Heinrich Tiemann
Heinrich Tiemann (born June 15, 1951 in Schwenningen am Neckar ) is a German civil servant and was State Secretary in the Foreign Office from December 2007 to November 2009 .
Career
After training as a civil servant in the higher, non-technical administrative service, he studied economics, political science and law at the University of Konstanz from 1973 to 1978 with a degree in administrative science . He then worked in various positions for IG Metall . In 1991 he took over the management of the political department in the executive committee of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), later he also took over this position for the parliamentary group of the SPD . In November 1998, after the change of government in Bonn, he moved to the Federal Ministry for Labor and Social Affairs and took over the management of the central department. During the first legislative period of the red-green government of Gerhard Schröder , he was ministerial director in the Federal Chancellery from 1998 to 2002 . In 2002 he moved to the Federal Ministry for Health and Social Security , where he was State Secretary until 2005. He then moved back to the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs as State Secretary . From 2007 until Angela Merkel's black and yellow government took office , he was State Secretary in the Foreign Office and headed the informal “Vice Chancellery” for Frank-Walter Steinmeier . The position of a third permanent state secretary had been created because of Steinmeier's additional workload. Tiemann's task was, among other things, the coordination of the SPD-led ministries. The collaboration with Steinmeier began during his time as head of the chancellery.
He was a member of the Rürup Commission for "Sustainability in Financing Social Security Systems".
Web links
- Biography on the website of the Federal Foreign Office ( memento from April 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Current head of the Foreign Office
- ^ SPD approves new state secretary . In: Der Tagesspiegel , November 19, 2007
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tiemann, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German civil servant and State Secretary of the Foreign Office |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwenningen am Neckar |