Rolf Schnellecke

Rolf Schnellecke

Rolf Schnellecke (born September 12, 1944 in the city ​​of the KdF car near Fallersleben , today Wolfsburg ) was Lord Mayor of the city of Wolfsburg in Lower Saxony from 2001 to 2011 .

Life

Schnellecke completed his Abitur in 1964 at the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium in Wolfsburg and then studied law and economics in Göttingen and Hamburg until 1975. He then worked as a municipal councilor and personal advisor to the city ​​director in the city of Wolfsburg until 1979 . From 1979 to 1981 he moved to the Braunschweig district government as a department head and from 1984 to 1986 as head of economics, finance and international relations at the State Chancellery in Hanover . There he was also head of the cabinet department from 1986 to 1990. Schnellecke has been a member of the CDU since 1990 .

After the fall of the Wall, Schnellecke worked from 1990 to 1992 as the head of the development team for government formation and special representative of the Prime Minister in the State Chancellery in Saxony-Anhalt . From 1992 to 1995 he took a leave of absence for personal reasons and worked in the family business of the international forwarding company Rolf Schnellecke. During this time, he was also the honorary president of VfL Wolfsburg from 1993 to 1995. Schnellecke has been a member of the supervisory board of VfL Wolfsburg-Fußball GmbH since May 23, 2001.

From 1995 he was chief city director of Wolfsburg. With the introduction of the single track in Lower Saxony, the office of senior city director was abolished and went to the office of mayor. Schnellecke stood for the election of the mayor in 2001 and was elected by the city's citizens with an absolute majority. In 2006 he was re-elected in the second ballot. His opponent in the runoff election was the SPD politician Renate Jürgens-Pieper . Schnellecke was appointed honorary professor at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau in 2008. On April 6, 2011, he announced his retirement from office at the end of 2011, so that the new mayor could take place at the same time as the local elections in Lower Saxony on September 11, 2011. His previous deputy, First City Councilor Klaus Mohrs ( SPD ), who took over the office of Schnellecke on January 1, 2012, was elected as his successor .

To this day (2014) Schnellecke is the chairman of the supervisory board and owner of the Schnellecke Group AG & Co. KG with headquarters in Wolfsburg. This has led to public criticism several times in the past. In 2001, for example, after Manager Magazin had started research into the business relationships between VW and the Wolfsburg mayor , the Volkswagen group hired auditors who rejected the allegations. In 2010, the public prosecutor's office in Braunschweig began investigations against Schnellecke on suspicion of accepting benefits after the press spokesman for the Wolfsburg municipal utility, Maik Nahrstedt, accused him of having worked for the CDU in the 2001 and 2006 local election campaigns while he was working. The Braunschweig public prosecutor closed the investigation against him in November 2012.

On November 29, 2014, Schnellecke received the honorary citizenship of the city of Wolfsburg.

Schnellecke is married for the second time and has four children.

Web links

Commons : Rolf Schnellecke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.schnellecke.com/unternehmen/verbindungen/
2. ^ VfL Wolfsburg: Supervisory Board: Prof. Rolf Schnellecke
3. ↑ http://www.schnellecke.com/unternehmen/zahlen-und-ffekten/
4. ↑ Jörg Schmitt: VW I: Wolfsburger Filz and Volkswagen I: Folker Weissgerber's good relationships . In: manager magazin . 21st September
5. ↑ Ulrich Exner : The Wolfsburg Principle . In: Welt am Sonntag . 5th December 2010
6. ↑ Schnellecke is an honorary citizen: "Only the duty done" waz-online.de of November 30, 2014, accessed on December 6, 2014

predecessor	Office	successor
Ingrid Eckel	Lord Mayor of Wolfsburg 2001–2011	Klaus Mohrs