Walter Momper

Walter Momper
Walter Momper at the Brandenburg Gate
Governing Mayor of Berlin (West Berlin 1989–1990)
In office 1989–1991
Preceded by	Eberhard Diepgen
Succeeded by	Eberhard Diepgen
Personal details
Born	(1945-02-21) 21 February 1945 Sulingen, today Lower Saxony
Political party	Social Democrats

West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl (at the microphone), East German Premier Hans Modrow (left), and West Berlin mayor Walter Momper [with red scarf] in the official opening of the Brandenburg Gate.

Walter Momper (2014)

Walter Momper (born 21 February 1945) is a German politician and former Governing Mayor of Berlin (West Berlin 1989–1990, reunited Berlin 1990–1991). Whilst Governing Mayor, he served as President of the Bundesrat in 1989/90. He attended the opening of the Brandenburg Gate on 22 December 1989 and, on 3 October 1990, became the first mayor of a reunited Berlin.

He was born in Sulingen (near Bremen), today Lower Saxony, and is a member of the SPD (Social Democrats).

Momper went to school in Bremen. After graduation in 1964 he began studying political science, history and economics at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Munich and at the Freie Universität Berlin, which he finished in 1969 as a political scientist. He was a research assistant at the Institute of Political Sciences at the FU Berlin. In 1970 he became a research fellow at the Secret Prussian State Archives of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. From 1972 to 1986 he was a research associate and director of the Historical Commission to Berlin. After Momper then was exclusively politically active, he took over from 1992 to 1993 the management of Dr. Elling GmbH. Since August 1993 he has been managing partner of Momper Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH in Berlin. Critics and politicians of other parties repeatedly chalking him near his policy and his business activities, as if he means the group Ikea advised on its settlement plans in East Berlin.

Political career

Since 1967 Momper is a member of the SPD. From 1986 to 1992 he was regional chairman of the SPD in Berlin. From 1988 to 1993 he was also a member of the SPD National Executive. 1975 Momper was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives. There he was from 1985 chairman of the SPD faction. From Elections in Berlin in 1989, the SPD went under Momper top candidate as the winner, while the CDU / FDP coalition under the mayor Eberhard Diepgen (CDU) surprisingly suffered a heavy defeat. was preceded by inter alia the media widely discussed the scandal Charlottenburg for Construction Wolfgang Antes (CDU).

On March 16, 1989 Momper was elected mayor. He could support (the former Berlin equivalent of the Greens) to a Red-Green coalition between the SPD and the Alternative List (AL). The Senate Momper among the first state government in Germany more women than men (eight to six).

The chairman of the GDR Council of Ministers Hans Modrow, Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the Governing Mayor (West Berlin) Walter Momper (with daughter Friederike) and in the background between carbon and Momper Mayor (East Berlin) Erhard Krack during the opening of the Brandenburg Gate on 22 December 1989 On the night of 9 to 10 November 1989, the Berlin Wall was opened - an event over its preparation on the part of the East German government Momper claims to since 29 October 1989 as a conversation with East Berlin SED Chief Günter Schabowski and East Berlin Mayor Erhard Krack was informed and in turn made the appropriate preparations. [4] Momper set "Berlin, now rejoice" went around the world. Momper was known at this time on the borders of Germany. The basis for the growing together of the two halves of the city and Berlin with the surrounding area was laid on December 12, 1989: At a meeting with Momper GDR Prime Minister Hans Modrow, the provisional Regional Committee was established as the first cross-border body.

As Governing Mayor of Berlin Momper was from 1 November 1989 to 31 October 1990 Federal President and thus Deputy President. Known decisions of his red-green Senate was a speed limit (100 km / h) on the hitherto tempolimit free AVUS and the establishment of additional bus lanes for the BVG, the Berlin public transport. After the completion of a number of squatters by the evacuation of the Mainzer Straße by the police on 14 November 1990, the AL announced the coalition with the SPD, since both Momper and the competent Innensenator Erich Paetzold (SPD) einstuften this application as a politically correct ,

Therefore Momper walked with a SPD minority Senate in the election of the Chamber of Deputies on 2 December 1990. The SPD remained ten points behind the CDU, whose leading candidate Diepgen, Momper predecessor, was then elected mayor again on 24 January 1991st Momper was initially SPD state chairman, but finally declared on 17 August 1992, in the context of its entry into the real estate industry for his resignation. In 1995 he joined in to the internal party primary election of the Berlin SPD for the top candidate for the House of Representatives elections, but subject to social Senator Ingrid Stahmer. In the 1995 election he resigned first from out of the House of Representatives. After he had in 1999 with the original choice of the SPD's top candidate, prevailed against the chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Berlin House, Klaus Böger, he was indeed again a member of the House of Representatives, but lost significantly the mayor Diepgen. However, he was elected Vice President of the Lower House. After the SPD had become in the early general elections on 21 October 2001 the strongest party, he was elected president of the House of Representatives and appointed in this position after the Elections in Berlin of 2006.

In the election to the Berlin House of Representatives on September 18, 2011 Momper opted not to run again. On September 1, 2011, he headed for the last time a meeting of the Chamber of Deputies.

Reelection Klaus Wowereit

When choosing the mayor on 23 November 2006 the proposed SPD candidate Klaus Wowereit received only 74 of 149 votes. Although the required majority of 75 votes was therefore not achieved asked Momper Wowereit whether he accepted the election. Then Momper was already proceeded to swearing, as he has been advised by heckling on his mistake. The Berlin opposition parties then demanded his resignation as parliament speaker - also because the swearing Wowereit by Momper proceeded not a glitch, following the successful second ballot. Momper asked publicly apologize, rejected a resignation but from. [6]

Senate

→ Main article: Senate Momper

Personal

Momper entered into the public regularly with a red scarf on, which was called "Momper Scarf". Momper is married to Anne Momper and has two children.

External links

Commons: Walter Momper - collection of images, videos and audio files Wikiquote: Walter Momper - Quotations Literature by and about Walter Momper in the catalog of the German National Library Short Biography Walter Momper Website of Momper Projektentwicklungs GmbH

References

• "Walter Momper: Regierender Bürgermeister vom 16.3.1989 bis 24.1.1991" (in German). Senatskanzlei Berlin. Retrieved 2010-10-04. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |trans_title= (help)