Hedda von Wedel

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Hedda von Wedel (left) handing over the final report of the structural commission to Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (October 2010)
Candidate poster for the 1990 Bundestag election

Hedda von Wedel b. Czasche (born July 18, 1942 in Quedlinburg ; formerly Hedda Meseke ) is a German lawyer and politician in the CDU .

Life

Von Wedel completed his law studies in Kiel , Göttingen and Bordeaux with the first and second state examinations; she then did her doctorate in 1969 at the Göttingen Institute for International Law. After various activities in administration, including as government vice-president of the Weser-Ems district government in Oldenburg and as state secretary in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Agriculture , von Wedel was a member of the German Bundestag from 1990 to 1993 . She was on the national list Lower Saxony the CDU selected.

From 1993 to 2001 von Wedel was the first woman president of the Federal Audit Office . After the first domestic BSE case became known in November 2000 , Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder commissioned them to carry out a weak point analysis on food safety. The report was available in July 2001. From 2002 to 2007 von Wedel was a member of the European Court of Auditors ; Since its reform in 2004, von Wedel was the rapporteur in Examination Group I “Agricultural Policy Areas”. She also held the posts of deputy member of the Court's Administrative Committee and member of the Europol Joint Supervisory Body . In 2007 she was elected as one of the two deputy chairmen of Transparency International Deutschland eV. She is no longer a member of the board of directors elected in 2019. In 2015 she was a member of the supervisory board of Correctiv gGmbH.

Hedda von Wedel was President of the Federal Audit Office (on leave since 2002) in the service of the Federal Republic of Germany until she retired on December 6, 2005. Her work for the European Court of Auditors ended on December 31, 2017. Von Wedel sued unsuccessfully against the suspension or reduction of her pension as a German civil servant because of her work for the EU.

Awards

Fonts

  • The action for failure to act before the European Court of Justice: A comparative legal investigation . Dissertation University of Göttingen, 1969

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Board of Directors Transparency 2019. Accessed on September 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ David Schraven: Our committees are there - and we have a new editor-in-chief. In: https://correctiv.org/ . CORRECTIV, March 13, 2015, accessed on September 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Judgment - BVerwG 2 C 39.09. Federal Administrative Court , April 28, 2011, accessed on September 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Wedel, Hedda von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Czasche, Hedda (maiden name); Meseke, Hedda (former name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Quedlinburg