Otto Neukum

Otto Neukum (born December 23, 1929 in Bamberg ; † November 9, 2014 in Burgebrach ) was a German politician ( CSU ).

Life and work

Otto Neukum passed the Abitur at the old grammar school in Bamberg in 1949 and then studied law and philosophy in Bamberg, Erlangen and Munich . After taking the first and second state exams, he became a government assessor in the government of Upper Franconia in 1958 . In the following year he became a legal civil servant at the district office in Kronach and then a councilor. In 1963 he joined the state police department of Upper Franconia, where he was the police advisor and deputy head of the state police department. In 1966 he became a senior councilor.

Neukum was elected district administrator of the Bamberg district in 1966 , he retained this office even after the regional reform and carried it out until 1996. From 1974 to 1978 he was also a member of the district assembly of Upper Franconia . After that he was first deputy chairman and from 1988 chairman of the district association of Bavaria. In May 1990 he became president of the association, which was now called Bayerischer Landkreistag . In that year he also became Vice President of the German District Association , from 1992 to 1996 he was President. From the beginning of 1982 to the end of February 1997 he was also a member of the Bavarian Senate for municipalities and municipal associations.

In 1971 he was appointed Knight of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem by Cardinal Grand Master Eugène Cardinal Tisserant and invested in the Konstanz Minster on May 15, 1971 by Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy . He was an officer of the order.

Awards and honors

• Accolade as a Knight of the Holy Sepulcher (1971)
• Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1984)
• Large Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1995)
• Bavarian Order of Merit (1995)
• Honorary title "Altlandrat" (2004)
• Honorary Senator of the University of Bamberg
• Gold medal of merit from the district of Bamberg
• Bavarian Constitutional Medal

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• Who is who ?: The German Who's Who, Volume 36, Schmidt-Römhild, 1997, p. 1024

Web links

• Otto Neukum in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
• Former district administrator Otto Neukum passed away Obituary on pressemeldung-bayern.de from November 17, 2014