Rainer Wendt

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Rainer Wendt (2017)

Rainer Wendt (* 29. November 1956 in Duisburg ) is a German trade union functionary . He has been federal chairman of the German Police Union ( DPolG) in the German Association of Officials (DBB) since 2007 .

Life

Wendt grew up with seven siblings in his native Duisburg in the Ruhr area . His father left the family and later committed suicide . After secondary school, Wendt attended business school and from 1973 completed training in the police service of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). In 1976 he became chief sergeant. On the second path of education he obtained his Abitur and wanted to become a teacher. He began studying German, history and education, which he broke off.

Wendt then studied at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration and graduated with a degree in administrative management (FH) . After that he was active again in the police service and most recently carried the title of Police Chief Inspector . In total, he worked in shifts for the police in Duisburg for around 25 years , most recently as a service group leader .

Wendt began his union career at the German Police Union (DPolG) , which is part of the German Association of Officials . With around 94,000 members, the DPolG is the second largest German police union (as of 2015). In 1997 Wendt became DPolG state chairman in North Rhine-Westphalia, and in September 2007 he was elected federal chairman of the DPolG at the 2007 federal congress. He succeeded Wolfgang Speck , who was retiring. At the 2011 federal congress in April of the same year, Wendt was re-elected by the DPolG delegates with 98.4 percent; at the 2015 federal congress, which also took place in April, he was confirmed as federal chairman without a dissenting vote. In addition, an extension of the electoral term to five years was decided at the 2015 Federal Congress.

Wendt has been a member of the CDU since the 1970s and also of the CSU from the early 1980s , as his main residence is in Munich . He is also a member of the German Association of Civil Servants (DBB) and is a member of its federal board, is chairman of the internal security commission of the DBB and member of the board of the DBB-Landesbund North Rhine-Westphalia.

At the end of February 2017, he was retired as a civil servant.

Wendt is married for the third time and has five children.

public perception

Wendt is described as dazzling, rumbling, populist, conservative, omnipresent in the media and, above all, polarizing. As a result, he received the desired media attention for his union on the one hand, and on the other hand he was repeatedly criticized in politics, the media and the public.

“Hardly any other union is as tailored to its boss [Rainer Wendt] as the DPolG - and no other employee representative polarizes as strongly within the union camp as the Duisburg native. [...] No other German workers leader is as far to the right as CDU member Wendt. "

- Bert Losse : wiwo.de ( Wirtschaftswoche ), 20./21. April 2015

"He has repeatedly expressed that he [Rainer Wendt] has a tense relationship with people who exercise their basic democratic rights."

- Matthias Altenburg : Courage: inciting disobedience. DuMont 2012

Several positions he has represented on internal security as well as public statements on areas of public security and other issues in the state and society are considered polarizing and controversial. According to Rainer Wendt, his strategy is to “push his union” “through proactive media work and high public presence”. A lecture by Wendt, which was to take place in October 2017 at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main under the title Police everyday life in the immigration society, was canceled after an open letter from lecturers.

Pay of civil servants without activity

In March 2017, Report Munich reported on Wendt's years of salary as a police chief inspector without doing this job. In a first interview he had initially explicitly denied this, but then admitted in a second interview that he had "not told the whole truth"; allegedly to protect NRW Interior Minister Ralf Jäger (SPD). Shortly after the interviews, Wendt applied for early retirement from the police force.

According to the ministry, the salary practice "to promote trade union work" had existed in North Rhine-Westphalia for more than ten years and had been introduced under Jäger's predecessor Ingo Wolf (FDP). The aim should have been to establish a counterweight to the SPD-affiliated police union . After that, Sebastian Fiedler as state and deputy federal chairman of the Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter and Erich Rettinghaus as state head of the German police union received similar payments from the state. The German Police Union only paid Wendt 520 euros a month.

Frank Tempel , deputy chairman of the left parliamentary group in the Bundestag, called for the criminal offense of infidelity to be examined. The Linke NRW then reported Jäger because of this criminal offense. The SPD politician Christopher Lauer called on Wendt to resign immediately. He always insisted on compliance with the law, but "did not stick to it, just cashed it."

In 2017, Ralf Jäger explained in the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament that Wendt's personnel file did not contain any evidence of an exemption from duty and that it was not clear from when Wendt no longer carried out his police service. He said: "There can no longer be a Wendt case in North Rhine-Westphalia". It was also mentioned that Wendt was honored in 2013 at the State Office for Police Services (LZPD) for his 40th anniversary with the NRW police. He was listed as a press officer in the LZPD's establishment plan.

The public prosecutor's office in Düsseldorf closed the investigation into breach of trust due to a lack of demonstrable intent in November 2017. There are no indications that those involved have deliberately acted contrary to their duties and accepted financial damage to the country, and the "long practice" is also common in other federal states in order to enable union chairmen to carry out their constitutionally protected tasks.

An internal investigation by the Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia came to the conclusion in 2018 that Wendt's pay was unlawful. The fact that Wendt was given top marks in an assessment by the police chief in Mönchengladbach in 2008, although he had not performed any service at the time in question, is just as illegal as his promotion "to a newly created position in the higher grade A12 at the State Office for Central Police Services" in 2010, which clearly violated the "principle of the best selection". However, Wendt's appointment remained in effect and recourse against him was not considered.

Undeclared secondary employment

Report Munich reported in 2017 about an annual expense allowance of 50,000 euros as a member of the supervisory board of the insurance group AXA , which Wendt, as a civil servant, had not reported as a secondary activity as prescribed. This was only done for the management of the DPolG service company. The state of North Rhine-Westphalia then initiated disciplinary proceedings . According to Spiegel Online , Wendt received a total of 77,721.13 euros for five different committee positions without having given them. Together with his civil servant's salary of 3,348.68 euros and a monthly allowance of 520 euros from the DPolG, this would result in an annual gross salary of 124,145.29 euros.

At the end of November 2019, in the context of the withdrawal of the intended appointment as State Secretary in Saxony-Anhalt, it became known that the police in North Rhine-Westphalia had imposed disciplinary measures on Wendt on October 31, 2019, which amounted to a cut in Wendt's pension for several months .

Neo Magazine Royale

On March 16, 2017, Jan Böhmermann sang the polemical song Rainer Wendt (You are not a real police officer) in his program Neo Magazin Royale . The song was also part of a Böhmermann tour with the Rundfunk-Tanzorchester Ehrenfeld in 2019.

Controversy over occupation as State Secretary

An offer by the CDU state government of Saxony-Anhalt in November 2019 to succeed Tamara Zieschang as State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior of Saxony-Anhalt in the Ministry of the Interior there was withdrawn after massive protests by the coalition partners SPD and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen. Wendt then stated that he would have liked to take on the task. However, the CDU had "given way to the left, the Greens and the Social Democrats", and the command had come "from the Chancellery".

When asked where the information came from that the Chancellery had given a "command" on the matter, Wendt did not respond. The Minister of the Interior of Saxony-Anhalt Holger Stahlknecht announced that he had “called Wendt and discussed the factual and legal situation with him. Thereupon Wendt withdrew his readiness. ”Stahlknecht rejected Wendt's claim that the Chancellery had interfered. Nobody called him from Berlin. According to a report by the daily Volksstimme , there was rather another obstacle: The state of North Rhine-Westphalia has been running disciplinary proceedings against Wendt since 2017, which has not yet been fully concluded.

Federal government spokesman Steffen Seibert announced at the federal press conference that the Chancellery spoke "with many people about a lot" in confidence, but "the occupation of this state secretary in Saxony-Anhalt was and is to be decided exclusively by the government in Saxony-Anhalt".

Internal security positions

Demonstrations

In October 2010, Wendt said about the use of water cannons , pepper spray and batons by the police in Stuttgart in the course of the protests against the controversial Stuttgart 21 building project on September 30, 2010, in which up to 400 demonstrators were injured: “Police resources must be weapons that hurt, only then will they work. ”The police operation was retrospectively classified as illegal and“ excessive ”by the Stuttgart Administrative Court .

In the wake of the riots at an anti-Nazi demo that took place in Hamburg, Wendt told the tabloid BILD on June 4, 2012 : “A weapon that could be used from a distance would be safer for the emergency services. If water cannons are no longer sufficient, the officials have to use rubber bullets . ”Exactly five years earlier to the day, on June 4, 2007, Wendt had called for the future use of rubber bullets and rubber bullets with the same reason in an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

The North Rhine-Westphalia police union reacted with sharp criticism to Wendt's request. The GdP state chairman Frank Richter stated in this context: “The police must take decisive action against violent militants during demonstrations, but we do not live in a civil war in Germany. We shouldn't talk him over either. "Richter also emphasized:" Anyone who wants to use rubber bullets consciously accepts that there will be deaths and serious injuries. That is unacceptable in a democracy ”. The GdP pointed out that in the past, rubber bullets had been used in Europe primarily in crisis regions. In Northern Ireland alone, 17 people were killed by rubber bullets between 1970 and 2005. In addition, there are always serious injuries to complain about. Because of the lack of accuracy, the victims often include bystanders.

Data retention

During the debate about an EU-compliant implementation of data retention at the end of 2011, Wendt accused the then Federal Minister of Justice, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, of “policies that were hostile to freedom at the expense of the citizens”. In an interview with Handelsblatt Online , he said that German tax money in Brussels was being gambled away for purely ideological reasons, as fines would soon be due for non-implementation of the EU directive. In addition, Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger's proposal for the so-called “ Quick Freeze ” procedure is “completely unsuitable” for identifying connections and structures in serious crime and for developing counter-strategies. Wendt explained the negative attitude of the population to data retention with the fact that there was hardly any political project "so much lied". People are repeatedly persuaded that "telephone calls are being bugged en masse and the most intimate areas of life are being explored", Wendt continues, but in truth "only traffic data is stored by the network provider, which is necessary for billing purposes".

Football stadiums

Shortly before the interior ministers ' spring meeting in 2012 , at which the increasing violence in football stadiums should also be discussed, Wendt demanded the abolition of all standing spaces in German stadiums in May 2012, according to the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung : “The standing spaces should be abolished, the fences raised, and the club should pay 100,000 euros for each outbreak. If you also don't like strict body searches, you should stay in front of the stadium. ”The Bremen Police Union (GdP) criticized Wendt's approach and assessed it as populism and“ not very useful ”in the entire situation. The clubs didn't see the problem in the standing room either. "I find it presumptuous that Mr. Wendt believes he has to make demands that affect the game operation in the stadiums," said Harald Strutz from 1. FSV Mainz 05 and also emphasized that the demands were populist.

For his supportive attitude to a controversial police operation in August 2013 in the Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen, in which a hundred of the police stormed the block of the home fans using pepper spray and batons and injured more than 80 football fans, Wendt was from several sides and particularly sharply criticized by the league boss Reinhard Rauball .

Internet privacy

In a conversation with the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung in the run-up to the 16th  European Police Congress in February 2013, Wendt called for the use of 2,000 cyber cops to fight Internet crime at short notice  . At the police congress itself, he called for the complete abolition of privacy on the Internet. In doing so, he directly opposed corresponding decisions by the German Federal Constitutional Court .

In June 2013, Wendt commented benevolently on the US Internet surveillance program PRISM as part of the revelations made by whistleblower Edward Snowden : "President Barack Obama argues boldly, decisively and he is 100% right from a technical point of view." The "most valuable" civil right is still protection According to Handelsblatt Online , terror and crime, Wendt continued, and he affirmed: "I would like to see this policy in Germany and Europe as well."

Racial Profiling

In October 2012, the Higher Administrative Court of Rhineland-Palatinate decided that the police were not allowed to carry out so-called racial profiling , that is, when carrying out random checks, targeted people according to ethnic criteria - such as skin color or "oriental" appearance. The highest administrative court of the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate justified this, among other things, with the fact that such a procedure violated the prohibition of discrimination in the Basic Law. As a result, Wendt sharply criticized the judgment and declared: "You can see once again that the courts practice aesthetic justice, but are not based on practice".

Wendt's statements met with criticism and alienation in part, including at the Süddeutsche Zeitung, where Heribert Prantl, head of the domestic affairs department, commented Wendt's statements as “strange”: “That means nothing else than that: the police have people of different skin colors on the kieker. There is general police suspicion against colored people. But that violates more laws and conventions than can be listed here. They start with Article 3 of the Basic Law and do not end with the Schengen Borders Code . If police representatives now regard these articles and paragraphs as unsuitable nonsense, it is, to put it mildly, strange. One would really like to see the police in a constitutional state on the ground of the law. "

refugee policy

In October 2015, Wendt suggested building a fence on the German border. This statement met with fierce criticism across party lines. The federal government's refugee coordinator, Peter Altmaier (CDU), replied : “Nobody can completely isolate themselves in the long run. No matter how many rolls of barbed wire we can roll out, that will not be a sufficient answer to this challenge. "On December 29, 2018, Die Welt reported under the heading Police Union speaks of" state failure "in deportations , that Wendt " also doubts the numbers of the crime statistics " .

Child withdrawal with anti-Semitism

In April 2018, Wendt asked parents to withdraw their children if the children were raised to be anti-Semites . This was preceded by a discussion in which one child called another “You Jew!”.

Public statements

"Karlsruhe tourists"

In 2008, Rainer Wendt disparaged the critics of the Federal Criminal Police Office Act , which was revised in the same year after intense political debates and who had sued the Federal Constitutional Court , as “Karlsruhe tourists”. His word creation brought it to the shortlist for the bad word of the year 2008 and was rated by the jury as a “questionable understanding of fundamental rights ”.

Security company PEAS

After an interview in the Leipziger Volkszeitung on February 21, 2009, the obligation to submit a cease and desist declaration was obtained against him , which he complied with on April 17, 2009. During the clashes between criminals and Leipzig security companies, Wendt claimed that "a number of criminals" also worked within the Leipzig security company PEAS GmbH and that it was an "insecurity company". Since then, he has no longer been allowed to make these claims publicly.

Criticism of constitutional bodies, the judiciary and politicians

In 2010, Wendt described the former Bundestag Vice President Wolfgang Thierse as "the personified damage to the reputation of the German Parliament" because he had participated in a sit-down on an elevator by around 700 right-wing extremists on May 1, 2010 in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg . After Thierses criticism of the police operation in Dresden in February 2011, Wendt demanded Thierses resignation in the new right “ Junge Freiheit ” . In an interview with the news broadcaster N24, Wendt said with a view to Claudia Roth that he did not need any MPs who “sit screeching on some track and annoy the police”, shortly afterwards participate in left-wing demonstrations “and again as the next day Vice President of the German Bundestag sits in parliament ”. He accuses Volker Beck of anticipating the “liberalization of drug policy”. After a Kurd dragged his ex-wife across the streets by the trailer hitch at the end of 2016, Wendt said that a judge would be found who would “again issue the man with a positive social prognosis”. The next day, Wendt said that he had been misunderstood and that the impression that he wanted to attack the judiciary was wrong, according to Ansgar Siemens ( Spiegel ), “the scam of the populists”, which Wendt served with such behavior.

Virtual patrols

In 2010, Wendt also took part in the discussion about the online service Google Street View , which was supposed to be extended to Germany at the time and was legally controversial. Wendt said: “With the new internet service, criminals can look at the objects with peace of mind. You can see: How is the house secured? "And further:" It is legally unclear whether a virtual patrol is possible. "

Interview in Compact

In the November 2015 issue of right-wing populist Compact magazine, Rainer Wendt is quoted as saying that discrimination against women is “almost one of the basic genetic building blocks” of the “macho culture of young Muslims”, “who were attracted to this culture, which they derive from Brought home ". Wendt later regretted this expression.

Criticism of "Germany in Danger"

In mid-August 2016, Wendt published the book Germany in Danger: How a Weak State Jeopardizes Our Security, in which he criticizes the state austerity measures in the public service, German case law and the federal government's refugee policy.

Thomas Fischer , former presiding judge of the 2nd Criminal Senate of the Federal Court of Justice, asked in a criticism of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit, with a view to quotations: “What swamp is this talk flirting with? Is the author serious about what he writes? Is he convinced that he is serving a state that is ' not a constitutional state ' and that 'has nothing in common with democratic culture'? Then why doesn't he quit? Why doesn't he flee, go underground? Why doesn't he apply for asylum in Hungary? "Fischer accuses Wendt:" He doesn't 'want to know' what is difficult and differentiated. "" That's why he is interested in criminal science at best as a mockery. Psychologists, criminologists, social researchers: funny characters; Statistics, empiricism, facts - it doesn't matter. Policeman Wendt doesn't need any idiots. It depends on the feeling and the will. This is how it goes. 188 pages can be very long. ”According to Fischer, Wendt hides“ personal anger, biographical humiliation and contempt for elites behind claims about allegedly suppressed opinions. This is a tried and tested means of demagogy . "In Fischer's opinion, it reinforces" fears and prejudices. "

Fischer's conclusion is that the book is “not just a content-wise inaccurate and literarily bad book. It is regrettable that the author claims to be the mouthpiece of the German police. It is doubtful that he represents their interests. Only one thing is certain: he represents the interests of Rainer Wendt. "Fischer recommends" the book anyway: Wendt writes what he means. In concrete terms, this is exemplary and generally important. ”At the end of the article, Fischer points out that“ those places that the author has in mind as the ideal of security would probably be the end of his life if the legislature, judiciary and administration were insulted in this way nice police career. But in the free state, whose 'disintegration' he proclaims, you can earn a few more euros and collect a few votes. "

Walter Bau quoted sentences from Wendt's book referring to New Year's Eve in Cologne such as “The gropers, rapists, thugs, robbers, the dancers , burglars, shoplifters, pickpockets, clan bosses , followers, instigators, extremists. What do we do with them? Integrate too? [...] Welcome parties at the innumerable initiatives that have connected their supply hoses to the state coffers with noble disposition and imaginative business acumen? ”In addition, Bau commented that the author said that“ air sovereignty over the regulars ”was“ safe with such sentences ”.

Publications

literature

Web links

Commons : Rainer Wendt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Wendt, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German policeman, Federal Chairman of the German Police Union, author
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg