Hans-Christoph Hoppensack

Hans-Christoph Hoppensack (* 1939 in Kiesewald , Hirschberg district , Silesia ) is a German lawyer and politician ( SPD ). He was a Bremen State Councilor .

biography

Hoppensack is the son of an insurance salesman and a bank clerk, grew up in Silesia , Scheeßel , the Rotenburg district and in Bremen . In 1959, after graduating from high school in Bremen, he studied law and social education at the University of Hamburg from 1959 to 1965 . From 1965 to 1969 he completed his legal clerkship in Bremen and Berlin . In 1968 he received his doctorate. jur. and passed the second state examination in law in 1969.

1969/1970 he worked as a youth prosecutor in Bremerhaven . In 1970 he switched to the Senator for Social Affairs, Youth and Sport in Bremen and took the position of a consultant for social welfare . From 1972 to 1979 he was head of the social welfare office in Bremen. In 1979 he was appointed Senate Director or State Councilor to the (most recently) Senator for Labor, Women, Health, Youth and Social Affairs and until the end of 2000 he was the representative of Senators Henning Scherf (SPD), Sabine Uhl (SPD) and Irmgard Gaertner -Fichtner (SPD), Christine Wischer (SPD) and Hilde Adolf (SPD). Arnold Knigge succeeded him in this position .

Hoppensack is a member of the SPD and is active there in various bodies, most recently for around 25 years in the state arbitration commission. His professional and political priorities were and are social policy, in particular social and youth welfare, health policy, but also housing policy and the penal system with assistance to offenders.
He worked on supraregional committees: from 1973 to 1990 as a member of the specialist committee on social policy at the Federal Association of Workers' Welfare , from 1980 to 2000 as a member of the social committee of the German Association of Cities , from 1987 to 2000 as a member of the specialist committee of the German Association for Public and Private Welfare and in their main committee, from 1979 to 2000 in various committees of the Federal Council . From 1988 to 2001 he was on the board of trustees of the Franco-German Youth Office as representative of the youth ministers and senators of the federal states.

In addition, he works or worked on a voluntary basis on the board of the Bremen Community Foundation (until 2014 as chairman of the board), as a member of the boards of the Weserterrassen community center , Wilhelm Kaisen Bürgerhilfe and Arbeiterwohlfahrt Bremen (AWO). For several years he has been particularly interested in democracy politics. Here he is jointly responsible for the Bremen network of citizen participation and the initiative "Democracy begins with us", both projects of the Bremen Community Foundation.

When he's not on a voluntary basis, he likes to try his hand at painting and drawing.

Works (selection)

• About the prison and its effect on attitudes and behavior of prisoners . Dissertation University of Hamburg, Otto Schwartz Verlag, Göttingen 1969.
• Non-sedentary help in the dead end . In: Dangerous Aid, 1977, p. 4 ff.
• Plea for the abolition of non-sedentary assistance . In: Theory and Practice of Social Work, TuP 1977. S. 206 ff.
• Social welfare before the dismantling , with Heinz low. In: TuP 1977, p. 363 ff.
• Social welfare reform - an interim assessment of stuck approaches , with Stephan Leibfried. In TuP 1981, p. 404 ff.
• Help to work in a crisis, practice without a right? Right without practice? , with Gerd Wenzel. In TuP 1983, p. 296 ff.
• Help with work and compulsory work , with Gerd Wenzel. In: Politics of poverty and the division of the welfare state, edited by Stephan Leibfried and Florian Tennstedt , 1985, p. 249 ff.
• Modern local government needs citizens to take the initiative . In Democratic Community, special number, 1985, p. 66 ff.
• Reorganization of communal social services in Bremen , with K.Bronke and F.Kriebisch. In: TuP1987, p. 268 ff.
• Why social administration needs practical research , with K.Bronke. In: M. Heiner, Praxisforschung, Freiburg 1988.
• What determines youth welfare? - Control instruments: organization, finance, law versus socio-educational content . In: Dieter Kreft, Johannes Münder (Hg), Quo vadis Jugendhilfe , Institute for Social and Cultural Work, Nuremberg 1991, pp. 130 ff.
• The Bremen Community Foundation - an impetus for Bremen on the way to becoming a citizen city . In: Bernd-Artin Wessels : Stiften in Bremen , Edition Temmen, Bremen 2007.
• Kevin's death - an example of unsuccessful child welfare . In: Our Youth, Issue 7/8/2007 pp. 290–305 as well as in: Protecting neglected children better - Socio -educational action when the child is at risk , 2. Edition Munich 2012, pages 144–171.

See also

• List of Bremen State Councilors and Deputies of Senators