Petra Hinz

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Petra Hinz (2014)

Petra Hinz (born June 10, 1962 in Essen ) is a former German politician . From 2005 to 2016 she was a member of the German Bundestag for the SPD . After allegations of bullying by her employees and an affair involving false information about her own résumé, she resigned from all party offices at the beginning of August 2016 and resigned from the Bundestag on August 31, 2016. On September 5, 2016, she resigned from the SPD by her own admission.

Life and work

Petra Hinz grew up in Essen. According to her lawyers, she completed her school career at what is now the Erich Brost Vocational College in Essen in 1983 with a technical college entrance qualification. According to a member of the Bundestag's biography, she then completed a one-year internship at the Sparkasse and, from 1985 to 1987, trained in moderation and communication. According to her lawyers, from 1999 to 2003 she was employed as a "non-legal" employee. Hinz lives in the Margarethenhöhe district of Essen .

Political party

Hinz became a member of the SPD in 1980 and has held numerous positions since 1982, including as deputy chairwoman of the SPD sub-district of Essen since November 2003 . On July 18, 2016, she announced her resignation from this position. She was a member of the advisory speaker group of the Seeheimer Kreis .

In the Essen SPD, Hinz belonged to the party wing around the former Bundestag member Otto Reschke .

The SPD in Essen initiated party regulatory proceedings against Hinz because of the falsified curriculum vitae. Hinz announced shortly afterwards that she wanted to leave the SPD. According to her own statements, Petra Hinz left the SPD on September 5, 2016.

MPs

Video presentation (2014)

From 1989 to 2005, Hinz was a member of the Essen City Council , and from October 2004 to 2005 as deputy parliamentary group leader. From 2003 to 2005 she was also on the regional council for the administrative district of Düsseldorf . In 2005 she was nominated as a candidate for the Bundestag constituency Essen III after a battle vote by her subdistrict .

Since October 18, 2005, she has been a member of the German Bundestag. In the 2005 Bundestag election she won the Essen III constituency with 48.1% of the first votes and in the 2009 Bundestag election with 38.6%. In the 2009 to 2013 election period, Hinz was a full member of the Finance Committee and a deputy member of the Budget Committee, the Petitions Committee and the Committee on Transport, Building and Urban Development of the German Bundestag.

In the 2013 Bundestag election she received 39.5% of the first votes; According to the preliminary official final result, Matthias Hauer (CDU) received three more votes. A recounting of all around 150,000 ballots decided by the district electoral committee showed that Hauer had received 93 votes more than Hinz. She pulled on the national list of SPD North Rhine-Westphalia in the Bundestag one. There she was a full member of the Audit Committee (spokeswoman for her group) and the Budget Committee . She was also a deputy member of the Health Committee and the Municipal Subcommittee and, in her parliamentary group, deputy spokeswoman for the Municipal Committee.

On July 18, 2016, Hinz announced that he would not run for the Bundestag again because of allegations of bullying . In the course of the allegations it became known that Hinz had falsified her résumé. She has neither graduated from high school nor is she a lawyer. After these allegations became known, Hinz let her lawyers announce that she was stepping down from her Bundestag mandate. She told the press that she wanted to explain her resignation to Bundestag President Norbert Lammert , who was on vacation at the time. This has been criticized in the media, as a declaration of resignation is also possible with any German notary or a German embassy. According to the Bundestag, Hinz failed several attempts to get her an appointment with the Bundestag President in July. He had agreed to come to Berlin for it. Hinz, however, asked for an appointment in September.

The Essen SPD leader Thomas Kutschaty called on Hinz on August 1st to declare her resignation within 48 hours. The impression should not be given that she also wants to receive the payments for September. Under current law, Hinz could have performed her mandate until the end of the legislative period; she could not be forced to resign. The Wüppesahl ruling provided legal security for this . Because of Kutschaty's request and his ultimatum to Hinz to give up her mandate, the journalist Thomas Darnstädt accused him on Spiegel Online of disregarding the freedom of the mandate at the limit of compelling MPs ( Section 106 (1) No. 2 lit. a StGB ). She donated her last net earnings from her work as a member of the Bundestag to the Child Protection Association and the Peace Forum.

Investigation into tax evasion

In March 2009 it became known that the public prosecutor's office had initiated an investigation against Petra Hinz on charges of tax evasion and that her immunity had been lifted. She was accused of not having submitted proper tax returns to the tax office since 2003 . In July 2009 the proceedings against a monetary deposit were discontinued.

Allegations of bullying by employees

In July 2012 the working group of SPD employees in the German Bundestag invited Hinz to a discussion about the complaints of at least 20 former employees of their Bundestag office about "insane harassment" and "personal humiliation". Hinz refused to speak and instead wrote in an answer that the allegations were "unfounded". When Hinz advertised an office job again after the 2013 federal election , the working group sent a “warning circular” to potential applicants.

In mid-June 2016, a "group of former employees of Petra Hinz" anonymously sent a letter to various responsible bodies, such as the SPD state chairwoman and Prime Minister Hannelore Kraft , the general secretary of the SPD state association of North Rhine-Westphalia André Stinka and the members of the Essen SPD parliamentary group. According to this, "the daily tone in the Hinz office included personal insults, defamation, bullying, constant monitoring and discipline as well as the transfer of humiliating tasks". This letter was intended to prevent Hinz 'from running for the Bundestag again, which by then had already "worn out" over 50 employees and ultimately had none at all. The anonymous letter was also sent to regional and national media. Initially, only the freelance journalist Pascal Hesse (including Informer Magazine , Essen) took up research; He sent inquiries to Petra Hinz and SPD party committees on several levels, in which he set a deadline for answering until June 23, 2016, 12 noon. After the deadline passed with no response, he published an article as advertised. An article appeared on the website of the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung that same evening .

Hinz explained:

“Should the author of the letter be a member of the SPD - which I simply cannot believe - the Essen Social Democrats would have to ensure that he or she no longer remains a member. Someone who defamed Social Democratic elected officials in a detrimental way and pressured Social Democratic delegates no longer has any place in our party. It violates the basic principles of the party, solidarity, fair democratic discussion and the democratic election of our elected officials. "

- Petra Hinz on July 11, 2016 on her website

On July 18, 2016, Hinz announced that she would not run again for the 2017 federal election because of allegations of bullying against her by former employees, which she rejected as unfounded. The Essen SPD chairman Thomas Kutschaty was surprised and stressed that Hinz had "received broad support for a renewed candidacy".

On July 22, 2016, a former employee, historian Norman Kirsten, spoke publicly for the first time about the allegations of bullying. Kirsten confirmed the allegations made in the anonymous letter in an interview. He “couldn't stand it” for more than half a year.

Fake CV

As a result of the article on allegations of bullying, the editorial team of Informer Magazine received a note from an SPD member in Essen about irregularities in Petra Hinz's vita, which the editorial staff addressed to Hinz in early July 2016. After discussions with another SPD member from Essen, this request was specified and renewed without any response. On July 19, 2016, the magazine then asked, among others, the President of the Bundestag Norbert Lammert , the SPD party chairman Sigmar Gabriel , the state chairman of the SPD North Rhine-Westphalia Hannelore Kraft and Essen's SPD leader Thomas Kutschaty for information.

On July 19, a lawyer from Essen published a statement on behalf of Petra Hinz, according to which she had given false information about her résumé for decades. Contrary to her earlier statements, which were published on the website of the Bundestag , among other things , she had neither acquired the general university entrance qualification nor completed a degree in law and thus did not pass any state law exams . She also invented information about working as a lawyer in a law firm , as a lawyer in the management of a group, and about freelance work. A new version of her résumé was published on her MPs website that same day. A large part of the information given in her biography up to then was therefore incorrect.

The public prosecutor's office at the Essen regional court announced on July 20, 2016 that, based on existing criminal charges , they were examining whether there was an initial suspicion of a fraudulent offense. The German Bar Association stated in August that it expected the phrase “lawyer in a law firm” to be seen as an abuse of professional titles . At the end of September 2016, the public prosecutor announced that a legal examination had shown that there was no initial suspicion of a criminal offense. Therefore, no preliminary investigation was initiated.

On July 26, 2016, it became public that the former SPD leader Dieter ten Eikelder in Essen had already received information about the falsified résumé from his own ranks in autumn 1989 and informed Otto Reschke , a member of the Bundestag at the time , who supported Hinz.

According to the former SPD member of the state parliament, Willi Nowack , the leadership of the Essen SPD knew about the false information in Hinz's résumé. In particular, Reschke and the North Rhine-Westphalian Minister of Justice Thomas Kutschaty had been informed; both deny that. Dieter ten Eikelder confirmed the long existence of rumors about Hinz's résumé.

According to a press conference of the sub-district chairman Thomas Kutschaty on August 4, 2016, Hinz wanted to resign from all offices of the Essen SPD, but initially wanted to keep her mandate in the Bundestag. This contradicts the announcement of July 18, 2016 on her website, according to which she wanted to resign from the Bundestag. On August 9, 2016, she announced in an interview with North Rhine-Westphalian newspapers that she would give up her mandate after completing clinical treatment; a point in time for this remained undetermined. Kutschaty commented on this, among other things: "Every additional day in office is another torture for everyone involved." On August 10, after further criticism from Hannelore Kraft, among others, Hinz declared that she wanted to resign from her Bundestag mandate with a notary on August 31, 2016 . The President of the Bundestag received a declaration of waiver by fax on August 23, but a waiver is only effective if the original of the notarized declaration is available. On August 31, 2016, Petra Hinz left the Bundestag.

Memberships

  • Member of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) since 1989
  • Member of the Margarethe Krupp Foundation for Housing Welfare in Essen since 1990

Web links

Commons : Petra Hinz  - Collection of Images
 Wikinews: SPD members of the Bundestag falsified their curriculum vitae  - message

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Document on the MPs page of the Bundestag ( Memento from July 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 1, 2016
  2. ↑ a b "Approved for launch" . FAZ.net, August 9, 2016.
  3. ↑ From September onwards, no more MPs. Tagesschau.de, August 30, 2016, accessed September 6, 2016 .
  4. ↑ letter u. a. on leaving the SPD on September 5, 2016 ( memento from September 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Petra Hinz online, accessed on September 9, 2016.
  5. ↑ a b Lawyers Heinemann & Partner: Letter from your lawyer on their website. (No longer available online.) July 19, 2016, archived from the original on July 20, 2016 ; Retrieved July 19, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.petra-hinz.de
  6. ^ A b c Lawyers Heinemann & Partner: Letter from your lawyer at the NRW-SPD. (PDF) July 19, 2016, accessed July 19, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Biography ( memento from July 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on bundestag.de, accessed on September 12, 2016.
  8. ↑ Joseph Hausner: Petra Hinz 'neighbors: "In retrospect, I understand a lot" . focus.de, August 5, 2016, accessed on August 6, 2016.
  9. ↑ WAZ of July 19, 2016
  10. ↑ There were always doubts and rumors about Petra Hinz in the SPD. In: WAZ of July 21, 2016.
  11. ↑ Hinz justifies himself for a fake CV . August 10, 2016.
  12. ↑ Hinz announces exit from the SPD . 11th August 2016.
  13. ↑ Timo Steppat: The Lie of Petra Hinz. FAZ.net, July 24, 2016.
  14. ↑ Jörg Diehl: Extremely tight result in Essen: three crosses for one mandate. In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved August 3, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Kristian Frigelj: CDU candidate thirty-fold advantage in Essen. In: Welt Online . September 30, 2013, accessed August 3, 2016 .
  16. ↑ a b c WAZ of July 19
  17. ↑ Wrong curriculum vitae: SPD MP Hinz resigns. In: sueddeutsche.de. July 20, 2016, accessed August 9, 2016 .
  18. ↑ Unreachable : Petra Hinz suddenly disappeared after lying about her resume. In: Focus Online . Retrieved August 3, 2016 .
  19. ↑ Mandate not resigned: Petra Hinz still MPs - including salaries . Die Welt from August 1st, 2016.
  20. ↑ Kutschaty: Submit certificates? “I don't like that”. (No longer available online.) In: ruhrnachrichten.de. Archived from the original on August 1, 2016 ; Retrieved August 3, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ruhrnachrichten.de
  21. ↑ Thorsten Denkler: Voter fraud: Petra Hinz can decide for herself when she leaves the Bundestag. sueddeutsche.de, August 4, 2016, accessed on August 5, 2016.
  22. ↑ How MPs can collect diets without having to work . WAZ, August 4, 2016.
  23. ↑ Thomas Darnstädt:Petra Hinz and the SPD: Totally run off . Spiegel Online, August 3, 2016.
  24. ↑ Wolfgang Kintscher: Petra Hinz wants to move forward after a deep fall - and forget . NRZ, August 18, 2017.
  25. ↑ Tax allegations: Investigations against SPD MPs Hinz. In: NRZ . www.derwesten.de , March 7, 2009, accessed on July 6, 2015 .
  26. ↑ Hinz pays - tax proceedings are discontinued. In: NRZ . derwesten.de , July 25, 2009, accessed April 12, 2010 .
  27. ↑ Wolfgang Kintscher: Essen's member of the Bundestag Hinz knew about the bullying allegation. In: derwesten.de. WAZ , accessed August 3, 2016 .
  28. ^ A b Open letter: SPD MP Petra Hinz in the criticism. (No longer available online.) In: informer-magazine.de. Archived from the original on August 5, 2016 ; Retrieved August 3, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / informer-magazine.de
  29. ↑ Florian Gathmann, Horand Knaup in: Der Spiegel , 30/2016, page 40 f., The talented Ms. Hinz (Subtitle: The SPD member of the Bundestag Petra Hinz was notorious for employee wear and control. Was she trying to protect her fantasy biography? )
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  31. ^ Christoph Hickmann: SPD MPs: The Petra Hinz case: invented vita and high employee wear and tear. In: sueddeutsche.de. Retrieved August 3, 2016 .
  32. ↑ Wolfgang Kintscher: Essen SPD MPs “speechless” after allegations of bullying. In: derwesten.de. WAZ , accessed August 3, 2016 .
  33. ^ To the anonymous "open letter" to the SPD Essen and the press coverage. (No longer available online.) In: petra-hinz.de. Archived from the original on August 14, 2016 ; accessed on August 8, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.petra-hinz.de
  34. ↑ Petra Hinz (SPD) renounces the Bundestag candidacy. In: WAZ , July 18, 2016
  35. ↑ Frank Stenglein: Petra Hinz "freaked out at the slightest criticism". In: derwesten.de. WAZ , accessed August 3, 2016 .
  36. ↑ Oliver Imhof: Petra Hinz's ex-trainee: "Everyone worked like a piece of cake" . 19th August 2016.
  37. ↑ Breaking news: Petra Hinz will not run for the Bundestag again. (No longer available online.) In: informer-magazine.de. Archived from the original on August 5, 2016 ; Retrieved August 3, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / informer-magazine.de
  38. ↑ How credible is Petra Hinz? A comment. (No longer available online.) In: informer-magazine.de. Archived from the original on July 26, 2016 ; Retrieved August 3, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / informer-magazine.de
  39. ↑ Life lie of Petra Hinz: Abitur and exams are invented. (No longer available online.) In: informer-magazine.de. Archived from the original on July 26, 2016 ; Retrieved August 3, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / informer-magazine.de
  40. ↑ a b Member's biography ( memento from July 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the German Bundestag , accessed on July 19, 2016
  41. ^ The CV of SPD politician Petra Hinz built on lies. In: WAZ of July 19, 2016.
  42. ↑ Fictitious résumé: Petra Hinz resigns from the Bundestag mandate. In: derwesten.de. WAZ , accessed August 3, 2016 .
  43. ↑ Lawyers expect investigations against Hinz . n-tv.de from August 6, 2016.
  44. ↑ No investigation against Petra Hinz . Zeit Online from September 27, 2016.
  45. ↑ Essen public prosecutor's office: The Essen public prosecutor's office has refrained from initiating investigations against Petra Hinz in accordance with Section 152 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure ( memento from October 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), press release from September 27, 2016
  46. ↑ Wolfgang Kintscher: Ex-chairman of the SPD Essen investigated the Hinz lie as early as 1989. In: derwesten.de. WAZ , accessed August 3, 2016 .
  47. ↑ Former SPD leader followed up on indications of Hinz's life lie 27 years ago. In: Focus Online . Retrieved August 3, 2016 .
  48. ↑ The time of July 27, 2016: Hinz's fake curriculum vitae was known in Essen's SPD.
  49. ↑ DerWesten from July 26, 2016: Ex-chairman of the SPD Essen investigated the Hinz lie as early as 1989 .
  50. ↑ Fake curriculum vitae: Petra Hinz remains a member of the Bundestag for the time being. In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved August 5, 2016 .
  51. ↑ faz.net: Hinz goes on the offensive: attacks against SPD colleagues . August 10, 2016.
  52. ↑ tagesschau.de from August 9, 2016
  53. ↑ CV affair: Petra Hinz wants to resign from the Bundestag mandate at the end of August. Spiegel online , August 10, 2016.
  54. ^ Frank Menke, Sebastian Döring: Hinz waiver of mandate still ineffective . WDR.de from August 24, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Hinz, Petra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH eat