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Bang in Schlewsig-Holstein: Interior Minister resigns completely surprisingly

2020-04-28T13:44:48.154Z


Bang in Schlewsig-Holstein: Interior Minister Hans-Joachim Grote resigns. Prosecutorial investigations also play a role here.


Bang in Schlewsig-Holstein: Interior Minister Hans-Joachim Grote resigns. Prosecutorial investigations also play a role here.

  • Schleswig-Holstein's interior minister Hans-Joachim Grote (CDU) has surprisingly resigned .
  • This happened on Tuesday at his own request.
  • An investigation against an official of the state police apparently plays a role here

Kiel - The Interior Minister of Schleswig-Holstein , CDU politician Hans-Joachim Grote , has resigned. Prime Minister Daniel Günther (CDU) had complied with his wish, Grote said on Tuesday, referring to a public prosecutor's investigation against an official of the state police and an exchange of letters between him and a journalist. The background is evidently the state parliament's committee of inquiry into the so-called rocker affair with the state police .

Schleswig-Holstein's Minister of the Interior, Grote, resigns after debating with the Prime Minister

Since the formation of the Jamaica government from the CDU, the Greens and the FDP in 2017, the 65-year-old Grote has been Minister of the Interior, Rural Areas and Integration . Previously, the Paderborn-born was Mayor of the City of Norderstedt from 2005 to 2017.

In the course of the public prosecutor's investigation, the correspondence mentioned had also been sent to Günther in the past few days, according to a statement by Grotes. "There was a discussion with the prime minister ." In order to avert possible political damage, and not least after a health setback from a long time ago, from which he could not fully recover, he offered the prime minister his office at the end of the to lay down today.

Also interesting: The CDU chairwoman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer also announced her resignation a few weeks ago *. The race for her potential successor made headlines - but has now moved into the background in view of the Corona crisis *. 

* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.

Source: merkur

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