Sieghardt von Köckritz

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Sieghardt von Köckritz (left) at the opening of the exhibition 40 Years of the Federal Republic of Germany 1989 in Bonn

Sieghardt von Köckritz (born September 3, 1928 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † August 17, 1996 in Sankt Augustin ) was a German ministerial official.

Life

Sieghardt of Köckritz studied at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn Law . In 1950 he became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn . After completing the degree, the doctorate to Dr. jur. and his legal clerkship, he joined the Federal Ministry of the Interior . In 1960 he was a government assessor. As a sports advisor, Werner Maihofer appointed him head of the newly created sub-department for culture and affairs of displaced persons, refugees and war victims in 1974. He became a ministerial director . In 1993 he retired. From 1993 to 1996 he was chairman of the working group of independent cultural institutes (AsKI for short).

He made a particular contribution to the cultural reconstruction in the new federal states after reunification. During the Kohl era, he succeeded in increasing the federal government's budget for culture from 386 million to more than 1.3 billion marks. J. Michael Möller wrote in an article in Der Welt in 2005 : "There (among the ranks of artists and cultural institutes) Kohl's highly efficient cultural sherpa Sieghard von Köckritz was unforgettable" . In the radio play by Florian Felix Weyh broadcast by Deutschlandfunk on May 13, 2012 : The cultural functionary - In search of a shy creature , he is characterized as "the secret culture minister of the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1970s and 1980s" .

Honors

Fonts

  • The meaning of the will for Carpzov's concept of crime in Practica nova imperialis Saxonica rerum criminalium , 1956
  • Federal Budget Code, Commentary , Delivery 1, 1970 (basic work)
  • Federal Budget Code, Commentary , Delivery 2, 1972
  • Federal Budget Code, Commentary , 1975
  • Federal Budget Code, Commentary , 1977
  • National Libraries in 2000 (Festgabe for Günther Pflug on his 65th birthday), 1988 (jointly edited by Kurt Nowak with the collaboration of Maria Daab)

literature

  • Reiner Schütte: On the death of Sieghardt von Köckritz . In: Weltkunst , Volume 66, 1996, No. 21

Web links

Commons : Sieghardt von Köckritz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 16 , 1093
  2. Bonn, Faculty of Law and Political Science, dissertation from Jan. 20, 1956
  3. Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 9 , 1094
  4. Strange Appreciation - Displaced persons ranked lower . In: Das Ostpreußenblatt , series 51/52, December 21, 1974, p. 2
  5. Beyond practical constraints, country proportionality, power politics . In: Die Welt , June 8, 2005
  6. The cultural functionary - In search of a shy creature on www.deutschlandfunk.de