Johannes Strasser (politician)

Johannes Strasser (born February 12, 1945 in Tapfheim ) is a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

Strasser attended the music school in Eichstätt . He studied education and political science at the University of Munich , passed the first state examination in 1969 and the second state examination in 1972. From 1969 to 1972 he was a trainee teacher, today comparable to the legal clerkship. Strasser now lives in Gundelfingen on the Danube .

politics

In March 1972 he was elected to the municipal council of the newly formed municipality of Tapfheim and on September 17, 1972 he was elected mayor. At that time he left the civil service as a civil servant. At the age of 27 he was the youngest full-time mayor in Bavaria. He was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament from 1986 to 2003 and was, among other things, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on State Budget and Financial Matters. As his successor in the mayor's office, the Donauwörth City and District Councilor Alfred Stöckl was elected in 1986. He was a member of the district council of Donau-Ries from 1978 to 2000 and of the Dillingen district from 2002 to 2008. In 1968 Strasser became a member of the SPD, from 1984 to 1994 chairman of the SPD Donau-Ries and until 1998 deputy chairman of the SPD Swabia.

Awards

The Bavarian Order of Merit was awarded to him on July 7, 1999 for outstanding services to the Free State of Bavaria and the Bavarian people by Prime Minister Dr. Edmund Stoiber awarded. The Bavarian Constitutional Medal in silver was presented to Strasser by the President of the State Parliament Johann Böhm on December 3, 2001. For 25 years of active fire service with all performance tests, he was appointed by Interior Minister Dr. Günther Beckstein honored in 1995. He received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon on December 17, 2014 from Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann .

Volunteering

From 1964 to 1968 he was at the head of the Catholic rural youth movement in Tapfheim and in the district of Dillingen adDonau and for years organized international youth exchanges with France. From 1969 to 1972 he worked as an organist in Schwennenbach and Oberglauheim and as conductor of the church choir and the Schwennenbach choir. As Vice President of the Bavarian Gymnastics District (BTB) and Chairman of the Swabian Gymnastics District, Strasser has been involved for years.

Lecturer and business consultant

He was given teaching positions at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich / Neubiberg and the University of Augsburg from 2004 to 2007. He did his doctorate at the Philosophical and Social Science Faculty of the University of Augsburg and dealt in the inaugural dissertation with the subject of "weak points in politics" - observations on institutional and procedural deficits - illustrated by the treatment of educational policy issues in Bavaria, published by Ergon Verlag, Spektrum Politikwissenschaft, Volume 40. Since completing his lectureship, he has been working in the field of renewable energies, runs his own office in Gundelfingen and works as a management consultant throughout Germany.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Appreciation for the award of the Federal Cross of Merit

Web links

• Johannes Strasser in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History