Heinrich Weyer

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Heinrich Weyer (born July 3, 1928 in Marburg ; † September 8, 1993 in Bonn ) was a lawyer, Berlin Senate Director and state commissioner for data protection. He was married to Margot Weyer, an internationally recognized specialist and author on the adoption of children from Thailand, Nepal and Cambodia. He worked with her on a voluntary basis in the adoption department of terre des hommes and, together with her and others, founded the state-recognized adoption agency "Parents for Children" in 1987. He was the son of the Siegerland homeland researcher and educator Wilhelm Weyer .

In July 1947 Weyer passed the first examination for teaching at elementary schools. 1948–1952 he studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . He then stayed for study purposes from 1953 to 1955 as part of a Fulbright exchange program in Minneapolis / Minnesota (USA). There he had the opportunity to do three months of practical training with the Tenth US Civil Service Region in Denver, Colorado. He graduated with a Master of Arts in Public Administration. From 1956 he worked as a trainee lawyer at the Hamm Higher Regional Court . In the same year, he completed his dissertation on the "executive ordinance law as a problem of violence" with Rudolf Smend . 1960–1963 Federal Cartel Office; 1963–1969 Senate Department for Finances of the State of Berlin; 1969–1970 Federal Ministry of the Interior (personal assistant to Interior Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher ); 1970–1979 Senate Director of the Senate Administration for Federal Affairs of the State of Berlin. From November 5, 1979 to September 4, 1987 Heinrich Weyer was the first state data protection officer in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Publications

Independent publications

  • The executive's right to ordinance as a problem of violence Marburg 1956
  • Data Protection Act NRW. Commentary Essen 1988

Editing

  • Organization and technology of data backup. Recommendations from control practice (together with Paul Stefan Pütter) Frechen 1983
  • The first eight activity reports 1979-1987 as data protection officer in North Rhine-Westphalia
personal data
SURNAME Weyer, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, Berlin Senate director and data protection officer
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1993
Place of death Bonn