Heinz Nehrling

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Heinz Nehrling (born March 31, 1928 in Weimar ; † November 24, 2004 in Voerde ) was a German economist and politician ( SPD ).

Life

Heinz Nehrling was born in Weimar as the son of the administrative officer and social democrat Kurt Nehrling . He attended the secondary school there, but had to interrupt his school career in 1943 due to his service as an air force helper. In the same year his father was executed in the Dachau concentration camp as a member of the Weimar resistance group Nehrling-Eberling . From 1944 to 1945 Nehrling took part in the Second World War as a soldier .

After the end of the war he continued his school career. He graduated from high school in 1946 and began studying economics and business administration at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , which he completed in 1948 with an examination for a degree in business administration. In 1950 he was promoted to Dr. rer. pole. PhD (dissertation: elements of the business functional group sales ). After completing his studies, he worked as an auditor, audit manager and sales director at the trade organization (HO) in Suhl .

After the uprising of June 17 , Nehrling moved to West Germany in 1953 and settled in Essen , where he worked in the private sector until 1954. From 1955 to 1958 he taught as a freelance management consultant and lecturer at technical schools. From 1958 to 1963 he was employed by Anker-Werke AG in Bielefeld . He then worked as a freelance organizational and business consultant until 1965. During this time he moved to Oberhausen .

Nehrling joined the SPD, was a member of the Oberhausen SPD sub-district executive committee and was elected to the state executive committee of the SPD North Rhine-Westphalia in 1970, to which he belonged until 1975. From 1964 to 1974 he was a council member of the city of Oberhausen. In the state elections in 1962 he was elected to the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament for the first time , to which he was a member until his resignation on February 19, 1973. From 1966 to 1973 he was deputy chairman of the economic committee and from 1967 to 1973 parliamentary manager of the SPD parliamentary group. In addition, he was a member of the WDR Broadcasting Council from 1969 to 1974 .

From 1973 to 1974 Nehrling served as State Secretary in the Ministry of Federal Affairs in the government of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia led by Prime Minister Heinz Kühn . In 1974 he was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Economics, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Transport and retained this position under Prime Minister Johannes Rau . From 1985 to 1990 he was State Secretary in the Ministry for Urban Development, Housing and Transport and from 1990 to 1993 then State Secretary in the newly designed Ministry for Urban Development and Transport. During his time as State Secretary, Nehrling held numerous supervisory board mandates in various infrastructure companies, including chairman of the supervisory board of Flughafen Düsseldorf GmbH , member of the supervisory board of the international building exhibition Emscher Park GmbH and deputy chairman of the supervisory board of Duisburg-Ruhrorter Häfen AG .

After the political change in the GDR , he campaigned for the rebuilding of the SPD in Weimar , where he initially had a second home and then settled down completely.

Heinz Nehrling was married and had two children. He was buried in the main cemetery in Weimar.

Honors

See also

literature

  • Herrmann AL Degener , Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? Volume 35.Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1996.
  • Herrmann AL Degener, Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? Volume 39.Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2000, p. 998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder : Nehrling, Heinz. In: North Rhine-Westphalia - Land and People, 1946–2006. A biographical manual. Aschendorff 2006, p. 334.
  2. ↑ Dr. Heinz Nehrling passed away. SPD Weimar, November 28, 2004, accessed April 8, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Nehrling, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and politician (SPD), State Secretary, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 2004
Place of death Voerde