Peter Kurth (politician)

Peter Kurth during the “Candidate Check for the 2009 Local Election”. Stage program for the CSD Street Festival / ColognePride 2009.

Peter Kurth (born April 5, 1960 in Siegburg ) is a German politician ( CDU ). From 1999 to 2001 he was Senator for Finance in Berlin. In 2009 he ran for the office of Lord Mayor of Cologne .

Life and work

The lawyer (first state examination in 1984, second state examination in 1988, studies at the universities of Bonn and Freiburg ), worked in Berlin from 1989 to 1994 at Deutsche Bank and the credit bank.

From 2001 to 2009, Kurth was a member of the four-person board of the Berlin waste disposal company ALBA AG , where he was responsible for facility management , corporate communication and the international region. From 2006 to November 2008 he was Vice President of the Federal Association of the German Waste Management, Water and Raw Materials Management (BDE), since then its executive president. Kurth has been Vice President since March 2009 and President of the European waste management association FEAD (Federation of Waste Management and Environmental Services) since January 2020 .

Political offices

Kurth has been a member of the CDU since 1977. In 1994 he was appointed to the post of State Secretary by the then Berlin Senator for Finance Pieroth (CDU) . In this function he was also taken over by Pieroth's successor Annette Fugmann-Heesing ( SPD ).

After Fugmann-Heesing left office, Kurth succeeded her as Finance Senator in 1999. He held this office until the breakup of the grand coalition in the wake of the Berlin banking scandal on June 16, 2001, when motions of no confidence against him, the governing mayor Eberhard Diepgen and the other CDU senators Wolfgang Branoner , Eckart Werthebach and Christoph Stölzl were accepted by the House of Representatives . Kurth was a member of several supervisory boards of sub-banks of Bankgesellschaft Berlin . During his time as State Secretary, he represented Senator for Finance Fugmann-Heesing on the supervisory board of Landesbank Berlin (LBB). From January 20, 2000 to June 16, 2001 he was a full member of the LBB Supervisory Board, and from February 17, 2000 to June 16, 2001 a member of the Supervisory Board of Bankgesellschaft Berlin.

In the election of October 21, 2001, Kurth was elected as a member of the Berlin House of Representatives. In 2003 he was defeated by his opponent Nicolas Zimmer in the election of the successor to the resigned CDU parliamentary group leader Frank Steffel with 17:18 votes. In 2004 he was elected to the 19-member commission of inquiry of the Berlin House of Representatives, which should work out how the funds in Berlin could be better distributed. In 2007 and 2009 he was elected chairman of the Berlin CDU district association Pankow.

In 2009 Kurth was a candidate for the office of Lord Mayor of the Cologne CDU . After the incumbent Mayor of Cologne Fritz Schramma resigned from his candidacy at the end of March 2009, he was appointed by the CDU after “weeks of searching for candidates” . Other prominent CDU politicians such as Wolfgang Bosbach were not ready to run. In the local elections on August 30, 2009, Kurth (33.36%) was defeated by the joint SPD and Greens candidate , Jürgen Roters (54.67%). The FDP candidate , Ralph Sterck, got 5.56%.

Honorary positions

Kurth is involved as deputy chairman in the Berlin housing initiative "New Paths for Berlin eV", which is aiming for a referendum.

Private

Kurth is openly gay and is involved in numerous social projects, such as the Come Together Cup or the Summer Blood Festival.

Web links

Commons : Peter Kurth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Kurth ( Memento from June 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), alba.info, accessed: May 11, 2009
2. ↑ Peter Kurth remains BDE President | EUWID recycling and disposal. Retrieved May 18, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Michael Brunn: Peter Kurth becomes FEAD President. In: RECYCLING magazine. June 21, 2019, accessed on May 18, 2020 (German). 
4. ↑ Berlin House of Representatives, printed matter 15/4900, p. 646
5. ↑ http://www.parlament-berlin.de/pari/web/wdefault.nsf/vHTML/C16_6?OpenDocument (link not available)
6. ↑ RP: Cologne CDU elects mayoral candidate June 8, 2009 ( Memento from September 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
7. ^ Ddp: Cologne CDU wants Bosbach as OB candidate March 29, 2009 ( Memento from September 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
8. ^ Peter Berger: Cologne. Background. OB candidate Peter Kurth , Kölner Stadtanzeiger, May 11, 2009
9. ↑ Roters and Greens are the winners ( Memento from July 18, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) , Kölnische Rundschau from August 31, 2009
10. ↑ About us. In: New ways for Berlin. Retrieved on May 18, 2020 (German). 
11. ↑ Queer: Cologne: CDU sends gay OB candidates into the race