Willi Lemke

This article deals with the politician and sports official Willi Lemke. For other people see Wilhelm Lemke .

Willi Lemke, 2014

Willi Lemke during an interview in 2011

Wilfried "Willi" Lemke (born August 19, 1946 in Pönitz / Ostholstein ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and sports official . He was special advisor to the UN Secretary General for Sport in the Service of Peace and Development, Senator for Education and Science and Senator for Internal Affairs and Sport of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . Before that he was the manager of the Bundesliga club SV Werder Bremen .

biography

Family, education and work

Lemke's parents came from Szczecin . In 1945 the mother fled with two sons to Neubrandenburg and then on to Pönitz. He grew up in Hamburg. After High School on school Oberalster in Hamburg graduated Wilfried Lemke, a teacher training program of education and sports science at the University of Hamburg , which he with the first state examination ended. He then worked from 1971 to 1974 as a research assistant at the University of Bremen . When he moved to Bremen, he joined the SPD and got involved with the AStA and the Jusos . The Soviet KGB approached him and wanted to hire him as an agent who should deliver internal information from the SPD. According to later assessments, however, the KGB assumed that Lemke would make a career in the party and should be made subject to blackmail through the cooperation. Lemke disclosed the contact to the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Bremen and, in agreement with the Protection of the Constitution, met twelve times between 1971 and 1974 with a KGB man. He provided short biographies and contact details for politicians. The work as a double agent only became known in 1994, when the former President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Hamburg, Hans Josef Horchem , mentioned Lemke in a book without prior consultation.

In 1974 he took over the management of the SPD regional association in Bremen until he switched to the football club Werder Bremen as manager in 1981 . There, together with Otto Rehhagel, he significantly shaped the club's “golden” 1980s and 1990s (from 1981 to 1995 to be more precise), in which Werder won the European Cup Winners' Cup once , German champions twice and DFB Cup winners three times . Since the spin-off of profit-oriented and competitive sports departments of the entire club to Werder Bremen GmbH & Co KGaA in May 2003, Lemke has been a member of its supervisory board and was also chairman of this body from 2005. In November 2012 he was confirmed in his position as Chairman of the Supervisory Board for a further four years. In 2014 he resigned as chairman, but remained a member of the supervisory board until the end of 2016.

Lemke is married for the second time and has four children. His niece, the Green politician Eveline Lemke , was Deputy Prime Minister in Rhineland / Palatinate.

Political party

Following Henning Scherf's announcement that he would resign as head of government of the state of Bremen in September 2005 , Lemke became the new mayor in a member survey of the SPD base. The base voted for Jens Böhrnsen as the new mayor with 1924 votes , Lemke received 721 votes.

Public offices

After the general election in 1999 , Lemke was elected on July 7 of the same year as Senator for Education and Science in the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, which was headed by Scherf. From October 12 to November 2, 2006, he was also acting Senator for Labor, Women, Health, Youth and Social Affairs, after the incumbent Karin Röpke resigned in the course of the Kevin case .

After the 2007 election , Lemke took over the office of Senator for Home Affairs and Sport in the new red-green coalition on June 29, 2007.

At the end of 2007, Lemke was proposed by the federal government for the office of the UN Special Advisor for Sport in the Service of Peace and Development . After the budget committee of the German Bundestag had promised to take over the financing of this office in the amount of 450,000 euros annually, Lemke was appointed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to succeed Adolf Ogi on March 18, 2008 . Lemke therefore resigned as Interior Senator on April 6, 2008. He resigned from office at the end of 2016.

Lemke has been an honorary professor at the Western Cape University (UWC) in South Africa since September 2010 .

Awards

• In 2016, the German Football Association awarded Lemke the DFB and Mercedes Benz Integration Prize for its commitment.
• Lemke was awarded the 2014 Honorary Prize by the German Disabled Sports Association for his commitment to sports for the disabled .
• For his work as a UN sports ambassador, he was awarded the Berlin Peace Watch Prize 2011.
• The Bundesvereinigung Lebenshilfe recognized his commitment to disabled athletes with the Bobby Media Prize 2010.

See also

• List of education senators from Bremen
• Senate Scherf II
• Senate Scherf III
• Senate Böhrnsen I
• Senate Böhrnsen II

Web links

Commons : Willi Lemke  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official homepage of Willi Lemke

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kölner Stadtanzeiger, interview with brother Dietrich and niece Eveline 5./6. March 2016, p. 22
2. ↑ Freddie Röckenhaus: Bundle of energy with many talents . In: Die Zeit, February 18, 1994
3. ↑ Focus: Double pass with the KGB , December 14, 1994
4. ↑ Supervisory Board: Lemke and Dr. Hess-Grunewald unanimously confirmed ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
5. ↑ ^{a b} Deutsche Welle: Willi Lemke bows out as UN sports adviser , December 6, 2016
6. ^ "Lemke continues - Böhrnsen announces austerity course for Bremen"
7. ↑ netzeitung.de of March 18, 2008 ( Memento of March 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Expensive special advisor . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 2008 ( online - Mar. 3, 2008 ).
9. ↑ Willi Lemke receives integration award. In: DFB - Deutscher Fußball-Bund eV. Retrieved on April 18, 2016 . 
10. ↑ DBS - Disabled Athlete of the Year 2014 , on November 29, 2014 in Cologne