Willi Nowack
Willi Nowack (born December 5, 1950 in Essen ) is a German politician and former member of the state parliament ( SPD ).
Life and work
After attending elementary school and grammar school with his Abitur in 1969, he studied law at the Ruhr University in Bochum , but without obtaining an academic degree with the first state examination in law.
He then worked as an insurance salesman from 1980 and in 1985 founded an office for project planning, in which from 1991 he acted as managing partner of "Büro Nowack, Gesellschaft für Projektplanung mbH".
In 1969 Nowack became a member of the SPD. He was represented in numerous party bodies. He has also been a member of the Trade, Banks and Insurance Union since 1990 . There were two unsuccessful party exclusion proceedings against Nowack.
MP
From June 1, 1995 to June 2, 2005 Nowack was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia . He was directly elected in the constituencies 078 Essen IV and 077 Essen III. From 1975 to 2003 he was a member of the city council of Essen.
Because of a violation of the party donation law, the Essen sub-district of the SPD had to repay the donations from the Hellweg hardware store chain , which Nowack and Detlev Samland had incorrectly declared in 1999 , and also pay a fine to the Bundestag administration .
Conviction for delaying bankruptcy and accepting benefits
After the immunity of the then MP Willi Nowack was unanimously lifted in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, the public prosecutor's office opened the trial against the politician in October 2005 before the 1st criminal chamber of the Essen regional court, who after four years of investigation had 303 charges, mainly in the area of white-collar crime of his political offices and the delay in bankruptcy of his approx. 2.5 million DM over-indebted company, according to Nowacks a "Projektplanungs GmbH", were charged. Although some of the charges were already statute-barred or could not be proven, Nowack was found guilty on October 31, 2005 and sentenced to one year and three months imprisonment for delaying bankruptcy and taking advantage, which the presiding judge Loch, however, suspended on probation. In his reasons for the judgment, the judge pointed out Nowack's unconvincing attempts to conclusively explain the activities of his Projektplanungs GmbH in court. So Nowack, at the said time a member of the building planning committee of the city of Essen, the acceptance of 45,000 euros by the managing director of the hardware store chain Hellweg was proven, without Nowack's “understandable consideration” for this money. Nowack, so Richter Loch further in the reasoning for the judgment, “did not remove the impression that the payer was able to buy”. In addition, Willi Nowack was convicted of delaying the bankruptcy of his Projektplanungs GmbH, which was in debt of around 1.25 million euros. For example, the managing director Willi Nowack had granted the private person Willi Nowack loans from the company's assets, which in turn came from bank loans, even though the bankruptcy of the company and the inability of the private borrower Nowack to repay the self-approved loans were already foreseeable. However, the court saw the careless behavior of the Sparkasse Essen as reducing the debt. For example, the managing director Nowack was carelessly granted various loans with a total volume of several million DM, without the usual collateral.
Nowack pleaded guilty in his closing statement, accepted the judgment and waived an appeal.
After the trial, Nowack distributed a statement in which he thanked for the fair trial, but continued to portray himself innocent as prosecuted. Furthermore, against the background of his conviction, he is planning a “discussion” on “jobs for family members, travel by supervisory board members and private journeys in the company car” of other members of the city council.
On March 22, 2011 Nowack was again sentenced to one year and four months imprisonment without parole for delaying bankruptcy by the Essen District Court. He appealed against this to the Essen Regional Court, which was rejected by the Essen Regional Court.
Personal bankruptcy
As it became known, the Essen District Court opened private insolvency proceedings on December 4, 2009 at the request of Nowack. Various West German print media such as the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung titled this process on December 16, 2009 in their reporting with the headline “Willi Nowack, Essen's once most powerful social democrat, is broke!”. Nowack told WAZ that his private insolvency proceedings had no impact on his activities as organizer of the annual “Ruhr in Flammen” festival in Steele and his activities as managing director of “Büro Nowack GmbH”.
literature
- Willi Nowack u. Jürgen Hainke: Resigned. A look back in mild anger . Essen 2015. ISBN 978-3-00-051102-8 .
Web links
swell
- ↑ Frank Stenglein: Essen SPD has to pay a fine of more than 30,000 euros ., WAZ , July 6, 2013, p. WES 1
- ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/essen/ex-spd-chef-willi-nowack-kaempft-um-seine-freiheit-id6095934.html
- ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/essen/bankrott-ex-spd-chef-willi-nowack-muss-ins-gefaengnis-id6162364.html
- ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/essen/will-nowack-keilt-als-autor-gegen-ob-pass-und-alte-parteifreunde-id11003077.html
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated November 7, 2016 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.
- ↑ http://www.lokalkompass.de/essen-steele/haben/willi-nowack-nachgtret-ein-blick-zurueck-in-mildem-zorn-d602887.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nowack, Willi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th December 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |