Wolfgang Schulte (politician)

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Wolfgang Schulte (born September 30, 1947 in Paderborn ) is a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

After graduating from high school in 1967, Schulte studied law and economics in Münster and Kiel . In 1973 Schulte joined the SPD. He passed his major state law examination in 1976, after which he worked as a research assistant at the University of Kiel . In 1978 the doctorate took place.

From 1977 Schulte worked at the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of the Interior. In 1979 Schulte moved to Bonn as a speaker for the SPD parliamentary group . From 1981 he worked in the Federal Ministry of Finance .

In 1985, the Ludwigshafen SPD appointed him to succeed Günther Janson as an alderman for social affairs and youth. In 1991 Schulte became mayor . On July 1, 1993, after the resignation of Werner Ludwig , Schulte became mayor of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein.

Schulte set structural accents such as the new construction of the Ludwigshafen (Rhein) Mitte train station and Berliner Platz . On the industrial wasteland of the Halberg foundry, he planned to use it for high-quality residential construction in order to develop the city on the Rhine. This was based on the conversion of fallow land in the port of Rotterdam by the ING real estate company. bank. The first building was completed in 1997 when the university's East Asia Institute was built. He pursued various approaches to modernize the administration and urban renewal. In particular because of the commissioning of the management consultancy McKinsey , he met with a lot of resistance, also from his own party and city council faction. The conversion of the roller mill into a shopping center and the industrial area "West of the B9" were projects of his tenure. Already nominated, Schulte finally decided not to run again for the direct election of the mayor in 2001.

Today he works as a lawyer in Ludwigshafen, where he opened his own law firm in 2004.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Stadtarchiv Ludwigshafen .: Publications of the Stadtarchiv Ludwigshafen a. R. City Archives, OCLC 923113996 (from 1968).
2. ↑ Personal data. In: wolfgangschulte.de. Retrieved June 3, 2018 .