Rolf Bietmann

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Rolf Bietmann (born May 18, 1954 in Bork ) is a German politician. From 2002 to 2005 he was a member of the German Bundestag for the CDU .

biography

Education and professional career

After graduating from high school in 1972, Bietmann studied law and passed the first state examination in 1978 and the second state examination in 1982. In 1981 he received his doctorate as Dr. jur.

Bietmann initially worked as an in-house lawyer at WDR for two years (from 1982 to 1984) . He then went into business for himself as a lawyer and is now a partner of the law firm Bietmann - Lawyers · Tax Consultants · Auditors.

Bietmann published writings on corporate co-determination in the church service, on assessing the status of employees in the radio and in the new media, and on protection against dismissal. From 1985 to 1995, Bietmann was a lecturer in commercial and labor law at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences.

In the 1995/1996 winter semester, Bietmann was appointed professor of business and labor law at the Erfurt University of Applied Sciences by the Minister of Science of the Free State of Thuringia. According to his own statements, he also held a teaching position at the University of Erfurt in the 2009/2010 winter semester. At the headquarters of the Federal Labor Court , he chairs the Erfurt Society for the Care of Labor and Business Law, which he himself founded

Political career

After Bietmann initially belonged to the Republican Club , he joined the CDU and the Junge Union in 1970 and has been a member of the CDU board in Cologne since 1977. From 1975 to 2004 Bietmann was a member of the Cologne City Council and from 1998 to 2003 chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the Cologne city council. He also held the office of 1st Mayor of the City of Cologne from 1987 to 1991.

Bietmann was elected to the Bundestag in 2002 via the North Rhine-Westphalia state list of the CDU. There he was particularly involved in economic and environmental policy until 2005, was a reporter for energy policy and the liberal professions, and headed the nuclear energy working group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group . In the 2005 Bundestag elections , he was only 49th on the NRW state list and thus did not manage to move back into the Bundestag, as he could not secure the direct mandate in his constituency Cologne II against Lale Akgün ( SPD ).

Bietmann has been one of the most influential personalities in Cologne's city politics since the 1990s and has held offices in the Cologne CDU, the city council and supervisory boards of public companies, over the years chairing the administrative board of Stadtsparkasse Köln and the supervisory board of RheinEnergie AG .

Bietmann has represented Hellmut Trienekens , one of the central figures in the affair surrounding the Cologne waste incineration plant, as a lawyer. Based on an anonymous criminal complaint, the Cologne public prosecutor's office examined any involvement in his affairs. In December 2004 the Cologne public prosecutor's office stopped the investigation against Bietmann against a payment of 45,000 euros without a guilty finding.

In 2008, Rolf Bietmann was elected direct candidate for the 2009 Bundestag election by the CDU general assembly of the Cologne II constituency, with two opposing candidates. In January 2009 he came back into the discussion when it became public that he had received 900,000 euros through a consultancy contract with the Stadtsparkasse Köln and the question of what consideration had been paid arose. Bietmann asserted that he had rendered significant legal services for the Sparkasse during the term of the contract, justifying the amount. However, he also came under pressure from his party. In February 2009 he put his Bundestag candidacy and u. a. down the chairmanship of the supervisory board of Rheinenergie AG. An application for exclusion from the party submitted by the Cologne notary Konrad Adenauer to the district executive committee of the CDU was unanimously not accepted.

Bietmann works as a lawyer, university professor and political advisor. He worked as a co-partner of PKS GmbH based in Berlin and Brussels, but apparently left there at the beginning of 2009.

A claim for damages brought by Sparkasse Köln / Bonn in 2010 against Bietmann and the former CEO of Sparkasse Gustav Adolf Schröder was dismissed on all points by the Cologne Regional Court on July 26, 2011. In a settlement that was subsequently concluded, the Sparkasse undertook to refrain from and not to repeat claims about harmful behavior by Bietmann. Nevertheless, the public prosecutor brought charges against Bietmann and Schröder in May 2013. Schröder is accused of infidelity in relation to the consultancy contract, and Bietmann aiding in infidelity.

On March 3, 2017, the proceedings against Bietmann and two other people began before the 19th Large Criminal Chamber of the Cologne Regional Court. The subject of the proceedings were the controversial consultancy contracts. After 26 days of the trial, the court made a preliminary assessment of the factual and legal situation that it was not possible to determine any criminal behavior on the part of Bietmann based on the results of the evidence so far. The 19th criminal chamber declared that Bietmann was to be acquitted of the charge of aiding and abetting breach of trust. In order to shorten the hearing, which was scheduled to last 65 days, the court suggested that the proceedings be discontinued in accordance with Section 153a StPO. Those involved in the proceedings then agreed to discontinue the proceedings against payment of a total of 100,000 euros, 50,000 euros each to the Children's Cancer Aid and the German Children's Hospice. With payment to the social organizations, all proceedings against Bietmann have been discontinued without any finding of guilt.

Other activities and honorary positions

  • Bietmann law firm, tax consultant and auditor (Cologne, Munich, Berlin, Bonn, Erfurt and others)
  • Erfurt Society for the Maintenance of Labor and Business Law, Erfurt (Chair)
  • Sarlette Bleses Foundation, Cologne (Member of the Board of Directors)

literature

  • Gerd Huppertz, Axel Pollheim (ed.): 100 Cologne Heads. Cologne 1995;

Movies

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bietmann gives up all offices
  2. ↑ Nine days to retreat
  3. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger: Bietmann sees himself as a victim
  4. ↑ "Hard boiled like none of us" ( Memento from September 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from December 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ http://www.ksta.de/schaden Ersatz-klage-gegen-bietmann-abhaben- 12345794
  7. ↑ http://www.express.de/koeln/untreue-process-hat-sich-der-koelner-strippenzieher-rolf-bietmann--62--verheddert--26133462
  8. ^ Bernhard Krebs: Infidelity trial against Rolf Bietmann: The former CDU politician will be acquitted . In: Kölnische Rundschau . ( rundschau-online.de [accessed on July 25, 2017]).
  9. ↑ http://www.bietmann.eu
  10. ↑ Advising and selling - How politicians and investors cashed in at Sparkasse KölnBonn. Accessed March 1, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Bietmann, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Bork