Hans Joachim Meyer

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Hans Joachim Meyer

Hans Joachim Meyer (born October 13, 1936 in Rostock ) is a German politician ( CDU ). He was the last GDR Minister for Education and Science and, after German reunification, first State Minister for Science and Art in Saxony. He also worked as President of the Central Committee of German Catholics .

Life

Meyer studied after graduating from high school from 1955 to 1958 at the Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam . In 1958 he was de-registered due to "lack of connection to the working class" and worked at VEB Lokomotivbau Potsdam-Babelsberg . From 1959 to 1964 he studied English and history at the Humboldt University in Berlin (graduating with a degree in philology ). He then worked there as a university teacher, from 1971 as a senior assistant . In 1971 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . In 1981 he completed his habilitation.

From 1973 to 1977 Meyer was Deputy Director for Education and Training at the Foreign Languages ​​Section at Humboldt University. From 1978 to 1990 he worked as head of the intensive language training department at the Humboldt University, and since 1985 as associate professor for applied linguistics .

From April to October 1990 Meyer was Minister for Education and Science of the GDR in the de Maizière government . In this capacity, he also headed the GDR delegation to the Joint Education Commission , whose task it was to prepare the merger of the two German education systems at ministerial level. The results of this commission were also incorporated into the Unification Treaty (Art. 37 Education and Art. 38 Science and Research ) and were implemented both politically and practically.

Meyer rejoined the CDU (GDR) in August 1990 , of which he was a member from 1952 to 1961. Immediately after German reunification , he was appointed by Prime Minister Kurt Biedenkopf in his cabinet in Dresden in October 1990 . Here he was the Saxon State Minister for Science and Art from 1990 to 2002 .

His church engagement lasted from 1973 to 1975 as a member of the pastoral synod of the jurisdictions of the Catholic Church in the GDR and from 1976 in the pastoral council for the eastern part of the Archdiocese of Berlin .

In 1990 he became a member of the Executive Committee of the Central Committee of German Catholics, Vice-President in 1994 and finally President of the Central Committee of German Catholics from 1997 to 2009 .

Honors (selection)

Award of the Saxon Order of Merit 2015 by Prime Minister Stanislaw Tillich : Hans Joachim Meyer, 2nd row, 4th from left

Fonts

  • together with Hanna Harnisch: To investigate communication processes from a linguistic point of view. On the problem of the communicative-functional or thematic assignment of verbs (= Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Research collective communicative-functional language observation and foreign language teaching: work report, 46). Martin Luther University, Halle 1977, DNB 800863445
  • In no drawer - experiences in divided and united Germany . Herder-Verlag, Freiburg i.Br. u. a., 2015, ISBN 978-3-451-32968-5

literature

Web links

Commons : Hans Joachim Meyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Hans-Joachim Meyer  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gabriele Höfling: "Christians were not equal citizens" . Interview with Hans Joachim Meyer on kathisch.de , October 10, 2016.
  2. ↑ Stefan Förner: High papal distinction for Prof. Dr. Hans Joachim Meyer. In: press release. Archdiocese of Berlin , August 30, 2017, accessed on September 1, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Hans Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock