Tjark Bartels

Tjark Bartels, 2018

Tjark Bartels (born May 28, 1969 in Burgwedel ) is a German politician ( SPD ). He was mayor of the municipality of Wedemark and is a former district administrator of the district of Hameln-Pyrmont .

Life

Bartels grew up in Wedemark . After high school and community service he studied at the Leibniz University in Hannover law . He completed the subsequent legal clerkship in 2000 with the second state examination in law. He was a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences for Business and Technology in Vechta as well as co-founder and managing partner of a consulting company.

In 2006 Bartels won the election as full-time mayor of the municipality of Wedemark . On May 28, 2013, the SPD presented Hameln-Pyrmont Bartels as a candidate for the district election on September 22, 2013. The district election was brought forward because the elected district administrator Rüdiger Butte had been shot dead by a citizen in his office on April 26, 2013. In the runoff election on October 6, 2013 Bartels won against his challenger Uwe Schünemann with 59.84% of the vote.

Tjark Bartels is known nationwide as the initiator and spokesman for a collaboration between 20 districts, through which the direct current high-voltage line Südlink was originally supposed to run. Under the “Hamelin Declaration” , the districts acknowledged the necessity of such a route, but criticized the plans of the network operator TenneT and called for an underground cable to be laid . In February 2015, the Federal Network Agency instructed TenneT to revise the plans and largely met the requirements of the districts. In the coalition committee, the leaders of the governing parties agreed, among other points, on priority for underground cables on the south link and other direct current routes.

Bartels supported plans in the municipality Emmerthal on the former site of the Empire harvest festivals to documentation and learning Bückeberg set. This was finally decided by the district council of Hameln-Pyrmont in March 2018. Since a fundamental criticism of the project on the slope of the Bückeberg had been solidified by the local population and local politics since 2009 , it helped to achieve a compromise concluded at the end of 2018.

In 2019 Bartels got into the media in connection with the Lügde abuse case , for which he admitted his authority's mistakes. The youth welfare office of the district of Hameln-Pyrmont had transferred the care of a child to the later main suspect in the case, although within five months there had been three independent indications of his possible pedophilia.

In October 2019, after several months of illness, the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport initiated proceedings for his retirement due to incapacity . In a public video message, he gave information about the reasons for his departure. This triggered a debate about manners in politics, media and social networks, in which politicians from other parties took part in addition to Lower Saxony's Prime Minister Stephan Weil . On October 28, 2019, the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior put Bartels into retirement.

Bartels is married and has three children. He lives in the Bissendorf district .

Web links

Commons : Tjark Bartels  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Mention in the brief description of mayors and community directors of the community of Wedemark
• haz.de: Mayor accuses the CDU of breaking the rules , accessed on February 17, 2013
• dewezet.de: District Administrator candidate of the SPD: Tjark Bartels , accessed on May 28, 2013

Individual evidence

1. ↑ wedemark.de. Retrieved January 25, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Tjark Bartels is the new district administrator ( Memento from August 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Results of the runoff election 2013 ( Memento of October 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Hamelin Declaration
5. ↑ Hamelin declaration against Südlink handed over to BNetzA ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Districts present Hamelin declaration against the power line
7. ↑ Key points for a successful implementation of the energy transition
8. ↑ Hameln-Pyrmont approves the NS information center on Bückeberg in Dewezet from March 13, 2018
9. ^ After resistance from residents: Compromise for the Bückeberg memorial in Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of November 30, 2018
10. ↑ Christian Branahl: Neither winners nor losers in Dewezet from November 30, 2018
11. ↑ New breakdowns and manipulations in the Lügde ndr.de case of March 19, 2019
12. ↑ District Administrator Tjark Bartels still not on duty. Retrieved October 11, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Burn-out: District Administrator Bartels announces resignation at ndr.de on October 11, 2019
14. ↑ District Administrator Tjark Bartels still not on duty - video message. Retrieved on October 13, 2019 (German). 
15. ^ Debate about political manners after Bartels resignation. Retrieved October 13, 2019 . 
16. ↑ Bartels retired. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .