Ronald Schill
| Ronald Schill | |
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| Second Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg | |
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In office 2001–2004 |
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| Preceded by | Krista Sager |
| Succeeded by | Mario Mettbach |
| Hamburg State Minister of the Interior | |
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In office 2001–2004 |
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| Preceded by | Olaf Scholz |
| Succeeded by | Dirk Nockemann |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
23 November 1958 Hamburg, West Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | Party for a Rule of Law Offensive (then "Schill party") |
Ronald Barnabas Schill (born 23 November 1958) is a former judge, the founder of the German political parties Party for a Rule of Law Offensive (Partei Rechtsstaatlicher Offensive; also called PRO or "Schill party") and Pro DM/Schill. He served as the Senator of the Interior and Second Mayor (deputy chief of government) in the government of Hamburg from 2001 to 2003.
Schill started his career as a judge at an Amtsgericht in Hamburg from 1993 to 2001. Due to his controversial rulings as a judge, which frequently involved the maximum penalty, he was given the nickname "Richter Gnadenlos" ("Judge Merciless"); most of these rulings were overruled by higher courts later on.
His new-found right-conservative party managed to gain 19.4% of all votes in the elections for Hamburg's parliament, the Bürgerschaft, on 23 September 2001. Following the elections, his party entered into a coalition government with the CDU led by Ole von Beust. Schill became second mayor of Hamburg and senator (equivalent of minister) of the interior; among other things, he announced that he would lower crime rates by 50% within 100 days, an undertaking which remained unsuccessful.
As a politician, Schill managed to get considerable media attention with his radical positions; among other things, he spoke out for the legalization of cannabis, demanded that sex offenders who did not respond to therapy be castrated, and stated that parents who failed to bring up their children "the right way" should be jailed. Furthermore, following the Moscow theater hostage crisis in October 2002, where 129 of 800 hostages were killed by an unknown chemical agent employed by the authorities to incapacitate the hostage-takers, he proposed that similar gas should also be used by German police to fight terrorism.
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