Preceded by Dorothee Stapelfeldt Nationality German Name Berndt Roder Education University of Hamburg | Succeeded by Lutz Mohaupt Alma mater University of Hamburg Role German Politician | |
Political party Christian Democratic Union (CDU) | ||
Berndt Roder (born 3 December 1948 in Lunen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German politician, representative of the German Christian Democratic Union.
Roder was born on 3 December 1948 in Lunen and married with three children. He studied law at the University of Hamburg.
Roder entered the German Christian Democratic Union in 1968. He has been a member of the state parliament since 2001. From March 2004 until February 2010 Roeder was President of the Hamburg Parliament. In 2004 Roder was criticized by the media and the Hamburg police union, because he checked how long it took the police to arrive in response to emergency calls. He is believed to have pressed a panic button. In Germany the abuse of an emergency call is actionable, Roder paid a fine of €2,500.
In 2010, Roder resigned from the position of President of the Hamburg Parliament because of the socalled Glaze ice affair in Hamburg. Roder made calls to the privy councils of the state ministry of environment, and state ministry of interior, and to the municipal councillor of Hamburg-Nord borough, Roder complained about the city's negligence not clearing the street—where he resided—of glaze ice. Hamburg's winter services were barely able to clean the main streets and roads. Roder was alleged to have used his political position to further his interests.