Stefan Schostok

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Stefan Schostok, 2013

Stefan Schostok (born May 12, 1964 in Hildesheim ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 2010 to 2013 he was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament . He was Lord Mayor of Hanover from October 11, 2013 to May 26, 2019 . He was retired after being charged with infidelity .

Family, education and work

Stefan Schostok is one of three children of the ministerial official Joachim and his wife, the geriatric nurse Vera Schostok. He has lived in Hanover since 1971, temporarily in Isernhagen . In 1985 he obtained the advanced technical college entrance qualification at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium Hanover and completed his civil service in Isernhagen in 1986/87 . Schostok then studied social pedagogy at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Hanover and graduated in 1991 with a degree in social pedagogy .

From 1991 to 1995 Schostok was employed by the educational network of Lower Saxony adult education centers, and in 1995/96 he worked as a research assistant for the political magazine SPW . From 1996 to 1999 he was a research assistant at the Labor and Environment Foundation of the Mining, Chemical and Energy Industrial Union . In 1999 he was employed as a public relations officer in the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Environment . From 2000 to October 2009, Schostok was managing director of the SPD district of Hanover.

Schostok is single and has lived in Hannover-Linden since the beginning of 2017 .

politics

Stefan Schostok with the mayor's chain of office in 2014 at the New Year's reception

Schostok has been a member of the SPD since 1983. From 1991 to 1995 he was chairman of the Juso district of Hanover and was a member of the Isernhagen municipal council from 2001 to 2005 . There he sat on the Environment and Economic and Financial Committees.

From 1988 to 1997 he was a member of the board of directors of the SPD sub-district of Hanover, from 1993 in the same function in the SPD district of Hanover. He was its chairman from October 31, 2009 until mid-2019. He is a member of the board of the SPD city association Hanover.

Member of the Lower Saxony state parliament

From 2008 to January 2013, Schostok was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament (16th electoral period) as a directly elected member of constituency 28 (Hanover-Mitte) . His political focus in the work of the state parliament lay in labor market, social, economic and environmental policy. Schostok was a member of the Committee on Economy, Labor and Transport and deputy spokesman for economic policy for the SPD parliamentary group. He also worked in the Science and Culture Working Group on the topics of science transfer and cultural policy, which is of great importance in his constituency. He was also a spokesman for innovation and science transfer. Schostok was also a member of the Integration Working Group. From June 14, 2010 to January 22, 2013 he was parliamentary group leader of his party in the state parliament.

Lord Mayor of Hanover

At the end of 2011, Schostok renounced a renewed candidacy for the Lower Saxony state parliament and stood for the office of Lord Mayor of Hanover as Stephan Weil's successor . On June 6, 2013, the delegates of the SPD city association elected him as candidate for mayor with 96 percent approval.

In the first round of the mayor's election on September 22, 2013, he missed the required absolute majority against the CDU candidate Matthias Waldraff (33.8%) with 48.9% of the votes . In the runoff election on October 6, 2013, Schostok won with 66.3% of the vote. On October 11, 2013, Schostok took office as Lord Mayor, replacing 1st City Councilor Sabine Tegtmeyer-Dette and 1st Mayor Bernd Strauch , who had been provisionally at the head of the city. The swearing-in before the city council took place on October 24, 2013.

As Lord Mayor, he was the highest representative of the city and represented it in legal and administrative matters. Shostok was a member of the city council, directed and supervised the city ​​administration and chaired the administrative committee . By virtue of office he was a member of the executive committee of the SPD council group and was a member of the presidia of the German and Lower Saxony city councils .

Since January 19, 2014, Schostok has exercised the patronage of the city over the Marktkirche Hannover and is thus a member of its church council. As Lord Mayor, Schostok was chairman of the supervisory board of enercity and of Hannoverimpuls as well as deputy chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Messe AG , chairman of Metropolregion GmbH (Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen) and 1st deputy chairman of the administrative board of Sparkasse Hannover. During his visit from Hanover's twin city of Hiroshima on the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima Schostok was also vice president of the organization Mayors for Peace , August 6, 2015 Hiroshima mayor Katsumi Matsui to freeman appointed the city.

Town hall affair

In June 2018, the Hanover public prosecutor's office initiated an investigation against Shostok on suspicion of infidelity and had several offices in the town hall and his private apartment searched. On April 24, 2019, the public prosecutor brought charges against the head of the HR department Harald Härke, Schostok's office manager Frank Herbert and Schostok himself for infidelity in a particularly serious case. Härke is accused of having approved a statutory allowance for overtime for Herbert totaling 49,522.65 euros and the then head of the municipal fire department totaling 14,604.87 euros. The allowances were referred to as flat-rate overtime pay, although no financial overtime compensation was allowed for these civil servants and the alleged overtime was never worked. Schostok is accused of having known about the inadmissible salary increases. On April 30, 2019, Schostok declared that he would apply to the city council for retirement in accordance with Section 84 of the Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Act. The council approved this application on May 16, 2019, the Ministry of the Interior ordered the retirement to take effect on May 26, 2019. On April 23, 2020, Schostok was acquitted of the allegations by the Hanover Regional Court.

Memberships

From April 2012, Schostok was a member of the convent of the Evangelical Academy Loccum for four years . The Church Senate of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Hanover appointed him in January 2014 as a member of the 25th Regional Synod (2014–2020). Schostok is a member of the AWO , the SoVD and the industrial union for mining, chemistry and energy .

Publications

  • Edited with Wolfgang Jüttner , Gabriele Andretta : Politics for Social Democracy. Memory of Peter von Oertzen (= publications of the Institute for Social History Braunschweig e.V. vol. 7). Forward book, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86602-924-8 .
  • Edited with Arno Brandt: kurs.wechsel (at) politik-in-niedersachsen.de. The compass for work, business and qualifications in Lower Saxony. Forward book, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-942972-12-3 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Stefan Schostok  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Talk of the town: Why do you live in Linden, Mr. Schostok? In: [[Neue Presse (Hanover) |]] , August 25, 2017.
  2. ^ Johanne Modder new chairman of the SPD parliamentary group ( Memento from February 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Press release of the SPD parliamentary group from January 22, 2013.
  3. Schostok wants to become mayor of Hanover. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of December 12, 2011.
  4. Andreas Schinkel: Schostok elected OB candidate. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of April 14, 2012; An evening with friends: nomination by Stefan Schostok in the Ballhof. Message on the website of the SPD city association Hanover from June 6, 2013.
  5. Hanover has voted: the mayor's decision is a runoff. In: Ihme-Bote , September 23, 2013; Election: Schostok can set up his OB office. In: Neue Presse , October 6, 2013.
  6. ^ The new Mayor Stefan Schostok takes office ( memento from March 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). Press release. In: Hannover.de , October 11, 2013.
  7. The parish council of the market church. In: Marktkirche-Hannover.de , accessed on January 10, 2016.
  8. Messe Supervisory Board (accessed April 30, 2019).
  9. be: Schostok becomes an honorary citizen in the twin city of Hiroshima. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of August 7, 2015, p. 11.
  10. ^ NDR: Public prosecutor investigates Mayor Shostok. Retrieved June 13, 2018 .
  11. Hanover public prosecutor's office brings charges in so-called "City Hall affair" | Hanover Public Prosecutor's Office. Retrieved June 18, 2019 .
  12. The Schmu with the overtime in Der Spiegel No. 46 of November 10, 2018
  13. ^ NDR: The town hall affair in Hanover: What it's about. Retrieved May 16, 2019 .
  14. Text at VORIS , accessed on April 26, 2019.
  15. Mayor Stefan Schostok resigns. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , April 30, 2019.
  16. ^ NDR: Council approves mayor Shostok's retirement proposal. Retrieved June 18, 2019 .
  17. Ministry orders retirement. Retrieved June 18, 2019 .
  18. ^ Town hall affair: acquittal for former mayor Schostok. Retrieved April 23, 2020 .
  19. Church Senate announces appointments to the regional synod. In: Landeskirche-Hannovers.de , January 16, 2014.
  20. ^ Stefan Schostok: CV. In: Hannover.de ; Stefan Schostok: Decidedly for Hanover. In: Stefan-Schostok.de , accessed on January 10, 2016; SoVD district association Hannover-Stadt is repositioning itself. In: SoVD-Hannover-Stadt.de , October 31, 2014.