Overview
- On November 10, the CDU group in the Bremische Bürgerschaft moved to request an eleven-member investigation committee to review six early-retirement cases from 2019 to 2025.
- The proposed inquiry would assess reasons, legal bases, procedures, responsibilities and the financial consequences of placing senior civil servants into temporary retirement.
- The cases include matters under active embezzlement investigation involving Economic Senator Kristina Vogt and resigned Environment Senator Kathrin Moosdorf, with searches reported at Vogt’s offices.
- The CDU also wants the committee to examine the 2019 retirement of Ulrike Hiller, then the mayor’s wife, saying it sees a broader pattern in personnel decisions across Bovenschulte’s senates.
- SPD and others criticize the move as politically driven and expensive, citing estimated costs above one million euros, while the committee still requires formal parliamentary approval and the CDU challenges Vogt’s prior account to the budget and finance panel.