Klaus Otto Nass

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Klaus Otto Nass (born on March 19, 1931 in Düsseldorf ; died on April 13, 2017 ) was a German legal scholar , top EU civil servant , State Secretary of Lower Saxony and university lecturer .

Life

Klaus Otto Nass spent childhood and adolescence with parents and siblings in Hanover. After graduating from high school at the Ratsgymnasium Hannover (1950) he studied law and economics in Mainz, Munich and Göttingen. In 1959 he passed the assessor examination and received his doctorate with a thesis on electoral bodies and electoral procedures in federal and state elections at the Georg-August University in Göttingen .

From 1959 to 1963 he worked in the Federal Ministry of Economics , most recently as a government director . He then moved to the Commission of the European Economic Community in Brussels . After being posted to the cabinet of European Commissioner Hans von der Groeben for six months , he was accepted as a member of the cabinet in 1963 and was responsible for agricultural and social policy. From 1967 he was assistant to the general director for competition Ernst Albrecht . From January to June 1970 he was Deputy Head of Cabinet von der Groebens and from 1970 to 1972 he was a member of the delegation for the accession negotiations under General Director Edmund Wellenstein. He remained associated with all three for a lifetime. In 1973 he became head of the Competitive Conditions in Agriculture department of the Agriculture Directorate-General .

When he was elected Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, Ernst brought Albrecht Nass to the state government of Lower Saxony in Hanover in 1976 . Here he was initially head of Department 1 - Political Guidelines, Departmental Coordination - in the Lower Saxony State Chancellery , and also a member of the German-German Border Commission , which was supposed to determine the inner-German border . From 1978 to 1982 he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Economics and Transport under Birgit Breuel . Subsequently, he was appointed country representative for international cooperation under Albrecht. In this role he coordinated projects for international development cooperation, especially with the partner country Sudan, and later also with China and Russia. He reported in numerous publications and newspaper articles on the subject of development aid and his travels in Sudan, which was ravaged by famine and civil war. in addition, he was deputy until 2009. Chairman of the Sudan Survival Aid Association, which he co-founded. For his work as State Commissioner, the subsequent government under Prime Minister Gerhard Schröder awarded him the Great Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit . From 1991 to 1994, Nass returned to the European Commission , where he headed the training department, and as Director E. h. retired.

Since 1981 he has been a lecturer and from 1989 honorary professor for public law , international and European law at the University of Hanover . After retiring as a civil servant, he devoted himself mainly to university teaching. From 1995 to 2001 he was founding director of the Foundation College for International Affairs of the Robert Bosch Stiftung . During this time, he co-initiated the Berlin initiative for more internationality in education, training and personnel policy in Germany by the Robert Bosch Stiftung, DGAP , Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik and Tönissteiner Kreis .

He published numerous books and articles. The spectrum of topics ranges from his experience in the German-German border commission or the European Commission to the emergency and development aid he initiated for Sudan to a father's report. For decades he was involved in numerous political associations and bodies such as CDU , Economic Council of the CDU , Federal Working Group of Christian Democratic Jurists , Working Group on European Integration , Tönisstein Circle , DGAP , German Africa Foundation , Association of German-French Societies for Europe and others. a.

He was married to the actress and reciter Cornelia Kühn-Leitz , who died in December 2016, for almost 50 years . They had two children.

On April 13, 2017, Klaus Otto Nass died in Hanover, Isernhagen-Süd , at the age of 86. His grave is also located in the local cemetery on Birkenweg.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Nass, Klaus Otto. In: Historical Archives of the European Union . Retrieved April 25, 2017.
  2. ↑ List of authors: Prof. Dr. Klaus Otto Nass. In: Heidelberger Club für Wirtschaft und Kultur (Ed.): Ready for the knowledge society? Education and training put to the test. Springer, Berlin a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-540-64089-4 , p. 227, limited preview in Google Book Search
  3. ^ Klaus Otto Nass: England's departure to Europe: a first overview of the accession negotiations . Europa Union Verlag, Bonn 1971.
  4. ↑ Edmund Wellenstein: My 20th Century . Ed .: Klaus Otto Nass, Volker Epping. Hanover 2011.
  5. ↑ The VDFG mourns the loss of Prof. Klaus Otto Nass. In: Association of German-French Societies for Europe . April 22, 2017. Retrieved April 25, 2017.
  6. ^ Nass, Klaus Otto (1931–). In: Kalliope Association . Retrieved April 25, 2017.
  7. ↑ Bernd H. Oppermann: The faculty mourns Hon.-Prof. Dr. Klaus Otto Nass. University of Hanover, April 19, 2017, accessed on July 23, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Klaus Otto Nass: Germany's European capability and international responsibility as an educational task . Ed .: Robert Bosch Foundation. Stuttgart 2002.
  9. ^ Klaus Otto Nass: Company obituary. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Lebenswege, April 22, 2017, accessed on April 25, 2017.
  10. ^ Ulrich Bopp: The Berlin Initiative 2001 to 2006 - a balance. (PDF) Tönissteiner Kreis, 2007, accessed on July 23, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Klaus Otto Nass: Measuring the Iron Curtain - German-German Border Commission and GDR State Security . Centaurus Verlag, Herbolzheim 2010.
  12. ↑ Kristian Teetz: Klaus Otto Nass: "The Measurement of the Iron Curtain". In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . November 6, 2010, accessed April 25, 2017.
  13. ^ Klaus Otto Nass: Guide through the European Community. Europa-Union-Verlag, Bonn 1983, ISBN 3-7713-0213-7 .
  14. ↑ Klaus Otto Nass: A lot of patience for many small steps: donors and receivers have to relearn. In: The time . January 10, 1986. Retrieved April 25, 2017.
  15. ↑ Klaus Otto Nass: The first son's early years: a father's report. dva, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-421-02507-X .
  16. ↑ An alert spirit and European: Professor Klaus Otto Nass is dead. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. April 22, 2017. Retrieved April 25, 2017.
  17. ^ Mourning for Professor Dr. Klaus Otto Nass. In: German Society for Foreign Policy . April 19, 2017. Retrieved April 25, 2017.
  18. ^ Association of German-French Societies: The VDFG mourns the loss of Prof. Klaus Otto Nass. April 22, 2017. Retrieved July 23, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Nass, Klaus Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar, EU civil servant, politician (CDU), Lower Saxony State Secretary and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 2017