Thomas Geisel
Thomas Geisel (born October 26, 1963 in Ellwangen ) is a German politician ( SPD ). He has been Lord Mayor of the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital Düsseldorf since 2014 .
Origin, studies and private matters
Thomas Geisel grew up in a left-wing liberal middle class family in the Ostalb district . His father Alfred Geisel was social democratic vice-president of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg from 1980 to 1996 . After graduating from Peutinger-Gymnasium Ellwangen , Geisel studied law and political science in Freiburg and Geneva from 1983 . He completed his political studies in the United States in 1988 at Georgetown University in Washington, DC with a Master of Arts degree . He passed his first state law examination in 1990 in Freiburg. Geisel then studied economics and administrative sciences at the Harvard Kennedy School of Harvard University as a scholarship holder of the McCloy Academic Scholarship Program , where he obtained the degree of Master in Public Administration in 1992 . In 1994 Geisel passed the second state law examination in Berlin.
Geisel is married for the second time and has five daughters. He has four daughters with his second wife, a lawyer. His oldest daughter is from his first marriage. He has lived in Düsseldorf- Pempelfort since 2003 .
Professional activities (1994 to 2013)
Geisel has worked as a lawyer in various commercial companies. Between 1994 and 1998 he worked for the federal trust agency in Berlin. From 1998 to 2000 Geisel worked for the energy company Enron in London and from 2000 to 2013 for Ruhrgas AG in Essen.
Political career
In the SPD hostage joined his day baccalaureate one 1,983th He became an advisor to the SPD parliamentary group in the first freely elected people 's chamber in the GDR , then advisor to the SPD federal manager Karlheinz Blessing . He was vice-party leader in the Prenzlauer Berg sub-district (Berlin) and is now a member of the SPD local association Düsseldorf Mitte-Nord.
Local politician in Düsseldorf since 2013
On April 19, 2013, he was nominated by the Düsseldorf sub-district of the SPD as a candidate for the election of Lord Mayor and was unanimously nominated on June 28, 2013.
Geisel is a supporter and member of the ice hockey club Düsseldorfer EG (DEG). As mayor, he has a seat on the supervisory board of DEG partner, sponsor and municipal utility Stadtwerke Düsseldorf and is also chairman of the supervisory board of DEG partner and sponsor Flughafen Düsseldorf GmbH. Geisel suggested the new name DEG-Platz for the space in front of the DEG stadium.
Mayor election 2014
On May 25, 2014, Geisel received 85,766 votes from a total of 471,272 eligible voters, 37.9% of the possible votes; opposite was the incumbent CDU Mayor Dirk Elbers , for whom 46.1% of the participating voters voted. In the subsequent run-off election for Mayor of Düsseldorf on June 15, 2014, he achieved a majority of 59.2% with a turnout of 41.75%. His term of office ends in October 2020.
Mayor election 2020
Thomas Geisel is standing for re-election for the office of Mayor of Düsseldorf on September 13, 2020. A second term would run from 2020 to 2025. One of his opponents is Cologne City Director Stephan Keller , who is running for the CDU.
Political positions
Thomas Geisel is active in the peace movement. He is a member of Mayors for Peace and a regular speaker at the Rhine-Ruhr Easter March .
On January 9, 2015, the Düsseldorf Administrative Court judged Geisel's use of urban resources to appeal against PEGIDA in an urgent ruling on a preliminary injunction that had been applied for as a violation of the mayor's duty of neutrality (basic obligation under Section 33 of the Civil Service Status Act ) and prohibited Geisel from making further attempts of this kind. In the following instance, the Higher Administrative Court of North Rhine-Westphalia judged the mayor's demonstrative appeal to switch off the lights and the switching off of the lights on city buildings as illegal. The Federal Administrative Court made on 13 September 2017 determined in the last instance, that Geisel's call to participate in a counter-demonstration was illegal.
On the occasion of an Ahmadiyya exhibition in the Düsseldorf City Hall in 2017, the CDU criticized Geisel for offering a public platform for fundamentalist ideas (headscarf requirement, polygamy only for men, etc.). Ahmadiyya is not about gender equality, according to the Basic Law. Geisel was particularly criticized for trivializing the sect as only "conservative, perhaps even reactionary image of families and women". Geisel said that conservative views should not always be on the index; that would also apply to Christian groups.
With the organizers of the Tour de France 2017 , he concluded an agreement for a Grand Départ in Düsseldorf on the basis of a council decision by the city of Düsseldorf on November 5, 2015 . The cost of the tour start in Düsseldorf amounted to 15.8 million euros. 11 million were planned. According to Geisel, the costs for the security concept were higher than expected. A report by the auditing office criticizes the city of Düsseldorf for the costs of the Tour de France. In the end, the city was left with a loss of around 8 million euros. In March 2020, together with other mayors, he campaigned for the admission of unaccompanied minors from Greek refugee camps.
Geisel is a supporter of the theory that to contain the coronavirus "one must have reached the state of herd immunization". One must therefore "allow a controlled infection process." Against this background, in April 2020 he criticized the measures taken by the federal government to contain the COVID-19 pandemic and, on April 9, 2020, in a letter to Armin Laschet , demanded , where possible, that restaurants, shops, hotels, Museums, schools, playgrounds and zoos. Concerts and performances indoors should also be permitted with fixed seating and adequate ventilation, if the number of visitors is limited and distance rules are observed. Geisel's idea of "reopening the school in general " was criticized by the Education and Science Union on April 14, 2020 as "a serious miscalculation".
Web links
- Thomas Geisel on the website of the city of Düsseldorf
- thomas-geisel-2014.de - official curriculum vitae, About me - Geisel's self-presentation.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ schwaebische.de: Thomas Geisel wants to become mayor in Düsseldorf April 22, 2013
- ↑ rp-online.de: Düsseldorf mayor candidate Thomas Geisel, “The city is governed under value” last updated: April 20, 2013.
- ↑ Stephan Wappner: Vera Geisel always wants to stay in Pempelfort. In: NRZ. May 10, 2018, accessed November 9, 2019 .
- ↑ rp-online.de: Thomas Geisel in conversation. How Swabian can a Lord Mayor be? ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last updated on May 8, 2013 at 8:05 pm.
- ↑ DEG GmbH: Thomas Geisel extends private membership in DEG CLUB 2020 , accessed on October 13, 2019.
- ↑ City of Düsseldorf: Thomas Geisel Supervisory Board at DEG Sponsor Düsseldorfer Stadtwerke, a municipal company , accessed on October 13, 2019.
- ^ City of Düsseldorf: Thomas Geisel Chairman of the Supervisory Board at the DEG sponsor "Flughafen Düsseldorf GmbH" , accessed on October 13, 2019.
- ^ City of Düsseldorf: Mayor Thomas Geisel, his functions and offices , accessed on October 13, 2019.
- ↑ State capital Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf has a DEG place from now on, accessed on October 13, 2019.
- ↑ The Ministry of the Interior and Municipal Affairs informs - election of the mayors of the independent cities as well as the district administrators of the districts , Wahlresults.nrw.de. Retrieved June 16, 2014.
- ↑ Almost 60% In: Rheinische Post - Website. Retrieved June 16, 2014.
- ↑ rp-online.de
- ↑ antenneduesseldorf.de
- ↑ Alexander Schulte: CDU elects OB candidate Stephan Keller with 98.2 percent. Retrieved July 10, 2020 .
- ↑ duesseldorf.de
- ↑ duesseldorf.vvn-bda.de
- ↑ Lights out! Düsseldorf sets an example against intolerance . Website from January 9, 2015 in the duesseldorf.de portal , accessed on January 9, 2015.
- ^ Der Spiegel: Düsseldorf: Mayor may not call for anti-Pegida protests , January 9, 2015, accessed on January 9, 2015.
- ↑ Düsseldorf “Licht-aus!” Appeal was illegal , press release by the Federal Administrative Court of September 13, 2017 (BVerwG 10 C 6.16).
- ↑ Oliver Burwig, Arne Lieb: Criticism of the Islam exhibition in the Düsseldorf city hall. In: Rheinische Post . February 10, 2017, accessed May 4, 2020 .
- ↑ CDU Düsseldorf, CDU council group: Criticism of the Islam exhibition in the Düsseldorf city hall. In: cduduesseldorf. February 16, 2017, accessed May 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Oliver Burwig, Arne Lieb: Criticism of the Islam exhibition in the Düsseldorf city hall. In: Rheinische Post . February 10, 2017, accessed May 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Alexander Schulte and Olaf Kupfer: The Tour de France starts in Düsseldorf in 2017. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved January 10, 2016 .
- ↑ Arne Lieb: Mayor Geisel calls money “well invested”. Düsseldorf pays 7.8 million for tour. In: rp-online.de. September 6, 2017. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
- ↑ Philipp Rose: Zoff about Tour de France costs continues in Duesseldorf. NRZ.de.
- ↑ Alexander Schulte: Tour de France: Auditors give city bad marks. WZ.de.
- ↑ "höh": Federal Government: Mayor admission of underage refugees from Greece. In: Der Spiegel, Politics. March 6, 2020, accessed March 7, 2020 .
- ↑ https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/corona-masshaben-welche-gefahren-hat-es-wenn-wir.694.de.html?dram:article_id=474198
- ↑ https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/corona-masshaben-welche-gefahren-hat-es-wenn-wir.694.de.html?dram:article_id=474198
- ↑ corona measures: "What dangers does it make if we existences broken?" Germany radio.
- ↑ a b letter dated April 9, 2020.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hostage, Thomas |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD) |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1963 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ellwangen |