Hanspeter Knirsch

Hanspeter Knirsch (born July 22, 1950 in Bochum ) is a German lawyer and former chairman of the Young Democrats .

Life

During his school days in Bochum, he was involved in the student council. In 1966 he was head of the Theodor-Körner-Schule in Bochum-Dahlhausen . He then went to the United States as the first student at high school for a year as an exchange student with the American Field Service (AFS). He graduated from the senior class of Laguna Blanca High School in Santa Barbara, California. He studied law at the Ruhr University in Bochum between 1969 and 1974. Knirsch was at times a member of the student parliament and editor of the Bochum student newspaper. At the Ruhr University in Bochum, he obtained an external doctorate in 1987 with a dissertation on the subject of "The field of tension between information requirements and confidentiality obligations - illustrated using the example of local government in North Rhine-Westphalia".

Through his professional activities as legal advisor for the city of Essen (1978–1986) and head of the legal office of the city of Sindelfingen (1986–1988), he qualified for the election of city ​​director of the city of Emsdetten (Steinfurt district) in 1988. He was at that time the youngest city director in North Rhine-Westphalia. During his term of office, the regionally important cultural institutions “Stroetmanns Fabrik” and “Galerie Münsterland” were realized. On his initiative, Emsdetten got a public library in the Villa Schilgen, which was converted and expanded according to plans by the Cologne architect Artur Mandler . From 1996 to 2001 he worked as a lawyer and management consultant for Rinke Unternehmensberatung in Wuppertal . From 2001 to 2006 he was an alderman for the City of Bochum for the Law, Security and Order Department. Since 2006 he has been an independent consultant and attorney specializing in local law, organization and public budget law (new local financial management).

politics

Knirsch joined the Young Democrats and the FDP , and in 1976 succeeded Ingrid Matthäus and Theo Schiller as Federal Chairman of the Young Democrats. In this capacity he was a member of the federal executive committee of the FDP until his resignation in 1977 and during this time he worked on the perspective commission chaired by Gerhart Baum , which developed a continuation of the Freiburg theses of the FDP, which, however, took place at the 1977 Kiel federal party conference found no majority in substantial parts. In 1979 he was elected to the city council of Bochum because of his involvement in the citizens' initiative against the construction of the A 44 (DüBoDo). The day after his election victory, the SPD, which ruled only in Bochum, rejected the plans to build the A 44 across the south of Bochum. He was a member of the council until 1984. In 1982 he left the FDP because of the break in the coalition.

Publications

As a student, he published the volume “Bodenrecht” in the series “Current Documents” published by Ingo von Münch in 1972 by de Gruyter Verlag. This was followed in 1973 by the documentation volume “›› Radicals ›› in the Public Service” (together with Bernhard Nagel and Wolfgang Voegeli) and in 1976 the manual “Die Chance der Bürgerinitiativen” (together with Friedhelm Nickolmann). Specialist publications, especially from the area of ​​local law and administrative science, have appeared since then. In 2000 he self-published the memorandum “Pandora's Legacy” at Books on Demand, in which he deals with the phenomenon of acting against better judgment. Since 2008 he has been in charge of municipal budget law in North Rhine-Westphalia in the commentary on the municipal regulation "Rehn / Cronauge".

Web links

• List of publications by Hanspeter Knirsch
• Hanspeter Knirsch: Basic knowledge of local politics

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History galerie-muensterland.de. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
2. ↑ Young Democrats. All childish. In: Der Spiegel. April 11, 1977. Retrieved September 18, 2015.