Ralf Jäger

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Ralf Jäger (born March 25, 1961 in Duisburg ) is a German politician ( SPD ). He has been a member of the state parliament since 2000 and was Minister of the Interior and Local Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia from July 2010 to June 2017 .

Life

education

Jäger graduated from high school in 1981 and completed an apprenticeship in wholesale and foreign trade from 1983 to 1985 . From 1985 to 2000 he worked as a specialist consultant in the health sector. During this time, he studied pedagogy at the University of Duisburg from 1995 to 2000 , but did not graduate.

Private

Jäger is married and has three children.

Political career

Jäger has been a member of the SPD since 1983. From 1996 to 2005 he was chairman of the Duisburg-Meiderich local association and then chairman of the SPD sub-district of Duisburg. Since January 2000 he has been a member of the executive sub-district executive committee. From 1989 to 2000 he was a member of the Council of the City of Duisburg, where he was deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group.

Since June 2, 2000 he has been a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia , where he was a full member of the committee for local politics and administrative structural reform, the control committee according to § 23 of the Constitutional Protection Act of North Rhine-Westphalia and the parliamentary investigative committee I " JVA Siegburg ". From April 2004 he was local political spokesman for the SPD state parliamentary group and from November 2004 deputy chairman of the state parliament group of the SPD. In the state elections in 2005 , 2010 , 2012 and 2017 , he succeeded in re-entering the state parliament in the Duisburg III constituency . In 2010 and 2012, his constituency was bottom of the electoral turnout in NRW.

On July 15, 2010, he was appointed Minister of the Interior and Local Affairs in the new Kraft I government. In the same function he belonged to the Kraft II cabinet . In 2014 he was rotating chairman of the Conference of Interior Ministers .

On November 8, 2019, Jäger announced that he would resign from the chairmanship of the SPD sub-district Duisburg for personal reasons.

Political positions and controversies

Name additions for cities and municipalities

After the municipal and district regulations were changed in October 2011, municipal minister Jäger approved the use of additional identifying names for selected locations.

Data retention

In February 2011, Jäger stated that the elimination of the minimum storage period for telecommunications data had led to a serious protection gap in the legal system. He called for the resumption of data retention, which was suspended due to a decision by the Federal Constitutional Court . He rejected the quick freeze process on the grounds that "where there is nothing, nothing can be saved".

Jäger used the term “minimum data storage” instead of the previously common term “data retention”. Jäger accused the then Justice Minister Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (FDP, Merkel II cabinet ) of blocking data because she did not want to save data. He said that she was acting “out of partisan politics, instead of advocating the interests of the victims of child pornography and sexual abuse.”

After the attack on Charlie Hebdo in January 2015, Jäger again promoted data retention, which he considers to be fundamentally helpful, but at the same time mentioned that France has data retention and the attack could still not be prevented.

refugee policy

In June 2014, Jäger campaigned for more refugees from war zones such as Syria to be accepted. In response to this demand, the Hessian Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) said that the municipalities in Germany could no longer bear this additional financial burden; Beuth suggested that the federal government cover the costs.

Local election Cologne 2014

In 2014/15, as Minister of the Interior, Jäger tried to prevent or at least delay a recount of the local elections in Cologne, even contrary to a corresponding council decision by the city. In a postal voting district, the SPD and CDU votes had apparently been swapped. As a result of the new count finally ordered by the administrative court after a year, the then mayoral candidate Jochen Ott of the SPD lost his seat on the council. Jäger then claimed that he had only decided on the disproportionate recounting of the entire election, which was suggested by the Greens.

Dealing with the police

In 2014, Jäger was criticized for the overwhelmed North Rhine-Westphalian police during the violent demonstrations of the so-called hooligans against Salafists (HoGeSa) as well as for the organized crime in Duisburg- Marxloh .

After the sexual assaults on New Year's Eve 2015/16 , Jäger put the police chief of the city of Cologne , Wolfgang Albers, into temporary retirement in order to, according to his own statement, "regain the public's trust and the ability of the Cologne police to act". In a special meeting of the Interior Committee in the Düsseldorf state parliament on January 11, 2016, Jäger denied the guilt and accused the Cologne police of having failed to lead the operation and to subsequently inform the population.

Security policy

Jäger himself came under criticism because of the attacks on New Year's Eve 2015/16 in Cologne and other cities in the country. He was accused of reacting too late and of not having the security of the country under control. According to Armin Laschet (CDU) , he is said to have glossed over the crimes and made them trivial. Christian Lindner (FDP) sharply criticized the interior ministry's inadequate information policy after the attacks became known. Politicians, including the Pirate Party , demanded Jäger's dismissal.

Rainer Wendt's salary

On March 3, 2017, the Munich Research Report published that Rainer Wendt , Federal Chairman of the German Police Union ( DPolG) in the German Association of Civil Servants (DBB), received a salary as chief inspector without actually doing this job. Frank Tempel , the deputy chairman of the left-wing 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. According to the ministry, Sebastian Fiedler , state chairman and deputy federal chairman of the Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter , and Erich Rettinghaus , state chief of the German police union, receive similar payments from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia .

On March 16, Wendt's salary was an issue in the state parliament. Interior Minister Ralf Jäger explained that there was no evidence in Wendt's personnel file for a permanent and complete release from duty. It is also not clear from when and on what basis Wendt no longer performed his police service. Jäger also declared in front of the state parliament: "There can no longer be a Wendt case in North Rhine-Westphalia". He himself only found out about Wendt's salary on February 24, 2017. It was also discussed in the state parliament that Wendt was honored in 2013 in the State Office for Police Services (LZPD) for his 40th anniversary with the NRW police and received a certificate signed by Jäger.

literature

Web links

Commons : Ralf Jäger  - Collection of Images

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Portrait: Ralf Jäger A Duisburg minister of the interior. FAZ, December 9, 2014, accessed December 9, 2014 .
  2. ^ State election 2010. (PDF 8 MB) Final results in North Rhine-Westphalia. (No longer available online.) In: Issue 3. Information and Technology ( IT.NRW ), May 2010, pp. 290–292 , archived from the original on April 3, 2014 ; retrieved on June 17, 2014 : “Top position and bottom lights - voter turnout in the state electoral districts (LTWK) 2010 in North Rhine-Westphalia: 68th LTWK Essen IV : 69.8% ( Manfred Kuhmichel ), 63. LTWK Duisburg IV : 48.5% ( Sören Link ) and 62nd LTWK Duisburg III : 46.7% ( Ralf Jäger ) “ Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mik.nrw.de
  3. ^ Regional Returning Officer of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia: State election 2012. (PDF 17 MB) Final results in North Rhine-Westphalia. In: Issue 3 (Order No. B793 2012 51). Informatition und Technik ( IT.NRW ), June 2012, pp. 296–298 , accessed on July 2, 2014 : “Top position and taillights - voter turnout in the state electoral districts (LTWK) 2012 in NRW: 68. LTWK Essen IV : 69.7 % ( Peter Weckmann ), 75th LTWK Gelsenkirchen II : 50.0% ( Markus Töns ), 63rd LTWK Duisburg IV : 46.8% ( Sören Link ) and 62nd LTWK Duisburg III : 45.5% ( Ralf Jäger ) - further results for the state election of North Rhine-Westphalia 2012 "
  4. ↑ State election 2017 in North Rhine-Westphalia. Retrieved August 17, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Ralf Jäger takes over the conference of interior ministers. Interior Ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia, January 13, 2014, archived from the original on March 16, 2015 ; accessed on January 10, 2016 .
  6. ^ Philipp Wahl: Resignation: Ralf Jäger resigns as chairman of the Duisburg SPD. Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , November 8, 2019, accessed on November 14, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Press releases, Kommunales March 19, 2012 ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mik.nrw.de
  8. ↑ cf. z. B. Minister Jäger on minimum data storage: The federal government must finally do its homework and create a constitutional legal basis for minimum data storage (press release). heise.de, February 16, 2011, accessed on January 10, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Horst Kuhnes: GdP warns: Only every fourth internet crime is solved. WZ, June 26, 2012, accessed January 10, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Andreas Wilkens: After the Paris terror attack: calls for data retention from the SPD, CDU and CSU are getting louder again. heise.de, January 9, 2015, accessed on January 10, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Country takes in more refugees. WDR.de, June 12, 2014, archived from the original on February 3, 2015 ; accessed on January 10, 2016 .
  12. ↑ FAZ, May 19, 2015 [1]
  13. ↑ WAZ, May 29, 2015, [2]
  14. ^ Christian Schwerdtfeger: Three family clans control Marxloh. Rheinische Post, September 30, 2015, accessed on January 10, 2016 .
  15. ↑ a b Minister Jäger has to comment on New Year's attacks. SZ.de, January 10, 2016, accessed on August 26, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Attacks on New Year's Eve: Minister Jäger accuses Cologne police of serious mistakes. Spiegel.de, January 11, 2016, accessed on January 11, 2016 .
  17. ↑ a b c NRW Interior Minister Jäger in the criticism. tagesschau.de, January 9, 2016, accessed January 10, 2016 .
  18. ↑ a b Calls for Jäger resignation are growing. t-online.de, January 9, 2016, accessed January 10, 2016 .
  19. ^ Opposition demands the dismissal of Interior Minister Jäger. Zeit Online, January 9, 2016, accessed January 10, 2016 .
  20. ^ Rainer Wendt: Colleagues advise on the future of the head of the German police union. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, March 5, 2017, accessed March 5, 2017 .
  21. ^ Rainer Wendt: NRW paid more police unions from tax money. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. March 5, 2017. Retrieved March 5, 2017 .
  22. ↑ "There mustn't be a Wendt case in North Rhine-Westphalia" Spiegel Online from March 16, 2017
  23. ↑ State honored Wendt for 40 years of loyal fulfillment of duty NRZ from March 16, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Hunter, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg