Reinhold Stanitzek

Reinhold Stanitzek (born August 1, 1939 in Guttentag , Upper Silesia ; † June 7, 2011 ) was a German lawyer and politician ( CDU ).

Life

Origin and education

His family came from Upper Silesia, was expelled as a result of World War II and after fleeing in 1946 settled in Heringen (Werra) . There he passed the Abitur at the Werratal School in 1959 and then completed military service in a tank grenadier unit. In 1960 he studied law and political science at the Universities of Marburg and Bonn University, and in 1965 he passed his first state examination in law .

He began his internship at the Institute for International Law at the University of Bonn. After the second state examination in 1972 he was a judge a. a. at the regional courts of Kassel and Fulda ; later he worked alongside his political activities as a lawyer.

Political activity

In 1968 Stanitzek was elected to the district council of the Hersfeld district , from 1972 the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district, to which he belonged until 2011. From 1974 to 1987 he was a member of the state parliament in Hesse . Then he was State Secretary in the Hessian Ministry of the Interior for four years under Gottfried Milde , Karl-Heinz Koch and Hartmut Nassauer and thus also chairman of the supervisory board of the state-owned Hessian homestead . This activity ended when Walter Wallmann's government was voted out, Stanitzek was once again a simple member of the state parliament.

Managing Director of LEG Thuringia

In 1993 he was appointed by the Thuringian state government ( Cabinet Vogel I (Thuringia) ) as the first managing director and spokesman of the recently founded state development company Thuringia , which got its headquarters at the former industrial site Brühl (Erfurt) in Erfurt acquired by the Treuhandanstalt and quickly moved to over 200 employees grew. The first employees included the former NVA officer Andreas Krey for the conversion of the former military properties, the former detective Michael Bußer for public relations and the former Phoenix plant manager and later Minister of Economics Jürgen Reinholz as project manager.

The development of the former Optimageländes in Brühl made Stanitzek a top priority with the aim of accommodating central functions of the state capital such as a justice center , a five-star hotel , a media center and retail facilities. However, the city of Erfurt did not want to compete with the historic shopping area on the Anger . In 1994, a joint framework plan was finally presented and approved by the city. After the media authorities MDR Thuringia and KiKa a location on the fairgrounds had received, Stanitzek prevailed, originally for the more expensive location at Deer Park planned new opera house , for the city of Erfurt under OB Manfred Ruge (CDU) was missing a financing component, a by Land subsidized property to move to the Brühl. For the realization of the five-star hotel in Brühl, Stanitzek provided possible hotel investors with a 50% maximum grant from the Free State of Thuringia a . a. from economic development funds in prospect. The hotel was finally built in 2003 by the Dortmund hotel investor Reinhard Baumhögger , after LEG acquired the historic Grand Hotel Erfurter Hof , the renovation of which had previously been favored by the city and parts of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, and converted it into an administrative building in order to use it as a rival hotel prevent. The ground floor of the hotel was rented to a casino with rent subsidies from the Free State , which ceased operations in 2014. These processes became the subject of an investigation committee of the Thuringian state parliament set up in 2004 , which presented its final report in 2009.

In 2004 Stanitzek's contract as LEG managing director was no longer extended.

Private

Stanitzek was married and had two daughters. He died in 2011 of cancer that he had known about for two years.

Party offices

• 1962 state chairman of the RCDS Hessen
• 1963 Deputy Federal Chairman of the RCDS
• 1965 chairman of the Junge Union Osthessen
• 1970–1974 state chairman of the Junge Union Hessen
• 1972 CDU district chairman and chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district, member of the state board of the CDU Hessen

Political offices

• 1968–2011 member of the district council of Hersfeld , from 1972 district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg
• 1974–1987 and 1991–1992 member of the state parliament in Hesse .
• 1977–1981 mayor of Bad Hersfeld
• Honorary chairman of the CDU district association Bad Hersfeld-Rotenburg

Other offices

• 1987–1991 Federal Chairman of the Oberschlesier Landsmannschaft
• 1996–1999 President of the Federal Association of State Development Societies .

Awards

• 1984: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 1992: Order of Gregorius
• 2010: Thuringian Order of Merit

Source and web links

• Stanitzek, Reinhold. Hessian biography. (As of December 7, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Thuringian State Parliament, 4th electoral period, printed matter 4/5470, 4/5306, 4/454 and 4/431, report of the investigative committee 4/1 "Hotel subsidies, possible misuse of public funds and alleged inadmissible subsidies by the Free State of Thuringia to establish the congress -Hotels in Suhl and the Dom Hotel in Erfurt and its operation " , August 21, 2009

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ARUP Urban Design: Master Plan 1994 Erfurt-Brühl, Berlin 1994
2. ↑ Thuringian State Parliament, Report of the Investigation Committee "Hotel Funding" , Erfurt, August 21, 2009 p. 63
3. ↑ Frank Karmeyer: Erfurt: Thuringian only casino is history , Thuringian State newspaper , Erfurt, December 16, 2014.
4. ↑ Thuringian State Parliament, Report of the "Hotel Promotion" committee of inquiry , Erfurt, August 21, 2009
5. ^ Osthessen-News: Farewell to Reinhold Stanitzek (71): "Christian values ​​lived" , Bad Hersfeld June 14, 2011
6. ^ Hersfelder Zeitung: High distinction for Reinhold Stanitzek , Bad Hersfeld May 21, 2010