Klaus Hardraht

Klaus Hardraht, 2018

Klaus Hardraht (born December 20, 1941 in Dresden ) is a German lawyer and politician ( non-party , later CDU ).

Life and work

Hardraht was born in Dresden in 1941 and grew up in Hamburg and Berlin from 1946 after the division of Germany . After graduating from high school in 1961, he studied law and philosophy at the universities of Würzburg , Lausanne , Strasbourg and Coimbra . Between 1965 and 1969 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Würzburg and in 1969 as an advisor to the legal department of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg , before joining the Hamburg judicial service in 1970, where he worked as a judge at the regional court and assistant to the Hamburg judicial authority .

In 1979 Hardraht was appointed judge at the Hamburg Higher Administrative Court and in 1981 he was appointed presiding judge at the Hamburg Administrative Court. In 1982 he moved to the Hamburg judicial authority as head of the general administration office. After German reunification and the re-establishment of the Free State of Saxony , he was seconded to the Saxon State Ministry of Justice on December 1, 1990 as head of the department for general administration and was appointed State Secretary of the Ministry of Justice in August 1992 .

politics

After the election for the 15th Hamburg Citizenship on September 19, 1993, a coalition was formed between the SPD and the Statt Party, which was represented in the Citizenship for the first time . Hardraht was elected to the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg on December 15, 1993 as one of three non-party candidates proposed by the Statt Party . He took over the management of the judicial authority . On August 31, 1995, he resigned from the Senate. His successor as Justice Senator was Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem , who was also non-party .

After the dismissal of the Interior Minister Heinz Eggert (CDU) on July 10, 1995, the Saxon Prime Minister Kurt Biedenkopf (CDU) appointed Hardraht on September 1, 1995 as Saxon State Minister of the Interior . Hardraht retained this office after 1999 in the third state government formed by Kurt Biedenkopf. At the beginning of his ministerial work in Saxony, Hardraht was still non-party, but later joined the CDU.

With Biedenkopf's resignation from the office of Prime Minister on April 17, 2002, Hardraht's term of office as Minister of State also ended. He continued in his office until the new Saxon state government of Prime Minister Georg Milbradt (CDU) took office on May 2, 2002. Horst Rasch (CDU) became the new Minister of State for the Interior .

Hardraht belonged to the Federal Council as a member of the Hamburg Senate from December 15, 1993 to August 31, 1995 and as a member of the Saxon State Government from September 12, 1995 to May 2, 2002, each as a deputy member. In his capacity as Justice Senator, he was elected Chairman of the Legal Committee of the Federal Council on February 4, 1994.

Later years

After the end of his political career, Hardraht worked as a lawyer . From 2004 to 2014 he was the successor of Michael Antoni as President of the Saxon Administration and Business Academy. V.

See also

• Senate Voscherau III
• Cabinet Biedenkopf II
• Cabinet Biedenkopf III

Web links

• Short biography at the Saxon State Ministry of the Interior
• Biography at the legal and tax consultancy firm Petersen Hardraht Pruggmayer

Individual evidence

1. ^ Motion of the parliamentary groups of the SPD and the STATT party: election of senators. (PDF; 2.5 MB) In: Plenary minutes 15/5. Citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, December 15, 1993, pp. 157–159 , accessed on May 23, 2016 . 
2. ^ Announcements from the President. (PDF; 1.6 MB) In: Plenary minutes 15/50. Citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, August 30, 1995, p. 2409 , accessed on May 23, 2016 . 
3. ↑ briefing. (PDF; 26 kB) In: Drucksache 2/1448. Saxon State Parliament, August 1, 1995, accessed on May 23, 2016 . 
4. ↑ briefing. (PDF; 20 kB) In: Drucksache 2/1564. Saxon State Parliament, August 24, 1995, accessed on May 23, 2016 . 
5. ^ Biedenkopf calls Hardraht to Saxony. In: The world. August 18, 1995, accessed May 23, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Official notices. (PDF; 6.6 MB) In: Plenary minutes 688th Bundesrat, September 22, 1995, p. 369 , accessed on May 23, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Official notices. (PDF; 613 kB) In: Plenary Protocol 776th Federal Council, May 31, 2002, p. 263 , accessed on May 23, 2016 . 
8. ^ Resolution of the Federal Council: Election of committee chairmen. (PDF; 24 kB) In: Drucksache 64/94 (decision). Federal Council, February 4, 1994, accessed on May 23, 2016 .