Wolfram Köhler (politician)

Wolfram Köhler (born March 8, 1968 in Templin , GDR) is a German politician ( CDU ) who became known as a songwriter , Lord Mayor of Riesa , Saxon State Secretary , as a songwriter for Heino and as a sports manager for the boxer Axel Schulz .

Life and work

Köhler worked as a songwriter in the GDR until 1987 . After political disputes, he was forced to move to the Federal Republic of Germany on November 25, 1987 with his first wife Katharina Stengel , where he worked for a private broadcaster in Ludwigshafen am Rhein .

With the German reunification in 1990 he returned to Saxony and worked in Riesa in various functions as department head , councilor and 1st mayor. In 2001 he was elected Lord Mayor of the large district town of Riesa as the successor to Horst Barth . During this time he cultivated the image of a “doer”.

After helping to develop the idea of ​​a Saxon Olympic application , he was appointed Saxon State Secretary in the State Chancellery by Prime Minister Georg Milbradt for the Leipzig application for the 2012 Summer Olympics . He was dismissed from this position because he and his second wife were accused of having concluded “legally dubious” and “morally unreliable” contracts between a municipal company and Verbundnetz Gas AG (VNG) during his time as Mayor of Riesa. However, the Dresden Public Prosecutor's Office has not initiated an investigation because, from their point of view, there was no evidence of breach of trust.

Another field of activity Köhler is in addition to sports, including as a temporary manager of boxer Axel Schulz, music. Among other things, he wrote texts for the singer Heino .

Köhler is married and lives in Cape Coral / Florida . Here he initially ran a kindergarten with his wife, but also carried out other activities such as B. the management of a training camp for Axel Schulz in Florida and others

politics

In 2004 Köhler was elected to the Saxon state parliament through a direct mandate in the constituency of Riesa-Großenhain 1 . In April 2005 he resigned from his mandate. In his waiver letter to Erich Iltgen, President of the Landtag, he named the feeling of sitting on the “substitute bench” of parliament and “not being changed” as a motive.

In 2009 Dresden's mayor Helma Orosz Köhler tried to win over as managing director of Dresden Messe GmbH (DMG). For the job, which also provided for a temporary takeover of the sports facility and pool operations, a contract term of five years was planned with - according to media reports - payment of 250,000 euros per year. On June 26, 2009, the Dresden city ​​council had decided to appoint Köhler, whereupon the parliamentary group "Die LINKE" complained because they did not feel sufficiently informed about Köhler's contract. On July 1, 2009, the Dresden administrative judges followed this application for temporary legal protection, which the state capital again objected to.

Köhler himself then decided in August 2009 to comment on the entire process - including his waiver of the offered position as managing director - via an "open letter" sent from Cape Coral / Florida and published in the BILD newspaper .

publication

• Mr. Riesa: There is another way in Germany , Forum Verlag, Leipzig 2005.

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Saxon State Parliament
• Literature by and about Wolfram Köhler in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Copy of an article  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Sächsische Zeitung of May 7, 2003 (no longer available)  
2. ↑ Jens Weinreich: Departure of a maker. In: Berliner Zeitung . October 31, 2003, accessed June 16, 2015 . 
3. ↑ very briefly, NO PROCEDURE, Saxon Newspaper, May 3, 2004
4. ↑ The court stops the appeal of the supermanager Koehler. In: Saxon newspaper . August 1, 2009, accessed June 16, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Open letter from Wolfram Köhler of August 3, 2009 (PDF; 66 kB)