diligence, hardness and precision. These were the qualities that you need as a “city mayor”: It has Henning Voscherau itself summarizes once, thus attempting to establish also our own success in his hometown. Because his name is inextricably linked to Hamburg where Voscherau was born in 1941. ‘/ P>
In the Hanseatic city, he to 1997 reigned as Mayor for almost a decade, the Social Democrat is now in on Tuesday night also died at the age of 75 years, “at home in Hamburg, with his family”, as the present mayor Olaf Scholz (SPD) writes in his condolence. “Henning Voscherau was a strong mayor in turbulent times,” said Scholz. “He did his political offices with format and substance.”
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The recognition was across party on Wednesday. “I say this as a Christian Democrat,” said on Twitter about the parliamentary secretary of the Union in the Bundestag, Michael Grosse-Brömer, “Henning Voscherau was a good one!”
A Hanseat out of a picture book
It is no coincidence that he is the doyen of farming practices as – his close friend Helmut Schmidt – Hamburg comes. A Hanseat like a picture book -. Though not a businessman, so still a notary, the stores do not negotiate, but an authentic, with a sense of proportion and fairness for both sides
Voscherau called although “a born socialist “, but also enjoyed in bourgeois circles sympathy. As about the CDU / CSU in 2012 tried following the resignation of Christian Wulff, to prevent Joachim Gauck as Federal President, she brought Voscherau joint candidate of the CDU and SPD into the game.
Voscherau was five years in Hamburg SPD party chairman before he became prime minister in 1988. He belonged to the particular species rather right Social Democrats in fine cloth. As his party in 1997 a coalition with the Greens preferred the alliance with the bourgeois-populist instead Party, he resigned and devoted himself entirely to his law firm for business law which is where Hamburg is at hamburgischsten, on Alstertor between Jungfernstieg and Ballindamm.
Chef a minimum Commission
a few years ago he made again headlines when he took a controversial official and chairman of South stream transport AG was, that dominated the Russian Gazprom company, its pipeline project in light of the Ukraine crisis but shelved put.
After his employers and unions made jointly to the chief of a new minimum wage commission. (With sgey.)