Henning Tegtmeyer

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Henning Tegtmeyer (born July 29, 1940 in Halle (Saale) ; † February 10, 2019 in Krefeld ) was a German lawyer , senior ministerial advisor , police law specialist and student historian .

Life, Youth and Education

Henning Tegtmeyer was the first son of the later professor for small animal breeding Martin Tegtmeyer and the technical teacher Margarete Tegtmeyer geb. Sewerin (1909–1992) born, grew up during the war in his place of birth, Halle, and after his father was called up in 1942 in Gütersloh , his parents' home. After the end of the war he started school in the Kröllwitz district of Halle in 1947, and in 1955 he finished his school career with a school leaving certificate. He showed particular interest, encouraged by his father, in field ornithology and in modern German history . From September 1955 he attended the Thomas-Münzer-Oberschule in Giebichenstein in the north of Halle.

The political pressure on the family in the GDR grew, the younger brother Eike (1943–1987) - later a veterinarian in Pfalzgrafenweiler - was refused to attend secondary school in 1958 despite good school results due to a lack of socialist commitment . Therefore the Tegtmeyer family fled to West Berlin and later to West Germany . In February 1960, Henning Tegtmeyer passed the Abitur at the Hammonense State High School in Hamm (Westphalia). He then did his military service as a tank grenadier in Flensburg, but suffered an accident that led to his incapacity. From the summer semester of 1961 he began studying law at the University of Kiel and from the winter semester of 1961/62 at the University of Göttingen , where he - like his father - became a member of the Hannovera fraternity . He was a speaker at the 115th foundation festival of his fraternity. In 1964 he moved to Münster for the last time , where he passed the first state examination in January 1967 . This was followed by the legal clerkship and the second state examination. He completed his studies at the Administrative College in Speyer . In 1974 Tegtmeyer became a Dr. jur. PhD.

job

Different uses in the public service (regional council, training manager, police department, etc.). Later transferred to the Ministry of the Interior in Düsseldorf , where he was part of the police department for almost 39 years until retirement; he was jokingly referred to as their veteran . Initially lecturer in the area of ​​"Police Law and Traffic Law", then head of the "Legal Issues of Police Information System" section. At the same time head of the ad hoc committee "Law of the Police" of Working Group II "Internal Security" of the Standing Conference of the Interior Ministers of the Länder. This committee developed the model draft of a uniform police law for the federal and state governments, which was gradually implemented nationwide by the individual states. 1990 Promotion to the leading ministerial councilor and assignment of deputy head of department in the areas of organization of the police, police activity law, police state security, traffic, assembly and association law, police medical service as well as police and media. Head of working groups for trainee teacher training, lessons for candidates for the higher service and later for a long time lecturer at the Police Leadership Academy (now: German Police University ) in Münster. For many years chairman of examination and selection committees.

When the annexation of the German Democratic Republic to the Federal Republic of Germany became apparent in 1990, the police law specialist from Düsseldorf was commissioned by the Conference of Interior Ministers to accompany negotiations with the Interior Ministry of the GDR so that the competencies of the states were preserved. He also took on the task of advising GDR departments so that the People's Chamber could enact a police law before accession. Later technical advice to the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt when a new police law was being prepared there.

After 1990 Tegtmeyer was a member of the German delegation to the European Union for general legal issues relating to the police; again with the task of maintaining the competencies of the federal states' internal departments.

Fraternity members and student historians

Tegtmeyer was an enthusiastic fraternity . From 1977 to 1988 he held the office of chairman of the old men’s association of the Hanover fraternity for eleven years, revised its constitution, participated in negotiations with the Wroclaw fraternity Saxonia to merge, exercised the office of chairman of the old men’s court of honor and participated for decades lively in all discussions, especially about the liberal orientation of his association, and wrote articles, statements and reports on them.

After retiring, he devoted himself intensively to historical research, especially student history . After years of preparatory work, he did more research on events relating to the history of the association and on important members of his corporation and published on them. For example, about the life of Jewish or foreign federal brothers, those in the GDR, about large meetings or the Georg August University and wrote more than 100 life pictures of individual fraternity members, which often also form the basis for Wikipedia entries. He wrote the résumés of Jenny Lind and many federal brothers for the Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft . In 2009 he published the history of the Hannovera fraternity from 1928 to 1945 and ran a website dedicated to the history of students, corporations and universities.

On February 10, 2019, Henning Tegtmeyer died after a short illness in Krefeld near his home in Düsseldorf and was later buried in Gütersloh, the home of his family.

Publications (selection)

Legal

  • Succession and special legal succession in social security law , legal dissertation, Göttingen 1974
  • Michael Kniesel , Henning Tegtmeyer, Jürgen Vahle: Handbook of data protection for security authorities , Stuttgart u. a .: Kohlhammer Verlag , 1968
  • Henning Tegtmeyer, Jürgen Vahle: Police Act North Rhine-Westphalia with explanations , Stuttgart a. a .: Boorberg , 12th edition, 2018 (previously also 7th-11th edition)
  • Collection of legal facts: Experiences of the federal states , in: Forum Rechtsstatsachen 1998, publication of the speeches, Federal Criminal Police Office Wiesbaden 1998, pp. 107–113
  • Legal philosophical considerations on public security and order , in: Hein Höbing (Hrsg.): Focus Europe - Public order and internal security as a mirror of political culture in Germany and the Netherlands after 1945 , Münster a. a .: Waxmann, 2001, pp. 177–184 (German), pp. 363–370 (Dutch)
  • Police Organization Act North Rhine-Westphalia - POG NRW - , Stuttgart u. a .: Boorberg, 2004
  • The criminal complaint according to the criminal provisions of the data protection laws , in: Public Administration and Data Processing (ÖVD), 1981, pp. 12-14
  • The flow of information from the social administration to the police according to the Tenth Book of the Social Code , in: Die Polizei, Cologne: Heymann , Jg. 72 (1981), Heft 6, pp. 185–191
  • Amendment of the Police Acts - reproduction of a presentation given in the seminar of the Police Leadership Academy “Judgment on the Census Act and Consequences for Police Practice”, in: Series of publications of the Police Leadership Academy Münster-Hiltrup, 1986, pp. 1–16
  • Reply to Schoreit "Danger through data collection?" , In: Critical quarterly journal for legislation and jurisprudence, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag , Vol. 72 (1989), pp. 213-225
  • Draft law for the further development of data protection (GFDPol) - effects on the regulatory authorities , in: Nordrhein-Westfälische Verwaltungsblätter, Stuttgart u. a .: Boorberg, (1989), pp. 196-199
  • New organizational models for the police - report from North Rhine-Westphalia , reprint of the lecture at the Federal Criminal Police Office, BKA lecture series, vol. 38, "Location determination and perspectives of police crime control", 1993, pp. 53-62
  • Fiat justitia ... , in: Deutsche Verwaltungspraxis, Hamburg: Maximilian, Vol. 90 (1999), No. 7, pp. 286–289
  • Michael Kniesel, Henning Tegtmeyer, Further expansion of the centralized police IT systems to the detriment of the judiciary? - Reply to Schoreit, DRiZ 1986, 54 ff. - in: Deutsche Richterzeitung, Munich: Verlag CH Beck , Jg. 64 (1986); No. 6, pp. 251-254
  • Henning Tegtmeyer, Jürgen Vahle, Can the police force AIDS tests? , in: Kriminalistik, Heidelberg: Müller, 1987, pp. 560-562
  • Wolfgang Riotte , Henning Tegtmeyer: The new police law of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , in: Nordrhein-Westfälische Verwaltungsblätter, Stuttgart u. a .: Boorberg, 1990, pp. 145-150
  • Henning Tegtmeyer, Axel Emenet: Use of the armed forces in the Federal Republic of Germany to fight organized crime and terrorism? - Comments on Schäuble / Stümper / Greiner “A lesson from the Kosovo war: Today security is no longer the same as defending national borders” (Issue 6/2000, p. 161 ff.), In: Die Polizei, Cologne: Heymanns , Vol. 91 (2000), No. 12, pp. 337-341

Student history

  • History of the fraternity of Hannovera 1928 to 1954 , Hilden: WJK-Verlag , 2009
  • August Dresbach , fraternity member - democrat - member of the Bundestag , in: Klaus Malettke , Klaus Oldenhage (ed.): Fritz Hellwig - Saarlander, German, European, Festschrift for the 100th birthday, representations and sources on the history of the German unity movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Volume 20, Heidelberg: Winter, 2012, pp. 297–336
  • Klaus Oldenhage, Henning Tegtmeyer: To combat the new Nazis: a contribution by August Dresbach (Hannovera Göttingen 1914) in the German Bundestag , in: Helma Blunck: Fraternities and fraternities in the Weimar Republic, Lupburg-Degendorf: Society for fraternity research in history , 2009
  • numerous magazine articles, often in the federal newspaper of the Green Hanoverians in Göttingen (later: federal newspaper of the fraternity of Hanover in Göttingen), respective year (new series), Göttingen, year, pages

literature

  • Ekkard Wilms: Obituary for Henning Tegtmeyer , in: Bundeszeitung der Burschenschaft Hannovera zu Göttingen, Volume 109 (New Series), November 2019, No. 2, Pages 28–31.
  • Kai Schröder: CV Henning Tegtmeyer
  • Gunda Wiegand: From there we came, where are we going now? ... , Münster 1995

Individual evidence

  1. Ekkard Wilms: Obituary for Henning Tegtmeyer , in: Bundeszeitung der Burschenschaft Hannovera zu Göttingen, Volume 109 (New Series), November 2019, No. 2, pages 28–31
  2. Gunda Wiegand: From there we came, where are we going now? , Münster 1995
  3. Hannovera Göttingen and their Jewish Federal Brothers , Federal Newspaper of the Green Hanoverians in Göttingen, Volume 98 (New Series), April 2008, No. 1, pp. 29-36 (link to the article)
  4. ^ Foreigners in the Hannovera , Federal Newspaper of the Green Hanoverians in Göttingen, Volume 101 (New Series), April 2011, No. 1, pp. 36–43
  5. ^ Federal Brothers in the former GDR , Federal Newspaper of the Green Hanoverians in Göttingen, Volume 86 (New Series), October 1996, No. 2, pp. 26-30
  6. ^ Christmas gift 1916 from Georgia Augusta , Federal Newspaper of the Green Hanoverians in Göttingen, Volume 96 (New Series), October 2006, No. 2, pp. 27-30
  7. Book no. 100 from the category of non-fiction and reference works