Hans Harder (civil servant)

Hans Heinrich Wilhelm Harder (born September 26, 1902 in Hamburg ; † August 8, 1984 ibid) was a German administrative lawyer and President of the Hamburg Court of Auditors .

After graduating from high school in 1921, the son of an elementary school teacher studied law in Hamburg and Tübingen and entered the Hamburg administration service in 1929 after a legal clerkship and second state examination. Since 1925 a member of the SPD, he was involved in the peace movement ( German Peace Society ) and also appeared in journalism. In 1933 he was therefore dismissed from civil service at the instigation of the new Nazi rulers and settled as a lawyer. In 1941 he was drafted into the Air Force and returned to Hamburg shortly before the end of the war, where he hid with an aunt in Duvenstedt until the British troops arrived .

Immediately after the end of the war, he first became an advisor to the deputy mayor Adolph Schönfelder and was appointed to the Senate Syndicus in 1945 . In this role he played a key role in the reconstruction of the Hamburg administration in the following years, in particular the new district administration , but also for the personnel office, the state office for the protection of the constitution , the state archive and the building authority . From 1960 until his retirement in 1970, Harder was President of the Hamburg Court of Auditors .

As a Senate syndicate, Harder represented the interests of the city on several supervisory boards, including a. the Howaldtswerke Hamburg , the municipal housing company SAGA or the Hamburg State Opera . In addition, he took on numerous honorary functions such as B. in the Übersee-Club , on the board of the "New Literary Society" and was committed to nature conservation and monument protection. In 1972 he was one of the founders of the "Rettet die Deichstrasse " association, which successfully campaigned for the preservation of the old town houses threatened with demolition.

literature

• Hans Walden: Harder, Hans . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 5 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 173-175 .