Hartmut Wegener

Hartmut Wegener (born May 4, 1946 in Hamburg ) is a former state secretary from the Heide Simonis cabinet in Kiel . In Hamburg he led large construction projects for the Senate such as B. the Airbus expansion in Mühlenberger Loch and was responsible for the development and realization of the Elbphilharmonie as project coordinator of the Senate until September 2008 .

Life

After high school at high school for boys in Eimsbüttel in 1966 and two years of military service, he studied in Berlin and Hamburg law and economics. After his first state examination in law, he worked as a research assistant in the field of business law at the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics. After the 2nd state examination in law, he went to the University of Kassel as a course planner and legal advisor in 1975, where, together with Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, he was involved in establishing the first integrated university with graduated degrees and practical professional studies.

In 1980 he moved to the Hamburg Senate Administration, where he worked for 10 years in various functions, including the office of electricity and port construction as legal advisor. The aspect of project management increasingly came to the fore in his work.

In 1990 Hartmut Wegener was elected First Director by the Board of Directors and the Assembly of Representatives of the Schleswig-Holstein State Insurance Institute in Lübeck.

1995 brought the Schleswig-Holstein Prime Minister Heide Simonis Hartmut Wegener to her cabinet in Kiel as State Secretary. His task consisted in the conception and implementation of the reform of the state administration together with the State Chancellery and the Ministry of Finance. As Secretary of State for Construction, he was in charge of the development of a new state building code and laid the first foundations for cross-state administrative cooperation between Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein in the areas of data processing, statistics and the police.

In 2000 Hartmut Wegener switched to the private sector and worked as a project manager at the management consultancy Roland Berger . He accompanied the merger of the state insurance institutions Baden and Württemberg, and was u. a. involved in the site analysis for the Jade-Weser-Port deep-water port .

From January 2001 Hartmut Wegener was entrusted by the Hamburg Senator for Economic Affairs Gunnar Uldall with the task of expanding the Airbus plant for the A380 ( Mühlenberger Loch ) as managing director of the Finkenwerder implementation company. The land reclamation on up to 11 m deep silt with settlement guarantees and a temporal-technical interlocking to build up the aircraft production of the new A380 was engineering-wise uncharted territory and was carried out on time and on budget. The politically highly controversial runway extension to the west was also successfully implemented.

Together with his employees, Hartmut Wegener developed a management company from the pure A380 project organization, ReGe Hamburg , which the Hamburg Senate subsequently not only extended the runway for the A380 but also planned and implemented the construction of the Ballinstadt Emigration Museum , the Finkenwerder bypass and the Preliminary planning for a harbor crossbar was entrusted.

Construction of the Elbphilharmonie

From May 2004 he took over the duties of the Senate Commissioner for the construction of the Elbphilharmonie . He was supported by an advisory group from the Senate and used ReGe Hamburg as a management company to carry out the client's duties. After the project development and award of this world project to the Adamanta consortium with the general contractor Hochtief , the foundation stone was laid in April 2007. Problems and delays occurred in the implementation of the building, and the supplementary negotiations were highly controversial. Considerable cost increases and extensions of construction time were to be expected in mid-2008. In this situation, which from the perspective of the Hamburg Senate, was inconsistent, Mayor Ole von Beust asked Hartmut Wegener to step down in September 2008. With thanks from the city for taking care of the numerous projects for the city, Hartmut Wegener was bid farewell.

In the final report of the parliamentary committee of inquiry in 2014 on the Elbphilharmonie's million dollar disaster , he was accused of incompetence and self-importance. Hartmut Wegener, on the other hand, accused the majority of the committee's report of politically unilateral assessments. The committee had unfairly treated him as a witness and not as a victim in order to curtail his rights to defend himself against the allegations.

further activities

In 2009 he founded Hartmut Wegener Projektberatung GmbH together with Heinz Giszas , the former State Councilor of the Hamburg Economic Authority , and Johanna Knüppel. His last major project was the planning and implementation of the Chamber of Commerce InnovationsCampus on Hamburg's Adolphsplatz, which opened in February 2014 and offers students at the HSBA Hamburg School of Business Administration a new place to stay.

From June 2016 to August 2018, Hartmut Wegener advised the management of Asse GmbH on the merger with parts of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection and the German Society for the Construction and Operation of Repositories for Waste Materials mbH (DBE) to form the new Federal Company for Final Storage mbH.

Private

Hartmut Wegener has been a member of the SPD since 1976; he is married to the sociologist Helge Knüppel and has two children and 4 grandchildren. He lives on the Greek island of Lefkas and in Hamburg. Since 2008 he has been traveling to mainland Greece (Epirus) with his wife. This resulted in her book "Travels in Epirus. Greece's Undiscovered Beauty".

Publications

Travel in Epirus. Greece's undiscovered beauty . Edition Kentauros 2018, ISBN 978-3-9818287-4-0
Success and failure factors for mega projects. A focus on the Airbus plant expansion and the Elbphilharmonie construction in the Hamburg metropolitan. In the Business Transformation Journal No. 11, August 2014, pp. 55-65.
The administrative cultures in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. In: Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig, Henning Voscherau (Hrsg.): Nordstaat: interdisciplinary study of the opportunities and risks of future cooperation or reorganization of northern German federal states. Kiel 2006, ISBN 3-936773-28-9 , pp. 135ff.
Municipalities on the way to becoming a citizen municipality. in KGST Finding What Works, 2000
Quality control of police work. In: Helmut Bäumler (Ed.): Police and data protection. Neuwied 1999, ISBN 3-472-03796-2 .
Alfred Oppolzer et al. (Ed.): Flexibilisierung, Deregulierung. Labor policy in the turn. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-87975-367-9 .
Peter Faulstich, Hartmut Wegener: Comprehensive University: Future Model or Reform Ruin? Bock & Herdener, 1981, ISBN 3-88347-077-5 .
Vocational pathway and university entrance. DUZ 1978, p. 724.
Consumer protection and competition. Jus 1974, p. 561ff.
Consumer and law. Verlag Otto Schwartz, ISBN 3-509-00937-1 .