Heinz Günter Zavelberg

Zavelberg with Ernst Albrecht (1985)

Heinz Günter Zavelberg (born October 16, 1928 in Brühl ; † June 14, 2015 ) was a German politician ( CDU ). From 1985 to 1993 he was President of the Federal Audit Office .

Life

From 1944 he was used as an air force helper. After studying law in Bonn and Cologne and obtaining his doctorate, he was a judge in the Cologne Higher Regional Court district from 1956 to 1962 (most recently a district court judge), then until 1970 in the budget department of the Federal Ministry of Finance , initially as a consultant in the general and principle department, from 1966 as head of department for the then newly created medium-term financial planning and for the economic management of the federal budget . From 1970 to 1982 he was a financial adviser to the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag . In 1970 he also became a member of the CDU. From 1978 until his appointment to the BRH, he was councilor in Brühl and chairman of the CDU SME association of the Rhein-Erft district .

After a brief activity in 1982/83 as ministerial director and sub-department head in the BMF, he became vice-president in 1983 and the first president of the Federal Audit Office elected by parliament in 1985, at that time still headquartered in Frankfurt / Main.

After his retirement in 1993, he was available for a few years on behalf of the BRH and various organizations as a short-term advisor in several countries of the former Eastern Bloc . The grandfather of 14 grandchildren spent the twilight years in his hometown Brühl.

Awards

• Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany (1983)
• Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1987)
• Grand Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany (1993)
• Central Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (1993)

Works

• Heinz Günter Zavelberg (Hrsg.): The control of the state finances. Past and present, 1714–1989 . Festschrift for the 275th anniversary of the establishment of the Prussian General Computing Chamber. Duncker & Humblot , Berlin 1989, ISBN 978-3-428-06720-6
• Various treatises, some of which are collected in the commemorative publication "Courage to Responsibility", edited by Manfred Eibelshäuser u. a., 1993, private print in the library of the Federal Audit Office
• State financial control in Germany. On the work and effectiveness of the Federal Audit Office in: Die Verwaltung, 28th Vol. 1995 pp. 513-541
• Multi-year financial planning. A necessary tool for modern politics. In: The administration. 3rd Vol. 1970 pp. 283-296
• Financial control by the Federal Audit Office with special consideration of its collegial organizational and decision-making structure. In: Brauneder (Hrsg.), Internationalität der Finanzkontrolle, Frankfurt a. M. u. a. 1995 p. 95ff.
• The seat of the State Supreme Audit Office In: Modern financial control and public accounting, memorandum on the occasion of the departure of Professor Dr. Manfred Eibelshäuser from the office of President of the Hessian Court of Audit , ed. by Walter Wallmann u. a., Cologne 2013, p. 597 ff.
• Merging of the financial control east and west, state financial audit of the GDR - audit office of the republic - federal audit office. In: 300 years of external financial control in Germany - yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Festschrift for the 300th anniversary of the establishment of the Prussian General Computing Chamber. edited by Dieter Engels. Berlin 2014 pp. 127–143.

Web links

Commons : Heinz Günter Zavelberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Federal Archives of the Zavelberg papers