland University , and in 1976 he completed his legal clerkship with the second legal examination . A job as a lawyer and as a research assistant to Werner Zeyer in the Bundestag was followed by activities as a consultant at the Saarland State Insurance Institute from 1977 to 1979 and as a commissioned judge at the Saarbrücken Regional Court / Social Court from 1980 to 1982. Klaus Bouillon is Catholic and lives in St. Wendel; He is married and has two children.

Political career

Klaus Bouillon joined the CDU in 1975 , four years later he moved to the St. Wendel city ​​council . After Bouillon had prevailed within the party, he was elected mayor by the city council on May 27, 1982; On January 1, 1983, the CDU politician succeeded the retired Jakob Feller and left the city council at the same time.

In the 32 years of his tenure as mayor, the city of St. Wendel has changed fundamentally: 95 percent of the area in the city center has been renovated or modernized. In total, around 950 million euros were made available up to 2013 for the renewal of the entire city and districts. In addition, major events came to the city, now known as the “sports city”, during this time: The Tour de France 2002 route led through St. Wendel and a run of the Rally Germany . On average, around 15 major events take place in St. Wendel each year.

In St. Wendel, the politics of Bouillon was very popular with the citizens. He won his last election as mayor in 2010 with 85.1 percent of the vote, and in 2002 the opposition parties even waived an opposing candidate.

On November 3, 2014 it was announced that the Saarland Prime Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer had appointed Bouillon as the new Minister of the Interior. He replaced Monika Bachmann , who became the new Minister of Health. He was sworn in on November 12th. In an interview with the SR , he announced after his inauguration that he wanted to bring the Tour de France back to Saarland in 2017 .

Bouillon gained national fame in the second half of 2015 when he moved his office to the Saarland reception center in Lebach in the wake of the refugee crisis in Germany in 2015 . He also managed to shorten the duration of the asylum procedure in Saarland to just under 4 months.

On October 18, 2015, Bouillon was a guest in Günther Jauch's discussion group entitled “Mob, rush, threaten - is hatred socially acceptable?”, In which the controversial chairman of the Thuringian AfD , Björn Höcke , took part. During the broadcast he ran into this. After the broadcast, Bouillon said that Höcke's remarks reminded him of the Nazi era.

From January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016, the Saarland and thus Bouillon held the rotation of the conference of interior ministers .

"Lex Bouillon"

After it was foreseeable at the end of 2013 that Bouillon would have to resign as mayor as a temporary civil servant by the end of 2015 at the latest - a corresponding regulation is contained in the Saarland Civil Service Act - the St. Wendel city council passed a resolution in which the Saarland state parliament was asked to pass the law to change that Bouillon could remain head of administration until at least 2017. In addition to cross-party approval, there was also criticism, also within the own party. After the law had been discussed nationwide for a few weeks under the catchphrase "Lex Bouillon", the state parliament rejected it.

Web links

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

• Biography at the Saarland State Parliament
• Klaus Bouillon on saarland.de
• DLF (Deutschlandfunk) Interview of the week of January 10, 2016: Klaus Bouillon, CDU, Interior Minister of Saarland, Chairman of the Interior Ministers' Conference, in conversation with Gudula Geuther

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography at the Saarland Ministry of the Interior , accessed on September 25, 2017.
2. ↑ Dagobert Schmidt: Keep pedaling. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung (St. Wendel edition, local section) of January 13, 2010.
3. ↑ Volker Fuchs: The maker does it again. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung (St. Wendel edition, local section) of June 7, 2002.
4. ↑ Volker Fuchs: Some revolution incited. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung (St. Wendel edition, local section) from January 20, 2003.
5. ↑ Brochure “30 Years of Urban Development”. Published by the city of St. Wendel, 2013.
6. ↑ Volker Fuchs: "This is where I belong" In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , November 15, 2013.
7. ↑ Mayoral elections 2010 on the St. Wendel website.
8. ↑ Election results ( memento of the original from October 6, 2014 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. on the Winterbach website 
9. ↑ Interior Minister Bouillon demands planning security from ARD. In: rad-net.de , June 8, 2015.
10. ↑ Linda Hinz: Minister opened an office in the refugee home: This is how I got the chaos under control. In: Focus , October 27, 2015.
11. ↑ Bettina Partosch: That's how long an asylum procedure takes in the federal states of Germany. In: Web.de , November 7, 2015.
12. ↑ Linda Hinz: Bouillon offered AfD man to Jauch Paroli: “I felt reminded of the Nazi era” In: Focus , December 25, 2015.
13. ↑ In 2016, Saarland took over the chairmanship of the Conference of Interior Ministers (IMK). In: saarland.de .
14. ^ Controversy over St. Wendel's mayor Bouillon. In: sol.de , April 3, 2014.
15. ↑ Thomas Gerber: Age limit is not raised for bouillon. ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2014 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. In: Saarländischer Rundfunk , April 2, 2014.