Hans Koschnick was born on April 2, 1929 in Bremen-Gröpelingen. He passed away on April 21, 2016.
Profession: administrative officer, most recently head of the “Youth, Family and Sport” department in the social department of the state of Bremen before joining the state government.
Member of the SPD since May 1950
Member of the federal executive committee of the SPD from 1970 to 1991 (during this period – 1975/1979 – Willy Brandt’s deputy in the party chairmanship).
- 1955
Member of the Bremen Parliament (state parliament) - 26.11.1963 – 27.11.1967
Senator for the Interior - ab 28.11.1967
Mayor and President of the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen - 17.09.1985
Resigned from the office of mayor at his own request after 20 years in office - 1971/72 and 1981/82
President of the Federal Council - 1971-1977
President of the German Association of Cities - 1981-1985
President of the International Union of Local Authorities (IULA) - 1987 – 1994
Member of the German Bundestag, deputy chairman of the foreign affairs committee - 23.07.1994 – 2.04.1996
EU administrator in the city of Mostar (Bosnia-Herzegovina) - October 1996 – September 1998
Advisor to the European Commission for the establishment of a European voluntary service for young people - December 1998 – December 1999
Federal Government Commissioner for Refugee Returns, Reintegration and Repatriation Accompanying Reconstruction in Bosnia and Herzegovina - March 2000 – 12/31/2001
Chairman of the Steering Committee for Refugee Issues in the Stability Pact for Southeast Europe - 1/2000 – 12/2005
President of the German Poland Institute - 10/2000 – 11/2003
Chairman of the association “Against Forgetting – For Democracy” eV
Honors:
- 1985
Honorary Citizen of the City of Gdansk (Danzig) - 1994
Bremen Medal of Honor in gold - 1997
dr hc University of Haifa (Israel) - 1999
Honorary citizen of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen - 2003
Joint German-Polish Prize - 2004
dr hc University of Bremen
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