Peter Walter (politician)

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Peter Walter (born November 10, 1952 in Niedermarsberg / Sauerland ) is a German local politician. From March 1st, 1998 to February 28th, 2010 he was district administrator of the Offenbach district in Hesse .

Career

In 1963 his parents moved from the Sauerland to Dreieich in Hesse . There he attended the Heinrich-Heine School until 1968. After graduating from the Dreieich Gymnasium in Langen in 1971 , he began training with the criminal police in Langen. In 1975 the 23-year-old became the youngest Hessian detective superintendent in the Offenbach Narcotics Department . In 1984 he became deputy head of the department for advanced training at the police school in Wiesbaden. After two years he switched to Criminal Inspection 10 (child and juvenile delinquency, murder, robbery and drug offenses). In 1988 he became deputy head of the Frankfurt criminal police.

Political career

Local political advancement

As a student he joined the Jusos , which he soon left. In 1976, the then deputy state chairman of the Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter (BDK) joined the CDU . In 1977 he became city councilor in Dreieich and worked on the main, finance and social committee. A short time later he became chairman of the CDU parliamentary group and chairman of the CDU Dreieich. In 1993 he became the first district member of the Offenbach district. On March 1, 1998, he was directly elected as the successor to Josef Lach (SPD) to the district administrator of the Offenbach district. He received 55 percent of the vote.

"Welfare Working Group"

District Administrator Walter has maintained a so-called welfare working group since the end of 2005 , consisting of the police and the administration of foreigners, which investigated cases of " asylum abuse " and social fraud. In February 2008 Walter announced that the administrations of the city and district of Offenbach had been defrauded of over 5.7 million euros in social benefits. Especially people from Jordan have given false information about their origin and pretended to be Palestinians. The establishment and methods of the investigation team met with widespread criticism. Stefan Saemann from the FR criticized in a comment that Walter thwarted integration efforts with his approach and demanded: "If someone should be deported, then it is the district administrator himself - in a different position." Walter's successor Oliver Quilling (CDU) resigned March 2010 to want to dissolve the "AG Wohlfahrt". The reason he gave was that the AG had achieved its purpose. All further investigations would be carried out by the existing AG investigation . Quilling spoke of a "simmering political problem".

Financial affairs and indictments

In May 2010 it became known that Alliance 90 / The Greens in the Offenbach district had filed charges against Walter for breach of trust. The allegations concern legal fees of a good 110,000 euros in connection with the sale of the former district-owned Egelsbach airport , as well as 90,000 euros for legal advice to the district supply holding company. Walter is said to have approved the sum of the district committees. Further allegations concerned the private Strothoff International School , which allegedly on Walter's promise did not have to pay rent for a year in a district-owned building in Dreieich. There was only a preliminary contract about the lease, but no final lease. It is about rental costs of 480,000 euros.

In June 2011, the district and the school agreed in a first step in a mediation process that the school should pay a monthly rent of 67,000 euros for the use of the rooms it had been given since it opened in August 2009. In a further step of the process, an agreement is to be reached on who has to bear the special equipment costs in the amount of 3.3 million euros. District Administrator Quilling explained that the decisions made by his predecessor Walter under time pressure were "very bumpy". The Darmstadt regional council criticized Walter's behavior because the special equipment was not covered by the decision of the district council, which was also not informed about it.

In July 2011, press reports appeared on the financial risks associated with the district's involvement in a Land Fleesensee leisure and holiday resort in Göhren-Lebbin on the Müritzseenplatte in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and in a Sonnengarten Glienicke residential complex near Berlin. In 2000, 78.7 million euros, which the Kreisversorgungsbeteiligungsgesellschaft had received from the sale of its shares in Energieversorgung Offenbach, were partly invested in these projects on the initiative of Peter Walter. The investment company acquired shares in eight funds in the residential complex for 13.4 million euros in order to take advantage of tax advantages. Eight million euros flowed into the holiday resort. Such transactions have not been permitted since 2003. Investments ran until 2009 and 2010 respectively. A profit had never been made. In 2005, 1.2 million euros were repaid to the district; but it turned out that it was simply a repayment from the share capital. In 2008 the resort posted a loss of 13.7 million euros. The deficit in the 2011 economic plan totaled 95 million euros. Negotiations were in progress to avert bankruptcy. In this case, the district would have to shoot 1.2 million euros.

At the end of July 2011, the Darmstadt public prosecutor brought charges against Peter Walter on suspicion of breach of trust. This concerns the allegations in connection with the sale of the Egelsbach airfield. Without the approval of the responsible bodies, Walter decided to assume the legal costs of the Egelsbach community. The public prosecutor's office now puts the amount in question at 78,000 euros. The prosecutor's spokesman said the likelihood of conviction was higher than that of dropping the case. In response to the complaint of the Darmstadt public prosecutor's office, the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court admitted the indictment in October 2012 after the Darmstadt Regional Court initially denied admissibility.

In September 2011, at the request of the Greens, the district council decided to have it checked whether the district was entitled to compensation from Walter. Only the Free Voters voted against it.

The main proceedings against Walter began on February 6, 2013 before the Darmstadt Regional Court. At the beginning of the process, Walter declared: “Nobody can accuse me of selfish behavior.” He said he wanted to help the Egelsbach community to prevent the airport from going bankrupt and thus to preserve jobs. On February 21, 2013 Peter Walter was sentenced to a fine of 19,500 euros for infidelity. The court was only slightly below the request of the public prosecutor, who had demanded a fine of 22,500 euros. The defense had pleaded for acquittal. Walter appealed against the judgment. He said he firmly believed that he had acted to the best of his knowledge and belief. At the end of December 2013, the Federal Court of Justice rejected the appeal.

Personal

Walter is married and has a daughter. He lives in Dreieich.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d walter-waehlen.de, campaign brochure by Peter Walter  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - offline on July 24, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.walter-waehlen.de  
  2. ^ KPV Informations-, Bildungs- und Beratungswerk eV: kpv-ibb.de: Adoption of District Administrator Peter Walter (PDF; 1.4 MB). In: Hessenbrief. Issue 1/2010. Retrieved July 24, 2011.
  3. ↑ https://www.genios.de/document?id=FR__6313629&src=hitlist&offset=0
  4. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - offline on July 24, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fr-online.de
  5. ↑ Michael Eschenauer: "Increasingly unhappy impression" . In: Offenbach Post. March 3, 2010. Retrieved July 24, 2011.
  6. ↑ Michael Eschenauer: op-online.de: District Administrator Quilling wrestles with Walter's legacy . In: Offenbach Post. May 5, 2010.
  7. ↑ http://www.fr-online.de/kreis-offenbach/quilling-prueft-klage-gegen-walter,1473032,10807232.html ( Memento from August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  8. ↑ Maurice Farrouh: Investigation of the Strothoff school . In: Frankfurter Rundschau. April 30, 2010. Retrieved July 24, 2011.
  9. ↑ http://www.fr-online.de/kreis-offenbach/schulstreit-kreis-und-strothoff-vorm-schiedsgericht,1473032,8584972.html ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Eberhard Schwarz: There is a risk of further losses after bad investments . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. July 15, 2011. Retrieved August 4, 2011.
  11. ↑ Eberhard Schwarz: Expensive sins of the past . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. July 15, 2011. Retrieved August 4, 2011.
  12. ↑ Christoph Manus: Contaminated sites of the Walter era: Kreis wants to sell apartments . In: Frankfurter Rundschau. July 15, 2011. Retrieved August 6, 2011.
  13. ↑ https://www.op-online.de/region/frankfurt/verdacht-untreue-anklage-gegen-ex-landrat-peter-walter-2549032.html
  14. ↑ https://www.fr.de/rhein-main/offenbach/cdu-org26591/staatsanwalt-klagt-offenbacher-ex-landrat-walter-11714580.html
  15. ↑ http://www.fr-online.de/kreis-offenbach/quilling-prueft-klage-gegen-walter,1473032,10807232.html ( Memento from August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  16. ^ Frankfurter Neue Presse: Former district administrator for breach of trust in court . In: Frankfurter Neue Presse. January 28, 2013. Retrieved February 2, 2013.
  17. ↑ Infidelity Process. Ex-district administrator sentenced to a fine . In: Hessischer Rundfunk. February 21, 2013. Retrieved February 22, 2013.
  18. ↑ Former District Administrator Walter sentenced to a fine . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. February 21, 2013. Retrieved February 22, 2013.
  19. ↑ Another defeat for ex-District Administrator Walter In: Offenbach Post, December 31, 2013. Retrieved on January 5, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Walter, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Niedermarsberg