Wolf Weber

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Wolf Weber (born November 16, 1946 in Solingen ) is an SPD politician. From October 15, 1996 to March 30, 1998, he was Lower Saxony's Minister of Social Affairs , from March 30, 1998 to December 14, 1999, Minister for Justice and European Affairs, and from December 15, 1999 to December 12, 2000, Lower Saxony's Minister of Justice . He is married and has two children.

Professional background

Wolf Weber graduated from high school in 1966. After military service, he studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen from 1968 to 1972 and passed both state exams. From 1972 to 1977 he worked first at the Georg August University in Göttingen and later at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . From 1978 to 1980 he was a consultant at the German Association of Towns and Municipalities . In 1981 he submitted his dissertation on self-administration and democracy on constitutional issues relating to municipal territorial and administrative reform. From 1980 to 1986 he was a judge at the Administrative Court of Oldenburg .

Political career

Wolf Weber joined the SPD in 1970. He was elected to the Lower Saxony state parliament in 1986 . In 1988 he was chairman of the gaming committee of inquiry. In 1990 he was not re-elected to the state parliament. Weber became regional president for the Weser-Ems district . In 1991, Gerhard Schröder appointed him head of the Lower Saxony State Chancellery in the role of State Secretary . In 1994 Weber was directly elected to the state parliament and as the successor to Johann Bruns chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. In 1996 he succeeded Walter Hiller as Lower Saxony's Minister of Social Affairs; Heinrich Aller succeeded him as chairman of the parliamentary group . After the state elections in Lower Saxony in 1998 , Weber became Minister for Justice and European Affairs. In this office he succeeded Heidrun Merk , who became Minister for Women, Labor and Social Affairs and was his successor as Minister of Social Affairs. From when Sigmar Gabriel took over government on December 15, 1999, Weber was Minister of Justice until December 12, 2000. Gabriels Wolfgang Senff has been responsible for European affairs since the government took over , and Christian Pfeiffer succeeded him as Minister of Justice in December 2000 .

Weber was from August 2001 to April 2002 chairman of the SPD district Weser-Ems. He was followed by Garrelt Duin after. From March 2007 to February 2008 he was chairman of the SPD district association Ammerland - an office that Weber held from 1981 to 1991.

Fonts

  • Territorial reform, legal design of the representative decision-making process in the municipalities and guarantee of self-government under the Basic Law. Dissertation. University of Kiel, 1981, DNB 211900850 .
  • Self-government and democracy in the municipalities after the regional reform. Dissertation, University of Kiel. Reckinger, Siegburg 1982, ISBN 3-7922-0028-7 .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nord-West-Zeitung-Online, report from January 30, 2008 , accessed on January 2, 2019


personal data
SURNAME Weber, Wolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the State Parliament, lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen