Holger Poppenhäger
Holger Poppenhäger (born April 3, 1957 in Kassel ) is a German lawyer , politician ( SPD ) and civil servant . From November 2009 to December 2014 he was Thuringian Minister of Justice in the Lieberknecht cabinet and from December 2014 to August 2017 Thuringian Minister for Internal Affairs and Local Affairs in the Ramelow I cabinet . He has been President of the Thuringian State Office for Statistics since May 1, 2018 .
Career
Poppenhäger studied law at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen from 1976 to 1984 , where he became chairman of the general student committee in December 1980 . After the first state examination in November 1984, he completed his legal clerkship in Frankfurt am Main and Giessen from 1985 to 1987 and the second state examination in March 1988. From May 1988 to February 1989 he worked as an administrative lawyer in the regional council of Gießen , then from 1989 to 1994 in the Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden , most recently from 1992 as head of department in the group “Statistics-Relevant Legal Matters”. In 1994 he was at the University of Giessen with summa cum laude for Doctor of Law doctorate ; The title of his dissertation was The transmission and publication of statistical data in the light of the right to informational self-determination .
From 1994 he worked as a senior administrative officer for the Thuringian state parliament . In addition, he held a teaching position at the Political Science Faculty of the University of Erfurt in 2002/2003 . From November 4, 2009 to December 5, 2014 he was Thuringian Minister of Justice in the Lieberknecht cabinet . Since December 5, 2014 Poppenhäger has been the Thuringian Minister for the Interior and Local Affairs in the Ramelow I cabinet . As Minister of the Interior, Poppenhäger was largely responsible for the Thuringia regional reform in 2018 and 2019 , one of the central projects of the red-red-green coalition . After delays in the reform, which was postponed from 2018 to 2021, Poppenhäger was dismissed as minister on August 30, 2017 at the instigation of SPD state chairman Andreas Bausewein ; immediately afterwards Georg Maier was appointed as his successor.
Poppenhäger was SPD district chairman in Erfurt from 2006 to 2012, is a member of the Forum Democratic Left 21 and was elected as a city councilor in Erfurt in the local elections in Thuringia on June 7, 2009 . A simultaneous candidacy for the European Parliament failed. Since 2010 he has been a member of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union. In the state elections in Thuringia in 2014 , he ran for a direct mandate in the constituency of Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis I and received 17.4 percent of the vote.
On November 28, 2017, he was appointed President of the Thuringian State Office for Statistics by the Cabinet with effect from May 1, 2018 . The Thuringian CDU General Secretary Raymond Walk criticized this in connection with Poppenhäger's dismissal as a supply of posts. Walk said that doubts about the required neutrality of Poppenhäger, who as President of the State Office has automatically also become State Returning Officer, are “almost inevitable”.
family
Holger Poppenhäger has lived in Erfurt since 1995, is Protestant, married and has a daughter.
Publications
- with Manfred Baldus , Joachim Linck , Joachim Lindner , Matthias Ruffert (eds.): The Constitution of the Free State of Thuringia. Handkommentar , Nomos, Baden-Baden 2013, ISBN 978-3-8329-7245-5 .
Web links
- Holger Poppenhäger on the website of the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs
- SPD Thuringia: The SPD government team (2009)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Poppenhäger dismissed - record of a dismantling. Thüringer Allgemeine, August 31, 2017, accessed on August 31, 2017 .
- ↑ Holger Poppenhäger: Thuringia's interior minister has to go because of regional reform. In: zeit.de. August 30, 2017, accessed August 31, 2017 .
- ^ List of the members of the German delegation in the Committee of the Regions ( Memento of July 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Constituency Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis I at the Regional Returning Officer Thuringia
- ↑ Former Interior Minister Poppenhäger is to head the State Office for Statistics. In: mdr.de. November 28, 2017. Retrieved November 29, 2017 .
State of Thuringia (1920–1952): Carl Eduard Freiherr von Brandenstein | Karl Hermann | Georg Sattler | Arnold Paulssen | Karl Riedel | Wilhelm Frick | Erwin Baum | Fritz Sauckel | Fritz Wächtler | Walter Ortlepp | Ernst Busse | Werner Eggerath | Willy Gebhardt
Free State of Thuringia (since 1990): Willibald Böck | Franz Schuster | Richard Dewes | Christian Köckert | Andreas Trautvetter | Karl Heinz Gasser | Manfred Scherer | Peter M. Huber | Jörg Geibert | Holger Poppenhäger | Georg Maier
State of Thuringia: Arnold Paulssen | Carl Eduard Freiherr von Brandenstein | Roman Rittweger | Karl Korsch | Richard Leutheußer | Karl Riedel | Wilhelm Kästner | Otto Weber | Helmut R. Külz (1946–1948) | Hans Loch (1948–1950) | Ralph Liebler (1950–1952)
Free State of Thuringia: Hans-Joachim Jentsch (1990–1994) | Otto Kretschmer (1994–1999) | Andreas Birkmann (1999–2002) | Karl Heinz Gasser (2002-2004) | Harald Schliemann (2004–2008) | Marion Walsmann (2008–2009) | Holger Poppenhäger (2009–2014) | Dieter Lauinger (2014–2020) | Dirk Adams (since 2020)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Poppenhäger, Holger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and politician (SPD) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |