Otto Kelling

Otto Kelling (born January 12, 1949 in Lingen (Ems) ) is a former German politician ( SPD ). The business graduate and graduate Sozialwirt was from 1992 to 1996 mayor of the state capital Kiel .

Life

Otto Kelling was born in Lingen (Ems) in 1949. He studied economics and social sciences . After his diploma exams, he received a doctoral scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation . He received his doctorate as Dr. rer. pole. After being elected mayor of the state capital Kiel, he founded Kommunal- und Management GmbH in 1997. In 2008 he became managing director of three housing companies in the Chemnitz / Zwickau area . After the early death of his first wife, Kelling has a second marriage and has three children and two grandchildren.

politics

In 1986, Kelling, who at that time was an employee of the finance administration of the state capital Düsseldorf , became treasurer of the large district town of Iserlohn. There he was elected 1st alderman by the city council in 1989. From this office he was elected Lord Mayor of the state capital Kiel in 1992. His political projects were an administrative reform, the founding of the Kieler Wirtschaftsförderungs-Gesellschaft (KIWI), the construction of a tangent to the east bank (bypass), and the creation of a district of Kiel, which was to consist of the state capital Kiel and the surrounding communities. Soon there were tensions between the SPD parliamentary group and Kelling, who destabilized traditional power structures. The SPD accused the mayor of not taking part in budget consultations with his head of department and of ignoring their written savings proposals as jokes. Kelling is said to have taken note of the administrative templates and changed them. He concentrates on the development of concepts against the will of the SPD majority faction and neglects the solution of practical problems in the interests of the department heads and heads of office who are based on their particular interests. Kelling described some interests as detrimental to the overall good of the city and did not want to accept them. Nevertheless, within the framework of task criticism and administrative reform, Kelling succeeded in amicably reducing 500 staff positions as an important step towards budget consolidation. Kelling's opponents accused Kelling of being unwilling to move the center of his life from Iserlohn , where his family lived, to Kiel. In reality he is a weekend commuter . Otto Kelling rejected all allegations. His supporters held the headline of the FAZ on April 6, 1995 against the “saboteurs” of his work: “The farce of the Kiel SPD is at war with reality”. (The mayor's hell / by Jaspar von Altenbockum). The SPD parliamentary group initiated a dismissal procedure. In the spring of 1995, Kelling had to justify himself at four SPD regional conferences. An application by the SPD parliamentary group for dismissal failed due to the necessary two-thirds majority. Kelling continued to receive support from the other groups. In the context of this dispute, Kelling left the SPD. In the autumn of 1996 Kelling then voluntarily backed down: the municipal constitution, which came into force in 1997, abolished the administrative-leading magistrate. His rights went to the mayor. In his opinion, this required a new democratic legitimation for the Lord Mayor. As a result, Otto Kelling, as the last mayor of the city of Kiel elected by the council, paved the way for a successor directly elected by the citizens at the end of 1996. It was clear to the CDU district executive and parliamentary group that “the head of administration must remain in office until December 31, 1996 on the basis of the law applicable up to then. During this time, the legitimation question raised by Kelling, which the CDU accepted as the only reason for his being voted out of office, did not arise ”(Kieler Nachrichten of May 3, 1996).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lord Mayors of the City of Kiel. City Archives, accessed on November 18, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} Uta Wilke: A disappointed love . OB series: Otto Delling started with high hopes in 1992 - the dispute with the SPD made headlines across Germany. In: Kiel News . No. 293 , December 16, 2015, p. 26 .
3. ^ Housing company Zwickauer Land GmbH. Retrieved December 22, 2016 . 
4. ^ Otto Kelling: Management of the administrative reform in the state capital Kiel . In: Hermann Hill and Helmut Klages (eds.): Experiences with the modernization process . Raabe Verlags-GmbH, Stuttgart, Berlin, Bonn et al. 1997, ISBN 3-88649-524-8 , pp. 315 .
5. ↑ Otto Kelling and Albert von Mutius: Securing the ability to make decisions and act (part 1) and presentation of the Kiel reform model (part 2) . In: Zeitschrift Verwaltung, Organization, Personal (VOP) . No. 8 and 9. Business publishing house Dr. Th. Gabler GmbH, 1996, ISSN  0946-9036 .
6. ↑ Otto Kelling: The cities have to rethink . In: Handelsblatt . No. 7 , January 11, 2003, p. 8 .
7. ↑ Otto Kelling: Modernization by way of process optimization . In: Journal: VOP . No. 3 . Business publisher Dr. Gabler, Wiesbaden March 1999.
8. ↑ Editorial meeting with administrative experts : Transparent criteria for assessments . Ed .: VOP im Dialog. VOP 10-11 / 96. Business publisher Dr. Gabler, Wiesbaden October 11, 1996.
9. ↑ Otto Kelling: On the future of municipal services of general interest . In: Perspektiven (Ed.): The town hall . Essen May 2004.