Norbert Gansel

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Norbert Gansel (2017)

Norbert Tronje Gansel (born August 5, 1940 in Kiel ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and was Lord Mayor of Kiel from 1997 to 2003 .

Life and work

After high school at the Hebbel school made Gansel 1960-1962 his military service in the German Navy from, from which he as a lieutenant d. R. resigned. He then began studying history , political science and law and political science in Kiel , which he completed in 1969 with the first state examination and in 1973 with the second state examination . During his studies from 1963 to 1966 he was a research assistant and a scholarship holder of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation .

Norbert Gansel is married and has a daughter.

Political party

Gansel has been a member of the SPD since 1965. From 1969 to 1970 he was Deputy Federal Chairman of the Jusos . Since 1969 he was a member of the SPD party council , from 1986 to 1991 as its chairman. From 1991 he was also a member of the party executive committee of the SPD, but was not re-elected at the 1995 party congress.

MP

Norbert Gansel (1972)

From 1972 to 1997 Gansel was a member of the German Bundestag . From January to December 1991 he was a member of the board of the SPD parliamentary group and at the same time chairman of the parliamentary group's working group on foreign and security policy . From 1994 to 1997 Gansel was Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee .

From 1983 to 1987 he was spokesman for the SPD in the North Atlantic Assembly and the Assembly of the Western European Union (WEU).

Gansel had no part-time jobs and he did not accept any donations from companies or associations and published his income and its origins on his homepage. In order not to lose touch with professional reality, he did an “internship” once a year at a shipyard, at the post office or in the mine.

Norbert Gansel is always as directly selected delegates of the Bundestag constituency Kiel pulled into the Bundestag.

Public offices

Norbert Gansel with Hamburg's First Mayor Ortwin Runde

From 1997 to 2003 he was the first directly elected Lord Mayor of the state capital Kiel after the Second World War . During his term of office, for example, the construction of the Hörnbrücke , which connects the Gaarden-Ost district via the Kiel Fjord with the station forecourt, and the sales of the municipal utilities , the Ostseehalle and the Kieler Housing Association (KWG).

Teaching

Between 2004 and 2009 Norbert Gansel held a lectureship at the Institute for Political Science (now Institute for Social Sciences) at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In July 2012 the “large lecture hall” in the “old canteen” was named after him.

Commitment to transparent democracy: Example of abolishing secret elections for heads of government

Not only the financial circumstances of an MP should be transparent for Gansel, but also his voting in the election of the heads of government in the federal and state levels. On the occasion of the mysterious election of Ernst Albrecht as Prime Minister of Lower Saxony in 1976, Gansel insisted that such votes should not be secret. Also with regard to the Bonn vote of no confidence of 1972, which had been decided by the Stasi via dark channels , as only became apparent many years later (from 2000), Gansel wrote: “What Bonn [1972] went through will become today [1976] suffered in Hanover: speculation on defectors, the triumph of cowardice in parliament, the big hour of informers in the parliamentary groups, the provoked break in the coalition, the impending incapacity to govern. ”In 1994 Gansel repeated his demand. On the part of political science , she was taken in agreement, namely Theodor Eschenburg , 1976 (for historical consideration) and Frank Decker 2009 (when absolutely necessary).

Publications

  • Norbert Gansel (Ed.): Overcome capitalism or what do the young socialists want? Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1971, ISBN 3-499-11499-2 .

literature

  • Norbert Gansel: Political Practice and Political Science. Personal notes . In: Wilhelm Knelangen , Tine Stein (ed.): Continuity and controversy. The history of political science at the University of Kiel . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2013, pp. 67–92, ISBN 978-3-8375-0763-8
  • Volker Sponholz: The daring adventures of Norbert Gans. Recorded by Volker Sponholz . Schmidt and Klaunig, Kiel 2003, ISBN 3-88312-249-1 (= comic about Gansel; the accompanying exhibition "The daring adventures of Norbert Gans" was on display from November 7, 2003 to January 11, 2004 in the rooms of the Kiel City Museum Warleberger Hof shown).

Web links

Commons : Norbert Gansel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susanne Gaschke : Can the moralist make it? In: Die Zeit 21/1996. May 17, 1996, accessed December 23, 2015 .
  2. ^ NDR: How Kiel sold 11,000 apartments to an investor. Retrieved July 12, 2019 .
  3. ^ Norbert Gansel: No more secrecy. In: Stern (1976) 5, January 22, 1976, p. 20.
  4. ↑ Norbert Gansel: Six comments on tomorrow's election for Chancellor. A plea against hidden ballot papers and for open controversy. In: Sozialdemokratischer Pressedienst 49 (1994) 217, November 14, 1994, p. 1f.
  5. ^ Theodor Eschenburg: Just an old braid? According to the experiences in the Lower Saxony state parliament. The "hidden ballots" could be disclosed. In: Die Zeit February 13, 1976. online
  6. ↑ Frank Decker: Abolish the secret ballot! In: Berliner Republik, 11 (2009) 6 online , and in: Die Zeit November 4, 2009 online .
personal data
SURNAME Gansel, Norbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gansel, Norbert Tronje
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag, Mayor of Kiel
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel