Birdie affair

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The 1995 conflict between the Bremen FDP and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Bremen over urban development and land policy in Bremen was colloquially referred to as the birdie affair (also known as the birdie affair ) . It led to the end of the Wedemeier III Senate government , the Bremen traffic light coalition , and to the early elections on May 14, 1995 .

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The environmental department under Senator Ralf Fücks (Greens) had already registered areas in the Hemelinger Marsch as an EU bird sanctuary in the spring of 1993. In addition, the specialist department registered six other Bremen areas with the European Union as bird protection areas. The FDP later accused the department or the senator of having ignored the committees and having done so without asking the senate and the citizenship. The economic department (FDP) had planned an intensive commercial use of the area.

For the then Senator for Economic Affairs, Claus Jäger (FDP), this represented a clear breach of the coalition. As “more than 17 percent” of Bremen's land were protected, he saw the establishment of further nature reserves as “the end of all economic policy opportunities” for Bremen.

The FDP joined a vote of no confidence by the opposition CDU against Fücks and voted out the senator on February 23. Helga Trüpel also took over the department, but the position of second mayor was not filled again. The citizenship decided on March 1, 1995 to dissolve itself and shortened the current legislative period by four months.

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Der Spiegel pointed out that the FDPhad come under pressurefrom the existing voter initiative Work for Bremen . The initiative emerged from the then quarreling SPD in Bremen and wanted to entice away FDP voters with its economic development program.

After the federal election in 2005 , Klaus Wedemeier replied to the question of whether Chancellor Gerhard Schröder should get involved in a traffic light coalition made up of the SPD, Greens and FDP if necessary: ​​“If he would call me, I would advise against it.” 2008 He said that the failure of the “Bremen Model” was mainly due to technical errors: “The Greens were inexperienced in governing, the FDP as well - that couldn't work.” Wedemeier also saw mistakes in his own party: “The SPD thought at the time that the city was their prey […]. After 40 years of sole government, we didn't really know how to work with coalition partners. "

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dirk Asendorpf: Bremen's "Piepmatz Affair" . In: the daily newspaper . February 8, 1995
  2. ↑ a b FDP: Deregistered completely . In: Der Spiegel . No. 7 , 1995, p. 38 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Bruno Schrep : Quarreling Ampelmännchen. In: Der Spiegel . Special election issue '05, September 19, 2005 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Gordon Repinski: Traffic light coalitions: failed because of the Piepmatz affair. In: Spiegel Online . February 1, 2008, accessed August 15, 2013 .