Claus Harmsen

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Claus Harmsen

Claus Harmsen (* 31 October 1947 in Hamburg ) is a German lawyer , journalist , former president of the German hearing Federation, the World Federation of the Deaf People ( IFHOH ), and former CEO and Chairman of the Board of the international jurisprudential Wengler Foundation in Berlin. From November 16, 2011 on, Harmsen was mayor of the Erkerode community in the Wolfenbüttel district, a council member of the Sickte community and a member of the Wolfenbüttel district council. He resigned from his political offices in January 2013 for private reasons. He was also a co-owner of the Édition Harmsen publishing house.

Life

After graduating from high school, there was an apprenticeship in personnel administration at Karstadt AG and subsequent work in their head office in Essen and Hamburg . He studied law and psychology at the University of Hamburg . In 1978 he was visiting professor for one semester at Monash University in Clayton, Australia . From 1979 to the beginning of 1982 he completed his legal traineeship at the Hamburg Higher Regional Court . In 1981 he received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin on the subject of “Employer Obligations in the Severely Disabled Act”. In his doctorate, he demonstrated for the first time in the debate about the so-called equalization levy for the Severely Disabled Act that many employers prefer to pay the equalization levy instead of employing disabled people.

Claus Harmsen was admitted to the bar in February 1982 . After working as a lawyer for the Karstadt Group in Essen, he joined the Schroedel school book group in Hanover in 1984, where he worked as HR manager and legal advisor until the end of 1990 . He then moved to Heidelberg to the Hüthig publishing group, where he also worked as a legal advisor and was also in charge of the political editorial department. From 1993 to 1999 Claus Harmsen worked for the science publisher Springer , as legal advisor for the entire publishing group and as head of personnel for the Berlin companies. With a group-owned recruitment company he started in early 1999 independently and has since worked freelance .

From 2000 to 2002 he also headed the Berlin representative office of the Bundesanzeiger Verlag Cologne / Bonn. He was indirectly subordinate to the Ministry of Justice. In December 2002 he caused a nationwide sensation when he left the SPD after 25 years of membership and justified this in an open letter saying that the Federal Government (then led by the SPD) gave the Central Council of Jews three million euros for the promotion of Judaism Provided. He was released without notice after this process.

Claus Harmsen is accredited as a freelance journalist at the German Bundestag , a member of the German Association of Journalists and the Märkischer Press and Business Club. In addition, he worked for the public affairs department at the Berlin communications agency Zühlke, Scholz & Partner, which he also advised on healthcare.

Claus Harmsen was managing director and chairman of the board of trustees of the international legal Wengler Foundation in Berlin and member of the board of directors of the compensation association for publishers at the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels in Frankfurt. In the social field, Claus Harmsen, as a person affected himself, was committed to the concerns of hearing impaired people. From 1987 to 1995 he was President of the German Association of the Hard of Hearing and was on the board of the International Association of the Deaf for almost 16 years. Until 2006 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Margarethe von Witzleben Foundation in Berlin. During his presidency for the German Association of the Hard of Hearing, Harmsen became known nationwide through striking press campaigns. In 1988 he created the tin ear of the year , with which the former Federal Minister of Labor Norbert Blüm and the television presenter Thomas Gottschalk were "awarded". In the same year he initiated the “hearing-impaired shopping” campaign in Hanover in the Lister Meile , in which well over 80 companies took part.

In 1998 he founded the photo agency Stones & art in Paris , the brand name of which is registered with the German Patent and Trademark Office , as well as the founding president of the Stones & Art Association for Grave and Remembrance Culture eV based in Erkerode in spring 2007 . In October 2008, Claus Harmsen rejoined the SPD and after a short time became chairman of the SPD local association Erkerode / Lucklum and then the merged new local association Erkerode / Veltheim. In the local elections in Lower Saxony on September 11, 2011, the municipality of Erkerode / Lucklum recorded the highest voter turnout in all of Lower Saxony. The SPD achieved an absolute majority. Claus Harmsen was elected mayor of Erkerode / Lucklum, became a member of the Samtgemeinderat Samtgemeinde Sickte and a member of the SPD parliamentary group in Wolfenbüttel . In January 2013 he resigned from all offices, at his own request, for health and personal reasons.

Publications and media exposure

Harmsen published books and specialist articles mainly on issues relating to application issues. He appeared on television talk shows and radio broadcasts on various topics and was an irregular application and labor law expert on Sat.1 breakfast television for about three years (until 2000) . Claus Harmsen interviewed Rudi Carrell, who confessed to hearing impairment, as well as Federal Health Minister Ulla Schmidt , Udo Jürgens , Peter Maffay and others for the magazine Hörrakustik .

  • Employer obligations in the Severely Disabled Act . Athenaeum, Königstein 1982, ISBN 3-7610-6355-5 .
  • The severely disabled and his rights . Heidelberg signpost. Decker & Müller, Heidelberg 1988, ISBN 3-8226-2488-8 .
  • Applications . 5th edition. Heidelberg signpost. Hüthig, Heidelberg 1995, ISBN 3-7785-2349-X .
  • Me and my club . 3. Edition. Heidelberg signpost. Hüthig, Heidelberg 1995, ISBN 3-7785-2351-1 .
  • Course book application . Falken, Niedernhausen / Taunus 1995, ISBN 3-8068-4824-6 .
  • Peter Plath (ed.) With the collaboration of Herbert Bonsel, Claus Harmsen, Werner Salz: Lexikon der Hörschäden . 2nd Edition. G. Fischer, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-437-00812-9 .
  • The Swiss application book . Falken, Niedernhausen / Taunus 1996, ISBN 3-8068-4891-2 .
  • Small application guide . Falken, Niedernhausen / Taunus 1998, ISBN 3-635-60406-2 .
  • Application 2000. Strategies for the labor market of the future . New edition of the application course book . Falken, Niedernhausen / Taunus 1999, ISBN 3-635-60286-8 .
  • Application manual . Bassermann, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-8094-1525-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Bundesanzeiger” representative dismissed for criticizing the Central Council , Welt Online, December 16, 2002
  2. ↑ Stephan Querfurth: Aim of the association: Keep the culture of remembrance alive , Braunschweiger Zeitung, August 7, 2007

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personal data
SURNAME Harmsen, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg