Klaus Dieter Leister

Klaus Dieter Leister (born November 26, 1937 in Berlin ; † November 4, 2017 ) was a German lawyer , administrative officer and politician ( SPD ).

Life

After graduating from high school in 1958 at the humanistic grammar school in Wuppertal , he served as a reserve officer candidate with the armored forces from 1958 to 1959 . He later became a reserve officer , most recently in the rank of captain of the reserve. Following his service in the German Armed Forces , he began studying law and political science at the universities in Berlin and Bonn in 1959 , which he completed in 1964 with the first state examination at the Cologne Higher Regional Court . From 1964 to 1966 he worked as a research assistant at the Law and Political Science Institute of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . He then went through his legal traineeship in the district of the Cologne Higher Regional Court. After passing the second state examination in law, he entered the federal service on April 1, 1969 as a civil servant. In 1970 he was at the University of Bonn with the working definition of the command from the administrative act in the civil service and military law for Dr. jur. PhD.

Leister worked from 1969 to 1972 as an administrative clerk in the Federal Ministry of Economics , where he initially worked as a legal advisor and personnel planner in the personnel department. He later took on tasks in the management area as a parliamentary and cabinet advisor. In December 1972, he moved to the Federal Ministry of Finance , where he became head of the office of Federal Finance Minister Helmut Schmidt . After Schmidt's election as Federal Chancellor in May 1974, he took over the management of his offices in the Federal Chancellery , which he held until January 1979. From February 1979 to December 1980 he then worked as head of the department for fundamental issues of development policy and for international development policy in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation .

Leister was a general representative in 1989/90 and a board member of WestLB from 1991 to 1995 . On May 1, 1996, he became director and executive board member of the Gustav Stresemann Institute in Bonn, which he headed until 2014. Klaus Dieter Leister is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Heinz Kühn Foundation . In addition, he took on numerous supervisory board mandates in various companies.

Public offices

From January 1981 to October 1982 Leister was permanent state secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defense and thus a political official . Armaments planning and procurement, logistics and security policy fell into his area of ​​responsibility. Under Prime Minister Johannes Rau , he was State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior from November 1982 to October 1983 and from October 1983 to December 1988 as State Secretary and Head of the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Honors

• 1984: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1988: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary notice at Wir trauern , accessed on November 9, 2017