Lutz Trümper

Lutz Trümper in his role as patron of the RoboCup German Open 2012 in Magdeburg

Lutz Trümper (born October 1, 1955 in Oschersleben ) is a German politician ( SPD , resigned from October 2015 to June 2017). He has been Lord Mayor of the Saxony-Anhalt state capital Magdeburg since 2001 .

Life

Trümper passed his Abitur in 1974 and studied at the Pedagogical University in Köthen . He became a certified teacher for chemistry and biology . Trümper has lived in Magdeburg since 1977. From 1980 to 1984 he worked as a research assistant before becoming a doctor in 1984 . nat. in field Physical chemistry doctorate was. From 1984 to 1992 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Biochemistry of the Medical Academy Magdeburg . In 1992 he took over the position of department head for central hospital development at the medical faculty of the newly founded Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg .

After joining the SPD, he moved to the city council of the state capital Magdeburg in 1994. In 1999 he was re-elected. Trümper took on the honorary functions of the chairman of the finance and property committee and the deputy chairman of the SPD council group. In May 2000 Trümper became State Secretary in the Saxony-Anhalt Ministry for Regional Planning, Agriculture and the Environment. In this context he resigned from his city council mandate. In November 2000 Trümper was elected president of the soccer club 1. FC Magdeburg .

Trümper was nominated as a candidate for the mayoral election in 2001 by the Magdeburg SPD and was able to prevail in the second ballot with 65.6% of the valid votes against Hans-Werner Brüning, the leader of the PDS in the Magdeburg city council. When he took office on July 1, 2001, he stepped down as State Secretary and President of 1. FC Magdeburg. In October 2007, the Magdeburg SPD nominated Trümper again as a candidate for the mayor election on March 9, 2008 with 93% of the delegate's votes. Trümper won it in the first ballot with a clear majority (64.0% of the votes with a turnout of only 35.1%). Trümper was also nominated as a candidate by the Magdeburg SPD for the Mayor election on March 15, 2015. At the party congress in May 2014, he received 97.2% of the delegate's votes. On March 15, 2015 he was re-elected as Lord Mayor with 69.2%.

On October 14, 2015, he resigned from the party due to differences with the SPD state chairman Katrin Budde on the occasion of the refugee crisis in Europe . Trümper had pointed out several times that Magdeburg and Saxony-Anhalt were overloaded with the accommodation of the refugees, and demanded upper limits. Budde had contradicted this, Trümper publicly criticized this as being unrealistic, and Budde finally complained that his statements were a shame for the SPD and her as the top candidate for the upcoming state election . Trümper justified his resignation by saying that he wanted to prevent damage from the SPD, but was not prepared to be silenced. He could not remain silent until the state election and accept wrong facts.

On June 22, 2017, the SPD agreed to his re-entry request.

Trümper is married and has a grown-up daughter.

criticism

Trümper drew criticism because, as the last mayor of a major German city, he repeatedly refused to patronize the local Christopher Street Day (CSD), most recently in 2011 for the tenth time.

Publications

• Disubstituted benzene derivatives selected for biological activity. Köthen, University of Education, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Dissertation A , 1984.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Criticism of refugee policy: Magdeburg's mayor resigns from the SPD , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 14, 2015.
2. ↑ Jens Schmidt, Michael Bock: Party dispute: Trümper leaves the SPD. In: Volksstimme , October 14, 2015.
3. ↑ Christopher Kissmann: Trümper has another SPD party book. In: Volksstimme. June 22, 2017. Retrieved June 22, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Katja Tessnow: "I have refused patronage nine times and will do it again." In: Volksstimme , June 11, 2011.