Erich Pipa

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Erich Pipa (2010)

Erich Pipa (born June 18, 1948 in Fulda ) is a German local politician ( SPD ). Since June 18, 2005, the social democrat was district administrator of the Main-Kinzig district . In December 2009, Pipa was also elected Vice President of the Hessian District Council. From November 2013 to June 2017 he was President of the Hessian District Assembly.

Career

Pipa began his public service career in 1965 with an apprenticeship as an administrative clerk at the city of Hanau . In the same year he joined the SPD . From 1972 to 1975 he was personal advisor to the then Hanau District Administrator Martin Woythal , after which he was managing director of the SPD district parliamentary group.

In 1987 he became first district member under District Administrator Karl Eyerkaufer . In 1993 Pipa was elected full-time district councilor by the district council. On January 31, 2005 he was elected district administrator of the Main-Kinzig district. In the runoff election, Pipa prevailed with 51.7 percent of the votes against the CDU candidate Heiko Kasseckert . He took office on June 18, 2005. In addition, Erich Pipa was sub-district chairman of the SPD from 1994 to 2004.

Pipa became known nationwide in the course of the introduction of the Hartz laws . As the founder of the “New Paths”, Pipa set up so-called model teams in the Main-Kinzig district from 1996 onwards . In these model teams, the social welfare office, employment office , youth welfare office and housing allowance office worked hand in hand to reintegrate the long-term unemployed into working life. On October 8, 2003, Pipa was an expert at the hearing on the Hartz IV law before the Bundestag committee , also on April 26, 2004. Both times he strongly advocated municipal responsibility for the care and placement of long-term unemployed people and criticized them additional bureaucracy associated with the introduction of the Hartz laws .

The Main-Kinzig-Kreis was the first district in Germany to submit its application to become an optional municipality in 2004 under Erich Pipa, head of the social affairs department. The option model was initially a Germany-wide test model for the care of the long-term unemployed, limited until 2010, in which cities or districts were solely responsible for the care and placement of unemployment benefit II recipients. After the change of government in 2009, the federal and state governments agreed on how the organization in SGB II should be continued from 2011. The current options will have an indefinite term, a quarter of all providers of basic social security will perform the tasks according to SGB II in sole municipal responsibility. This leads to a total number of approved municipal bodies (zkT) of 110.

In the 2011 district elections in Hesse, Pipa prevailed in the runoff election on April 10, 2011 with 65 percent of the votes against the CDU candidate and first district member Günter Frenz.

In October 2015 he received the Federal Cross of Merit ("Merit Cross on Ribbon").

In the Main-Kinzig district he is considered the father of the broadband project. As one of the first districts in Germany, the Main-Kinzig district is building a comprehensive fiber optic network under municipal responsibility, which was completed in 2015.

In June 2016, District Administrator Erich Pipa declared that he would not run for the district election again. After 51 years of work, it is time to quit. In the main he gives family reasons for this. The decision was not easy for him, but it was favored by the threat situation that has existed since July 2015: Erich Pipa is repeatedly threatened in diatribes because of his commitment to refugees. On March 5, 2017, Thorsten Stolz (SPD) was elected Piper's successor in the office of District Administrator of the Main-Kinzig district with 57.9 percent of the vote. Erich Pipa's term of service ended on June 17, 2017, one day before his 69th birthday.

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  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon for District Administrator Erich PIPA (SPD) , osthessennews of October 19, 2015, accessed on the same day
  3. ^ Luise Glaser-Lotz: Victory and defeat in the Main-Kinzig district. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 7, 2017, accessed on March 15, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Public announcement of the election results for District Administrator 2017. Main-Kinzig-Kreis, March 13, 2017, archived from the original on March 16, 2017 ; accessed on March 15, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Pipa, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Fulda