Otto Fichtner
Otto Fichtner (born March 25, 1929 in Bremen - Huchting ; † July 8, 2013 in Bremen) was a German lawyer , social and administrative scientist and university professor .
biography
Family, education and work
Fichtner was the son of a locksmith. He lived in Huchting for 30 years and graduated from secondary school at Leibnizplatz and graduated from high school in 1948. In the Bremen administration he continued his training for the higher service . In the 1950s he then studied law at the University of Hamburg and the University of Bonn .
From 1956 to 1961 the lawyer was a research assistant in the SPD federal headquarters. He returned in 1961 to Bremen back and continued his career as an official in the higher civil service as legal adviser continued. He became department head for youth at the Senator for Welfare and Youth Annemarie Mevissen (SPD).
1965 he was elected Assistant Secretary for Social Affairs and Youth and thus social alderman of the city of Essen . In this capacity he was a member of the "Youth Rights Reform" commission and co-author of the AWO memorandum based on it (1968). He then served from 1969 to 1976 as Assistant Secretary Head of Youth and Social Services Department at the Ministry of Youth, Family and Health in Bonn . In 1976 he moved to Duisburg , where he was also an alderman and social affairs officer as well as deputy to the city's senior city director.
From 1990 to 1991 he worked temporarily as head of department in the Brandenburg Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Health and Women in building up the administration. From 1991 to 1993 he was President of the Brandenburg State Office for Social Affairs and Supply in Cottbus .
He was an honorary professor at the University of Bremen .
He was married to Irmgard Gaertner-Fichtner (SPD), from 1992 to 1994 a senator in Bremen.
Politics and other memberships
Fichtner became a member of the SPD in 1948. In 1955/56 he was the federal chairman of the Socialist German Student Union (SDS). He was then active in various SPD functions, including a. also as the local association chairman of the Neustädter SPD in Bremen.
He had been a member of the Workers' Welfare Association (AWO) since 1962 . In the AWO he worked in the specialist committees for youth welfare / youth policy as well as welfare and social policy and from 1989 to 1991 as federal chairwoman of the AWO.
From 1966 to 1994 he was on the board of the German Association for Public and Private Welfare (DV), from 1976 to 1978 deputy chairman and from 1978 to 1989 chairman of the DV.
He worked in Borgfeld for the Wilhelm Kaisen Memorial and Documentation Center .
Honors
- The AWO awarded him the Marie Juchacz plaque .
- In 2013, the SPD state chairman Andreas Bovenschulte from the SPD Bremen honored him for his unusually long 65-year membership.
Works
- Otto Fichtner with Gerd Wenzel (ed.) And others: Commentary on basic security for SGB XII, several editions. Vahlen-Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-8006-3174-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Weser-Kurier of February 4, 2013: SPD honors Otto Fichtner .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fichtner, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Huchting (Bremen) |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 8, 2013 |
| Place of death | Bremen |