Dieter Engels (lawyer)

Dieter Engels (2018)

Dieter Engels (born February 7, 1950 in Mechernich ) is a German lawyer and was President of the Federal Audit Office from 2002 to 2014 .

Life

Dieter Engels is the son of an official. After attending the Beethoven Gymnasium in Bonn , he studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität from 1968 to 1973 , where he received his doctorate in 1979 after his legal clerkship.

In 1983 he joined the Scientific Services of the German Bundestag and, as managing director of the secretariat of the committee of inquiry into the Neue Heimat affair, was able to gain experience in clearing up misappropriated and wasted funds. In 1989 he was appointed secretary of the Bundestag's budget committee . Between 1992 and 1996 he was the administrative head of the SPD parliamentary group.

At the end of 1996, Engels moved to the Federal Audit Office and initially worked as its vice-president before being elected president in May 2002 to succeed Hedda von Wedel . In this office he earned the reputation of being "an incorruptible administrative lawyer and an independent spirit who also clears up and criticizes the wasted taxes of members of the government of his own party". In his first year in office he denounced the embellished job placement statistics of the Nuremberg Federal Employment Agency.

He is an honorary professor at the University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer. Dieter Engels is divorced and has two children.

Since the beginning of 2010 he has been a member of the University Council of Bayreuth . In 2013 he was elected Chairman of the University Council of the University of Bonn . His successor at the Federal Audit Office since July 2014 is Kay Scheller .