Dieter Schröder (politician)

Dieter Schröder (born November 21, 1935 in Lübeck ) is a German lawyer, political scientist and politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1956, Schröder began studying law and political science in Hamburg and Marburg , which he completed in 1960 with the first state examination in law. He then worked as a freelancer at the Association for the Promotion of the Reunification of Germany and trainee lawyer at the District Administrator of Stormarn and at the Lüneburg Higher Administrative Court . It was founded in 1964 with the work of the thesis of the withering away of the state in Marxism-Leninism and the constitutional and administrative order in Central Germany for doctor doctorate of rights, from 1965 to 1969 at the University of Hamburg and then to 1977 in Berlin worked Senatskanzlei.

Schröder had been a lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the Free University of Berlin since 1972 , where he completed his habilitation there in 1973 with the thesis Planning and Bureaucracy - A Comparison of the Conditions in the Federal Republic of Germany and the USA and then became a private lecturer. From 1981 to 1985 he was the syndic of the SPD parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives . He became an adjunct professor in 1984 and was full professor for political science at the Free University of Berlin from 1985 to 1989.

Public offices

Schröder was State Secretary and Head of the Berlin Senate Chancellery from 1989 to 1991. From 1993 to 1995 he was Lord Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Rostock .

Honors

• Honorary doctorate from the University of Rostock , 2002
• Honorary member of the Rostock Political Science Alumni Association, 2007