Walter Scheuerl

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Walter Scheuerl (born August 2, 1961 in Erlangen ) is a Hamburg lawyer specializing in media law , commercial legal protection and food law . He is the initiator of the Hamburg citizens' initiative We want to learn , which opposed the school reform initiated by the Hamburg Senate in the 19th legislative period (2008-2011) under Mayor Ole von Beust ( CDU ) and School Senator Christa Goetsch ( Greens ). In the 20th legislative period (2011 to 2015) Scheuerl was a non-party member of the Hamburg parliament ; until March 24, 2014 he was a member of the CDU parliamentary group, after which he took up his citizenship mandate as a non-attached member.

Career

Scheuerl is the son of the educationalist Hans Scheuerl . Walter Scheuerl studied from 1981 to 1986 at the University of Hamburg . After an internship at the Higher Regional Court of Hamburg, Scheuerl worked in the Munich Patent Office from 1989/89 and from 1991 for the patent law firm WP Thompson & Co. in Liverpool , England . He received his doctorate in 1991 with the thesis on AIDS and criminal law: The criminal liability of people infected with HIV when making sexual contacts at the University of Hamburg. He then worked as an employed lawyer for the law firm Droste / Boesebeck Droste / Lovells until he became a partner there in 1998.

In addition to his work as a lawyer, Scheuerl was also a lecturer in copyright law at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater and an expert at the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce.

Today Scheuerl is a partner in the law firm Graf von Westphalen .

Citizens' initiatives, positions and criticism

Citizens' initiative and referendum We want to learn

As the initiator of the citizens' initiative We want to learn , which was founded on May 7, 2008, Scheuerl campaigned against the six-year primary school run by the Hamburg state government, which was initiated by a coalition of the CDU and the Greens and finally decided unanimously by the entire Hamburg parliament, including the opposition SPD. The citizens' initiative carried out a referendum with 185,000 signatures, which was held on July 18, 2010. The school reform was rejected with 54.5% no votes and a turnout of 39.3%.

The failure of the school reform led to the breakup of the coalition and early elections on February 20, 2011 . Although Scheuerl had campaigned against the school policy of the black-green coalition , which was also responsible for the failure of the CDU-led government, he stood as a non-party candidate on the CDU state list and received the second most votes after the top candidate, Mayor Ahlhaus the CDU country list. The CDU's share of the vote was almost halved in the election from 42.6% to 21.9%. From March 7, 2011, Scheuerl was a member of the Hamburg Parliament and Chairman of the School Committee of the Hamburg Parliament. Due to criticism of the content of a negotiation proposal made by the parliamentary group's executive committee for the “G9-Jetzt-HH” popular initiative, the chairman of the Scheuerl parliamentary group called on March 22, 2014 to withdraw from the CDU parliamentary group. Scheuerl complied with this request and declared on March 24, 2014 by fax that he was leaving the parliamentary group. For the remaining duration of the legislative period up to the general election on February 15, 2015 , Scheuerl belonged to the parliament as a non-attached member of parliament. In 2015 he ran as a single applicant in the Blankenese constituency. After counting the 123 polling stations in his constituency, he came up with 6773 votes and a share of 2.6 percent, the best result so far achieved in Hamburg by a single applicant in citizenship elections, but did not receive any of the 5 constituency mandates.

Our Hamburg initiative - good network

In January 2013, Walter Scheuerl founded an initiative under the name “Our Hamburg - good network” to oppose a complete repurchase of the Hamburg energy network by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Thanks to the initiative's press and online work, the initial strong approval of remunicipalisation of the energy networks was reduced from 64 percent in February 2013 to 58 percent in June 2013 and to polls with a wafer-thin majority for those against remunicipalisation a few days before the referendum . In the referendum, which took place together with the 2013 Bundestag election on September 22, 2013, 1,292,984 people entitled to vote, according to the provisional official result, out of 15,214 invalid votes, 443,873 (50.9 percent) were in favor and 428,544 (49.1 percent) against the submission of the popular initiative "Our Hamburg - our network" aimed at the complete repurchase of the energy networks.

Allegation of lobbying

Animal welfare groups criticized Scheuerl in 2011 for an alleged lobbying policy for companies that keep animals for agricultural purposes or in the entertainment sector (e.g. circuses). As a lawyer, Scheuerl often represented companies that farm animal husbandry and had represented them against animal rights groups, among other things. He accuses the latter of generating donations with recordings of alleged animal welfare violations taken in his clients' stables and thus operating a business model.

Criticism of IT education

In May 2013, Scheuerl defended the removal of IT content from the compulsory canon of district schools in Hamburg. He classified computer science as part of physics and declared the digital revolution largely over. This also brought international attention to the matter. Teachers, pupils as well as representatives from business and other parties criticized this project sharply.

At the end of 2014, Scheuerl spoke out against a pilot project to introduce laptops, tablets and WiFi for teaching at Hamburg schools. For this he was criticized by Hansjörg Schmidt (SPD). Scheuerl is "a man of yesterday who did not understand that the Internet is today's school library," says Schmidt.

Fonts

  • Walter Scheuerl: AIDS and criminal law: The criminal liability of HIV-infected persons when making sexual contacts , dissertation, Hamburg-Münster, 1992, 364 pages, ISBN 3-89473-287-3 .
  • Das Werk-ABC , Article B 1.14 in Handbuch Kultur und Recht , Berlin 2007
  • Peter Engel, Walter Scheuerl: Litigation PR. Successful media and public relations work in court proceedings . Carl Heymanns Verlag, Cologne 2011. ISBN 978-3-452-27537-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jule Bleyer: A know-it-all for Hamburg . In: Cicero (magazine) , January 2011 issue.
  2. ↑ a b Hamburger Abendblatt , March 25, 2014: [1]
  3. ↑ Walter Scheuerl, 2008: "We want to learn!" - For the maintenance of high school education from grade 5 ( Memento of May 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Spiegel Online , Birger Menke, September 24, 2008: Black and green Hamburg. How rebellious parents want to save the high school
  5. ^ Taz , February 22, 2011: Upgraded by the voters
  6. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt , March 22, 2014: [2]
  7. ↑ Sample ballot
  8. ↑ Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, official result of the 2015 state election: [3]
  9. ^ Website of the initiative ( Memento from December 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ^ Die Welt, January 31, 2013 [4] .
  11. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, February 9, 2013 [5]
  12. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, June 27, 2013 [6]
  13. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, September 16, 2013 [7]
  14. ↑ Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein: Preliminary result of the referendum on energy networks [8]
  15. ^ Hamburger Morgenpost , May 18, 2011: Hamburg Citizenship. Walter Scheuerl's lobby policy
  16. ↑ Westfalen-Blatt, October 27, 2019: Breaking into stables: animal welfare or business model?
  17. ↑ Twitter message [9]
  18. ↑ Twitter message [10]
  19. ^ Döbeli Honegger, Beat: World View of the Last Century [11]
  20. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt: Hamburg abolishes the compulsory subject computer science , May 30, 2013
  21. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt: Students should use their own tablets in class , dated December 2, 2014
  22. ↑ Culture & Law - Table of Contents
personal data
SURNAME Scheuerl, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (CDU, independent), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH gain