Petra Roth

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Petra Roth at the award ceremony for the Konrad Adenauer Prize , September 2012 in Cologne

Petra Roth (* 9. May 1944 in Bremen as Petra Martin ) is a German politician of the CDU . From 1995 to 2012 she was Lord Mayor of Frankfurt am Main and from 1997 to 1999, 2002 to 2005 and 2009 to 2011 President of the German Association of Cities .

Life

Roth comes from a Bremen merchant family . She left the Kippenberg-Gymnasium with the completion of the middle school leaving certificate and then graduated from the commercial college in Bremen. She completed her training as a medical assistant in Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1964 she moved to Frankfurt am Main. In 1969/1970 she went to London as an au pair for a year .

She lives in the Nieder-Erlenbach district of Frankfurt ; from her second husband, who died in 1994, the hobby painter and former head of radio technology at Hessischer Rundfunk , Erwin Roth, she has two sons, Claudius (* 1971) and André (* 1974). Her partner is the Swiss Robert Raeber, former CEO of Nestlé AG Germany .

Roth is considered a sports enthusiast - according to his own statements, has been a member of SC Frankfurt 1880 since 1964 - and art-loving, owns the painting Wache by the artist Rissa , a hand-signed wristwatch by Jeff Koons and has been chairwoman of the non-profit association Atelierfrankfurt since 2012 .

Political career

Roth joined the CDU in Frankfurt in 1972 - "out of enthusiasm for Rainer Barzel ". First she was head of the social district from 1972 to 1988 and then from 1977 to 1989 and again from 1993 to 1995 a member of the city ​​council ; In addition, she held the offices of chairman of the Frankfurt Women's Union from 1989 to 1992 and that of vice-president of the State Sports Association of Hesse from 1990 to 1994 .

From 1987 to 1995 she was a member of the Hessian state parliament for the constituency of Frankfurt am Main VI and from 1992 to 1995 she was district chairman of the Frankfurt CDU, at that time the first female CDU member in Germany.

Frankfurt Lord Mayor

Helmut Kohl asked Roth in 1995 to run for Mayor of Frankfurt in the same year. She prevailed in the early and first direct mayor election with 51.9% to 45.9% against Andreas von Schoeler ( SPD ) and thus became the first woman mayor of Frankfurt am Main on July 5, 1995 .

In 2001, she narrowly won the second round of mayoral elections against her challenger, then Mayor Achim Vandreike (SPD). On January 28, 2007 she was re-elected for a third term with 60.5% of the votes in the first ballot, but only with a turnout of 33.6%. Your most promising opponent, Franz Frey (SPD), received 27.5% of the vote.

In 2011, she announced her resignation as Frankfurt mayor on July 1, 2012. The mayoral election took place a year earlier than planned on March 25, 2012, when Peter Feldmann (SPD) was elected as her successor.

Government style and position

Roth was often referred to as a “ moderator ”, praised for her ability to eliminate old trench warfare in Frankfurt politics, for example, and also criticized as the “ Sun Queen of Römerberg ” in later years because of her presidential style .

Because of her controversial views in the CDU on the establishment of Islam in Germany (mosque construction), on migration and integration issues and drug policy, she is assigned to the left wing of the CDU. Roth was proud of the interreligious dialogue in Frankfurt and the naturalization of more than 30,000 foreigners.

At times, Roth was under discussion as the successor to Johannes Rau for the office of Federal President . In March 2008 she was traded as a possible Prime Minister of Hesse . After the resignation of Federal President Christian Wulff on February 17, 2012, politicians of the CSU brought Roth into discussion as a possible successor before the Union parties agreed on Joachim Gauck as a candidate. At the suggestion of the Hessian CDU, she was a member of the Federal Assembly several times, including the election of the German Federal President in 2004 and every other Federal President election , most recently in 2012 .

Other former offices and functions

Roth was President of the German Association of Cities from 1997 to 1999 and from 2003 to 2005. Her successor from 2005 to 2009 was the Lord Mayor of Munich Christian Ude , whom she replaced in May 2009. In 2011, Ude was her successor again and Roth was vice-president until her resignation as mayor. During her tenure as Lord Mayor, she was a member of the supervisory board of the airport operator Fraport and chairwoman of the supervisory board of Messe Frankfurt , Stadtwerke Frankfurt am Main , Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund and the construction company ABG Frankfurt Holding . She was also a member of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union.

Roth was among other things chairman of the supervisory board of the energy and water service provider Thüga , member of the supervisory board of the French insurance group and capital manager Axa , chairman of the board of the Thuringian Foundation Schloss Ettersburg, founded in 2008 by the German construction industry , and member of the board of trustees of the German National Foundation .

Current mandates

Roth is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hertie Foundation and the Commerzbank Foundation

Honors

Web links

Commons : Petra Roth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ OB handover: Feldmann wants to present the program in three months. Retrieved October 27, 2014 .
  2. ↑ a b Roth, Petra, history of the CDU, Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Retrieved October 27, 2014 .
  3. ↑ https://www.kas.de/web/geschichte-der-cdu/haben/biogramm-detail/-/content/petra-roth-v1
  4. ↑ He asked: "Would you like to play with me?" Fnp.de from May 16, 2012 ( Memento from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Munzinger profile Petra Roth (accessed on May 1, 2014)
  6. ↑ Roth WamS sees a city on March 11, 2001
  7. ↑ Petra Roth private - A woman is covered fr-online from June 25, 2012
  8. ↑ Robert Raeder 75, Börsen-Zeitung of July 19, 2011
  9. ↑ fr-online from December 23, 2013 (accessed on May 1, 2014)
  10. ↑ An artist's watch for Petra Roth fnp from June 20, 2012 ( Memento from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Petra Roth on the Advisory Board New Domicile for Atelierfrankfurt FAZ from August 13, 2012
  12. ↑ Mayor of Frankfurt with the longest term of office ( Memento from February 13, 2007 in the web archive archive.today )
  13. ↑ hr-online ( memento of January 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), as of January 29, 2007
  14. ↑ Felix Helbig, Jutta Ochs: Mayor Frankfurt: Roth goes out, Rhine wants in , message from the Frankfurter Rundschau, November 1, 2011, seen June 11, 2012
  15. ↑ Petra Roth retires as mayor in Frankfurt , report on welt.de from November 1, 2011, accessed on November 1, 2011
  16. ↑ Feldmann new city hall chief of Frankfurt , report of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of March 25, 2012, seen on June 11, 2012
  17. ↑ Frankfurt elects new mayor "We are better than our reputation" Süddeutsche Zeitung Online from March 9, 2012 (page 2)
  18. ↑ Who will be Federal President ?: Four candidates are currently in the running , message on focus.de from February 19, 2012, seen June 11, 2012
  19. ^ Georg Leppert, Canan Topçu: Mayor Petra Roth says yes to the mosque. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . October 5, 2007, accessed April 19, 2019 .
  20. ↑ a b “I trust the Greens” , interview with Georg Löwisch and Klaus-Peter Klingelschmitt in the daily newspaper on May 13, 2006
  21. ↑ Petra Roth as Prime Minister in conversation , news from Focus online from March 8, 2008
  22. ↑ Possible Wulff successors in FAZ of February 18, 2012
  23. ↑ "Roth new President of the German Association of Cities" on tagesschau.de ( Memento from May 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  24. ↑ Information on the Supervisory Board on the airport company website , accessed on June 17, 2013
  25. ↑ Messe Frankfurt Management ( Memento from November 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  26. ^ Thüga committees and organs (accessed on May 1, 2014) ( Memento from April 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  27. ↑ Petra Roth joins the Axa supervisory board on Handelsblatt from June 4, 2012
  28. ↑ Board of Directors of the Ettersburg Foundation (accessed on May 1, 2014) ( Memento from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  29. ↑ Committees of the German National Foundation (accessed on May 1, 2014)
  30. ↑ Hertie Foundation, The Board of Trustees (accessed May 1, 2014)
  31. ↑ Board of Trustees & Board of Directors. In: commerzbank-stiftung.de. Retrieved August 20, 2020 .
  32. ^ Journal Frankfurt from October 15, 2012 , accessed on October 15, 2012
  33. ^ Press release number 883 of the City of Cologne from June 29, 2012.
  34. ↑ CDU Hessen: Bouffier has blown to hunt the AfD. In: Fuldainfo.de. June 18, 2016, accessed July 1, 2018 .
  35. ↑ German Cultural Council press release of March 27, 2017: Petra Roth, retired Lord Mayor, receives cultural penny 2017 from the German Cultural Council , accessed on March 27, 2017
  36. ↑ Petra Roth made honorary citizen of the city of Frankfurt at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the city of Frankfurt am Main, accessed on June 12, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Roth, Petra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martin, Petra (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen