Senate Wedemeier III

The Senate Wedemeier III acted from December 11, 1991 to July 4, 1995 as the Bremen state government . This senate is considered to be the first traffic light coalition in Germany, but failed a few months before the end of the term of office due to the so-called " birdie affair ". In Spiegel said Klaus Wedemeier later that this output was due primarily to technical mistakes. "The Greens were inexperienced in governing, the FDP as well - that couldn't work," he told Spiegel in 2008. Wedemeier also saw mistakes in his own party. “The SPD thought at the time that the city was their booty [...]. After 40 years of sole government, we didn't really know how to work with coalition partners. ”Despite some personal arguments, Ralf Fücks saw the legislative period as positive:“ The grand coalition after us drew on our good work for years. ”Wedemeier saw it similarly:“ The money that the grand coalition threw out the window, we took beforehand. "

Senate Wedemeier III from December 11, 1991
President of the Senate, Mayor	Klaus Wedemeier	SPD
Deputy President of the Senate, Mayor	Claus Jäger until November 2, 1993 Ralf Fücks November 2, 1993 to February 23, 1995	FDP B'90 / Greens
Heart and sport	Friedrich van Nispen	FDP (independent from February 13, 1995)
Justice and Constitution	Henning Scherf	SPD
church affairs	Klaus Wedemeier	SPD
Finances	Volker Kröning until June 29, 1994 Manfred Fluß	SPD
Ports, Shipping and Foreign Trade	Uwe Beckmeyer	SPD
Economy, middle class and technology	Claus Hunter	FDP
Environmental protection and urban development	Ralf Fücks until February 23, 1995 Helga Trüpel	B'90 / Greens
Construction	Eva-Maria Lemke-Schulte	SPD
Culture, integration of foreigners and youth work	Helga Trüpel	B'90 / Greens
education and Science	Henning Scherf	SPD
Work and women	Sabine Uhl	SPD
Health, youth and social affairs	Sabine Uhl until March 25, 1992 Irmgard Gaertner until February 28, 1994 Sabine Uhl managing director Irmgard Gaertner from March 16, 1994	SPD
Federal affairs	Uwe Beckmeyer	SPD

The government collapsed in February 1995 because of the conflict between the Greens and the FDP over urban development and land use policy. The reason for this was the so-called " birdie affair ". The environmental department had registered the Hemelinger Marsch industrial park as a bird sanctuary with the EU without the involvement of the political bodies, although the economic department had planned intensive commercial use of the area.

The office of Deputy President of the Senate and Second Mayor was not filled after February 24, 1995.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gordon Repinski: Traffic light coalitions: failed because of the Piepmatz affair. spiegel.de, February 1, 2008, accessed August 15, 2013 .  
2. ^ Norbert Korfmacher: Directory of Members of the Bremen Citizenship 1946 to 1996 (= local politics. Volume 1). LIT, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-8258-3212-0 , pp. 63-64.