Jan Hecker

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Jan Hecker (June 2021)

Jan Hecker (born February 15, 1967 in Kiel ; † September 5, 2021 in the PR China ) was a German lawyer and diplomat . He was German ambassador to the People's Republic of China from August 2021 until his death . From 2017 he was also the foreign policy advisor to Chancellor Angela Merkel . Previously, Hecker was a judge at the Federal Administrative Court and an adjunct professor at the European University Viadrina .

Life

Hecker, son of a naval officer, graduated from high school in Flensburg in 1986 and was a temporary soldier for 24 months .

From 1988 to 1994 he studied both politics and law at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , the University of Grenoble and the Georg August University of Göttingen . He passed the first state examination in law in 1993 , completed his Magister Artium in 1994 and did his legal clerkship in the district of the Court of Appeal from 1994 to 1996 . From 1996 to 1997 he took part in a postgraduate program in European law at the University of Cambridge and obtained the title of Master of Laws (LLM). He received his doctorate in 1997 for Doctor of Laws (topic European integration as a constitutional problem in France at the University of Goettingen in Volkmar Götz ).

From 2000 he taught at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) , the Humboldt University Berlin , the Free University Berlin and the University of Applied Sciences for Administration and Justice in Berlin . In 2005 he completed his habilitation at the Viadrina on the subject of market-optimizing economic supervision . In 2010, Hecker was appointed adjunct professor for public law and European law by the Viadrina.

Hecker was married and had three children. He died just a few days after taking office as German ambassador to the People's Republic of China at the age of 54. The circumstances of his death are unclear.

He was a member of the SPD from 1995 to 2002 .

career

Hecker worked briefly as a lawyer at Hengeler Mueller and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer before he started working for the Federal Ministry of the Interior at the end of 1999 . During his time in the Federal Ministry of the Interior, he was seconded to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution for two years . In July 2005 he completed his habilitation at the Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) and in 2010 he was appointed adjunct professor for public law and European law at this university.

In December 2011 he took up the position of judge at the Federal Administrative Court and was assigned to the 6th Revision Senate, responsible for school, university and examination law, press, broadcasting and telecommunications law, postal law, law of associations and assembly , gun law and that Police and regulatory law, the law of the constitutional protection authorities and intelligence services as well as state church law . In 2013, Hecker came into the focus of the press. As a civil servant in the Federal Ministry of the Interior, he had published an article in the journal Deutsches Verwaltungsblatt in 2006, in which he objected to federal authorities' obligations to provide information based on state press laws . It was precisely on this matter that the 6th Senate of the Federal Administrative Court, to which Hecker was a judge, made a decision of principle on February 20, 2013, in which this interpretation was confirmed.

In 2015, Hecker took over the head of the refugee policy coordination team in the Federal Chancellery , he was recruited on the recommendation of Peter Altmaier, who knew each other from Hecker's time in the Federal Ministry of the Interior. After the parliamentary elections in 2017, even before the formation of the new government, appointed Angela Merkel Hecker, succeeding Christoph Heusgen for the position of its external consultant and he took over as Secretary of State , the head of the department of foreign, security and development policy . He was thus considered the most important foreign policy advisor to the Chancellor, although he had not pursued a classic diplomatic career. At the end of 2018, Hecker resigned as a judge at the BVerwG and switched to a civil service. At the end of August 2021, Hecker became Germany's extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador to the People's Republic of China.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ambassador Dr. Jan Hecker. In: Foreign Office. Retrieved September 6, 2021 .
  2. ↑ Sherpa of the Chancellor. In: FAZ. September 6, 2021, accessed September 6, 2021 .
  3. ^ A b Georg Fahrion, Martin Knobbe: Merkel's husband in China. In: Der Spiegel. September 6, 2021, accessed September 6, 2021 .
  4. ↑ Jan Hecker: German ambassador to China died after a few days in office. In: The time . September 6, 2021, accessed September 6, 2021 .
  5. ↑ Robin Alexander : Merkel's new chief adviser for foreign policy comes from the SPD. In: The world. October 15, 2017, accessed September 6, 2021 .
  6. ^ Judge at the Federal Administrative Court Prof. Dr. Jan Hecker retired. In: Federal Administrative Court . January 2, 2019, accessed September 6, 2021 .
  7. ^ Philipp Wittrock: Freedom of the press: No right to information from federal authorities? In: Der Spiegel. February 17, 2013, accessed September 6, 2021 .
  8. ^ Right to information of the press against federal authorities directly from the Basic Law. In: Federal Administrative Court. February 20, 2013, accessed September 6, 2021 .
  9. ^ A b Daniel Brössler, Lea Sahay: Jan Hecker: Manager of the great crises. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. September 6, 2021, accessed September 6, 2021 .
  10. ↑ Majid Sattar : Much more than an internal implementation. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . October 11, 2017, accessed September 6, 2021 .
  11. ↑ Press release of the BVerwG No. 2/2019 v. January 2nd, 2019 at juris
predecessor government office successor
Clemens von Goetze German ambassador in Beijing in
2021 		vacant
personal data
SURNAME Hecker, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, judge at the Federal Administrative Court
BIRTH DATE February 15, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH People's Republic of China