Rainer Brechtken

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Rainer Brechtken (* 15. August 1945 in Ludwigsburg ) is a German politician of the SPD and sports official. From 2000 to 2016 he was President of the German Gymnastics Federation .

education and profession

After finishing secondary school in Schorndorf, Brechtken received his secondary school leaving certificate in 1962 and then began vocational training in the higher non-technical administrative service. From 1966 he worked for the city administration of Munich . In 1969 he moved to the city administration of Schorndorf, where he worked until 1974.

Political activity

Rainer Brechtken joined the SPD in 1968. From 1971 he became involved in the SPD district association Rems-Murr and was elected to the district council in 1973, to which he belonged until 1992. In 1974 he became political advisor to the SPD parliamentary group in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg , to which he himself moved in 1980 as a member and to which he belonged until 2001.

After the state elections in Baden-Württemberg in 1992, the state was ruled by a grand coalition under Prime Minister Erwin Teufel . Brechtken became Political State Secretary (i.e. without a seat and vote in the state government) at the Ministry of Economic Affairs under Minister Dieter Spöri . In 1996 the grand coalition was replaced by a CDU / FDP coalition. Brechtken thus lost his office as State Secretary. He then became one of the deputy chairmen of the SPD parliamentary group in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg.

Mayor election in Stuttgart 1996

In autumn 1996, Rainer Brechtken stood as a candidate for the SPD in the mayoral election in Stuttgart. The previous mayor Manfred Rommel (CDU), who had been in office since 1974, reached the age limit for mayors in Baden-Württemberg of 68 on December 24th . The candidate of the CDU was Wolfgang Schuster , candidate of the Green Rezzo hose . Furthermore came Corinna Werwigk-Hertneck for the FDP / DVP and Dieter Lieberwirth for the Republicans to. In the first ballot on October 20, 1996, Brechtken received only 22.6 percent of the vote, clearly lagging behind Schuster (35.2 percent) and Hose (30.6 percent). In the second ballot on November 10, 1996, Pforzheim's Lord Mayor Joachim Becker , also a member of the SPD, ran as a further independent candidate. Brechtken then only got 13.5 percent of the vote, Becker 3.4 percent. Wolfgang Schuster was elected with 43.1 percent of the vote. He only had a lead of 4.6 percentage points over Rezzo hose, so that he would have been successful in the election if Brechtken and Becker had renounced the second ballot in favor of Schlauch. The election result was a disaster for the SPD in Stuttgart.

Other offices, honors and awards

From 1994 to 2012 Brechtken was President of the Swabian Gymnastics Federation . In 1996 he was elected Vice President of the German Gymnastics Federation . After the previous president Jürgen Dieckert was no longer available for another term of office, Brechtken was elected president of this sports association in autumn 2000. This got into financial difficulties in the following years due to the construction of an overpriced association headquarters. Brechtken represents the sports associations in the SWR Broadcasting Council .

On May 10, 2003 he was awarded the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit .

Family and private

Rainer Brechtken lives in Schorndorf , he belongs to the Roman Catholic Church , is married to Heidegard Bayer-Brechtken and has one son. He has been an active participant in various marathons several times .

References and comments

  1. ↑ What I do is unique. FOCUS No. 44/1996
  2. ↑ Markus Hoecker: The mayor election in Stuttgart 1996. Party politics and election campaign strategy: the municipal personality choice in the field of tension of modern party democracy. A case-by-case study . Dissertation. Stuttgart 2005. Digitized version - accessed on May 4, 2009 (PDF; 662 kB)
  3. ↑ Anno Hecker: Numerical acrobatics in the new building . FAZ. February 2, 2013. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  4. ↑ List of medal recipients 1975–2019. (PDF; 180 kB) State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, p. 48 , accessed on June 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Brechtken, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigsburg