Torsten Sevecke

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Torsten Sevecke (born September 7, 1962 in Hamburg ) is a German administrative lawyer and political official ( SPD ). From March 2018 to June 2020 he was State Councilor for the Economy and Innovation Department in the Authority for Economy, Transport and Innovation of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg .

Life

Period soldier and studies

After Sevecke had worked as a temporary soldier in the armored force of the German armed forces from 1982 to 1985 , he began studying law , social and economic history at the University of Hamburg in 1985 . He completed his studies in 1990 with the first state examination in law. In 1995 he passed the Great State Examination in Law , before graduating in 1997 from Hamburg University as a Dr. jur. PhD .

During his studies he completed various stays abroad between 1990 and 1994, including at the United Nations Commission for International Trade Law in Vienna and the United Nations Peacekeeping Department in New York City .

Activities in the administrative service

After joining the higher general administrative service , Sevecke worked in the field of broadcasting law in the Senate Chancellery from 1996 to 1998 , later in the field of monument protection in the cultural authority and in social and youth welfare law at the Wandsbek district office. In 1998 he was responsible for the project to set up museum foundations , until 1999 head of the European Ministers' Conference working group and from 1999 to 2002 head of the legal department of Hamburg's municipal drainage system .

From 2002 to 2003 Sevecke was project manager “Privatization Technical Inspection Center Hamburg” in the Office for Internal Administration and Planning of the Ministry of the Interior , 2004 consultant in the project “KITA - Voucher System” of the authority and 2004 to 2005 department head “Implementation of the Childcare Act” of the authority for social affairs and Family before returning to the Department of Home Affairs in 2005, where he worked in the ordnance disposal department. In 2005 he changed the authority again and was until 2010 as coordinator for land development of the Senate in the authority for urban development and the environment . In 2010 he became head of the Eimsbüttel district office .

Political activities

From 2016 to 2018, as Senate Director , the administrative lawyer was Head of the Port and Innovation Office of the Authority for Economy, Transport and Innovation. There he was responsible for the areas of aviation, ports and SME funding. At the end of March 2018, Torsten Sevecke was appointed by Senator Frank Horch to the State Council of the Department of Economics and Innovation of the Authority for Economics, Transport and Innovation as part of the formation of Senate Tschentscher I. He became the successor of Rolf Bösinger , who had followed Olaf Scholz into the Federal Ministry of Finance in the course of the formation of the Merkel IV cabinet . In the course of the downsizing of the economic authority, which ceded responsibility for traffic to an independent, new specialist authority, he was replaced by the previous State Councilor for Transport, Andreas Rieckhof , in June 2020 and resigned from office.

Private

Sevecke is married and has one son.

Sources and further reading

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b That is why district chief Sevecke changes to the economic authority. In: Abendblatt.de. Hamburger Abendblatt , June 16, 2016, accessed on April 22, 2018 .
  2. ↑ New formation of the Senate State Council of the Economic Authority Sevecke must go , Abendblatt.de of June 10, 2020
  3. ↑ Torsten Sevecke new State Councilor of the Economic Authority. In: hamburg.de. Senate Chancellery of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, March 29, 2018, accessed on April 22, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Sevecke, Torsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and political official (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg