FFor lawyer and diplomat Jan Heckel, the title of “senior civil servant” is not only a description of his position, but also a substantive statement: in the legislative period now coming to an end, he is the foreign policy summer of the Federal Chancellor. The Erba, the most important person in charge of the department of the Prime Minister’s Office, translates the political will of the leadership into practical actions. Hecker’s approach is not a straight-line administrative career, but a rate hike nourished by a desire for knowledge, political curiosity, diligence, and the most diverse interest in participation. During this hike, he stopped at a very diverse professional site. The only thing that remained unchanged was that it was a solid climb.
Heck came from the family of a naval officer.He was born in Kiel and has undergone a change of location-to Wilhelmshaven and also to Oslo-with professional soldiers Armed forces Had to put up with their family. From 1988 on, his studies took him to Freiburg, Grenoble and Göttingen, and then studied postgraduate courses in Cambridge. He operates in two ways: followed by law is political science; during his PhD, he tried to combine the two. The paper deals with “European integration as a French constitutional issue” and therefore has pointed out Heck’s foreign policy interests.
After completing his legal internship, he initially worked in two large law firms, but two years later, his professional curiosity attracted him again. Hekel joined the Federal Ministry of the Interior in 1999. That was the era of the Red and Green Federal Government and Federal Minister of the Interior Otto Schily (Otto Schily). Heck was still a member of the Social Democratic Party, among other things, dedicated to asylum and immigration issues, and involved in other domestic policy issues. He was seconded to the Federal Constitutional Protection Office for two years.
Hekel also accompanied the Prime Minister on business trips
He also took time to return to the field of legal science. He has held faculty positions at the University of Berlin and Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder. He completed an investigation into the effectiveness of national economic regulation there in 2005, and has taught public law and European law as an adjunct professor since 2010.
About a year later, Hecker’s legal profession and his professional environment changed again. He was appointed as a judge of the Federal Administrative Court and assigned to the Senate to deal with university law, association and assembly law, gun law, police law, and supervision law.
On the path of his career, further—more political—steps are less controllable.As Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel At the height of the refugee crisis in the fall of 2015, the search for a person in charge for the new coordinator of the Prime Minister’s Office was responsible for handling all aspects of the problem, from combating flight causes to refugee accommodation, and the right to choose fell on him. Hecker also accompanied the Prime Minister on visits to African countries and was transferred to the post of Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister’s Office in 2017. In difficult times, he had to maintain contact with Washington there and was constantly busy stabilizing relations between Germany (and Europe) and Turkey. A few weeks ago, Heckel took the post of German ambassador to Beijing with his extensive luggage experience. He died suddenly there last Sunday, at the age of 54.
