Axel Priebs

Axel Priebs (* 1956 in Hamburg ) is a German administrative expert and scientist. From 2001 to March 2018 he was responsible Councilor for the Environment, Planning and Construction of the Hanover region and also from 2002, the first Regional Council of the Hanover region. Axel Priebs is honorary professor at the Universities of Kiel and Hanover and has been a university professor at the University of Vienna since 2018.

Life

Axel Priebs studied geography , sociology and administrative and spatial planning law at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel from 1977 to 1983 . In 1983 he completed his studies with a diploma, after which he worked as a research assistant at the Geographical Institute of the University of Kiel. In 1984 he became a regional planner for the district of Verden . In 1986 he became a research associate at the Flensburg University of Education . In 1989 he did his doctorate at the University of Kiel with the thesis on village-related politics and planning in Denmark under changing social framework conditions , until 1990 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Kiel. From 1990 to 1991 he was a DFG fellow at the University of Copenhagen . In 1991 he became head of the regional planning and regional planning department at the Senator for Environmental Protection and Urban Development of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and was a member of the main committee of the Ministerial Conference for Regional Planning . In 1994 Priebs moved to Berlin, where he was the Berlin head of the joint office of the joint regional planning Berlin / Brandenburg until 1995. From 1996 to 2001 he was head of the planning and recreation department at the municipal association for the greater Hanover area . From 2001 to March 2018 he was the department head for environment, planning and construction of the Hanover region and from 2002 1st regional council of the Hanover region and general representative of the regional president.

Axel Priebs has been an honorary professor at the University of Kiel since 1998.

After completing his tenure as head of the Hanover region, Priebs moved to the University of Vienna as a full-time professor on April 1, 2018 .

He is a member of the Advisory Council for Spatial Development at the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Academy for Spatial Research and Regional Planning and was its vice-president from 2001 to 2002. He is also a member of the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning .

In the state elections in Lower Saxony in 2013 he was election officer for the Hanover region without the state capital Hanover. He had the same task in the 2013 federal election .

Fonts (selection)

• Axel Priebs (Red.): Greater Hanover. A region with a past and a future (= contributions to regional development , issue No. 96), Hanover: Municipal Association Greater Hanover, 2001
• Axel Priebs (ed.): Young cities in their region (= series of publications on city history , published by the Culture and Sports Office, City Archives, Garbsen , vol. 10), ed. on behalf of the city of Garbsen and the municipal association of Greater Hanover, Garbsen: City of Garbsen, 2001, ISBN 978-3-9802985-7-5
• Axel Priebs (eds.), Christiane Schröder, Sid Auffarth, Manfred Kohler: Kali, Kohlen und Kanal. Industrial culture in the Hanover region , ed. on behalf of the Hanover region, 1st edition, Rostock: Hinstorff Media, 2010, ISBN 978-3-356-01378-8 ; contents
• Reaching for the stars: the past and present of the Garbsen district of Auf der Horst , on behalf of the Hanover region and the city of Garbsen, published by Axel Priebs and Rose Scholl, Münster: LIT Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-643-13515-5 ; contents
• Axel Priebs: The urban region. Planning - Politics - Management, UTB Uni-Taschenbücher 4952, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-8252-4952-6
• Priebs, A. (1999): Central locations, retail locations and new center concepts in densely populated areas. Kiel working papers on regional studies and regional planning 39: 1–10.
• Priebs, A. (2013): Spatial Planning in Germany, Braunschweig.

Web links

• http://www.hannover.de/Leben-in-der-Region-Hannover/Verwaltungen-Kommunen/Die-Verwaltung-der-Region-Hannover/Dezernate-und-Fachbereich/Dezernat-Umwelt,-Planung-und-Bauen / Department-Environment, -Planning-and-Building
• https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=moveDown¤tResultId=Axel+Priebs%26any&categoryId=persons
• http://www.moderne-regional.de/interview-spacedesign/ [Interview with A. Priebs]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.stadtgeo.uni-kiel.de/de/team/priebs
2. ↑ http://www.haz.de/Hannover/Aus-der-Stadt/Uebersicht/Regionsdezernent-Axel-Priebs-2018-von-Hannover- geht-nach- Wien
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ http://www.hannover.de/Leben-in-der-Region-Hannover/Verwaltungen-Kommunen/Die-Verwaltung-der-Region-Hannover/Dezernate-und-Fachbereich/Dezernat-Umwelt,-Planung-und- Building / Department-Environment, -Planning-and-Building
5. ↑ http://www.lifepr.de/pressemitteilung/region-hannover-0/Landtagswahl-2013-Zahlen-Daten-Analysen/boxid/380152