Peter Tschentscher

Peter Tschentscher (2019)

Peter Tschentscher (born January 20, 1966 in Bremen ) is a German physician ( molecular biologist and laboratory doctor) and politician ( SPD ). Since March 28, 2018 he has been First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg ; In this role, he was chairman of the Prime Minister's Conference from October 2018 to September 2019 . From March 2011 to March 2018 he was Senator for Finance in Senates Scholz I and II .

Origin, professional career and private matters

Tschentscher was born in Bremen, the second of four sons of a timber merchant and a master tailor, and grew up in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony. In 1985 he passed his Abitur at Eversten Oldenburg high school and then did his civilian service in the ambulance service in Wittmund (East Friesland). This was followed by a degree in human medicine and a postgraduate course in molecular biology at the University of Hamburg . Tschentscher received a scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in 1990 . In 1994 he graduated with a state examination in medicine from 1995, he was with a thesis on immune chemical differentiation of highly homologous protein structures using the example of pregnancy-specific glycoproteins for MD PhD .

From 1994 to 2006 Tschentscher worked as an assistant doctor in the fields of laboratory medicine , internal medicine , transfusion medicine and medical microbiology at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE). In 2003 he was recognized as a clinical chemist and in 2006 as a specialist in laboratory medicine. In 2008 the Medical Faculty of the University of Hamburg awarded him his habilitation and awarded him the Venia legendi as a private lecturer in the subject of clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine. On November 14, 2008 he gave his inaugural lecture at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf . From 2008 until his appointment as Senator in March 2011, he worked as a senior physician and private lecturer at the UKE's Center for Diagnostics.

Peter Tschentscher is Protestant, married and has a grown son. His wife, with whom he lives in the former working class district of Barmbek-Nord , is Catholic.

politics

Party and local politicians

Tschentscher has been a member of the SPD since 1989 and was chairman of the SPD district association Hamburg-Nord from 2007 to 2018 , one of his predecessors there was Helmut Schmidt . From 1991 to 2008 he was a member of the Hamburg-Nord district assembly and from 1999 chairman of the SPD parliamentary group . There he sat, among other things, in the budget and economic committee and in the youth welfare committee, which he also chaired.

Member of the Hamburg Parliament (2008 to 2011)

In February 2008 he moved to the state election on the national list of the SPD in the Hamburg Parliament one. Within the citizenry, he was a member of the budget committee and specialist spokesman for budgetary issues in his group. He also served as one of the three deputy chairmen of the SPD parliamentary group.

On May 12, 2010 Tschentscher was appointed chairman of the parliamentary investigation committee “Elbphilharmonie” and gave up his membership in the investigation committee HSH- “Nordbank” .

Finance Senator (2011 to 2018)

Peter Tschentscher as the former Senator for Finance in the Hamburg Parliament (2011)

On March 23, 2011 he was appointed Senator for Finance of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and confirmed by the citizenship ( Senate Scholz I ). Since then, his citizenship mandate has been suspended in accordance with Article 39 of the Constitution of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . He also remained in office as Senator and President of the tax authorities in Senate Scholz II . Hamburg's debt level reached its lowest level in 2012 at 24.5 billion euros, but rose to 32.7 billion euros by 2018 - i.e. by around a third.

First Mayor (since March 28, 2018)

On March 10, 2018, the SPD state executive proposed him as the successor to Olaf Scholz in the office of First Mayor, who moved to Merkel IV's cabinet as Federal Finance Minister . At the extraordinary state party conference of the SPD Hamburg on March 24, 2018, the delegates present nominated him as a candidate for the election of the First Mayor with 95.2% of the votes cast. He was elected on March 28, 2018 with 71 out of 121 votes by the Hamburg Parliament ( Senate Tschentscher I ).

In the 2020 general election he received another mandate ( Senate Tschentscher II ).

Cum-ex controversy (2020)

Shortly before the citizenship election, the television magazine Panorama and the weekly newspaper Die Zeit reported in February 2020 that the Hamburg tax authorities waived illegal tax refunds amounting to 47 million euros for cum-ex transactions in 2016 during Tschentscher's tenure as Senator for Finance in the Scholz II Senate from the private bank MMWarburg & CO . It was also reported that in November 2019, after Tschentscher took office as mayor, the Senate Chancellery had held talks between the bank and ex-mayor Olaf Scholz . The quoted answer "No" from the Senate only related to the question of whether discussions had been held in connection with the tax proceedings surrounding the Cum-Ex affair. After Scholz had admitted a meeting with the then Warburg supervisory board chairman Christian Olearius in February 2020 and a donation from the bank to the SPD district association Hamburg-Mitte had become known, Tschentscher stated that tax refunds would not have been an issue during the talks. Scholz and Tschentscher each stated that there was no political influence on the case at any time. According to Panorama , however, Olearius' diary entries contradict this representation. In the course of the debate, the corresponding excerpt from his diary was published in which Olearius wrote that he reported on the topic himself and came to the conclusion that Olaf Scholz's “reticent behavior could be interpreted in such a way that we need not worry . ”The head of the Hamburg tax administration also contradicted the charge of any political influence.

In the aftermath of the election, Panorama and Zeit were accused of having reported tendentiously and not carefully.

Fonts

• Reform model of the Finance Ministers' Conference leads to extreme property tax assessments and excessive burdens in metropolitan regions. In: ifo Schnelldienst . 18/2016, Munich
• Immunochemical differentiation of highly homologous protein structures using the example of pregnancy-specific glycoproteins. Dissertation. Hamburg 1994.
• with C. Wagener and M. Neumaier: Distinction of highly homologous pregnancy-specific glycoprotein (PSG) isoforms by differential absorption of antisera with recombinant PSG fusion protein domains. In: Journal of Immunological Methods. 170 (2), 1994, pp. 247-254.
• with C. Wagener and M. Neumaier: Sensitive and specific cytokeratin 18 reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction that excludes amplification of processed pseudogenes from contaminating genomic DNA. In: Clinical Chemistry. 43 (12), 1997, pp. 2244-2250.
• with C. Wagener and M. Neumaier: Patent specification: Method for the detection of cytokeratins. German Patent Office 1998. DE19716346 C 19981119.
• with P. Nollau, C. Fischer and C. Wagener: Enrichment of mutant alleles by chromatographic removal of wild type alleles: a new principle for the detection of alleles with unknown point mutations at excess of wild type alleles. In: Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine. 37 (9), 1999, pp. 877-881.
• with C. Heeschen, C. Hamm and C. Wagener: High background levels compromise the use of cardiac troponin I RNA detection in peripheral blood as a diagnostic tool in cardiology. In: International Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Research. 30 (1), 2000, pp. 13-15.
• with C. Fischer, J. Büthe, P. Nollau, S. Hollerbach, K. Schulmann, W. Schmiegel and C. Wagener: Enrichment of mutant KRAS alleles in pancreatic juice by subtractive iterative polymerase chain reaction. In: Laboratory Investigation 81 (6), 2001, pp. 827-831.
• with S. Spethmann, C. Fischer, C. Wagener and T. Streichert: Nucleic acids from intact epithelial cells as a target for stool-based molecular diagnosis of colorectal cancer. In: International Journal of Molecular Medicine. 13 (3), 2004, pp. 451-454.
• with C. Wagener: Colorectal carcinoma: early diagnosis through detection of tumor DNA in the stool. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt. 103 (10), 2006, pp. A 623-628.
• with F. Klebig, C. Fischer, S. Petri, H. Gerull and C. Wagener: Limitations in molecular detection of lymph node micrometastasis from colorectal cancer. In: Diagnostic Molecular Pathology. 16 (2), 2007, pp. 91-95.
• Molecular diagnostics for the early detection of tumor diseases - detection of tumor-specific nucleic acids using the example of colorectal carcinoma. Habilitation thesis. Hamburg 2008.

literature

• Heike Korzilius: Peter Tschentscher. Laboratory doctor winning elections. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt. Volume 117, Issue 10, March 6, 2020m p. B 439.

Web links

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

• official website. Retrieved July 23, 2018 . 
• CV (hamburg.de). Retrieved July 23, 2018 . 
• Speeches as mayor (hamburg.de). Retrieved July 23, 2018 . 

Footnotes

1. ↑ Hamburg takes over the chairmanship of the Prime Minister's Conference. Retrieved May 17, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Now live: Hamburg has a new mayor. In: NDR.de. Retrieved March 28, 2018 . 
3. ↑ https://www.nwzonline.de/bildung-beruf/oldenburg-portraet-ein-oldenburger-regiert-hamburg_a_50,2,1092188338.html
4. ↑ Christmas memories: "I loved Grandma's Berliners" on bild.de, accessed on February 16, 2020.
5. ↑ Andreas Dey: Peter Tschentscher: The Enlightenment. Retrieved April 19, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Jens Meyer-Wellmann: SPD Hamburg-Nord is now run by a married couple. Retrieved July 23, 2018 . 
7. ↑ http://www.spd-fraktion-hamburg.de/no_cache/wir-ueber-uns/aboptere/hamburg/g/128.html ( Memento from August 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ http://www.spd-fraktion-hamburg.de/no_cache/wir-ueber-uns/aboptere/hamburg/g/128.html ( Memento from August 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ dpa / lno: Elbphilharmonie Committee starts work. In: The world . May 12, 2010, accessed May 15, 2010 . 
10. ↑ Report on NDR 90.3 on March 23, 2011.
11. ↑ Debt of the federal states in Germany on June 30, 2018
12. ↑ Figures for 2010-2017 , credit market only
13. ↑ Hamburg SPD selects Leonhard and Tschentscher. Retrieved July 23, 2018 . 
14. ↑ Marco Carini and Katja Kutter: The substitute. In: taz nord . March 10, 2018, p. 44.
15. ↑ Tschentscher elected the new mayor. In: faz.net. March 28, 2018, accessed March 18, 2018 . 
16. ↑ Preliminary result of the 2020 parliamentary elections: elected members of the 22nd Hamburg parliament. Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein - Institution of Public Law - (Statistics Office North)., February 24, 2020, accessed on March 10, 2020 . 
17. ↑ Cum-Ex scandal: allegations against Hamburg's SPD , taz.de February 13, 2020
18. ↑ Small written question and answer from the Senate: Cum-Ex and Cum-Cum in Hamburg, here: Bankhaus MMWarburg , Parliamentary Database of the Hamburg Citizenship, November 12, 2019
19. ↑ Donation from the Warburg Bank brings the SPD into need of explanations Tagesspiegel, February 18, 2020
20. ↑ Cum-ex debate: New doubts about the allegations Hamburger Abendblatt, February 19, 2020
21. ↑ Cum Ex: Hamburg waived 47 million from Warburg Bank NDR, February 13, 2020
22. ↑ Cum-Ex-Zoff - Is that supposed to be the scandal? Bild.de, February 19, 2020
23. ↑ Declaration by the Hamburg Tax Administration hamburg.de, February 19, 2020
24. ^ NDR: On Cum-Ex reporting. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .