Michael Bouteiller

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Michael Bouteiller (2015 at the entrance to Walli - officially "Alternative" - ​​the autonomous self-governing cultural center on the Lübeck Wall Peninsula )

Michael Bouteiller (born October 29, 1943 in Offenburg ) was Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck from 1988 to 2000 .

Life

Michael Bouteiller studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . He then worked as a research assistant at Bielefeld University . He worked as a judge at the Minden Administrative Court. After professional positions in Bielefeld, in 1988 he stood for the office of mayor of Lübeck as a candidate for the SPD , of which he was a member until he left at the end of 2001. As the successor to Robert Knüppel (CDU), he was the last mayor of Lübeck to be elected indirectly.

In connection with the Lübeck arson attack in January 1996 on asylum seekers' accommodation in Hafenstrasse, Bouteiller became known nationwide when he cried in front of the television cameras. The CDU then accused him of a "cult of concern". Ten people were killed in the attack and 38 were injured, some of them serious. Bouteiller issued travel documents to survivors so that they could attend the funeral of their relatives in Lebanon or Zaire and then return to Germany. By circumventing the existing asylum law, he made it possible for asylum seekers to be accommodated outside collective shelters and called for civil disobedience to protect refugees. He was also criticized within the party for this behavior; his party colleague Ekkehard Wienholtz , the then Interior Minister of Schleswig-Holstein, demanded Bouteiller's resignation because he had exceeded his powers. In December 1996 the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of the Interior imposed a disciplinary penalty of 6,000 marks on Bouteiller for issuing the personal documents, against which he appealed.

The German Section of Doctors for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Doctors in Social Responsibility (IPPNW) awarded him the Clara Immerwahr award in 1996 .

When the mayor of Lübeck was directly elected for the first time in 2000 , Bouteiller was no longer a candidate. His successor was Bernd Saxe (SPD). Bouteiller left the SPD at the end of 2001 and has been working as a lawyer ever since. He is a conflict moderator at the Dortmund Institute for Communication and Environment .

literature

  • Karl-Ernst Sinner: Tradition and Progress. Senate and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1918-2007. Volume 46 of series B of publications on the history of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck published by the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , Lübeck 2008, p. 46 ff.

Web links

Commons : Michael Bouteiller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.ln-online.de/artikel/633705/  ( page no longer available , 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ln-online.de  
  2. ↑ http://stadtzeitung.luebeck.de/archiv/artikel/id/7596
  3. ↑ Bouteiller and the rustling in the forest of leaves . Lübeck city newspaper, issue 122, April 25, 2000
  4. ↑ Purified by fire . DIE ZEIT, 05/1996
  5. ^ Wrong retired man . taz, August 10, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Bouteiller, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), mayor of Lübeck, lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenburg