Georg Poetzsch-Heffter

Christian Georg Poetzsch-Heffter (* June 6, 1926 - June 22, 2013 ) was State Secretary in Schleswig-Holstein from 1971 to 1988 .

Poetzsch-Heffter was born as the fifth of six children to Professor of State and Public Law Woldemar Friedrich Poetzsch-Heffter (1881–1935) and his wife Eva Heffter. After studying law, he received one from the 1953/54 Fulbright Commission , allocated scholarship and spent a formative year of study in the United States. From 1956 he worked as a senior government councilor in the state service of Schleswig-Holstein. After many years of membership, Poetzsch-Heffter left the FDP at the beginning of 1971 , like many other rather conservative party members who consistently refused to join the social-liberal coalition in 1969.

On June 14, 1971, he was appointed head of the State Chancellery . A few months later he joined the CDU. When the Prime Minister changed from Gerhard Stoltenberg to Uwe Barschel , he was transferred to the Ministry of Justice as State Secretary on April 13, 1983 after a transition period. After the death of Prime Minister Uwe Barschel, he was appointed State Secretary of the Interior Ministry on December 1, 1987. With the election of Björn Engholm (SPD) as Prime Minister, Poetzsch-Heffter was put into temporary retirement on June 1, 1988 .

He died on June 22, 2013 at the age of 87 and was buried in Altenholz . He was widowed and had five children.

Web links

Schleswig-Holsteinischer Landtag, printed matter 15/2502 (February 24, 2003; PDF; 97 kB), in: landtag.ltsh.de , accessed on July 4, 2013.
Obituary Christian Georg Poetzsch-Heffter (June 29, 2013), in: kn-trauer.de , accessed on July 4, 2013.

Individual evidence

↑ Obituary notice Christian Georg Poetzsch-Heffter (June 28, 2013), in: kn-trauer.de , accessed on July 4, 2013.
↑ The First Class of Fulbrighters (PDF; 1.2 MB), in: fulbright.de , accessed on July 4, 2013.
↑ In the deep. In: Der Spiegel . Issue 28/1971, ISSN 0038-7452 . Hamburg 1971, p. 29 ( online ).
↑ CDU honors long-term members (December 3, 2011), in: shz.de , accessed on July 4, 2013.
↑ Small question on the subject of "State Secretaries".

personal data
SURNAME	Poetzsch-Heffter, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (FDP, CDU), State Secretary in Schleswig-Holstein
DATE OF BIRTH	June 6, 1926
DATE OF DEATH	June 22, 2013

[1] Obituary notice Christian Georg Poetzsch-Heffter (June 28, 2013), in: kn-trauer.de , accessed on July 4, 2013.

[2] The First Class of Fulbrighters (PDF; 1.2 MB), in: fulbright.de , accessed on July 4, 2013.

[3] In the deep. In: Der Spiegel . Issue 28/1971, ISSN 0038-7452 . Hamburg 1971, p. 29 ( online ).

[4] CDU honors long-term members (December 3, 2011), in: shz.de , accessed on July 4, 2013.

[5] Small question on the subject of "State Secretaries".