Henning Heidemanns

Henning Heidemanns (née Schmidt) (born February 16, 1958 in Nenkersdorf , Siegen district ) is a German political official . From 2009 to 2014 he was State Secretary in the Ministry for Economic Affairs and European Affairs of the State of Brandenburg . In 2014 Heidemanns was the representative of the Minister for Open Government Data in the Ministry of the Interior of the State of Brandenburg. In November 2014, Heidemanns was put into temporary retirement .

Life and work

After school, Heidemann studied economics in Giessen , where he graduated in 1981 with a degree in economics . He then worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Public Finance at Saarbrücken University until 1985 . From 1985 to 1988 he worked as an advisor in the Federal Ministry of Finance , then until 1990 also as an advisor to the SPD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag .

His entry into the state administration of Brandenburg took place in November 1990. Heidemanns was initially head of the ministerial office and press spokesman for Finance Minister Klaus-Dieter Kühbacher (SPD). After the change at the head of the department, Heidemann became head of the investment management division in 1995. From 1996 he took over the management of the budget department. In 2003 he moved to the State Chancellery, where he was head of the department, initially responsible for planning and structural policy, and in the same year took over the department for reducing bureaucracy, demography and service.

politics

Since 2009 Heidemanns has been State Secretary in the Ministry for Economic Affairs and European Affairs of the State of Brandenburg, led by Ralf Christoffers (Die Linke). Since he took a clearly different opinion than his minister in important funding projects, he tried to get rid of his state secretary in September 2013 and January 2014, but this failed due to the prime minister's veto. On February 1, it became known that Christoffers had prevailed and that Heidemanns would be seconded to the Ministry of the Interior. Since February 1, 2014, Henning Heidemanns has been the “Commissioner of the Minister for Open Government Data”, a new position created for him. Heidemann was transferred from the Ministry of Economics to the Ministry of the Interior by Christoffers before he took office. His previous office will remain vacant until the state elections in autumn; the tasks are performed by others.

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Brandenburg: Henning Heidemanns remains in office", Märkische Allgemeine, January 23, 2014
2. ↑ ^{a b c} "Heidemanns must change departments", Märkische Allgemeine, 1./2. February 2014
3. ^ "Heidemanns becomes Brandenburg's representative for" Open Government Data "", Niederlausitz Aktuell, January 31, 2014

Web links

• Henning Heidemanns's curriculum vitae at the Brandenburg Ministry for Economic Affairs and European Affairs