Johann Hahlen

Johann Hahlen (born December 13, 1942 in Trier ) is a German administrative lawyer . He was President of the Federal Statistical Office and Federal Returning Officer from 1995 to 2006. He then worked as State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) until the end of 2007 .

Life

After graduating from high school in Offenburg , Johann Hahlen studied law at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg from 1961 to 1965 and passed his second state examination in 1970 . Following the state examination, he worked as a lawyer from 1970 to 1972 .

On April 1, 1972, he moved to the Federal Ministry of the Interior as a consultant with responsibilities in the areas of salary law, election and party law, planning competitive sports and border police matters. From 1983 to 1988 he worked for the domestic policy working group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. During this time he was on leave from the BMI. In 1988 he returned to the BMI as head of the budget department. In 1992 he took over the management of the Constitution and Constitutional Law Division.

From 1995 to October 2006 he was President of the Federal Statistical Office and thus traditionally also the Federal Returning Officer. In this role he organized the federal elections in 1998, 2002 and 2005.

Between October 9, 2006 and December 31, 2007 he was a permanent state secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior with responsibility for the departments of principle, public service, constitutional and administrative law, sport, administrative modernization and the central department. On December 28, 2007 he was retired by the Federal Minister of the Interior, Wolfgang Schäuble .

Hahlen is married and has two children. He has been a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. since 1961 . Hohenstaufen Freiburg im Breisgau in the CV . In 2005, Hahlen was a founding member of the Research Institute for the Future of Work (IZA).

On May 30, 2007, at the meeting of the directors and presidents of the central advanced training institutions for public administration in the EU member states (DISPA), supported by the Federal Academy for Public Administration, he called for professional advanced training for civil servants : “In the age of the Internet and of globalization increasingly requires the ability of staff, networking with national and international, governmental and non-state actors to form. This makes it easier to negotiate with these partners, to reach agreements and to develop standards of behavior ”.

Web links

• Literature by and about Johann Hahlen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Brief description of Hahlens. bundeswahlleiter.de
• CV ( Memento from June 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Single receipts

1. ↑ http://www.bmi.bund.de/cln_012/nn_122688/Internet/Content/Nachrichten/Pressemitteilungen/2007/12/Hahlen__Ruhestand.html (link not available)
2. ^ Johann Hahlen: On the electoral division in reunified Germany in: Festschrift for Hans Engel . Wuppertal 2001. pp. 163-184.
3. ↑ www.egovcom.de - "State Secretary Hahlen calls for professional training for civil servants" ( Memento from June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )