Heiner Berger
Heiner Berger (born June 1, 1933 in Cologne ; † May 2, 2015 in Aachen ) was a German administrative officer and long-time senior city director of the city of Aachen.
Live and act
After graduating from high school, Heiner Berger studied law from 1952 to 1955 at the universities of Saarbrücken, Munich, Berlin and Heidelberg and completed this part of his training in 1956 with the first state law examination . He then moved to the University of Administrative Sciences Speyer , where he received his doctorate in 1959 and passed his second state examination in law a year later .
Berger received his first permanent job from 1960 to 1963 as a legal advisor at the district craftsmen's association in Bonn. Subsequently, he took over the management of the finance department of Stadtwerke Bonn as an assistant manager until 1968 , before he worked as city director and city treasurer in the service of the city of Göttingen until 1975 . At the same time he was given a teaching position for administrative studies at the University of Göttingen . Finally, Heiner Berger accepted a call from the city of Aachen, where he held the position of senior city director until his retirement in October 1995 as the successor to Anton Kurz .
As City Director, Heiner Berger campaigned for contemporary administrative reforms and their implementation right from the start, both for the city of Aachen and in the various committees and institutions to which he was also a member. Among other things, he was involved in the amendment of the Sparkassengesetz NRW, the promotion of the reform process in the municipal joint agency for administrative management (KGSt), in the administrative modernization and service law reform in the German Association of Cities and above all in the reform of the North Rhine-Westphalian municipal constitution. The latter caused, among other things, that his position as City Director was abolished on the date of his retirement and that city administration was taken over by a directly elected full-time mayor in personal union.
After his retirement, Berger became involved as a freelancer, consultant and lecturer at various institutions and finally as an active politician. In 2000, for example, he supported the German Development Foundation in the implementation of Agenda 21 , was involved in the revision of a municipal financial system for North Rhine-Westphalia from 2006 and was instrumental in the establishment of the Aachen city region from 2009 as part of the Aachen Act . In addition, Berger won a direct mandate for his constituency Laurensberg - Richterich for the city region day in the 2009 local elections for the CDU .
Heiner Berger died on May 2, 2015 at the age of 81 in Aachen. He leaves behind his wife and two children.
Memberships and honorary positions (selection)
- 1975–1995: Member of the board of directors for the award of the International Charlemagne Prize . V. to Aachen
- 1976–1995: Member of the board of the Rheinischer Sparkassen- und Giroverband
- 1978–1995: Member of the Board of Trustees of the Rheinische Sparkassenakademie
- 1985–1995: Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Municipal Joint Agency for Administrative Management (KGSt)
- 1988–1995: Member of the board of the Waste Disposal and Pollution Remediation Association NW
- 1989–1995: Member of the Presidium of the German Association of Cities
- 1991–1992: Chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalian City Council (1st electoral term)
- 1991–1995: Chairman of the Personnel and Organization Committee of the German Association of Cities
- 1994–1995: Chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalian City Council (2nd electoral period)
- 1994–1998: Substitute member of the Committee of the Regions , Brussels
- From 2009: Member of the supervisory board and award committee of “Nahverkehr Rheinland GmbH”, member of the supervisory board of the business development agency, member of the regional council and the regional conference, member of the “committee on cross-border cooperation”, member of the personnel committee
honors and awards
- 1976: Knight of the Belgian Order of the Crown
- 1978: Honorary member of the Tell archers, Burtscheid
- 1978: German equestrian cross in silver
- 1982: Commander's Cross of the Order of Orange-Nassau
- 1982: Grand Cross of the Spanish Civil Order of Merit
- 1983: Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit Pro Merito Melitensi
- 1987: Officer's Cross of the Ordre national du Mérite of France
- 1988: Commander of the Order of Gregorius
- 1995: Golden Ring of Honor of the City of Aachen
- 1996: Large Federal Cross of Merit
Web links
- personal homepage
- Chronicle of the City of Aachen 1976 to 2007 (PDF; 5.3 MB) - Heiner Berger was mentioned numerous times
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heiner Hautermans: Severe loss for the city of Aachen: Dr. Heiner Berger is dead , in: Aachener Zeitung from May 3, 2015
Lord Mayor: Cornelius von Guaita (1815–1820) | Mathias Solders (1820–1826) | Wilhelm Daniels (1826–1832) | Edmund Emundts (1832–1848) | Arnold Edmund Pelzer (1848-1851) | Johann Contzen (1851–1875) | Ludwig von Weise (1875–1883) | Ludwig Pelzer (1884–1896) | Philipp Veltman (1896–1916) | Wilhelm Farwick (1916–1928) | Wilhelm Rombach (1929–1933) | Quirin Jansen (1933–1944) | Franz Oppenhoff (1944–1945) | Wilhelm Rombach (1945) | Ludwig Kuhnen (1946) | Albert Maas (1946–1952) | Hermann Heusch (1952–1973) | Kurt Malangré (1973–1989) | Jürgen Linden (1989–2009) | Marcel Philipp (since 2009)
City directors: Albert Servais (1946–1954) | Anton Kurz (1954–1975) | Heiner Berger (1975-1995)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berger, Heiner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative officer and senior city director of Aachen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 2, 2015 |
| Place of death | Aachen |