Rolf Berger (lawyer)

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Rolf Berger (born October 22, 1933 in Schwelm ( Ennepe-Ruhr district )) is a German lawyer, he was President of the Technical University of Berlin from 1977 to 1978.

Career

Berger was born into the family of the businessman Rudolf Berger. He graduated from elementary and high school, graduated from high school in 1954 and then began studying law, which brought him to Bonn, Berlin and Cologne. In 1957 the trainee examination followed and then the legal preparatory service . Study trips to Holland, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Russia and Poland are mentioned in the curriculum vitae, which is listed in the dissertation. His doctorate at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in 1961 was on the subject of the demands of the electricity supply companies in the bankruptcy of the customer . The first rapporteur was Paul Gieseke , the second rapporteur Kurt Ballerstedt .

Employment

As ministerial director in the Bonn Ministry of Research under Research Minister Horst Ehmke and State Secretary Hans-Hilger Haunschild , Berger organized the difficult reorganization of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft as a new hybrid between publicly funded and market-oriented company.

The former science manager in the Bonn Ministry of Research, Berger, was elected President of the West Berlin University in 1977 without holding a chair . The supporters of the emergency community for a free university (Nofu) as well as the East Berlin-based action group of democrats and socialists met his administration for various reasons. Berger campaigned for the release of Rudolf Bahro from the GDR prison and was considered a political friend of the then (West) Berlin Senator for Science, Peter Glotz .

The intra-university projects implemented by Berger included the

  • Establishment of centers for interdisciplinary research,
  • Establishment of a fund for third-party research,
  • financial support for young scientists,
  • Establishment of an institute for research on anti-Semitism .

Before the new Berlin Higher Education Act, which came into force on January 1, 1979 , precluded the possibility of voting out, a coalition of right-wing conservative nofu , SED- affiliated Adsen and student and university lecturers Spontis with Berger was voted out for the first time on December 21, 1978, a TU president.

Publications

  • 1974: On the position of the Science Council in advising the federal and state governments on science policy , Baden-Baden, Nomos-Verlags-Gesellschaft, ISBN 3-7890-0109-0

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Rolf Berger: The demands of the electricity supply companies in the bankruptcy of the customer , inaugural dissertation to obtain the degree of doctor of law by the law and political science faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , May 4, 1961, day of the oral examination: 24. February 1961
  2. ↑ a b weekly newspaper Die Zeit : Uprising of the professors. Strange left-right alliance at the Technical University of Berlin , December 22, 1978
  3. ↑ a b weekly magazine Der Spiegel : Kleine Lage. A strange left-center-right alliance wants to overthrow the Berlin TU President Berger. The SPD man is too capable for her. , December 18, 1978
  4. ↑ daily newspaper Berliner Zeitung : 50 years TU Berlin , April 16, 1996
personal data
SURNAME Berger, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, ministerial director in the Ministry of Research, President of the Technical University of Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwelm ( Ennepe-Ruhr district )