Martin Neuffer (administrative lawyer)

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Martin Neuffer (born June 18, 1924 in Heidelberg ; † June 9, 2004 in Hamburg ) was a German administrative lawyer . From 1963 to 1974 Neuffer was Oberstadtdirektor of Hanover and then until 1980 director of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Hamburg.

Life

The son of the archaeologist Eduard Neuffer studied law at the University of Bonn . Member of the SPD since 1946 , Neuffer later became the personal advisor to the Lower Saxony Prime Minister Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf and from 1960 was city councilor and personnel officer in Hanover . In 1963 he was appointed senior city director of the state capital of Lower Saxony as the successor to Karl Wiechert .

Neuffer recognized early on the need to scientifically support urban politics. Together with Hans-Jochen Vogel , he promoted the establishment of the German Institute for Urban Studies .

The "Nanas" Sophie, Caroline and Charlotte set up in 1974 on Neuffer's initiative on the Hohen Ufer in Hanover

Neuffer understood communal political action in its socio-political context and stated this in his writings. Since from 1962 to 1968 the population of Hanover had fallen by over 8 percent to around 527,000 people, Neuffer commissioned a study in May 1969 on the problems in image the city pointed out. You have neither metropolitan flair nor opportunities for young people to go out. As he wrote to the director of the municipal art association Diether de la Motte , there was a lack of vitality and temperament. The city is considered stiff, correct and prudish. Since various cities organized image campaigns, also for city tourism, Hanover did not want to be inferior. The cultural and recreational value should be given greater importance. Neuffer also demonstrated foresight when, after the Red Dot campaign in June 1969, he communalized the transport companies and introduced a transport association for the greater Hanover area . On Neuffer's initiative, the city carried out the street art experiment from August 1970 to October 1972, which attracted the greatest attention in the city with the "Nanas" set up on the Hohe Ufer in 1974 . In order to increase the “attitude towards life” of the Hanoverians, it was initiated with an old town festival , the first in Germany. In addition, Neuffer also called for the university to be expanded to include humanities and social science courses in order to improve its image.

While Neuffer was considered a visionary chief town director, his successor Rudolf Koldewey (from 1974) was referred to as the "general of the retreat generals".

From 1962 to 1974 Neuffer was a member of the NDR board of directors. On March 8, 1974 he was elected director of the NDR for six years. In retrospect, the future director Jobst Plog praised him as a “formative personality” with an “upright gait” at the head of the broadcaster: “Martin Neuffer performed his position in extremely difficult times. With great personal courage and commitment, he campaigned for the independence of the NDR and made a significant contribution to the preservation of the former three-country institution, which was endangered by violent political conflicts. "

In his 1982 book Die Erde does not grow with , the left-wing social democrat Martin Neuffer pleaded among other things to "sharply" curb the immigration of Turks to the Federal Republic and to restrict the right of asylum "drastically" to Europeans.

Martin Neuffer lived for a few years in the Gartenhofsiedlung in the Marienwerder district of Hanover . He was married twice. The first marriage had three children, and he had two stepchildren with the second wife.

Publications

  • Cities for All: Drafting an Urban Policy. 1st - 6th thousand, Hamburg: Wegner, 1970, ISBN 978-3-8032-0134-8 and ISBN 3-8032-0134-9
  • City as a decision-making area: local politics as social politics. Site review of the local self-government. Stuttgart 1973
  • The earth does not grow with it: New politics in an overpopulated world. CH Beck, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-406-08457-5 .
  • No to Life: An Essay. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-596-11342-3

literature

  • Robert Sander , Herbert Schmalstieg (eds.): “Cities for everyone” - about visionary and feasible urban planning: Martin Neuffer and Rudolf Koldewey. Documentation of the symposium on June 20, 2005 in Hanover / German Institute for Urban Studies, Difu (= materials / German Institute for Urban Studies , 2006.2), Berlin: Difu, 2006, ISBN 978-3-88118-415-1 and ISBN 3-88118- 415-5

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Cities for Everyone - about visionary and feasible urban planning Martin Neuffer and Rudolf Koldewey
  2. ↑ Günter SAMTLEBE 10 years at the German Institute for Urban Studies
  3. ↑ Lu Seegers: The colored city. Image and communication policy in Hanover in the early seventies In: A. v. Balance: City u. Communication in times of upheaval in Germany . Stuttgart 206, p. 181ff.
  4. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Koldewey, Rudolf. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 362.
  5. ^ Obituary of the NDR
  6. ↑ The rich will draw death fences . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 1982, pp. 35 ( online - with excerpts).
  7. ↑ Dagmar Albrecht (ed.) Et al. : Experience of the residents , in this: Today in Marienwerder. A district book about different people, historical sights, the environment and nature , 199 pages, with drawings by Gisela Blumenbach and others as well as photographs by Kristin Beier et al., Hannover-Marienwerder: D. Albrecht, 1992, p. 25f.
  8. ↑ (Review in the Spiegel from April 19, 1982: The rich will pull death fences )
personal data
SURNAME Neuffer, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 2004
Place of death Hamburg