Roland Hahn

Roland Hahn (born January 17, 1946 in Rottenburg am Neckar ) is a German politician. From 1972 to 1984 he was a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg for the constituency of Tübingen.

education and profession

After primary school in Rottenburg, Hahn attended the Eugen-Bolz-Gymnasium , where he graduated from high school in 1966. From 1963 to 1965 he was the student representative there. He successfully organized the so-called "pretzel strike" to lower the prices of baked goods that were sold by the local baker to the students.

From 1966 to 1971 Hahn studied German studies, interrupted from 1967 to 1968 at Ohio State University (USA), at Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , with Friedrich Beißner , among others , contemporary history with Gerhard Schulz and political science with Theodor Eschenburg and Klaus von Beyme , among others . He passed the first and second state exams in German and Politics in 1971 and 1973; at the same time he was a journalist at the SWF -Landesstudio Tübingen .

From 1973 to 1988 Hahn was a high school teacher, most recently as director of studies in Villingen . At the same time , he received his doctorate magna-cum-laude for a doctorate in social sciences with a thesis on the state parliament. He then graduated from the country's leadership academy with an internship at the EU Finance Commissioner with "very good". From 1989 to 1996 Hahn worked in regional planning in the Interior Ministry, then in the Ministry of Economics in Stuttgart , most recently as Head of the Ministerial Council. His main focus was the conversion of military properties to industrial sites, the establishment of the Stuttgart Region Association and cross-border cooperation with Switzerland and France. From 1996 he was director of the Regional Association of the Southern Upper Rhine in Freiburg im Breisgau . Tasks here included the long-term securing of the gravel and sand deposits, a nationwide "market concept" for the control of large-scale retail locations, the new four-track European freight railway line on the Upper Rhine and more effective, also cross-border open space security. In 2002 he was retired at his own request for health reasons.

Hahn has been an independent consultant in planning since 2002, including for World Bank projects in Africa. He has been a full member of the Academy for Spatial and Regional Planning (ARL) since 1992 and has published numerous articles on spatial planning. Roland Hahn has lived in Badenweiler since 2003 and is host and moderator of the monthly literary salon there. He also explores Badenweiler as a station of world historical events from the Roman Emperor Vespasian, around 70 AD, to Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt, 1985. Hahn is also the founder of a local network of cultural workers, Kultur-Forum-Badenweiler, and publishes novels and essays under a pseudonym . After working in Leipzig, Usedom and Rügen, he has lived in Hamburg since 2018.

politics

Hahn joined the SPD in 1964 . In 1965 and 1969 he was Bundestag election manager for the SPD MP and State Secretary in the Federal Council Minister Friedrich Schäfer . From 1970 he was elected to local and district boards and to state and federal party conferences of the SPD.

From 1972 to 1984 he was a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg for the constituency of Tübingen . In 1972, at the age of 26, he was Germany's youngest parliamentarian to date. In terms of educational policy, he primarily influenced the state's kindergarten and kindergarten teacher legislation. In 1973 Roland Hahn drafted the "Pink Paper", which spoke out in favor of a more aggressive SPD opposition in Baden-Württemberg and was supported by a quarter of the SPD parliamentary group, mostly younger members. The SPD parliamentary group took up his proposal in 1978, with which he demanded free attendance at kindergarten. At the state and federal level, Roland Hahn, as co-chairman of a Bund-Länder-AG, worked alongside Herbert Wehner on the foreigner policy (lowering the age limit for children coming to Germany to 6 years for foreigners) and the family policy of the SPD (redeployment of funds from tax-free child allowances to massive ones Increase in child benefit; advance maintenance funds for single parents). From 1979 he basically criticized the adjustment course of the state party and parliamentary group leader Erhard Eppler towards the Greens. Hahn also opposed Eppler's attempt to overthrow Helmut Schmidt as Federal Chancellor on the issue of the NATO double resolution. In 1982 Roland Hahn announced his retirement from the state parliament for 1984. He resigned from the SPD in 2003.

Honors

In 1984 he received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class .

Publications

• Power and impotence of the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg: the role of the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg in the political process 1972 - 1981  ; Roland Hahn. - Kehl on the Rhine [u. a.]: Engel, 1987
• "Cooperation and coordination structures", in "Outline of state and regional planning", ARL, Hanover 1999
• Spatial and geographical structure ", in" Südlicher Oberrhein. Culture and Business Portrait ", Kunstverlag Josef Bühn, Munich, 1997

swell

• Handbooks of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg 1972 to 1984
• Stuttgarter Zeitung from 1971 to 1982, ARL Vademecum, article in the Badische Zeitung from 1996 and 2002