Jochen Dieckmann (politician)

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Jochen Dieckmann (born September 8, 1947 in Bad Godesberg ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 2005 to the beginning of 2007 he was state chairman of the SPD in North Rhine-Westphalia . From 1999 to 2005 he was Minister of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in various departments .

Life

Dieckmann studied 1966-1971 jurisprudence at the Universities of Bonn , Freiburg and Cologne . After his first legal state examination in 1971, he completed the legal preparatory service in the district of the OLG Cologne until 1975 . From 1975 to 1981 he worked as a lawyer in the legal office of the city of Bonn. In 1981 he became a speaker for domestic and local politics in the SPD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag . From 1982 to 1989 he was a consultant and from 1989 to 1990 a member of the German Association of Cities . In 1990, Dieckmann was appointed executive member of the presidency of the German Association of Cities and a managing board member of the Association of Cities in North Rhine-Westphalia . From 1995 to 1999 he was also Secretary General of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR).

Dieckmann, a member of the SPD since 1974 , was appointed Minister of Justice of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in March 1999 (after Reinhard Rauball's one-week interlude ) as the successor to Fritz Behrens , who since then has only been Minister of the Interior (previously Minister of the Interior and Justice) ( Cabinet Clement I and Cabinet Clement II ). Since March 8, 2002 he was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia ; he ran for constituency  26 ( Rhein-Sieg-Kreis II ).

From November 12, 2002, Dieckmann was Finance Minister of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia ( Steinbrück Cabinet ); the office of Minister of Justice took over Wolfgang Gerhards . After losing the state election in North Rhine-Westphalia, Dieckmann resigned from his ministerial office on June 24, 2005. On July 9, 2005, he was elected to succeed the outgoing state chairman Harald Schartau at the extraordinary state party conference of the North Rhine-Westphalian SPD in Bochum . He was last re-elected on April 1, 2006 at the regular state party conference with a majority of 90.77 percent. On January 20, 2007, Dieckmann's Hannelore Kraft was elected as his successor. On March 6, 2007, Jochen Dieckmann resigned as a member of the state parliament, and Petra Schneppe replaced him for constituency 48 Krefeld II .

Dieckmann taught at the German University for Administrative Sciences Speyer , from 1997 as a lecturer and from June 2007 as honorary professor . He is a member of the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning and is also co-editor of the journal The Public Administration . From January 2007 until his retirement in December 2016, he also worked for the Bonn law firm Eimer - Heuschmid - Mehle .

In the summer of 2007 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Dieckmann was and is engaged in honorary positions; Among other things, he was President of the German Library Association (DBV) from 1992 to 1996 and, as the successor to Rita Süssmuth and Michael Walter, Chairman of the State Prevention Council of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2011 to 2017 . The state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia elected him at the suggestion of the SPD parliamentary group as an expert and advisory member of the constitutional commission of the state parliament for the period from 2013 to 2016. Since 2007 he has been vice-president or deputy chairman of the Gustav Stresemann Institute in Bonn .

His wife is the former mayor of Bonn Bärbel Dieckmann (also SPD). He is the father of four children, two pairs of twins : Christoph and Markus were born in 1976 and are known as European beach volleyball champions, two daughters were born a year later.

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