Hans-Günter Henneke

Hans-Günter Henneke at the 70th German Legal Conference 2014 in Hanover

Hans-Günter Henneke (born May 11, 1957 in Bassum ) is an honorary professor at the University of Osnabrück and of the general assembly of the German District Association. V. has been appointed to the board of directors ("executive member of the presidency") until 2025.

Life

After graduating from high school in Syke and studying law in Kiel , Hans-Günter Henneke initially worked as a research assistant at the Faculty of Law at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel and at the Lorenz von Stein Institute for Administrative Sciences at the University of Kiel. On January 1, 1989, he took up his electoral office as a district councilor (temporary civil servant) in the Lower Saxony district of Diepholz , which he held until the end of February 1993. On March 1, 1993, Hans-Günter Henneke began working for the German District Association. There he was initially responsible for the areas of local government, regulatory administration, administrative modernization, Europe and culture, and from 1995 also for finances. The election as deputy of the DLT general manager took place in September 1995, the election as executive member of the presidential board in November 2000. Since October 1, 1990 Hans-Günter Henneke has been working at the law faculty of the University of Osnabrück. In 1994/1995 he was a lecturer at the German University for Administrative Sciences in Speyer . In September 1995, he turned down an offer for a chair in administrative science at this university in May 1995. He was appointed honorary professor at the University of Osnabrück in March 1996.

Participation in committees

Hans-Günter Henneke participates in numerous state and public bodies, for example in the twelve-member Council of Experts for Rural Development , which was first established in 2015 by the BMEL and of which he is chairman, in the nine-member Independent Advisory Council of the Stability Council , in the economic council for the public sector at the federal government , as a representative social groups at the foundation "House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany" and since 2018 in the Commission for Equal Living Conditions set up by the Federal Government .

He was a member of the Financial Planning Council , which was dissolved in 2010 , of two commissions for reforming municipal finances , the Bundestag and Bundesrat commission for the modernization of the federal system , the Advisory Council for Spatial Development at the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development (now BMVI ) and from the beginning of 2004 to the end 2006 and from the beginning of 2013 to the end of 2015 on the Board of Directors of the Reconstruction Loan Corporation .

From July 2002 to June 2012 he was a member of the ZDF television council and its executive committee, and in recent years he has been chairman of the committee for telemedia and deputy chairman of the committee for finance, investments and technology. He has been a member of this committee again since July 1, 2017. From July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2017, he was a member of the 14-member ZDF administrative board , was chairman of its finance committee from July 2012 to the end of 2014 and chairman of the investment committee from January 2015 to June 2017 and a member of the personnel committee since 2013.
He did not run for the Board of Directors again in 2017 because of alleged “closeness to the state”.

He is also a member of the board of directors of the German Savings Banks and Giro Association in Berlin, whose Vice-President he has been again since November 28, 2018 and was already in the years 2001–2003 and 2009–2012, and a member of the DekaBank Administrative Board , whose Presidential Committee he was from mid-2011 to the end of 2013 and from the beginning of 2019 to the end of 2023.

He has been a member of the administrative board of the municipal joint agency for administrative management ( KGSt ), of which he has been chairman since 2016, since the mid-1990s.

Since 1999, Henneke has been involved in the presidium of the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gesellschaft eV, of which he has been vice-president since mid-2011.
From 2000 to 2012 he was a member of the permanent deputation of the German Lawyers' Association . He was a member of the department board in 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014 as chairman, speaker or deputy chairman.
Henneke has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Heidelberg Tax Law Association since 2018 .

Publications

Hans-Günter Henneke has presented numerous publications in the field of public law, public finances and administrative theory and is co-editor of handbooks on municipal finance law and budgetary management, co-editor of several specialist journals (including Der Landkreis , DVBl , DÖV , ZG) and publisher and (co-) author of currently 29 volumes of publications on German and European municipal law . He is the sole editor of the commentary on Knack / Henneke, Administrative Procedure Act, 11th edition, Cologne 2020, 1745 p. And together with Hans Hofmann, publisher of the commentary on Schmidt-Bleibtreu / Hofmann / Henneke, Basic Law, 14th edition. 2018, Cologne 2017, 3494 p .

Monographs (selection)

• Municipal funding and constitutional law, Siegburg 1985, 197 pp.,
• Agriculture and Nature Conservation, Heidelberg, 1986, 642 pp., Plus jurisprudence. Diss. Kiel, (Faculty Award),
• Responsibilities in the area belonging to the district, Heidelberg 1992, 112 pp.,
• State financial policy and constitutional law, Heidelberg 1998, 175 p. (Extended version of the Osnabrück inaugural lecture),
• Reform of the task and financial relationships between the federal, state and local authorities, Heidelberg 1999, 172 pp.,
• Public finance. Financial constitution, 2nd edition, Heidelberg 2000, 465 pp.,
• District law, 2nd edition Stuttgart 2007, 725 pages,
• Federal state and local self-government after the federalism reforms, Wiesbaden 2009, 266 pp.,
• The municipal umbrella organizations, 2nd edition Wiesbaden 2012, 247 pages, updated 2015
• The municipalities in the financial constitution of the federal and state governments, 5th edition, Wiesbaden 2012, 560 p.,
• The European Fiscal Compact and its Implementation in Germany, Wiesbaden 2013, 170 pp.,
• Federal financial distribution between autonomy and solidarity, Münster 2014, 75 pp.,
• Federal task and financial relationships from 2020. Municipal Expectations, Berlin 2014, 98 pp.,
• Task-based financial distribution between the federal, state and local governments, Section, 70th DJT, Munich 2015, 125 pages,
• The German districts and their district assembly - From the beginnings in Brandenburg to the establishment of the Bonn Republic, Stuttgart 2016, 333 pages,
• Tasks and financial relationships of the federal government, states and municipalities - On the failed federalism reform 2017, Wiesbaden 2017, 316 pp.,
• Municipal savings banks - constitution and organization between guarantee of self-government and centralization trends, 2nd edition Wiesbaden 2018, 451 pp.,
• Tasks and financial relationships of the federal, state and local governments from 2020 - The reforms of 2017 and 2019: Lehrstücke ohne Lehr ?, 2nd edition Wiesbaden 2019, 418 pp.,
• The districts in the federal state (with Hartmut Maurer and Friedrich Schoch ), Baden-Baden 1994, 163 p.,
• Development prospects of municipal savings banks in Germany (with Ferdinand Kirchhof ), Stuttgart 2000, 148 pp.,
• Local finance law (with Hermann Pünder and Christian Waldhoff ), Munich 2006, 861 pp.,
• Municipal energy law (with Klaus Ritgen), 2nd edition Wiesbaden 2013, 118 pp.

Lectures and interviews

• Lecture “Building the state: from the bottom up!” On YouTube
• Interview in ZDF special from April 22, 2020 on the financial situation of the municipalities in the corona crisis on YouTube

Awards

In 1986, Henneke was awarded a state prize by the University of Kiel for his dissertation. On January 23, 2014, he received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany from the then State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Cornelia Rogall-Grothe .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Judgment of March 25, 2014: https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Entscheidungen/DE/2014/03/fs20140325_1bvf000111.html
2. ↑ Kommjur 2/2014, page VIII