Johann Konrad Keller

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Johann Konrad Keller (born April 25, 1944 in Göttingen ) is a German lawyer , administrative officer and politician ( SPD ).

Life

After graduating from the Friedrichsgymnasium in Kassel in 1963 , Keller began studying law at the universities of Berlin , Freiburg im Breisgau and Göttingen , which he completed in 1968 with the first state examination in law. He then spent two semesters abroad at the University of Caen . Finally, he completed his legal clerkship in Kassel and passed the second state examination in 1972.

Keller became a member of the SPD in 1966. In 1972 he joined the administrative service of the city ​​of Hanover and initially worked as a civil servant at the building authorities. From 1974 to 1976 he was personal advisor to Minister Klaus-Peter Bruns and from 1976 to 1980 advisor in the water and waste department in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests . He then worked until 1981 as the head of the health and youth department of the Göttingen district . From 1982 to 1986 he worked as a research assistant for the SPD parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament . He then moved to the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Environment , where he headed the waste management department from 1990 to 1994.

Since September 1994, Keller has been State Secretary in the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry in the government of the State of Saxony-Anhalt led by Prime Minister Reinhard Höppner . With the formation of an SPD minority government he took over on May 26, 1998 as Minister of the leadership of the Ministry, which he until April 10, 2000 held when he was appointed head of the Ministry of Regional Planning, Agriculture and Environment. After the SPD's defeat in the state elections in 2002 and the formation of a CDU / FDP coalition , he left the state government on May 16, 2002. Petra Wernicke was appointed as his successor in office .

Johann Konrad Keller is married and has three children.

See also

literature

  • Munzinger : Internationales Biographisches Archiv 39/2002 from September 16, 2002