Norbert Rüther
Norbert Rüther (born August 29, 1950 in Menden ) is a former SPD politician and psychiatrist .
biography
The out of the Sauerland originating psychiatrist and former head of psychiatry at the Provincial Hospital Langenfeld lived in since 1970 Cologne . There he began a career as a party official of the SPD. Together with Klaus Heugel , he had a great influence within the Cologne local association.
In 1999, Rüthers was elected to succeed Anke Brunn as chairman of the SPD district of Middle Rhine. He was on 14 May 2000 as a candidate for the constituency 15 Cologne I in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia selected. Until 2002, Rüther was also chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Cologne City Council. Today he works as a specialist in the institute's outpatient department for psychiatry at the St. Antoniuskrankenhaus Wissen and continues to live in Cologne.
Cologne garbage scandal
Main article: Cologne donation affair
On March 4, 2002, Rüther resigned all offices because of his involvement in the party donation scandal of the Cologne SPD in connection with the construction of a waste incineration plant. The politician was arrested in June 2002, together with Karl Wienand and the entrepreneur Hellmut Trienekens from Viersen, by the Cologne public prosecutor's office on suspicion of tax evasion and aiding and abetting bribery and made a comprehensive confession. This revealed the true extent of illegal party donations. Of the total of 830,000 DM that Rüther had received between 1994 and 1999, the remaining DM 511,000 could be determined. According to Rüther, he used the deficit of DM 319,000 to cover election campaign costs. He was released on bail and resigned from the party.
In the second trial of bribery during the construction of the waste incineration plant in Cologne, Norbert Rüther was sentenced to 27 months in prison on September 1, 2005 by the Cologne Regional Court for bribery and aiding and abetting bribery. Rüther had admitted that he had accepted 75,000 euros in cash and without a receipt from the former garbage entrepreneur Hellmut Trienekens and passed it on to the Cologne SPD, but denied having represented Trienekens' interests in return. In July 2006, the Federal Court of Justice declared the prison sentence imposed by the Cologne SPD in connection with the donation scandal to be invalid. After the trial was reopened, Rüther received 18 months' probation on August 7, 2008 for involvement in bribery and parliamentary bribery.
literature
- Peter Berger / Axel Spilcker: The scandal. The garbage, the city and the donations. Cologne 2003; Gerd Huppertz / Axel Pollheim (eds.): 100 Cologne Heads, Cologne 1995;
Web links
- Norbert Rüther at the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament
- The time for the Cologne bribe scandal
- The world about the validity of the Cologne garbage judgments
- The Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger on the Rüther trial
- The Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger on the suspended sentence for Heugel and Rüther
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rüther, Norbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Menden |