Lothar Ruschmeier

Lothar Ruschmeier (born November 5, 1945 in Minden ; † August 19, 2012 in Cologne ) was City Director of Cologne from 1990 to 1998 . He was a member of the SPD .

Ruschmeier was local chairman of the Troisdorf SPD from 1975 to 1989 and chairman of the SPD faction in the Troisdorf city council from 1979 to 1982. The Kaiser construction group makes him jointly responsible for the failure of their negotiations with the city of Troisdorf about the future of the so-called Kaiserbau .

He was then head of the department for social affairs, schools, housing, youth and sport in the city of Cologne. He also held the post of office manager for his predecessor Kurt Rossa for two years . On March 27, 1990, the Cologne City Council elected Ruschmeier as the new City Director.

As City Director, he was jointly responsible for the construction of the KölnArena and the construction of the Cologne waste incineration plant. In the subsequent corruption proceedings for the Cologne donation affair, Ruschmeier declared that he could not remember any details.

His tenure as city manager ended on 22 April 1998. On 24 March 1998 the private bank told Sal. Oppenheim with, Rusch Meier will immediately after the end of his service in the city as an equal managing director alongside Matthias Graf von Krockow and Josef Esch of the management board Enter Oppenheim-Esch-Holding . With that he moved to the group of companies, with which he often had to do as City Director. This group of companies was responsible for a large number of contracts that were disadvantageous and harmful to the city of Cologne (examples: Lanxess Arena, KölnMesse ).

After the end of his political career, Ruschmeier volunteered a. a. also as chairman of the Kölner Jugendhilfe and as a member of the supervisory board at 1. FC Köln .

Ruschmeier was married and the father of two sons.

literature

• Carl Dietmar: The Chronicle of Cologne . Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger et al., Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-611-00193-7 .
• Gerd Huppertz, Axel Pollheim (ed.): 100 Cologne Heads . Edition 100 Cologne Heads, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-00-000234-0 .

Web links

• Too expensive? No matter! , Die Zeit No. 31/2005
• 1. FC Köln and the mission resurgence , June 1, 2007
• Inge Schürmann: Cologne's former senior city director has died , Press and Information Office of the City of Cologne from August 19, 2012, on stadt-koeln.de
• Speech by Lord Mayor Jürgen Roters on the occasion of the funeral of Lothar Ruschmeier (PDF; 23 kB) on August 24, 2012 on stadt-koeln.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mourning for Lothar Ruschmeier
2. ^ The tragedy surrounding the so-called "KAISERBAU" near Troisdorf. ( Memento from October 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Werner Rügemer : Memory loss - Ruschmeier and the garbage process  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , In: StadtRevue , issue 03/2004, as seen on 7 September 2012  
4. ^ WDR television , series die story , Ingolf Gritschneder, Georg Wellmann, Gert Monheim (editor): Billions Monopoly. The secret business of Oppenheim-Esch-Holding (PDF; 101 kB), broadcast on July 4, 2005, 10.30 p.m. on WDR television
5. ↑ Book review with photo by Josef Esch from the NRhZ-Online , Ulrich Klinger: Corruption is clinking without character Book review of the book by Frank Überall : Der Klüngel in the political culture of Cologne , BOUVIER Verlag, Bonn. 272 pages, € 19.90, ISBN 978-3-416-03125-7 and Werner Rügemer: COLONIA CORRUPTA - Globalization, Privatization and Corruption in the Shadow of the Cologne Klüngels , 5th edition 2006, 157 pages, € 15.00, ISBN 3-89691-525-8
6. ^ Hoppenstedt : Company database - large and medium-sized companies , excerpt on July 8, 2009
7. ↑ The Cologne game is over , Zeit Online from May 11, 2012