Claus Henning Schapper

Claus Henning Schapper (born November 15, 1937 in Königsberg ) is an administrative lawyer and was a ministerial official . From 1990 to 1998 he was State Secretary in the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and from 1998 to 2002 State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior .

Life

At the end of the war, his family fled East Prussia via Prenzlau to Hanover . From 1947 on, Schapper attended the Tellkampf School there . After graduating from high school in 1956, he studied law at the universities of Munich , Hamburg and Göttingen ; In 1961 he passed the first state examination in law. After passing the second state examination in law, he joined the Lower Saxony tax administration as a government assessor in 1966 . From 1968 Schapper was head of department at the Lower Saxony Municipal Council . In 1970 he moved to the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior, where he initially participated in administrative and regional reform in Lower Saxony and later was a consultant for cabinet and electoral law as well as state election officer .

1974 Schapper became deputy head of department in the Lower Saxony State Chancellery ; In 1977 he returned to the country's interior ministry, where he a. a. was concerned with data protection . From May 10, 1982 to June 20, 1990, he acted as the state data protection officer of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg .

From June 21, 1990 to October 28, 1998, Schapper was State Secretary in the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior. As such, he was also chairman of the supervisory board of Spielbanken Niedersachsen GmbH, which emerged from the Lower Saxony casino affair.

From 1998 until his retirement in 2002 he was State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior. In this function, he was the central coordinator for security issues for the introduction of the euro in cash from 2000 .

Schapper is a member of the SPD .

literature

• Claus Henning Schapper , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 38/2010 from September 21, 2010, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Jochen Kummer: The chancellor's silent informant . In: The world . January 27, 2002.
• Unjustifiable under the rule of law - Claus Henning Schapper on the planned security laws, in: Der Spiegel 52/1988

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Secretary Claus Henning Schapper is charged in the million dollar fraud scandal surrounding a casino . In: Stern from March 28, 2001. Online at presseportal.de.