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Arnold Knigge (born April 23, 1948 in Braunschweig ) is a German lawyer and former Bremen State Councilor ( SPD ).

biography

education and profession

Knigge is the third child of the farmer Arnold Knigge and his wife. From 1954 to 1958 he attended primary school in Groß Brunsrode , a small apprenticeship village between Braunschweig and Wolfsburg . From 1958 to 1967 he attended the grammar school of the New High School in Braunschweig. From 1965 to 1966, he participated in the American Field Service's student exchange program with family accommodation and high school graduation in Southern California .

After graduating from high school, he studied law at the University of Hamburg and at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau from 1967 to 1972 . He completed his legal clerkship from 1972 to 1974 . In 1975/76 he received his doctorate as Dr. jur. on the labor law topic The assignment of employees to a construction work group . In 1975 he passed the second state examination in law in Baden-Württemberg.

From 1976 to 1992 he worked as a consultant and then head of division in the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMA) in the areas of labor market , labor law , pension insurance and international social policy.

From 1983 to 1990 the social democrat , on leave of absence from the BMA, took up a position as a social policy officer for the SPD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag .

State Council

In 1992 Knigge was appointed to the State Council by the Senator for Labor and, since 1999, by the Senator for Labor, Women, Health, Youth and Social Affairs. Until 1999 he was the representative of Labor Senator Sabine Uhl (SPD) and Labor Senator Uwe Beckmeyer (SPD) and from 1999 to mid-2006 of Senators Hilde Adolf (SPD), Christine Wischer (SPD) and Karin Röpke (SPD). His successor in this office was Joachim Schuster (SPD). During this time he held various supervisory board mandates , including as chairman of the supervisory boards of the four municipal clinics, as a member of the administrative board and the board of directors of the Federal Agency and Federal Employment Agency .

Further offices and memberships

From 2007 to 2010 Knigge was the head of an employment policy EU twinning project in Belgrade and since 2007 he has been a lecturer for local social policy at the University of Bremen . Since 2009 he has been deputy chairman of the German Red Cross (DRK) district association in Bremen and deputy chairman of Wilhelm-Kaisen-Bürgerhilfe and since 2010 partner of the consulting company HWB . He is also a member of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) and the DRK . Since 2011 he has been the honorary spokesman for the State Working Group of the Free Welfare Associations Bremen (LAGFW).

Knigge is married and has two children.

Works (selection)

• The transfer of workers to a construction work group . Dissertation 1976.
• Commentary on the Employment Promotion Act . Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden.

See also

• List of Bremen State Councilors and Deputies of Senators