Berlin’s education Secretary of state Mark Rackles, 52, will be put into non-active. Education Senator Sandra Scheeres (SPD) and Rackles would have separated by mutual agreement, it was reported that the circles out of the Senate. The Senate will agree to the estimated on Tuesday, then the successor is to be announced. You have lived apart, it said. The only Name that was called on Monday evening from several sides, regardless, was the Scheeres’ longtime spokeswoman Beate Stoffers. This Information was confirmed late in the evening from Senate circles.

“At the top of the management of the house blessing hangs for a long time wrong”, commenting on the separation of Rackles in the red-red-green coalition. Current disputes about the appointment of teachers, should have played in the decision by Scheeres, play a decisive role.

Since 2011, the social Democrat was Rackles, was for many years a Vice-land-in-chief of the SPD and spokesperson of the party left, as Secretary of state responsible for education policy in Berlin. He was one of the government’s internal impetus and makers, a politically and professionally weak Senator Scheeres. SPD-internal Rackles profiled several times as a critic of the Berlin SPD land Chairman and Governing mayor Michael Müller.

“no Matter what – it will be worse.” So, the first spontaneous reaction of the SPD parliamentary group on the announced withdrawal was on Monday: anyone Who is interested in Berlin in education, was that of the party left was the strategic head of the education administration. While authorities boss Scheeres, mainly on shoots, shows, he had to fight on all fronts as a problem solver.

The Baden-Württemberg master at the end of Rackles, already with 20 years of SPD beige, had initially worked in the economy, before he joined the Senate office. In the administration of education, the competences accumulated. “He has done two Jobs,” said SPD parliamentary group member of the day level: in addition to his role as education Secretary, he had to lead the “task force on school construction”. Reportedly Scheeres have insisted that the leadership for the task force remains in your house, although this task could have been in the Senate Chancellery is connected.

In the interim peace education Secretary of state Mark rackles photo: Britta Pedersen/dpa

“in a state of: for Eight years, he did not have to compensate for what Scheeres did,” from party circles about the outgoing Secretary of state. Most recently, he acted sometimes schroff, which earned him criticism.

“This is the Swan song for Sandra Scheeres”

Replaced Rackles to be an in-house successor, how the daily mirror learned from two independent sources. In the group of the internal administrative solution was not good. Already health Senator Dilek Kolat (SPD) have missed in December 2018, to strengthen ties with the deputies, as they made the diakonia Board of Directors Martin Matz, the successor to their Secretary of state, Boris Velter. “This is the Swan song for Sandra Scheeres,” commented a member of the Group to the finish. “Scheeres’s no longer here a long time ago, if it hadn’t been for Rackles.”

in the past week, there was no indication for an observer on a retreat of Rackles. In a good mood and full of enthusiasm, he presented on Thursday in front of architects, the Berlin school building offensive, in which as the head of the “task force on school construction” is in the lead. The school Construction plan is a core project of the red-red-green Senate, it’s an investment has total assets of at least EUR 5.5 billion. Around 70 of new schools wants to build a Berlin, around 100 Supplement to build buildings and all of the existing schools rehabilitate, reported Rackles at the event of the Association of architecture award Berlin, with evident Pride.

Stoffers want. focus on quality management

Between the Senator and Secretary of state put it in more recent times, however, dispute over the appointment of teachers While Scheeres urged, more recently, resisted Rackles the projects decided and should even have the state Convention openly against this Plan, mood. “The establishment was only a pretext, in order to have a justification for the separation”, it became known on Monday, however, from the group. “The fact that the two are separate, is no longer in the room when the conflict to the establishment.”

The Opposition welcomed the departure of Rackles on Monday and focused on the Senator, which has now been unprotected. “Scheeres builds ideology,” said the education policy spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group, Hildegard Bentele, in the case of Twitter. Rackles have being teased good principals and teachers “” and “SPD-Hearing,” wrote Bentele. “But Rackles, the maker was.” Scheeres was in the school policy, “completely pale,” and with every measure “to late”. Words like this are currently be heard even by social Democrats.

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in The afternoon, and word got around that it should be for Rackles an internal succession solution. After several possible variants were excluded, concentrated to the personnel on the speaker area. Finally, the Name of Beate Stoffers, who is a close Confidant of the Senator and, since 2011, on your side is dropped. Stoffers was formerly a spokeswoman for the Wall AG. Stoffers said in the evening to the daily mirror that she wanted to focus its work on quality management.
From party circles was commented on by the personnel Stoffers in the evening as follows: “the beginning of the end of the Senator“. But there were also consent to the personnel: Stoffers was a “tough woman who is familiar with all of the problems of the management of super,” said the SPD Education of the city Council of Marzahn-Hellersdorf, Gordon Lemm. He wishes her “good luck”.