Wolfram Brück

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From left: Günter Strack, René Kollo, Carolin Reiber, Hannelore Kohl, Wolfram Brück (1986)

Wolfram Brück (born February 27, 1937 in Cologne-Mülheim ; † June 15, 2016 in Cologne ) was a German politician ( CDU ) and lawyer .

Life

Wolfram Brück attended high school in Cologne and graduated from high school there in 1957. He then studied law at the University of Cologne and at the University of Freiburg from 1957 to 1961 . After completing his legal traineeship from 1961 to 1965, from 1966 he was initially a court assessor at the Cologne Regional Court and from 1968 a public prosecutor at the Koblenz public prosecutor's office in the department for commercial, tax and military procurement criminal matters. Here he sued one of the prominent economic leaders of the post-war period, Fritz-Aurel Görgen, then head of the Kassel Henschel works , for fraud in tank deals with the Bundeswehr. From 1970 to 1977 he was a ministerial official in the scientific service of the German Bundestag . From 1974 to 1975 he supported Walter Wallmann in his work as head of the committee of inquiry against the GDR spy Günter Guillaume .

politics

Wolfram Brück had been a member of the CDU since 1957. From 1970 to 1974 he was a member of the Mayen-Koblenz district council and from 1974 to 1977 a member of the council of the city of Andernach .

In 1977 he was as human resources and legal department head in the magistrate of the city of Frankfurt am Main elected. After spending time together in Bonn, the newly elected Lord Mayor Walter Wallmann brought him to Frankfurt am Main as Head of Human Resources, Organization and Law.

After Wallmann took over the newly formed Federal Ministry for the Environment and Nuclear Safety in the Kohl cabinet in 1986 , Brück succeeded him from 1986 to 1989 as Lord Mayor of Frankfurt am Main. On September 27, 1986, elected to office until August 14 bridge fell nationwide in the headlines when he two days before the subway -Start the lines U6 and U7 postponed the official opening indefinitely. This was preceded by a political dispute with the regional council in Darmstadt and citizens' initiatives about the concept of a rail-free city center and the planned closure of three tram lines through the old town . The regional council rejected the closure. Brück then canceled the planned opening party in Leipziger Strasse , Schillerstrasse and at the Zoo , but in October 1986 accepted the continued operation of line 11 of the Frankfurt am Main tram through the old town. During his term of office, however, a cityscape-defining addition to the Frankfurt skyline also falls. So he enforced the building permit for the exhibition tower and created u. a. the planning basis for the high-rise buildings Westendstrasse 1 and Trianon . The areas of conflict were the development of Börneplatz and the corruption affairs (in which Brück was not personally involved).

In addition, Brück established Art Frankfurt and the Museumsuferfest as Lord Mayor . In 1988 he established twinning partnerships with Toronto (Canada) and Guangzhou (China). Shortly before Brück's first local elections in 1989, the party The Republicans in West Berlin entered parliament after a populist election campaign focused on immigration. For fear of a similar success of right-wing extremist parties in Frankfurt, Brück tried to occupy these issues himself in the election campaign, but this did not bring the desired success: the NPD moved into the city parliament with 6.6% of the vote. The CDU, which had previously ruled with an absolute majority, lost 13 percentage points and became the second strongest party with 36.6%. The SPD was the strongest party with 40.1% and formed a coalition with the Greens (10.1%). The SPD politician Volker Hauff was elected as the new mayor .

A year after the lost election, Brück moved back to his hometown of Cologne and settled there as a lawyer. In 1990 Detlev Rohwedder brought him to the newly founded Treuhandanstalt in Berlin as a general representative with responsibility for the East German municipal assets . In 1991 he became CEO of the recycling company Duales System Deutschland ( Green Dot ). He remained in this office until his retirement at the end of 2002, his successor was the former CDU member of the Bundestag, Hans-Peter Repnik .

In 1998, he received the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his successful establishment of the dual waste system of the Green Dot . Brück died at the age of 79.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frankfurt ex-Mayor Wolfram Brück died . In: Die Welt vom June 15, 2016 (accessed June 15, 2016).
personal data
SURNAME Brück, Wolfram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne-Mülheim
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 2016
Place of death Cologne