Volker Hassemer

Volker Hassemer (2018)

Volker Hassemer (born January 20, 1944 in Metz ) is a former German CDU politician. His older brother Winfried Hassemer was a criminal law scholar and Vice President of the Federal Constitutional Court .

Life and education

Volker Hassemer comes from a family in Rhineland-Hesse. His father was interned in the Osthofen concentration camp for almost three weeks in 1933 . His two brothers Winfried Hassemer and Raimund Hassemer also studied law and criminal law.

After studying law , which was followed by his doctorate in 1967 , he worked until 1981 as head of the “Environmental Planning” group at the Federal Environment Agency .

politics

In 1979, 1981 and 1985 and again in 1990, Volker Hassemer was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives.

After Richard von Weizsäcker's election victory , Hassemer was appointed Senator for Urban Development and Environmental Protection on June 11, 1981 . After the FDP joined the Berlin state government in January 1983, he moved to the department for cultural affairs. From this office he resigned on March 16, 1989 when Eberhard Diepgens was defeated .

After Diepgen's return to the mayor's office, Hassemer returned to his Senate department in 1991 as Senator for Urban Development and Environmental Protection and remained in this office until 1996. Against the considerable resistance of the PDS , he pushed through the demolition of the Lenin monument on the United Nations Square .

After leaving the Senate, he was Managing Director of “Partner für Berlin” from 1996 to 2002. He is also a co-initiator of the A Soul for Europe initiative , chairman of the management board and chairman of the Berlin Future Foundation .

Other offices

Volker Hassemer is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Friends of Antiquity on Museum Island Berlin and the Board of Trustees of the Brandenburg State Horticultural Show 2009 in Oranienburg .

Awards

In 2002 Hassemer received the Order of Merit of the State of Berlin . In the same year he received the Berlinale Camera .

literature

Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 173 f.

Web links

Commons : Volker Hassemer - Collection of Images

Literature by and about Volker Hassemer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ “Heidelberg was a dream for me” ( memento of the original from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Heidelberg University, November 14, 2013 @1@ 2
↑ Doctoral thesis: "Delictum sui generis" ISBN 3-452-17840-4 or ISBN 3-452-17841-2 (1974 edition)
^ Berlinale camera for Volker Hassemer. In: nmz / Cultural Information Center of the German Cultural Council . February 9, 2002, accessed April 23, 2010 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hassemer, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and politician (CDU), MdA
DATE OF BIRTH	January 20, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Metz

[unihd-1] “Heidelberg was a dream for me” ( memento of the original from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Heidelberg University, November 14, 2013 @1@ 2

[2] Doctoral thesis: "Delictum sui generis" ISBN 3-452-17840-4 or ISBN 3-452-17841-2 (1974 edition)

[3] Berlinale camera for Volker Hassemer. In: nmz / Cultural Information Center of the German Cultural Council . February 9, 2002, accessed April 23, 2010 .