Bernhard Sterz

Bernhard Sterz (born September 26, 1962 in Münster ) is a German administrative lawyer . He has been with the Sachsen-Anhalt Public Insurance Company (ÖSA) since 2012 . Previously, Sterz was Lord Mayor of the city of Burg (near Magdeburg) from 1998 to 2009 and State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice of the State of Saxony-Anhalt from 2009 to 2011 .

Life and work

Sterz studied law at the universities of Saarbrücken and Cologne from 1983 to 1988 . After the first state examination in law in 1988, he worked as a research assistant at the chair for public law and constitutional history (Prof. Jörg-Detlef Kühne ) at the University of Hanover until the end of 1990 . From 1991 Sterz was a trainee lawyer in the legal preparatory service in North Rhine-Westphalia, where he passed his second state examination in law at the end of 1993 .

He initially worked from 1994 to 1996 as a civil servant in the state administration of North Rhine-Westphalia. He worked there in the Ministry of the Interior , in the Düsseldorf district government and for the state commissioner for data protection . From 1996 to 1998 he worked in Saxony-Anhalt as a consultant in the Ministry of the Interior .

He took office as Lord Mayor of Burg on October 22, 1998. Sterz was directly elected on September 27, 1998 in the first ballot with 61.34% of the vote. He was re-elected on September 18, 2005 with 60.35% of the votes in the first ballot. Sterz was a member of the district council of the Jerichower Land district from 2004 to 2009. When he was appointed State Secretary, Sterz automatically resigned from the office of mayor at the end of October 20, 2009.

On October 21, 2009 Sterz was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice of the State of Saxony-Anhalt. He succeeded Burkhard Lischka , who moved as a member of the 17th German Bundestag . As part of the formation of a government after the state elections , Sterz was put into temporary retirement on April 20, 2011 . His successor was Eberhard Schmidt-Elsaeßer .

Sterz has been employed by the Sachsen-Anhalt Public Insurance Company (ÖSA) since January 15, 2012. There in the management he is the department head for the business area “Municipalities / Housing Sector ”.

Sterz was awarded the Gold Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr in 2010 . Sterz has been married since 1991.

Volunteering

Mush is a founding member of the development association Landesgartenschau Castle for alignment in 2018. In addition, mush is a member of the development association Engineering monuments in Saxony-Anhalt to the rescue of the ship lift Magdeburg-Rothensee and club Monument Magdeburg Law eV

Political party

Sterz has been a member of the SPD since 1994 and was a member of the state executive committee of the SPD Saxony-Anhalt from 2002 to 2009 . He is also a member of the Working Group of Social Democratic Lawyers (ASJ) and the Social Democratic Community for Local Politics (SGK) .

See also

• Cabinet Böhmer II

Own publications

• Justice and commune - points of contact between local judicial authorities and communal bodies using the example of the city of Burg. In: Dieter Remus u. a. (Ed.): Stendal District Court. "... only subject to the law". A look back at the years of construction in the Stendal district court on the 10th anniversary of the rebuilding on September 1, 2002. Norderstedt 2002, ISBN 3-8311-4010-3 , pp. 311-315. (PDF; 70.5 kB <with different page numbering>)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Axel Thiem: Chronicle of the city of Burg. Facts, figures, stories. Pätzold & Völker, Leipzig 2000, ( Publications on Burger History. Volume 38), ISBN 3-934968-01-5 , p. 104.
2. ^ Axel Thiem: Chronicle of the city of Burg. Facts, figures, stories. Pätzold & Völker, Leipzig 2000, ( Publications on Burger History. Volume 38), ISBN 3-934968-01-5 , p. 102.
3. ↑ Election to the mayor - announcement of the election results. In: Official Journal of the City of Burg No. 37 of September 21, 2005 , p. 1. (PDF; 58 kB).
4. ^ Election announcement - results of the elections on June 13, 2004 for the district council of the district of Jerichower Land. In: Official Journal for the District of Jerichower Land No. 15 of July 1, 2004 , p. 223. (PDF; 209 kB).
5. ^ Election announcement - district election [Landkreis Jerichower Land 2007]. In: Official Journal for the District of Jerichower Land No. 8 of April 26, 2007 , p. 180 (181). (PDF; 236 kB).
6. ↑ Official announcement by the district returning officer to change his mandate in the district council of Jerichower Land. In: Official Journal for the District of Jerichower Land No. 2 of January 29, 2010 , p. 37. (PDF; 200 kB).
7. ↑ State secretaries received certificates of appointment ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), State Chancellery press release No. 555/09 of October 21, 2009.
8. ↑ Prime Minister Haseloff appoints state secretaries ( Memento from December 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), State Chancellery press release No. 236/11 of April 20, 2011.
9. ↑ Newspaper article in the "Public Insurance". Former mayor on the job. In: Der Burgspiegel , November 4, 2012, No. 44/2012, p. 5. ZDB -ID 1215806-9 .
10. ↑ 20 years of military administration in Saxony-Anhalt - message from October 12, 2010 on www.bundeswehr.de (PDF - page 13 f. Paragraph "A golden surprise" <with picture of Sterz>).
11. ↑ Newspaper article Laga-Förderverein founded in Burg. In: Burger Volksstimme. , December 19, 2011, No. 294. P. 7 ZDB -ID 1491322-7 ( online version with picture); Homepage of the Friends of the Landesgartenschau Burg eV