Wolfgang Assmann

Wolfgang Reimer Assmann (born March 23, 1944 in Nordhausen) is a German politician ( CDU ) and former Lord Mayor of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe as well as a former government director. D.

Life

Wolfgang Assmann, son of Helga Assmann, née Reimer, and the public prosecutor and bank lawyer Wolfgang Assmann (son of the medical doctor Herbert Assmann , a pioneer of X-ray diagnostics) studied law in Göttingen , Berlin and Bonn after graduating from high school in 1963 and graduated with two state exams from. (He passed the 2nd state law examination in 1971). Assmann was a Protestant and married Angelika Fuchs in 1970, with whom he had two children, Claus Reimer and Sophie Ulrike. From 1972 to 1980 he worked as a civil servant in the Federal Ministry of Finance in Bonn, most recently as a policy advisor for banking issues.

After resigning as Lord Mayor, he was Managing Director of the Herbert Quandt Foundation of Altana AG from 1998 to 2004 . In addition to organizing the “Sinclair House Talks” (symposia with leading personalities to discuss future issues), he performed intercultural work on a regional and international level in the “Trialogue of Cultures” (investigation of mosque construction conflicts and recommendations on how to avoid them, language acquisition and intercultural learning in kindergartens, Europe-wide studies and handouts to impart basic knowledge about Judaism, Christianity and Islam in schools).

In 2005 Assmann was appointed to the board of directors of the Werner Reimers Foundation ; Since January 2007 he has been the sole director of the foundation and deputy chairman of the Human Sciences Research College, Bad Homburg, which was set up as a joint initiative of the Frankfurt Goethe University and the Werner Reimers Foundation.

In 2010 Assmann received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class .

politics

At the end of the 1970s there were differences of opinion between Mayor Armin Klein and the CDU. While the CDU advocated a new building for the Kurhaus , Klein spoke out decisively against the project. The CDU therefore decided not in favor of Klein in the 1980 mayoral election, but in favor of Wolfgang Assmann's nomination. Klein then ran as a candidate for the SPD , but did not receive a majority (he received 24 votes, Wolfgang Assmann 34).

In 1986 and 1992 the city council confirmed him in office. In the 18 years, the focus was on strengthening the city's financial strength through the settlement of profitable companies, the cultural profiling of the city ( Hölderlin Prize , Fugato Organ Festival, sculpture biennale " Blickachsen "), stimulating civic engagement and promoting international understanding. In addition, Assmann worked on a voluntary basis in management positions in the municipal umbrella associations and self-help organizations at state and federal level.

Important projects such as the new building of the adult education center in 1988, the expansion of the English Church into a cultural center in 1990, the renovation of the Seedammbad in 1992 and the relocation of the town hall in 1996 were part of his term of office. The town partnerships with Marienbad in 1991 and Peterhof (1994) were also launched under Wolfgang Assmann .

In 1998 he stopped taking part and instead supported his successor Reinhard Wolters .

In 2014 he was made an honorary citizen of Bad Homburg.

Fonts

• With Albrecht Graf von Kalnein (Ed.): Memory and Society. Forms of coming to terms with dictatorships in Europe. Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86331-037-0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Assmann, Wolfgang Reimer. In: Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. XXIV edition of Degener's “Who is it”? Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1985, p. 30.
2. ↑ Assmann, Wolfgang Reimer. In: Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. XXIV edition of Degener's “Who is it”? Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1985, p. 30.
3. ↑ Bad Homburg: Assmann wants to settle dispute in the future , FAZ , March 18, 2004
4. ↑ press release. State portal Hessen, May 31, 2010