Klaus Riebschläger

Klaus Riebschläger (born August 17, 1940 in Berlin ; † September 23, 2009 in Schönhagen ) was a German lawyer and politician ( SPD ). With interruptions, he was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives for around 20 years (1967–1981, 1985–1986, 1991–1995). From 1972 to 1981 he was a member of the Berlin Senate , first as Senator for Construction and Housing and finally as Senator for Finance.

life and career

Klaus Riebschläger was born in Berlin-Wilmersdorf . After graduating from high school, he studied law at the Free University of Berlin . In 1964 he passed the first state examination, in 1968 the second. He completed his studies in 1968 with a doctorate under Ernst Eduard Hirsch on the free right movement . Subsequently, from 1968 Riebschläger worked for the housing credit institution in Berlin (converted into Investitionsbank Berlin in 1993 ), initially as a legal advisor and from 1971 as a member of the board.

In March 1967, Riebschläger was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives. He belonged to this from 1967 to 1981, from 1985 to 1986 and again from 1991 to 1995.

In 1972 Riebschläger, who had been a member of the SPD since 1958, was appointed Senator for Construction and Housing by Governing Mayor Klaus Schütz . After the election to the Berlin House of Representatives in 1975 , in which the SPD lost an absolute majority, Riebschläger moved to the finance department as senator . Even after Schütz resigned and his successor Dietrich Stobbe took office , Riebschläger remained a senator. In January 1981, in connection with the Garski affair , Riebschläger announced his resignation after it became known that the State of Berlin had granted a loan of DM 115 million under his leadership. He resumed his work as a board member of the Berlin Housing Credit Institute. Due to the reshuffle of the Senate, Stobbe failed as governing mayor, so that Hans-Jochen Vogel succeeded him.

On January 8, 1981, Riebschläger took over the chairmanship of the SPD parliamentary group in the House of Representatives at short notice, but resigned after a few weeks. From 1981 to 1990 he was again active as a board member of the housing credit institution. In 1985 he hit the headlines in connection with the Antes scandal . In the autumn of 1990, Klaus Riebschläger took over the management of the East Berlin office of a large, medium-sized Berlin law firm, which had specialized in questions of the law of the new federal states, i.e. restitution law and construction law. In June 2001 Riebschläger resigned from his position as treasurer of the Berlin SPD. The reason for this was media reports about his legal work for the company AUBIS , whose managing directors had started the Berlin banking scandal with a cash donation of 40,000 DM . The media reported about an alleged betrayal of the parties by Riebschläger, but he always rejected the allegations.

Since 2006, Klaus Riebschläger has been a member of the supervisory board of the Berlin hospital operator Vivantes as a member delegated by the shareholder and operated a law firm in Berlin-Mitte. He was also the first chairman of the political association Werkstatt Deutschland e. V. Riebschläger has been a member of the Public Services, Transport and Traffic Union (ÖTV) for over 40 years , was involved in the workers ' welfare and the Workers' Samaritan Association and was a member of the State Historical Association for the Mark Brandenburg and SC Charlottenburg .

Grave of Klaus Riebschläger in the Luther cemetery in Lankwitz (Department AS-000-027 / 028). Coordinates of the grave: 52 ° 25 ′ 17.5 ″  N , 13 ° 21 ′ 26 ″  E

Riebschläger was killed on September 23, 2009 when his Aquila A 210 plane crashed . A few minutes after take-off at Schönhagen airfield , the plane crashed in a nearby forest. The plane burned out. He was buried in the Luther cemetery in Berlin-Lankwitz .

See also

• Senate Schütz II - Senate Schütz III - Senate Stobbe I - Senate Stobbe II

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. 308 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Riebschläger in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Walter Momper : Obituary: Former MP and Senator Dr. Klaus Riebschläger . In: Berlin House of Representatives : Plenary Minutes 16/52 , 16th electoral period, 52nd meeting, September 24, 2009, p. 4837, accessed on June 26, 2017 (PDF).
2. ↑ Vivantes: Supervisory Board: Members. ( Memento from March 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Law firm RSG Riebschläger Sieversen Südhoff Steiner (Ed.): Rsg-law.online. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 23, 2007 ; Retrieved February 10, 2008 . 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.  
4. ^ Werkstatt Deutschland e. V .: Board and members of the Werkstatt Deutschland association ( Memento from May 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Ex-Senator Riebschläger dies in a crash. Tagesspiegel Online from September 23, 2009.
6. ↑ Klaus Riebschläger buried. Paperpress October 10, 2009, accessed February 28, 2012.