Bernd Becker (lawyer)

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Bernd Becker (born May 20, 1941 in Königsberg ; † April 30, 2012 ) was a German lawyer and administrative scientist .

Life

Bernd Becker studied law and economics at the Universities of Heidelberg , Paris and Hamburg from 1961 to 1965 . He received his doctorate as Dr. jur. at the University of Hamburg with a thesis on “The relocation of municipal self-government tasks to the Schleswig-Holstein Office. An administrative study of causes, factors and consequences ”. The work was supervised by Werner Thieme .

After his legal traineeship from 1967 to 1970, which he spent at the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and Devon County Council (England), among others , he was a project manager and organizer in the field of network technology , survey technology and sociometry at Unilever AG in Hamburg . Afterwards he was project and organization manager as well as head of the general administrative structure department at Wibera AG in Düsseldorf.

From 1973 to 1974 he had a teaching position at the University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer , in particular for organization and organizational technology with special attention to the management and planning process. From 1974 to 1976 he held the chair for administrative studies at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg , department of economics and organizational sciences. In 1976 he moved to the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich , Faculty of Economics and Organizational Sciences; there he held the chair for administrative science and administrative law until his retirement in 2006.

In addition to his teaching and research activities, Becker was a member of the commission of the Federal Ministry of Defense from 1978 to 1979 to strengthen leadership and decision-making responsibilities in the Bundeswehr . He was an expert of the Federal Ministry of the Interior for the hearing on causes of the bureaucratization of the administration in 1980 and for the hearing "Report of the Federal Government on questions of the consequences of population development in the FRG" in 1982. In 1982 he turned down a professorship for European and Comparitive Public Administration - Head of Department at Maastricht University . In 1988 he turned down an appointment as professor for administrative sciences at the University of Konstanz .

Bernd Becker had been married since 1968 and had two children.

Bernd Becker became known in particular for his work “Public Administration. Textbook for Science and Practice ”, published in 1989. In addition, he has written numerous articles and books in the fields of public administration and environmental law.

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