Helmuth Jungbauer

Helmuth Jungbauer (born December 23, 1941 in Sarau , Bohemian Forest) is a German publisher. From 1995 to 2009 he was the editor of the Franconian Day in Bamberg .

After attending a humanistic grammar school in Lower Bavaria, Jungbauer studied economics and social sciences at the universities in Würzburg and Munich . From 1968 to 1970 he worked in Würzburg as a research assistant to Erich Carell . In 1971 he accepted a position with the government of the Upper Palatinate , where he was responsible for commercial and municipal economic policy.

In 1974 he moved to the Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs and Transport in Munich , where he worked in regional structural policy. In 1979, then State Secretary Georg von Waldenfels brought him in as a personal advisor. In 1987/88 he was the personal advisor to State Secretary Alfons Zeller .

In 1988 Jungbauer resigned from the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs and became General Manager of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce for Upper Franconia . In 1995 he gave up his position as a civil servant for life and took over the management of the Franconian Day for 14 years .

Awards

• 2000: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
• 2007: Bavarian Order of Merit
• 2009: Johann Georg August Wirth Prize
• 2012: Citizen Medal of the City of Bamberg