Nils Busch-Petersen

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Nils Busch-Petersen (* 1963 in Rostock - Warnemünde ) is a German lawyer and managing director of the Handelsverband Berlin-Brandenburg eV In 1990 he was mayor of the Berlin district of Pankow for four months .

biography

Busch-Petersen grew up as the son of a pediatrician in Rostock. In his youth he competed in heavyweight wrestling as a competitive sport. In 1975 the family moved to Berlin because his father had been appointed head physician at a Berlin children's clinic. He studied law at the Humboldt University in Berlin until 1988 and then worked as an assistant at the chair for diplomatic and consular law at the Institute for International Relations in Potsdam-Babelsberg . In 1989, Busch-Petersen, who was also a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) , became a member of the district assembly of the East Berlin district of Pankow for the GDR youth organization , in order to “change the system from within”.

At the beginning of 1990 he proposed the “Pankower Model” to the district council meeting , a round table that was “a kind of second chamber” with the right of veto and to which representatives from former and newly founded social organizations belonged. After the incumbent mayor did not want to have his election confirmed by the round table, the latter had to resign and Busch-Petersen was won over to the office. From February to May 1990 he temporarily held the office of the District Mayor of Berlin-Pankow.

Nils Busch-Petersen has been the general manager of the retail trade associations in Berlin since June 1990, initially on an honorary and then full-time basis. In 1995 he became the general manager of the regional working group for medium-sized and large retail companies (LAG) and from 2005 the general manager of the Berlin- Brandenburg trade association (BAG), the regional interest group for the retail sector.

In 2007 he was one of the founders of the “Friends and Patrons of the Synagogal Ensemble Berlin”. Since 2008 he has been a member of the “Berlin Council for Democracy”, where he is involved in work against racism, anti-Semitism and right-wing radicalism. On November 8th, 2009 he was one of the founding members of the Friends of Schönhausen Palace & Garden , which is committed to preserving Schönhausen Palace in Pankow. From 2011 on, Busch-Petersen is the founder and director of the Louis Lewandowski Festival , a concert series for synagogue music with international choirs that perform in synagogues, churches and elsewhere during the pre-Christmas period. In 2015 he was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Berlin.

Busch-Petersen is married to the engineer Ulrike Busch-Petersen and lives with his family, a daughter and a son, in Berlin-Pankow. As the patron of the ICKE in Buch e. V. he is committed to chronically ill children and their parents. He publishes and lectures on the history of the German retail trade, especially its company founders.

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Individual evidence

  1. Katja Füchsel: Berliner by profession. In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 12, 2006.
  2. ^ Jochim Stoltenberg: Walk with Nils Busch-Petersen. In: Berliner Morgenpost , December 16, 2018.
  3. a b c Nils Busch-Petersen, in: Adolf Jandorf : Vom Volkswarenhaus zum KaDeWe . Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-938485-10-1 , p. 79.
  4. a b c d Stefan Jacobs: Turn in Pankow. Mayor for 108 days. In: Der Tagesspiegel , October 22, 2009.
  5. Decade of a new beginning (1989 / 90-2000). In: District Office Pankow , accessed on November 11, 2013.
  6. Press contact. In: louis-lewandowski-festival.de , accessed on January 19, 2019.
  7. Cay Dobberke: Jewish trade history in Berlin. The warehouse king. In: Der Tagesspiegel , November 7, 2013.
  8. Visit of the association in the restoration workshop. In: foerderverein-schoenhausen.de , March 2015.
  9. ^ Board of Trustees of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation. In: gcjz-berlin.de , accessed on January 6, 2016.
  10. Wowereit presents Nils Busch-Petersen with the Order of Merit. In: berlin.de , November 25, 2014, accessed October 7, 2016.
  11. Cay Dobberke: City People. Nils Busch-Petersen always has the kippah with him. In: Tagesspiegel , January 25, 2016.