Rainer Speer

Rainer Speer (born July 19, 1959 in Berlin-Buch ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From November 2009 to September 2010 he was Minister of the Interior of the State of Brandenburg , previously he was Brandenburg Finance Minister from 2004 to 2009.

Life

After graduating from high school in Falkensee in 1978 , he took up a job as a fitter in the Buna works in preparation for his training as a career officer . From 1979 he attended the officers' college of the land forces of the NVA in Löbau , but was demoted to soldier in 1980 because of "political unreliability and character difficulties" and only performed his basic military service. From 1981 to 1982 Speer was a volunteer at the state cultural institutions in Potsdam, then until 1983 cultural policy employee and head of the FDJ youth club “Aurora” in the Potsdam new building area “Am Stern”, 1984 to 1989 a. a. works as a furniture restorer at Lindstedt Palace in Potsdam .

He is married, has three children and lives in Potsdam.

politics

During the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, he co-founded the Potsdam regional group of the Social Democratic Party of the GDR (SDP) and became an employee of the organization and the public.

In 1990 Speer became deputy government representative for the former Potsdam district and from 1990 to 1994 he acted as department head for government planning under Prime Minister Manfred Stolpe in the Brandenburg State Chancellery . In 1991 he was elected chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Potsdam city council, which he held until 1993. He was also sub-district chairman of the SPD in Potsdam from 1994 to 2008 . From 1994 to 1999 he was State Secretary in the Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Regional Planning of the State of Brandenburg, before finally becoming head of the Brandenburg State Chancellery in 1999.

As head of the state chancellery, he was chairman of the committee for administrative optimization (AVO). This committee dealt in particular with the restructuring of the state administration and the reduction of the workforce. The personnel requirement planning for the Brandenburg state administration, which was first drawn up in 2001 under the political responsibility of Speer , has since been updated annually for a period of at least five years. This gave Speer the reputation of being a consistent and assertive financial politician. In the Platzeck II cabinet , he was then Minister of Finance for the State of Brandenburg from October 13, 2004 to November 6, 2009.

In the state elections in Brandenburg in 2009 , he ran for the first time to join the Brandenburg state parliament . He ran as a direct candidate in the Havelland II state electoral district , but was defeated by Barbara Richstein ( CDU ). However , he entered the state parliament via the state list of the SPD Brandenburg . Since November 6, 2009 he was Minister of the Interior of the State of Brandenburg in the Platzeck III cabinet .

Speer hit the headlines in September 2010 after he obtained a court order against Axel Springer AG that restricted reporting on his person. Speer was accused of censorship from various sources . On September 23, 2010 Speer resigned as Minister of the Interior of the State of Brandenburg. Previously, he had come under pressure because of numerous allegations in the political and private sphere. So he was accused of the tenure of an employee with whom he fathered a child had to have initiated and instigated them to deny him as a father and instead keep him on maintenance payments from the youth welfare office to apply. He is also said to have favored the sale of a state-owned property ( Krampnitzer barracks area) to a group of investors at a price that was around 20 million euros below the actual value. Personal relationships with an investor who sits on the board of the Potsdam sports club SV Babelsberg 03 with Speer are said to have been decisive. After the Brandenburg Prime Minister Matthias Platzeck asked him to give up his state parliament mandate, Rainer Speer announced at a press conference on December 12, 2010 that he would take this step and thereby withdraw completely from politics.

As a former State Secretary in the Ministry of the Environment, Speer had the right to return to the state service as a civil servant. However, since no corresponding position could be found for him, he was retired as State Secretary on January 1, 2011 .

Web links

• Brandenburg parliament documentation - database query form from the Brandenburg state parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ildiko Röd: The many lives of Mr. Speer. MAZ , November 8, 2008, accessed on September 24, 2010 (only available with registration or against payment). 
2. ↑ Whitsun meeting and anniversary already on schedule. (JPEG file, 145 KB) Märkische Volksstimme , December 22, 1982, p. 8 , accessed on September 30, 2010 (interview with Rainer Speer, head of the FDJ youth club “Aurora” Am Stern). 
3. ^ Rainer Speer - SPD - curriculum vitae. Rainer Speer, SPD Brandenburg, accessed on September 30, 2010 . 
4. ↑ Manuel Bewarder , Uwe Müller: How Brandenburg's Minister of the Interior muzzled the media. Welt Online , September 23, 2010, accessed September 30, 2010 . 
5. ↑ Unprecedented attack on freedom of the press. kress.de , September 23, 2010, accessed on September 30, 2010 . 
6. ↑ Gudrun Mallwitz: The sudden end of Platzeck's most important man. Welt Online , September 23, 2010, accessed September 30, 2010 . 
7. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/brandenburg/ist-platzeck-in-speer-affaere-befangen/3274452.html
8. ^ Potsdam: Ex-Minister Speer admits paternity. In: Spiegel Online . November 26, 2010, accessed June 9, 2018 . 
9. ↑ http://www.die-mark-online.de/nachrichten/land-brandenburg/brandenburg/ausschuss-soll-sich-speer-beschaeftigen-902861.html  ( 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.  
10. ↑ Speer wants to resign from the state parliament , December 12, 2010
11. ↑ Ex-Minister Speer retired at the age of 51. Berliner Morgenpost , January 13, 2011, accessed on January 13, 2011 .