Rainer Köttgen

Rainer Köttgen (born January 29, 1941 ) is a German lawyer . He was a civil servant and then a state councilor in Bremen .

biography

Köttgen studied after graduating from high school in the 1960 law . He was then an assessor in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture. In 1976 he received the position of planning officer at the Senator for Science in Bremen under Senator Horst Werner Franke (SPD). He drew up the first Bremen University Act. In 1979 he became head of the new research department. In 1985 he took over the management of the merged departments of universities and research. In 1995 Senator Bringfriede Kahrs (SPD) assigned him the main department for science, culture and sport. He helped shape the expansion and development of the university and research landscape in Bremen.

In 1999 he was appointed to the State Council of the Senator for Education and Science as a representative of Senator Willi Lemke , (SPD). In 2006 he retired, followed by Göttrik Wewer in the office. During his time as head of department and state councilor, the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), the center for applied space technology and microgravity with the drop tower, the Max Planck Institute for marine microbiology , the center for tropical marine ecology (ZMT), the Fraunhofer -Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Applied Materials Research (IFAM) was founded and Jacobs University Bremen emerged.

See also

• List of Bremen State Councilors and Deputies of Senators