BERI - Brownfield European Regeneration Initiative

The Hanseatic City of Rostock is the largest city in the autonomous region of Mecklenburg/Western Pommerania. It is a principal centre of business, research and education and the harbour which it contains provides a primary gate to the world.

The City Parliament holds 53 elected parliamentarians and the city administration is divided into 4 departments and is led by a mayor.

The city administration governs the city and determines strategic development initiatives. One of the most important includes "Guidelines for the City Development", and its components "Equal opportunities in the community", "Economic centre for the development of the region", "The green city on the coast" and "High quality city planning".

The offices of Economic and structural issues, City planning and Environmental protection support the BERI project. They are responsible for implementing particular tasks, various projects and strategic works both across the city and in specific areas.

During the last number of years the city administration has planned and guided the redevelopment of various Brownfields.

Andreas Neupert

Member of Component 5 and of Component 3 working groups. Office of Environmental Issues in the Hanseatic City of Rostock. Responsible for: Soil protection and environmental planning, investigation and remediation of contaminated sites, environmental management (system EMAS). Studied at the Mining College of Freiberg, geophysicist. Andreas worked until 1980 at the permanent disposal site for nuclear waste in Morsleben and then until 1991 at the University of Rostock, graduated soil scientist. Participation in the EU-project EMAS Peer Review for Cities and in the European Soil Network of ICLEI

Hartmut Becherer

Office of Economic and Structural Issues in the City of Rostock. Study at University of Rostock, graduated physicist.
Hartmut worked until 1990 at the Mining College in Freiberg and the College of Seafaring in Warnemuende.
Responsible for:
Economic planning, development of business and technology centres, first private financed tunnel project "Warnowquerung"
Participation in several EU projects.
Member of the Network Management Team and Component 2 and 4 working groups

Hartmut Wiersch

Office of Environmental Issues in the Hanseatic City of Rostock. Study of agriculture at the University of Rostock. Specialised in soil science.
Hartmut is responsible for precautionary soil protection and polluted areas since 1993
Participation in the European Soil Network of ICLEI 

 

Ralph Maronde

Urban Planner; study at Bauhaus-University of Weimar (Germany) and University of Architecture in Venice (Italy)
Ralph was working on different urban projects (for example: deposition of a village in a mining region; master plan for Guben/Gubin a German-Polish border-town).
Since 1997 he is employed in the City Council of Rostock (Office for City Development) and is responsible for planning briefs and master plans for commercial and industrial areas.
Member of Component 2 and 5 working groups