Dieter Haack (born 9 June 1934) is a German politician from the

Social Democratic Party of Germany The Social Democratic Party of Germany ( , SPD ) is a social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany. Saskia Esken has been the party's leader since the 2019 leadership election together w ...

(SPD). He served as the minister of housing und town planning between 1978 and 1982.

Early life and education

Haack was born in

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on 9 June 1934. He received a degree in law from the

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and a PhD in law from the

University of Bonn The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (), is a public research university in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the () on 18 October 1818 by Frederick Willi ...

. He was a legal trainee until 1963. During his university education he joined the SPD in 1961.

Career

Following his graduation Haack worked at different state institutions in Bavaria. He was elected to the Bundestag in 1969 where he served until 1990. He was the parliamentary state secretary at the Ministry of Housing until February 1978. He was appointed minister of housing und town planning in a cabinet reshuffle on 16 February 1978 succeeding

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in the post. Later the ministry headed by Haack was renamed as the Ministry of Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development. Haack served in the cabinet led by

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Helmut Schmidt Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (; 23 December 1918 – 10 November 2015) was a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. He was the longest ...

until 1982. From 1990 to 2002 Haack was the president of the State Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria.

Awards

Haack is the recipient of the

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(1981) and the

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(1990). Haack was made the honorary citizen of Erlangen on 7 July 2004.

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