Christian Rosskopf

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Christian Roßkopf (born January 13, 1930 - February 2, 2020 ) was a German politician ( SPD ) who served as Lord Mayor of the city of Speyer for 25 years from 1969 to 1995 . He had been married since 1956 and had two sons. After his political career, he worked for the savings banks, the cooperative system and in development aid for many years.

Life

Studies and offices in the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate

Christian Roßkopf studied law and political science in Mainz and Freiburg and received his doctorate in 1956 in Freiburg with a subject in French law. He completed his legal training in 1957 with the qualification for judge's office . For the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate (Protestant regional church) , he initially worked as a church lawyer and finally as a legal senior church councilor in the Protestant regional church council for the Palatinate .

Political career

Christian Roßkopf had been a member of the SPD since 1962 . Elected Mayor of Speyer in 1968, he held this post after being re-elected in 1979 and 1989 to 1995. He was also active in the chairmanship of the Rhineland-Palatinate City Council for just as long . In addition to his main office as Lord Mayor, he was a member of the Presidium of the German Association of Cities and was involved in administrative modernization bodies, media supervision and the Sparkassenverband Rheinland-Pfalz.

City partnerships and municipal projects at European level have brought him into contact with many countries on the continent - from Norway to Portugal and from France to Russia. His official work (for the OECD ) has taken him to the USA several times.

Activities in retirement

After retiring from active service, he worked as the arbitration board of the savings bank organization in Rhineland-Palatinate for 15 years.

He worked in Poland , Mauritania and Ethiopia for the “ Senior Expert Service ” and as an appraiser for the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and on behalf of the German Society for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) .

His interest was in the cooperative system (including on the supervisory board of the non-profit building cooperative Speyer until 2011) and the exchange between science and politics, business and administration in the Johann Joachim Becher Society, which he chaired for six years as well as the chair of the resulting foundation .

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • Guilt and Punishment - Thoughts on Criminal Law Reform. In: Monthly journal for criminology and criminal law reform 43rd year book, issue 3/4, October 1960.
  • Legal issues in architectural photography. In: Architekturfotografie , Verlag Großbildtechnik, Munich 1964, pp. 201–224.
  • State and Church of the 19th and 20th Centuries as Reflected in Constitutional Evidence . In: Church and State in the 19th and 20th Centuries . Publications of the working group for archives and libraries in the evangelical church, volume 7, 1968 and published in: Blätter für Kirchengeschichte und religious folklore , annual volume 1968, 35th year pp. 46–91.
  • Speyer, you home of law. Address on the 450th anniversary of the Reich Chamber of Commerce in the Administrative College of Speyer. In: Quarterly issues of the Speyer Tourist Association , autumn 1977.
  • Dear citizen as customer - the privatization of public services is not a panacea for inefficiency. In: Die Zeit , No. 38/1992, p. 30.
  • Germany needs strong communities as a stable foundation for Europe. In: Handelsblatt of July 28, 1992, p. 6.
  • We don't have a permanent city here, but we're looking for the future one. In: Farewell speech from the office of the Lord Mayor. Published by the Speyer city administration, 1995.
  • Johann Joachim Becher's mercantilism and the current privatization debate. Public lecture for the JJ Becher Society on the occasion of JJ Becher's 360th birthday at the University of Administrative Sciences Speyer , printed in issue no. 7 of the JJ Becher Society series of publications, 1995.
  • The development of the municipal constitution in Rhineland-Palatinate since the resumption of municipal self-government. In: 50 Years of the Rhineland-Palatinate City Council. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Rhineland-Palatinate City Council, edited by Christof Wolff and Gunnar Schwarting . 1997, pp. 25-48.
  • Johann Joachim Becher as political advisor. In: Politics and administration on the way to the transindustrial society. Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Carl Böhret . Baden-Baden 1998, p. 339 ff.
  • The cooperative concept in the “functional state”. In: Journal for the entire cooperative system , Volume 50 (2000) Issue 2, pp. 102-113.
  • Eugen Jäger - a pioneer of the German cooperative movement. In: Gemeinnützige Baugenossenschaft Speyer (GBS) (Ed.): Eugen Jäger and the German cooperative movement (= series of publications, Volume 1). 2004, pp. 63-95.
  • The Haingeraiden in the Palatinate - an archetype of the cooperative system. In: Series of publications by the Gemeinnützige Baugenossenschaft Speyer eG Volume 3. 2009, pp. 48–66.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gunnar Schwarting: Local politics under the sign of globalization. Christian Roßkopf on his 75th birthday ( Memento from January 19, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from November 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Speyer: Former Lord Mayor Christian Roßkopf is 90 years old. Retrieved January 24, 2020 .
  4. ↑ DNB 480111596
  5. ↑ Honorary senators, honorary doctors and holders of the university medal ( Memento from February 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Rosskopf, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Lord Mayor of Speyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1930
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 2020