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Berlin (dpa) – The former airport supervisory board chairman Matthias Platzeck has the controlling body defends against criticism because of problems at the new Berlin Capital Airport

“It was very clear and partly also demand very hard,” the former Prime Minister of Brandenburg said Friday the investigation committee of the Lower house. “In the meetings there was not any friendly feeling”, it is sometimes also been raised.

Platzeck should explain in Berlin investigative committee why the opening of the airport had to be 2012 called off and why it even after repeatedly were problems. In the recent report of the Brandenburg Court, listing large deficits in control, he did not mention. He did not read the study.

For the period until 2012 CEO Rainer Schwarz and Manfred Körtgen and Planungsgemeinschaft BBI to the office of the architect Meinhard von Gerkan the SPD politician made primarily responsible. “I can not remember a date setting that was implied by political directives.” The Supervisory Board was always followed Templates management.

Platzeck contradicted the suspicion that politicians had exerted pressure on the district and the planning department of the district Dahme-Spreewald, and reported unsuccessful attempts to bring experts in the panel . – the thus failed mostly to the compensation

the fact that the Supervisory Board withdrew a decision to leave control the management externally, as Hartmut Mehdorn airport boss was, Platzeck told so: “We did not want Mr Mehdorn with him confront as such felt no confidence “

the Green MEP Andreas Otto said:”. Someone who has ever fallen so with Black and Körtgen who throws himself to the next CEO Password again to the neck and any control? that’s funny to me. “

Platzeck reply to the questions of the deputies repeatedly that he could not remember in detail. He was recommended by his stroke in 2013, actively solving of “things that burden me”. “I have not pursued.”

After a slight stroke the SPD politician was then resigned as prime minister and had also returned from the Supervisory Board, whose chairman he was then. Today Platzeck leads among other things, the atom of the Federal Government and endeavors as an arbitrator in the Lufthansa labor dispute.