Werner Henning

Werner Henning (born October 1, 1956 in Kella , Eichsfeld ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and since 1994 district administrator of the Eichsfeld district .

Life

After graduating from the Gerhart Hauptmann Extended High School in Wernigerode , Henning completed a degree in German and Art Studies at the Martin Luther University in Halle (Saale) . After graduating in 1981 as a graduate teacher for German and music, he went on to study research at the German literature department at the University of Halle.

After his dissertation with the title "Ernst and Falk - Conversations for Freimäurer" (on the work of the same name by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ) in 1986, Henning worked at the Goethe-Schiller Archive in Weimar . From 1988 he was head of social affairs and head of materials management at the Eichsfeld clothing factory in Heiligenstadt . In autumn 1989 he appeared as a speaker at demonstrations against the GDR regime in Heiligenstadt.

Henning is at home in Geismar .

Political career

As a high school graduate, Henning became a member of the GDR CDU . In the course of the political change in the GDR , Henning was elected chairman of the council of the district of Heiligenstadt on December 7, 1989 . One of his first official acts was the instruction to open the inner German border at Bischhausen .

In the election in March 1990 , Henning received a seat in the People's Chamber . In 1990 he became district administrator of the Heiligenstadt district . When this merged with the district of Worbis to form the district of Eichsfeld in the course of the district reform of Thuringia in 1994 , he was elected its district administrator in 1994 and has held this office to this day. Henning turned down an offer from Christine Lieberknecht to take on the post of Thuringian Minister of the Interior .

Other engagement

In Heiligenstadt, Henning was involved in setting up the “Theodor Storm” literature museum in the 1980s . He is the third deputy in the district board of the CDU district association Eichsfeld.

Political positions

In 1990 Henning campaigned for a unification of the Thuringian and Lower Saxon Eichsfeld, combined with the transfer of the districts of Heiligenstadt and Worbis to the state of Lower Saxony. He repeated this objective in 2013 when the Thuringian state government was considering dissolving the Eichsfeld district as part of a second district reform in Thuringia. Instead, he vehemently advocates the independence of the Eichsfeldkreis.

Web links

Commons : Werner Henning  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Portrait in the Chronicle of the Wende
• Uniform check - The tireless district administrator , contribution to Deutschlandfunk
• Portrait of the District Administrator - accessed May 24, 2018

literature

• Hans-Gerd Adler (author): We are breaking our chains - the peaceful revolution in Eichsfeld. A documentation. With a foreword by Werner Henning. 196 pages, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-86174-013-3

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Portrait of the District Administrator - accessed on May 27, 2018
2. ↑ Specimen copy DNB 860999882 at the German National Library - accessed on June 12, 2018
3. ↑ ^{a b c} For a united Eichsfeld ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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. , accessed March 24, 2015 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Deutschlandfunk: The tireless district administrator , accessed on March 24, 2015
5. ↑ Eichsfeld district turns 20 , Thüringer Allgemeine , July 1, 2014, accessed on March 24, 2015
6. ^ Chronicle of the Wende , accessed on March 24, 2015
7. ↑ mdr: Eichsfeld district administrator does not want to merge. August 21, 2015, accessed January 27, 2020 .