Jörg-Uwe Hahn

Jörg-Uwe Hahn (2013)

Jörg-Uwe Hahn (born September 21, 1956 in Kassel ) is a German politician ( FDP ). From February 5, 2009 to January 18, 2014 he was Hessian Minister of Justice, Integration and Europe as well as Deputy Prime Minister and from 2006 to 2014 state chairman of the Hessian FDP .

Life

Hahn passed his Abitur at the Augustinian School in Friedberg in 1975 . From 1975 to 1980 he studied law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In November 1980 he passed the first state examination in law. He then became a trainee lawyer, and in June 1983 he passed the second state examination in law. Since his admission to the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court (August 1983) he has been working as an independent lawyer in Frankfurt am Main .

Hahn is Protestant , married and has two children.

politics

Hahn became a member of the FDP and the German Young Democrats (DJD) in 1973 .

He is mainly active in state politics. In 1982 he became a member of the state board of the FDP Hessen. In the state elections since 1983 , he ran each in constituency Wetterau I . He has been a member of the Hessian state parliament since April 5, 1987 . Hahn was a member of the Presidium of the state party from 1987 to 1991 and again since 1995. In April 1989 Hahn was appointed spokesman for domestic and legal policy for the FDP parliamentary group in the state parliament. From April 7, 1989 to March 31, 1996 he was deputy parliamentary group chairman, from April 1996 to April 1999 Parliamentary Managing Director of the FDP parliamentary group in the state parliament, which he chaired from April 7, 1999 to February 3, 2009. From April 23, 2005 to January 2014 Hahn was also state chairman of the FDP Hessen .

In addition, Hahn was FDP district chairman of the Wetterau district from 1991 to 1999 and since 2004 . He was a member of the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th federal assemblies . From May 2002 to 2013 Hahn was a member of the federal executive committee of the FDP.

For Hesse state election in 2008 and the early state election in Hesse in 2009 Hahn was the leading candidate of the FDP. The party had announced that it would never join a traffic light coalition . In 2009 he became Minister of Justice and Integration as well as Minister for European Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister, initially Roland Koch , and from 31 August 2010 Volker Bouffiers .

In 2012 Hahn chaired the Justice Ministers' Conference.

In the state elections in Hesse in 2013 , he ran in the Wetterau I constituency . Here he lost to Tobias Utter . However, he succeeded in entering the state parliament via a list of the party. Hahn's term of office as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice ended with the appointment of the Bouffier II cabinet on January 18, 2014.

In 2015 Hahn received an honorary doctorate from the EBS University of Economics and Law .

Outside employment

Hahn is a member of the Supervisory Board of Fraport AG (formerly FAG) and was on the Supervisory Board of Flughafen Frankfurt-Hahn GmbH until February 2009 .

Positions and controversies

After the Danish government announced the resumption of customs controls at the border crossings to Sweden and Germany to combat cross-border crime, Hahn called in July 2011 to boycott Denmark as a holiday country: “If Denmark reintroduces border controls during holiday time, I can only advise you to do so to turn around and prefer to go on vacation in Austria or Poland. "

On February 7, 2013, Hahn commented in an interview with the Frankfurter Neue Presse on the personnel debate about FDP party leader Philipp Rösler : “With Philipp Rösler, however, I would like to know whether our society is ready for an Asian-looking vice chancellor for longer to accept. ”This statement was rated as racist - not only by political opponents - and therefore provoked controversial reactions. Rösler, other high-ranking representatives of the FDP and advisory councils for foreigners stood behind Hahn and rejected the allegations as being based on misunderstandings.

In the case of the wrongly convicted teacher Horst Arnold ( miscarriage of justice around Horst Arnold ) Hahn made it clear that he was not prepared to make any changes in view of his low compensation of 25 euros per imprisonment day and better rehabilitation of innocent convicts. Such cases would also occur very rarely.