Michael Neumann (politician)

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Michael Neumann (2008)

Michael Neumann (born March 18, 1970 in Dortmund ) is a political scientist and former German politician ( SPD ). From March 2011 to January 2016, he was Hamburg Senator for Home Affairs and Sport . Before that, he had been a member of the Hamburg Parliament since 1997 and chairman of the SPD parliamentary group there since 2004 . Since the end of his political career, he has been working as a research assistant in the Bundeswehr .

Personal career

Neumann signed up as a regular soldier in the Bundeswehr officer career and currently holds the rank of lieutenant colonel in the reserve. Born in Dortmund, he came to Hamburg in 1992 through his studies at the Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg. He successfully completed his studies in 1995. From 1996 to 2010 he was a professional soldier . He was on leave from 2011 to 2016 to exercise the Senate office. After retiring from his political offices in 2016, he was dismissed from his professional soldiery status and hired as a federal civil servant. He first worked as a research assistant at the Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg and was then transferred to the command academy of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg. There he is a lecturer in the Faculty of Politics, Strategy and Social Sciences in the office of a senior government council .

Neumann is a Roman Catholic and was married to the SPD politician Aydan Özoğuz since 2002 . In January 2017, both announced their separation.

Political career

In 1989 Neumann joined the SPD in Dortmund in the Brechte district. Through his studies, he has 1,992 to Hamburg in the district re-registered Hamburg-Horn. In 1993 he was elected to the local committee Billstedt . In 1996 he was elected chairman of the SPD in Horn.

With the 1997 state elections, he entered the Hamburg state parliament for the SPD. He became a member of the Home Affairs and Budget Committee and worked on the “Juvenile Crime” commission.

In 2001 he moved back into the Hamburg citizenship. He became the domestic political spokesman and deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. In 2002 he became deputy district chairman of the SPD Hamburg-Mitte. During this electoral period Neumann made a name for himself as a critic of the then Interior Senator Ronald Schill , in particular through his small inquiries regarding the controversial sideline activities of the then Interior Councilor Walter Wellinghausen .

In the 2004 state election campaign, he was part of the competence team of the SPD's top candidate Thomas Mirow for domestic politics. From the 2004 elections, which the SPD lost, Michael Neumann was parliamentary group chairman of the SPD parliamentary group.

After the disputes over the former SPD state chairman Mathias Petersen, Neumann was also traded as a possible top candidate for the 2008 state election. However, he stated that he was not available for such a candidacy. In his place, Michael Naumann was candidate for mayor. In its shadow senate he was designated as interior senator. After the 2008 election, he was re-elected chairman of his parliamentary group.

As parliamentary group chairman, he essentially formulated the model of the “human metropolis” for the Hanseatic SPD. In June 2007 he presented his book Hamburg - Courage to Vision in Hamburg - together with the GAL parliamentary group chairman Christa Goetsch and the former CDU finance senator Wolfgang Peiner .

After the parliamentary elections on February 20, 2011, which were successful for the SPD, Neumann was unanimously confirmed as parliamentary group leader. On March 23, 2011, Olaf Scholz appointed him Senator for the Interior and Sport in Senate Scholz I and confirmed him by the citizenship. His citizenship mandate was suspended while he was a member of the Senate. After the general election of February 15, 2015, in which Neumann did not run again, Olaf Scholz reappointed him on April 15, 2015 as President of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Sport. The citizens confirmed this on the same day.

On January 18, 2016, Neumann resigned from his position as Senator for the Interior. His successor is the social democrat and former district manager of the Hamburg-Mitte district, Andy Grote . In comments from the world and the taz , the opinion was expressed that Neumann had lost his greatest goal as a result of the defeat at the Olympic citizenship referendum at the end of November 2015 and has since looked tired of office.

Education and academic career

Neumann studied political science at what was then the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg with a degree in political science. From 2009 to 2011 he was employed as a research assistant in Jürgen Hartmann's professorship “Comparative Government Theory” . After leaving the Senatorial Office in 2016, he was again employed as a research assistant in the professorship “Administrative Sciences ” by Rainer Prätorius , in which he received his doctorate in 2017 on the subject of regional restructuring in German federalism using the example of the northern state . From 2017 to 2019 he was a research fellow at the Northern Business School (NBS) Hamburg, where he worked as a lecturer in 2017 and 2018 . His published academic work has so far remained irrelevant and has been limited to self-publications via Books on Demand .

His online dissertation on the northern state is controversial because it demonstrably does not meet the criteria of scientific work . The committee for the investigation of scientific misconduct at the University of the Federal Armed Forces has dealt with her since 2018. For example, he is accused of having used unscientific sources such as Wikipedia or What is what and of having systematically concealed them. In addition, he is said to have violated scientific citation rules by repeatedly taking over entire paragraphs almost word for word without indicating this accordingly. The geological and geographical foundations of a possible “northern state” seem to have been copied from the Wikipedia article North German Lowlands . In addition, he suppressed the assistance of "Editorio GmbH" in preparing the doctoral thesis. On October 29, 2019, a spokesman for the university announced that Neumann's doctorate had been revoked in September 2019. The university did not provide any information about the reasons for the withdrawal. On November 1, 2019, Spiegel Online reads under the heading "Plagiarism affair with the Hamburg public prosecutor's office investigating ex-Senator Neumann": Hamburg's ex-Senator for Interior Michael Neumann has lost his doctorate. A preliminary investigation is now under way against him - on suspicion of "false affidavit".

honors and awards
  • 2016 Decoration of Honor of the Technical Relief Organization (THW) in silver

Publications

  • WORLD . Notes. A Hamburg weekly column. Hamburg 2005–2009.
  • Written in the Stammbuch (ed.), Tredition, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86850-947-2 .
  • (Ed.) People's voice. Contributions to the discussion on direct democracy in Hamburg. Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-74122-689-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Andy Grote becomes Hamburg's Senator for the Interior . NDR . January 18, 2016. Retrieved January 18, 2016.
  2. ↑ Hamburg Senator for the Interior promoted, May 15, 2015
  3. ^ NDR: Ex-Senator for the Interior Neumann loses doctorate. Retrieved December 11, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Faculty of Politics, Strategy and Social Sciences. Retrieved April 13, 2020 .
  5. ↑ "Michael Neumann - even von Beust has respect for him", Hamburger Abendblatt dated December 30, 2002
  6. ↑ Peter Ulrich Meyer: Michael Neumann and Aydan Özoguz have separated. In: www.abendblatt.de. Retrieved January 16, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Short Bio ( Memento of 24 April 2007 at the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Jörn Lauterbach: Neumann's resignation can be dangerous for Scholz . The world . January 18, 2016. Retrieved January 18, 2016.
  9. ↑ Jan Kahlcke: An emergency area called Neumann . taz . January 18, 2016. Retrieved January 18, 2016.
  10. ↑ Dr. rer. pole. Michael Neumann ( Memento from September 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Dr. rer. pole. Michael Neumann ( Memento from September 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ^ NBS Northern Business School: Research Fellows. Retrieved June 6, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Stefan Buchen and Robert Bongen: Michael Neumann is said to have tricked his doctoral thesis. Spiegel Online , July 20, 2018, accessed July 20, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Christoph Rybarczyk: Did the former Senator for the Interior cheat on his doctorate? Michael Neumann is said to have used Wikipedia - without citing the source. In: Hamburger Abendblatt, 21./22. July 2018, p. 14
  15. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten, October 30, 2019, p. 2.
  16. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten, October 30, 2019, p. 2.
  17. ↑ Plagiarism: Hamburg's ex-Senator for Interior Neumann loses doctorate , by Robert Bongen and Stefan Buchen, NDR June 6, 2019
  18. ↑ Plagiarism allegations Hamburg's ex-Senator Neumann loses doctorate , Der Spiegel October 29, 2019
  19. ↑ Plagiarism affair Hamburg public prosecutor's office is investigating ex-Senator Neumann , Der Spiegel November 1, 2019
  20. ↑ Malteser magazin June 2009, page 21
  21. ↑ Malteser magazin April 2012, page 121
  22. ^ Annual General Meeting 2016 of the Hamburg volunteer fire brigade - Hamburg volunteer fire brigade. In: Hamburg volunteer fire department. Retrieved April 20, 2016 .

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personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag, Senator in Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund