Ortwin round

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Ortwin Round (2002)

Ortwin Runde (born February 12, 1944 in Elbing / Danzig-West Prussia ) is a German politician ( SPD ).

From 1988 to 1993 he was Senator for Labor, Health and Social Affairs, from 1993 to 1997 Finance Senator and from 1997 to 2001 First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . From 2002 to 2009 Runde was a member of the Bundestag .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1964, Runde studied sociology and economics in Münster , London and Hamburg and graduated in 1969 in Hamburg with a degree in sociology. In 1970 he joined the public service of the city of Hamburg; since 1978 he was head of the Department for Homes and from 1981 head of the Department for Social Affairs and Rehabilitation .

Political party

Runde has been a member of the SPD since 1968. From 1969 to 1971 he was a member of the state board of the Jusos in Hamburg and their representative on the state board of the SPD Hamburg.

From 1976 to 1988 he was a member of the SPD state executive in Hamburg. There he was deputy state chairman from 1978 to 1983 and from 1983 to 1988 state chairman of the SPD Hamburg.

MP

From 1974 until the resignation of the mandate on December 31, 1980 and from 1991 to 2001 Runde was a member of the Hamburg parliament . His mandate was suspended from 1991 to 2001 because he was a member of the Senate. In June 1977 he belonged together with Wulf Damkowski , Jan Ehlers , Bodo Fischer , Harro Frank , Hans-Jürgen Grambow , Helga von Hoffmann , Frauke Martin , Lothar Reinhard and Bodo Schümann to a group of ten SPD members of the Bundestag who, in connection with the Exclusion of the Juso chairman Klaus Uwe Benneter in a letter to the party chairman Willy Brandt demanded that this prevent party regulatory proceedings against 56 Hamburg SPD members who had shown solidarity with Benneter.

From 2002 to 2009 he was a member of the German Bundestag . Here he was a member of the executive committee of the SPD parliamentary group. From 2002 to 2005 he was spokesman for the Hamburg regional group and, from January 2006, deputy spokesman for the “ Local Politics ” working group of the SPD parliamentary group.

Ortwin Runde has always entered the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Hamburg-Wandsbek constituency . In the 2005 Bundestag election , he achieved 49.6% of the first votes .

Public offices

On June 8, 1988 he was appointed Senator for Labor, Health and Social Affairs in Henning Voscherau's Senate . After the 1993 general election, he was elected Senator for Finance on December 15, 1993.

After Henning Voscherau's resignation due to the poor performance of the SPD in the 1997 mayor elections , Runde was elected First Mayor and President of the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg on November 12, 1997 .

Round was set up on May 4, 2001 for the top candidate for the mayor election. In the 2001 general election , the SPD was clearly the strongest parliamentary group with 36.5% of the vote, ahead of the CDU with 26.2% of the vote, but the GAL suffered significant losses (minus 5.3 percentage points), which meant the coalition failed to gain a majority . Instead, Ole von Beust (CDU) formed a coalition of the CDU , FDP and the rule of law offensive party . Round therefore resigned from office on October 31, 2001.

Web links

Commons : Ortwin round  - collection of images

Senates

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "The conflict in the SPD about the Juso boss" , in: Hamburger Abendblatt from July 9, 1977, accessed on March 23, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Round, Ortwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Elbing , Danzig-West Prussia