Manfred Bulling

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Manfred Bulling (* 12. January 1930 in Erfurt ; † 17th June 2015 ) was a lawyer and inventor , and was from 1977 to 1989 non-party government president of the administrative district of Stuttgart .

Stuttgart District President

From 1969 to 1977 Bulling was in the State Ministry of Baden-Wuerttemberg with Prime Minister Hans Filbinger general advisor for administrative reform and later head of the "State Politics" department.

From 1977 to 1989 he was regional president of the Stuttgart administrative district . Focus: nature and environmental protection, monument protection, consumer protection and traffic.

The nature conservation activities meant that between 1982 and 1988 the area of ​​the nature reserves was more than doubled from 2825 to 5920 hectares. In 1990, around 20 percent of the area in the industrial region of the Middle Neckar was under landscape protection . Problems arose with the enforcement of the “Small Buildings Decree”, which aimed to protect the open landscape by combating illegal black buildings . In 1985 there were 47,000 black-built larger garden houses and weekend houses on the river slopes, especially in the wine-growing areas. By March 1987, 12,000 cases had been legalized through subsequent development plans ; 1200 cases were made lawful through public law contracts; Over 5000 cases could be resolved without an avalanche of litigation; To relocate garden houses that cannot be legalized, 900 hectares of new garden house areas were made available on the basis of 167 development plans .

In terms of water pollution control, the most heavily polluted rivers in the heavily industrialized region, such as the Neckar , Murr and Rems, were brought up to water quality class II. The pikeperch , a demanding game fish, for example, had completely disappeared from the Neckar in 1975. In 1990 it again made up 10 percent of the Neckar fish population.

Air pollution control:

The central topic was the desulphurization and denitrification (nitrogen oxide absorption) of the coal and waste-to-energy plants. For the first time in Germany, Bulling advocated the legal opinion for both types of pollutants that no implementing ordinance was necessary for official exhaust gas regulations , but that the Federal Immission Control Act was sufficient as the legal basis, according to which the official cleaning regulations must correspond to the "state of the art" and be economically reasonable. On this legal basis, Bulling ordered the reduction of sulfur emissions from 1800 or 2300 mg / m³ to 400 mg / m³. This made it possible for electricity production from coal in the Stuttgart administrative region to increase from 2000 to 3000 MW (+50 percent) between 1983 and 1990, while at the same time sulfur emissions were reduced from 36,000 t / a to 11,000 t / a (−70 percent), whereby good usable plaster was obtained. This approval practice was then adopted throughout Germany. Bulling noted that denitrification systems had existed in Japan since the mid-1970s that reduced nitrogen oxides to 200 mg / m³. This standard was adopted in the Stuttgart administrative region. The result: While in 1982 30,000 tons of nitrogen oxides were blown into the air with a coal power production of 2000 MW, in 1990 with an electricity production of 3000 MW (+50 percent) it was only 5800 tons (−81 percent).

Monument protection: When more and more attractive monuments threatened to decay in 1980, Bulling worked as a volunteer real estate agent. 30 palaces and fortresses, town halls and farmhouses, monasteries and a synagogue were offered to the public in a brochure entitled “Monuments for sale”. After a few weeks, the offer was practically sold out.

The consumer protection activities led to nationally noted successes, such as the addition of glycol to high-priced wines, nematodes (roundworms) in food fish, estrogen in baby food, nitrite in mineral water, perchlorethylene in olive oil.

As part of the work of the RP Stuttgart on the clean air plan for Stuttgart, speed limits to 60 km / h with the then new additional sign “air pollution control” were introduced on an experimental basis. Especially on the B 10 Stuttgart-Esslingen, this led to protests by the affected motorists, led by the regional Bild newspaper editorial office in Esslingen. As a result of this pressure, the Ministry of the Interior ordered the end of this attempt as soon as possible. Today such speed restrictions to keep the air clean are widespread.

Liquid egg affair

A public warning from the Stuttgart regional council of “microbially spoiled” 7-chicken noodles from the Birkel company in August 1985 led to the “liquid egg affair”, the “biggest food scandal in Germany” (Bild-Zeitung). Birkel felt unjustly denounced and brought an action for damages against the state of Baden-Württemberg for 43 million DM. Regional court and OLG Stuttgart (appeal judgment of March 21, 1990) rated Birkel's exonerating evidence higher than the incriminating reports submitted by the state and condemned the state "In principle" for damages. The amount of the compensation should only be decided in a further stage of the procedure. Despite strong doubts about the correctness of the judgments, the state government decided not to appeal. On March 27, 1991, the Land and Birkel reached a settlement for the payment of DM 12.8 million in damages.

According to later press reports, evidence should have been available since June 6, 1990 that the pasta was actually microbially contaminated, which was concealed by the cooperation of companies, a participating expert and the state government at the time. Documents that were available to the Stern revealed that Birkel products had actually used fertilized and incubated eggs, dirty eggs and slaughterhouse waste.

In this context, in the spring of 1989, the Pirmasens detective found evidence during a search of the institute of the expert who was authoritative for the court rulings that he had a consultancy contract with Birkel and was temporarily head of the laboratory there. The Kripo Pirmasens explained: The food chemist " reformulated the reports, the new values ​​were given to him by the management of the Birkel company ."

At the beginning of October 1989, the Pirmasens criminal investigation department sent its new investigation results to the Bad Kreuznach public prosecutor's office; it was passed on to Stuttgart, where it is said to have arrived on June 6, 1990. 3 months too late for the appeal procedure but 9 months before the DM 12.8 million settlement was concluded. Why the state government under Prime Minister Lothar Späth concluded the settlement and paid DM 12.8 million in taxpayers' money despite this proven fraud, is incomprehensible. According to the investigation by Bild Stuttgart, neither ex-Prime Minister Späth, Ex-Justice Minister Thomas Schäuble, nor Ex-Prime Minister Günther Oettinger could remember the matter.

Resignation as district president

In November 1989 Bulling resigned from the office of government president. The CDU member Hauser (Esslingen) had filed a complaint against him with the then Interior Minister Schlee because of the Birkel warning, the speed limit on the B 10 and the implementation of the small building decree. In his answer, Schlee stated that Bulling had not violated any official duties and that his administration was correct in terms of civil servant law. However, during the enforcement of the law (speed limit and small building decree), it caused "irritation and concern" among those affected; he also intervened in the government's area of ​​competence in exercising his responsibilities and in his public relations work. That is why Bulling did not always fully meet the political requirements for the office of government president. In a letter to Prime Minister Späth dated November 23, 1989, Bulling applied for immediate retirement under Section 60 of the State Civil Service Act because the government and president no longer had the necessary trust for an orderly performance of office. The "Birkel scandal" was not mentioned in the letter from the interior minister. He also played no role in the resignation. The Prime Minister granted the request.

Lawyer

In 1990, Bulling switched to a well-known law firm in Stuttgart, where he worked until the end of 1997. Since then he has worked as a lawyer in his own practice.

Spaetzle press "System Bulling"

Bulling invented a new type of spaetzle press for the production of Swabian spaetzle, for which he received a patent. The device “Spätzleswunder System Bulling” has 56 special openings developed by Bulling and his wife, which ensure that the spaetzle have the shape and taste of hand-scraped spaetzle. The device is manufactured by Buchsteiner in Gingen an der Fils .

Honors

Publications

  • "The development of the criminal justice system after 1945 in the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany", dissertation Tübingen 1954.
  • “Bundesärzteordnung”, commentary by Daniels / Bulling, Luchterhand-Verlag, 1963
  • "Water Act for Baden-Württemberg", Commentary Bulling / Finkenbeiner, Kohlhammer 1968
  • "Water Act for Baden-Württemberg", major commentary by Bulling / Finkenbeiner / Eckardt / Kibele, 3rd edition, Kohlhammer 1989/2011
  • "Administration in the power field of political and social institutions", editor Dr. Manfred Bulling, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Baden-Baden 1985

Scientific activity

  • Member of the board of the German Section of the International Institute for Administrative Sciences,
  • Co-editor of the magazine “Public Administration”. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart
  • Lecturer and member of the board of trustees at the "Leadership Academy of the State of Baden-Württemberg" in Karlsruhe since it was founded in 1986
  • Chair of the government commission "New Management Structure Baden-Württemberg", 1985 ( Administrative reform in Baden-Württemberg: Managers ahead in DIE ZEIT, August 2, 1985 No. 32; Reform proposal in Baden-Württemberg: Against the hereditary farms in DIE ZEIT, 16. August 1985 No. 34)
  • Lecturer and later honorary professor at the University of Hohenheim (see Stuttgarter Zeitung of December 20, 1990)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “What is the Small Buildings Decree?”, In: Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung, February 6, 1985
  2. ↑ An example for Bonn in DIE ZEIT of February 18, 1983, No. 08
  3. ↑ "Bulling is pushing electricity suppliers again". Stuttgarter Zeitung of December 17, 1983
  4. ↑ Monument protection controversial - half-timbering for feeling in DIE ZEIT from November 1, 1985 No. 45
  5. ↑ Architectural monuments: treat with care . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1980 ( online ).
  6. ^ "Lichtblick" and "Land for the renovation of the cultural monument" in the Stuttgarter Zeitung of June 27, 1984
  7. ↑ Traffic: Slow stinkers . In: Der Spiegel . No. 14 , 1989 ( online ).
  8. ^ "Not cautious enough in office", Stuttgarter Zeitung of November 21, 1989
  9. ^ Stuttgart government suppressed evidence , Stern article from issue 12/2008
  10. ↑ Stern : Gut packages and Persil notes , March 14, 2008
  11. ↑ Stern : Birkel Affair - There were disgusting eggs in there! , March 21, 2008, p. 174 ff.
  12. ↑ Stern, 12/2008 p. 174 ff., Picture Stuttgart from March 14, 2008, Stuttgarter Zeitung from March 13, 2008
  13. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung of November 24, 1989: "Strong departure" and "District President Bulling gives up - allegations against Interior Minister Schlee"
  14. ↑ Patent DE3304746 : Device for making Swabian spaetzle. Filed February 11, 1983 , published December 20, 1984 , inventor: Manfred Bulling. ‌
  15. ^ "Manfred Bulling becomes honorary professor", Stuttgarter Zeitung of December 20, 1990
personal data
SURNAME Bulling, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and inventor, President of the Stuttgart Regional Council
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH 17th June 2015