Henner Whiting

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Henner Wittling (born November 8, 1946 in Sankt Wendel-Oberlinxweiler , Saarland ) is a German politician ( SPD ), lawyer and manager in the steel industry.

biography

After graduating from high school, Wittling studied law at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken and at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . From 1975 to 1983 he was a judge in North Rhine-Westphalia . In 1983 he was seconded to the Federal Ministry of Justice with a focus on general administration, state liability law and defense.

After the election victory of the Saarland SPD in 1985, Prime Minister Oskar Lafontaine (SPD) appointed him State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior . In March 1991, he moved to the Ministry of Finance as State Secretary . In November 1994, he was reappointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance with responsibility for finance. During this time, whiting shaped the financial policy of the Lafontaine government. This is also whiting's greatest political success. He is considered to be significantly involved in the successful lawsuit of the Saarland before the Federal Constitutional Court for further financial aid from the federal government (“partial discharge”).

In March 1996, Wittling became head of the Saarland State Chancellery . On September 18, 1996 he was sworn in as the successor to Diether Breitenbach (SPD) before the state parliament as Minister for Education, Culture and Science. As Minister for Education, Culture and Science, the whiting, who is considered assertive , appointed an expert commission together with the Rhineland-Palatinate Science Minister Jürgen Zöllner (SPD) in February 1997, which was supposed to prepare a structural reform of Saarland University. The expert commission, headed by Dieter Simon , drew up an expert report that was presented in March 1998 in Saarbrücken. Two objectives were pursued in this report, namely the system evaluation of the higher education sector in the Saarland-Trier-West Palatinate region and the development of a viable concept for the University of Saarland.

From November 1999 to June 2002, Whiting was under the Federal Ministers Reinhard Klektiven (SPD) and Kurt Bodewig (SPD) as State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing . From July 1, 2002 to June 30, 2007, he was a member of the board and labor director of Saarstahl AG ( Völklingen ).

Until February 19, 2014 he was appointed judge at the Constitutional Court of the Saarland . In addition, Wittling is chairman of the supervisory board of SHS Stahl-Holding-Saar, member of the supervisory board of Saarstahl AG (2nd deputy chairman) and member of the board of trustees of the Montanstiftung Saar.