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Place of Birth: Lünen, Free State of Prussia, Germany
About Berndt Röder
- Berndt Röder (born 3 December 1948 in Lünen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German politician, representative of the German Christian Democratic Union. Röder was born on 3 December 1948 in Lünen and married with three children.
- He studied law at the University of Hamburg.Röder 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 Röder 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, Röder paid a fine of €2,500.In 2010, Röder resigned from the position of President of the Hamburg Parliament because of the so-called Glaze ice affair in Hamburg.
- Röder 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, Röder 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.
- Röder was alleged to have used his political position to further his interests.
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