Adalbert Leidinger
Adalbert Leidinger (born January 20, 1926 in Werl ; † August 29, 2019 in Düsseldorf ) was a German administrative lawyer .
Life
education and profession
After work and military service (1944), imprisonment in France (1945–1948) and studying law and political science at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster (1948–1954), Adalbert Leidinger began his professional career in 1955 with the district government in Düsseldorf.
There he worked, among other things, in the municipal and savings bank supervision, school supervision and as the main department of the "police". From 1964 he was second city director and city treasurer in Paderborn and has a. a. played a key role in establishing a town twinning with Le Mans (France). From 1969 until his retirement in 1992 he was a managing board member of the district council NW. In 1973 he also took over the office of executive member of the presidency of the German Association of German Districts , which at the time was based in Bonn. Leidinger held this function in personal union with the NRW management until mid-1977. He represented the (West) German districts in the advisory committee of local and regional authorities at the Commission of the European Community (1973–1988) and in the permanent conference of regional and local authorities at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg (1985–1991).
Adalbert Leidinger was committed to a scientific justification of the administrative practice: He played a significant role in the creation of the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Institut at the Westphalian Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU), which scientifically works on problems of German and European local law as well as savings bank law . In this context, in the course of the democratic turnaround on the Iberian Peninsula as well as in Eastern Europe, he accompanied the establishment of functional local authorities, but also established relationships with local umbrella organizations in Finland. He remained connected to the Freiherr vom Stein Institute until the end of his life.
Memberships (in part)
- Board of Trustees of the Freiherr vom Stein Institute at the University of Münster
- WDR broadcasting council as chairman of the finance committee
- Advisory board of the Institute for Broadcasting Economics at the University of Cologne
- Member of the Board of Directors of the Düsseldorf Law and Political Science Association
- Member of the Lions Club Düsseldorf-Hösel
Honors
In 1991, Adalbert Leidinger was awarded the Great Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his services in the development of local self-government and the local reorganization and - after reunification - in the revival of local self-government in the new federal states . In 1983 he was honored with the 1st Class Cross of Merit. He is also a holder of the North Rhine-Westphalian Order of Merit .
In recognition of his scientific merits and achievements, the law faculty of the WWU awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1988. He was one of the founding fathers of the Freiherr vom Stein Institute at the University of Münster.
family
Adalbert Leidinger was married to Anna Maria Leidinger, born in 1953. Mattis (✝ 2013), with whom he had four children (Friedrich, Bernhard, Ludwig and Elisabeth).
2019 wedding with Ursula Linnenweber.
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutscher Landkreistag: History of the German Landkreistag
- ^ IOER: Adalbert Leidinger
- ↑ Law Faculty of the University of Münster: Mourning for Dr. hc Adalbert Leidinger
- ↑ Law Faculty of the University of Münster: Freiherr-vom-Stein-Institut
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leidinger, Adalbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Werl |
| DATE OF DEATH | 29th August 2019 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |