Gerd Harms

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Gerd Harms (born February 19, 1953 in Wilhelmshaven ) was an education and European politician in Berlin , Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt .

Life and work

After graduating from the Max-Planck-Gymnasium Wilhelmshaven in 1971, he studied at the Free University of Berlin until 1980. There he graduated as a political scientist (1977) and as a qualified pedagogue (1980). In 1985 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. at the Technical University of Berlin . From 1978 to 1980 and from 1983 to 1987 he was an educational advisor in adult education , from 1980 to 1982 research assistant at the Free University of Berlin , from 1987 to 1989 research assistant at the Technical University of Berlin.

Political career

From 1989 to 1990 Gerd Harms served as State Secretary in the Senate Department for Women, Youth and Family of the State of Berlin , headed by Senator Anne Klein ( Alternative List ) . After the break of the red-green Berlin government alliance, he moved in 1991, recruited by the then Prime Minister Manfred Stolpe ( SPD ), as State Secretary to the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the State of Brandenburg .

From December 10, 1998 to May 17, 2002, Gerd Harms served as Minister of Culture of the State of Saxony-Anhalt in the SPD minority government of Prime Minister Reinhard Höppner and thus succeeded Karl-Heinz Reck (SPD). During his ministerial work in an otherwise pure SPD cabinet, he suspended his membership in Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . After the defeat of the SPD in the election to the 4th state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt on April 21, 2002, the SPD minority government was replaced by a CDU / FDP cabinet under the leadership of Prime Minister Wolfgang Böhmer (CDU) and Harms resigned from the ministerial office out. Jan-Hendrik Olbertz (independent) became the new minister of education .

After leaving the ministerial office in Saxony-Anhalt, Gerd Harms asserted the right of return to the state service, which the former Brandenburg SPD state government had assured him. A possible use for Harms was only found at the beginning of 2003: He became the project commissioner of the new Prime Minister Matthias Platzeck (SPD) for the application for an East European center for economy and culture planned by the federal government . Ultimately, however, it was not Frankfurt (Oder) but the Saxon city of Leipzig that was awarded the contract for what would later become the Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy .

In September 2003 Harms was appointed representative of the Prime Minister of the State of Brandenburg for cooperation with Poland and special international tasks. From October 2004 to November 2009 he held office again with the rank of State Secretary as the representative of the State of Brandenburg at the federal level and for European affairs . After the new government was formed as a result of the election to the 5th state parliament of Brandenburg , he resigned from active state service. His successor as representative of the state of Brandenburg at the federal government was Tina Fischer (SPD).

Recently the community Gerd Harms was from 2012 to 2014 on nomination of the SPD as community representatives Borkwalde ( Office bridge , Potsdam-Mittelmark ) operates.

See also

Itemized list

  1. ^ Entry "Harms, Gerd" in Munzinger Online / Personen. In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 31/2010 from August 3, 2010 (hu). Munzinger-Archiv GmbH, accessed on April 28, 2016 .
  2. ^ Members of the state government, notification of the Prime Minister of December 2, 1998. (PDF) In: Drucksache 3/759. State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt, accessed on April 28, 2016 .
  3. ↑ What the Länder want from the Minister of Culture. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. January 5, 2001, accessed April 28, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Stefan Berg: Keyword fully comprehensive . In: Der Spiegel . No. 24 , 2002, pp. 38 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Andrea Beyerlein: Two-month job for Harms: New task for ex-State Secretary . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 8, 2003
  6. ↑ Leipzig becomes the seat of the new Central and Eastern Europe Center. (No longer available online.) In: Press information. Fraunhofer Society for the Promotion of Applied Research e. V., April 19, 2005, archived from the original on April 28, 2016 ; Retrieved April 28, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.archiv.fraunhofer.de
  7. ↑ Martin Klesmann: Frankfurt with good chances for the headquarters of the Eastern Europe Center: retired person becomes Poland representative. In: Berliner Zeitung. August 21, 2003, accessed April 28, 2016 .
  8. ^ Andreas Trunschke: New members in the community council. In: BB :-) Borkwalde blogs. July 20, 2012, accessed April 28, 2016 .
  9. ^ Andreas Trunschke: Mandate resigned. In: BB :-) Borkwalde blogs. May 6, 2014, accessed April 28, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Harms, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Greens, SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH 19th February 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilhelmshaven