Patrick Wendisch

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Patrick Wendisch (born October 3, 1957 in Bremen ) is a German insurance company and former politician ( AFB ). From 1995 to 1999 he was a member of the Bremen Parliament and from 2004 to 2007 President of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce .

Life

education and profession

Wendisch was born the son of the Bremen insurance company Friedel Wendisch and grew up in Bremen. In 1976 he graduated from the Hermann-Böse-Gymnasium in Bremen . He then studied industrial engineering from 1976 to 1981 at the Technical University of Darmstadt and graduated with a degree in industrial engineering specializing in mechanical engineering . In 1981 he worked for the Munich Reinsurance Company's branch in Johannesburg , South Africa . It was followed by the doctoral program at the Technical University of Darmstadt , where he in 1984 with Bert Rürup at the Department of Finance to Dr. rer. pole. PhD. From 1984 to 1985, Wendisch worked in various professional positions in the German, British and US insurance markets , working for the property and industrial department of Allianz , the Hamburg Albingia insurance company and for Willis Farber in London.

1985 joined Wendisch as a general partner in this traditional, from his father further expanded Bremer Insurance companies Lampe & Schierbeck one, which had been founded in 1858, and was one of the general partners. In 1992 he was appointed Chief Representative of the German management of the British Northern Assurance Company . In 1998, Lampe & Schierenbeck merged with the long-established insurance company Buse & Schwartze and went over to Lampe & Schwartze KG . The owner-managed limited partnership is managed by Wendisch together with four other partners.

Wendisch is married and has three children.

politics

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At the beginning of 1995, Wendisch joined the voter association Arbeit für Bremen und Bremerhaven (AFB), which was founded in January 1995 by the Sparkasse director Friedrich Rebers , the former SPD economics senator Werner Lenz and others and which lasted until 2002. In the state elections in Bremen in 1995 , the AFB achieved 10.7% of the vote and 12 members of parliament for the 14th electoral period. Wendisch was a member of the Bremen citizenship from 1995 to 1999 .

Further memberships

Wendisch is involved in various committees and offices for Bremen on a voluntary basis, including the following:

  • He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Bremen Business Academy and a member of the Bremen State Board of Trustees of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft .
  • Since 1997 he has been involved in the traditional Rotary Club of Bremen, which was founded in 1931.
  • Wendisch has been a member of the plenum of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce since 1998 and has been a member of the Presidium for many years since January 2000. He was elected by the plenary to succeed Dirk Plump as President of the Chamber of Commerce and held the office from January 2004 to January 2007. His successor in the presidency was Lutz H. Peper . In addition, he was and is active in other chamber committees on an honorary basis. Wendisch is now Senior at the Bremen Chamber of Commerce.
  • In 2004 he became a commercial member of the Haus Seefahrt Foundation . In 2006, as one of the three responsible creators, he hosted the 462nd Schaffermahlzeit .
  • In 2013, Wendisch became president of the Eiswette von 1829 , of which he has been a member since 2003.
  • He is a member of the supervisory board of the Bremer Lagerhaus-Gesellschaft .

Controversy

In January 2019, Wendisch attracted public attention when, in his role as President of the Bremen Eiswette Association from 1829 , he insisted on "tradition" and instead of Bremen's Mayor Karoline Linnert invited Bremerhaven's Lord Mayor Melf Grantz to the foundation festival of the Bremer Eiswette . Mayor Carsten Sieling was unable to attend and had therefore previously asked Wendisch to invite his deputy Linnert as the official representative of Bremen to the annual traditional event in the Congress Center Bremen with around 800 guests. However, the ice competition president insisted on the association's statutes and justified the exclusion of women:

“We are a men's club, we don't go along with this gender gaga. Even the Pope would not be invited if he were a woman. "

- Patrick Wendisch : Bild.de from January 19, 2019

The "non-invitation" became a nationwide topic in the mass media . The u. a. The attitude of Eiswettpräsident Wendisch and the Eiswettverein represented by him as “misogynistic and antiquarian” led to considerable criticism in politics, the public, the media and social networks. The ice cream club and its president were accused of sexism . Interior Senator Ulrich Mäurer canceled his participation in the 2019 Ice Festival at short notice.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Torsten Fiddelke: "I always had to work hard for success". In: welt.de . May 13, 2001, accessed June 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ According to information on the company website: Imprint - L&S Group. In: lampe-schwartze.de. Retrieved January 22, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft e. V. (Ed.): Stifterverband. Report 11-12 . Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, ISSN  0723-6530 , p. 78 ( digital version [PDF; 18.4 MB ; accessed on January 22, 2019] Activity Report 2011–2012).
  4. ^ Club and membership directory of Rotarians in the Federal Republic of Germany 2002/2003
  5. ↑ Dr. Patrick Wendisch new President of the Chamber of Commerce . In: Bremen Chamber of Commerce (ed.): Economy in Bremen . No. 2 , 2004, ISSN  0931-2196 , p. 14 .
  6. ↑ Bremen Chamber of Commerce : Lutz H. Peper new President of the Chamber of Commerce. In: pressebox.de. January 22, 2007, accessed January 22, 2019 (press release).
  7. ↑ Honorary President and Seniors of the Chamber of Commerce. In: handelskammer-bremen.de . Retrieved January 22, 2019 .
  8. ^ Commercial members of the "Haus Seefahrt" (2018). In: haus-seefahrt.de . 2018, accessed January 22, 2019 .
  9. ^ Press office of the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen: Schaffermahlzeit 2006. In: rathaus.bremen.de. February 10, 2006, accessed January 22, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Eiswette of 1829 : Executive Presidium. In: eiswette.de. Retrieved January 22, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Information about the Supervisory Board on the company website, accessed on June 12, 2019.
  12. ↑ a b Jürgen Hinrichs: Eiswette is making waves. In: weser-kurier.de . January 22, 2019, accessed January 22, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Alexander Mertens: Linnert booted out at ice competition: No more gender gaga! In: Bild.de . January 19, 2019, accessed January 22, 2019 .
  14. ^ Patrick Reichelt: Conflict in the Hanseatic City: Women not wanted. In: tagesspiegel.de . January 21, 2019, accessed January 22, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Karl-Henry Lahmann: Ice Festival without Mayoress: Something from yesterday. In: butenunbinnen.de . January 18, 2019, accessed January 22, 2019 (comment).
  16. ↑ (flr / dpa): Ice competition in Bremen: Mayor Linnert is not allowed to come. In: Focus Online . January 20, 2019, accessed January 22, 2019 .
  17. ↑ (koe): Bremen: Because she is a woman - the mayor is not allowed to the fundraising gala. In: Spiegel Online . January 20, 2019, accessed January 22, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Sophie Labitzke, Jens Fabig: Ice cream festival without women - Sieling is also outraged. In: butenunbinnen.de . January 21, 2019, accessed January 22, 2019 .
  19. ↑ (dpa / hof): "Eiswettfest": Mayor Linnert unloaded - because she is a woman. In: welt.de . January 21, 2019, accessed January 22, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Eiswettfest in the criticism: Sexism accusation against Bremen men's group. In: nwzonline.de . January 22, 2019, accessed January 22, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Jan Zier: Bremen men's club causes a scandal: Unloaded ice cold. In: taz.de . January 22, 2019, accessed January 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Wendisch, Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German insurance company, politician (AFB), Member of the Bundestag and President of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen