Wolfgang Wieland

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Wolfgang Wieland

Wolfgang Wieland (born March 9, 1948 in Berlin ) is a former German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). From 2005 to 2013 he was a member of the German Bundestag and from 2001 to 2002 he was mayor and senator for justice of the state of Berlin.

Life and work

After graduating from high school in Frankfurt am Main in 1966 , Wieland studied law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt and the Free University of Berlin , which he completed in 1973 with the first state examination in law. After completing his legal clerkship , he passed the second state examination in 1976.

In 1973 Wieland was banned from entering the GDR for several years because he had tried to smuggle leaflets into the GDR on the occasion of the World Festival of Youth and Students . Wieland has been working as an independent lawyer since 1977 . His law firm also includes the parliamentary group leader of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, Renate Künast , as a lawyer. Wieland's clients also included the Turkish asylum seeker Cemal Altun , who in 1983 jumped out of the window of the sixth floor of the Berlin-Brandenburg Higher Administrative Court for fear of deportation to the Turkish military dictatorship .

Wieland has been a member of the board of the Deutsche Gesellschaft eV since 2009. In addition, he is deputy president of the German War Graves Commission .

Wieland is married.

politics

Wieland was present at the demonstration against the Shah of Persia in West Berlin on June 2, 1967 , during which the police beat up demonstrators and the officer Karl-Heinz Kurras shot the student Benno Ohnesorg from behind. Wieland later turned to the Maoist KPD / AO at times .

In 1978 Wieland was one of the co-founders of the Alternative List (AL) in Berlin. From 1987 to 1989 and from 1990 to 2004 Wieland was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives , where he was from 1987 to 1989, from 1993 to 1995, from 1999 to 2001 and for the last time from 2002 to 2004 chairman of the AL and Alliance 90 / The green. In 2004, Wieland was the Greens' top candidate for the state election in Brandenburg . In this election, the Greens were able to achieve a 1.7% increase in the vote, but failed with a result of 3.6% at the five-percent hurdle .

From 2005 to 2013 he was a member of the German Bundestag as spokesman for the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group for internal security . Wolfgang Wieland entered the Bundestag via the Berlin State List . In the 2009 federal election candidate Wieland as early as 2005 for the parliamentary constituency of Berlin-Mitte . There he reached 21.5 percent of the vote and landed in third place just behind the SPD candidate Eva Högl (26.0 percent) and the CDU candidate Christian Burholt (22.0 percent). In the 17th electoral term he was a member of the Bundestag Interior Committee and a member of the committee of inquiry into the terrorist group National Socialist Underground . In the elections to the 18th German Bundestag on September 22, 2013 , he did not run again.

Public offices

After the break of the grand coalition in Berlin in the summer of 2001, a red-green coalition was formed under the governing mayor Klaus Wowereit ( SPD ), depending on the tolerance of the PDS . Wieland was then elected Mayor and Justice Senator of the State of Berlin on June 16, 2001. After the SPD entered into a coalition with the PDS after the early parliamentary elections, Wieland resigned from office on January 17, 2002.

In the 18th electoral term of the German Bundestag (2013 to 2017), Wieland was a deputy member of the G 10 commission .

cabinet

literature

  • Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 394.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. website of the parliamentary group of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in the Berlin House of Representatives: Event report: Was the time nice ...? The influence of the Stasi on the West Berlin parties ( memento of the original from July 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gruene-fraktion-berlin.de 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. , accessed April 29, 2010.
  2. ^ Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge: peace , October 2017
  3. ^ Website of the parliamentary group of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen: Between Alternative Scene and Police ( Memento of May 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on August 25, 2006
  4. ^ Peter Zolling: K-GROUPS: Wende-Comrades. In: Focus Online . September 8, 1997, accessed October 14, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Wieland, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MdA, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin