{"id":1850,"date":"2023-11-09T15:16:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T14:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wirtschaftsstandort-ostfriesland.de\/?p=1850"},"modified":"2023-12-15T09:25:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T08:25:09","slug":"olaf-meinen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wirtschaftsstandort-ostfriesland.de\/en\/people-of-the-region\/olaf-meinen\/","title":{"rendered":"Olaf Meinen"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u201cMy glass is always half full.\u201d<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Every politician needs a desire to shape things and powers of persuasion. But how many setbacks can a recently elected official take without losing optimism and courage? According to Olaf Meinen, chief administrator of Aurich district, there are no limits. Every crisis can make us stronger than ever, he says. <\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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chief administrator of Aurich district<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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After the first few years in office as chief administrator of Aurich district, there\u2019s one thing that Olaf Meinen can claim for himself with a good conscience: \u201cI know how to do crisis management!\u201d. There\u2019s actually no doubt about it. On 1 November 2019, he moved into his office in the district administration centre. Just one week later, while on an official trip to Feuchtwangen in Bavaria, he heard about the massive redundancies being planned by wind turbine manufacturer Enercon . 1,500 jobs would be lost in Aurich alone. Meinen spent the rest of his trip in Southern Germany constantly on his phone. <\/p>\n

Then came Covid-19. The war in Ukraine. Energy crisis and inflation. Bird flu and a big fire at Norden hospital. Definitely not a good start. But Olaf Meinen isn\u2019t one to be easily thwarted, he doesn\u2019t let things get him down. \u201cIf we get new problems we have to find new solutions\u201d; says the 55-year-old. He\u2019s even prepared to take unpopular measures if they serve the purpose. Covid-19 was a case in point. Not everybody likes it? They don\u2019t have to. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Not an easy youngster<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Olaf Meinen is basically an optimist. \u201cMy glass is always half full\u201d, he says firmly. In every crisis there is also a chance. You just have to see it and then grasp it with both hands. People in Ostfriesland can do that, he adds, even if others often think they\u2019re stubborn and reserved. By contrast, he sees the locals more as being liberal-minded and interested in anything that\u2019s new. \u201cThat\u2019s partly due to the proximity of the coast and the maritime setting.\u201d <\/p>\n

Meinen himself is a real local boy. He grew up in Strackholt, part of Gro\u00dfefehn. His parents were in the hospitality trade, but he knew from early on that he didn\u2019t want to take over the family business. \u201cI\u2019m sure I was not an easy youngster\u201d, he admits today. Olaf needed his liberties and freedom. Often enough, his parents wouldn\u2019t know for days at a time exactly what he was up to. Meanwhile he\u2019d be just ten kilometres away in nearby Wiesmoor with the handball team, turning up again at home three days later. <\/p>\n

Life journeys rarely go in a straight line; they are often full of turn-offs, highways and dead ends. Even so, looking back it seems quite amazing that Meinen opted to train as an administration clerk with the local council. \u201cWell actually\u201d, he admits, \u201cit was more or less by chance\u201d. He heard about the vacancy from friends, sent off an application (\u201cmy only one!\u201d) and got the job immediately. He knew at once that he\u2019d \u201cgive it a try\u201d. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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He did more than just try. After completing his training and taking a degree at the Academy of Administration and Business in Leer, he became head of the immigration authority for Leer rural district. At the turn of the millennium he returned to Gro\u00dfefehn to take up the position as head of the department for public order and social affairs. \u201cAll in all, this involved interesting tasks that were fun as well.\u201d Above all, being constantly in close contact with people and helping them mattered to him and it was a role that shaped his personality. The only thing he couldn\u2019t really get on with was the strictly regulated working hours from 8 am to 4 pm. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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In 2006, Gro\u00dfefehn needed a new mayor. Olaf Meinen was asked whether that might be something for him. \u201cI wasn\u2019t interested at first.\u201d But then he talked with his wife about giving it a try, because he gradually realised he\u2019d like to try something new again. In the end, he found himself running as an individual candidate against four other contestants, one of whom was a clear favourite. Meinen benefited from his good contacts in all the villages belonging to Gro\u00dfefehn, with a reliable group of active supporters. In the end, this swayed the election in his favour. <\/p>\n

On his first day in the town hall, he introduced himself to the staff with a cheerful \u201cMorning, I\u2019m the new mayor\u201d. \u201cThe early months were hard work. First of all I had to clarify the situation and set some boundaries\u201d, he says looking back on the initial period. But soon people realised \u201cwe can get along with him, he\u2019s a sincere guy\u201d. He was re-elected in 2014. No other contestants this time, with a possibly record-breaking election turnout of 91.3 percent. <\/p>\n

Altogether, Olaf Meinen was mayor of Gro\u00dfefehn for 13 years. Two years before the scheduled end of his term in 2021, he decided it was time to do something else again. \u201cI\u2019d been feeling the need for a change for a while, as I thought I\u2019d already achieved quite a lot for Gro\u00dfefehn .\u201d Above all, he had understood how to get the various political groupings to work together. Most pioneering decisions taken by the council were unanimous. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Still without any party allegiance, the family man with two children decided to go for the office of chief administrator in Aurich district – again following an external push. He won the election with an absolute majority already in the first round. <\/p>\n

What was the biggest change for him with his new position? Meinen laughs: \u201cIt was no longer possible just to pop home for lunchw.\u201d And what do the two jobs have in common? Here the man born in 1967 needs to give a bit more detail: \u201cYou have to be able to communicate, to reach out to people. But it\u2019s also clear you\u2019ll never be able to please everybody all the time, so you need to be thick-skinned.\u201d Nor is there really any such thing as regulated working hours and processes. When he starts work in the morning, he often doesn\u2019t know what the day will bring. All in all, \u201cyou probably need to be a little bit crazy for both jobs.\u201d <\/p>\n

A strategic mindset doesn\u2019t hurt either. While the village mayor sometimes even has to deal with things like wobbly manhole covers on the pavement, the agenda of the chief district administrator is more likely to focus on the medium- to long-term improvement of the whole traffic infrastructure. \u201cThat\u2019s a challenge that you have to face\u201d, says Meinen. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a challenge he gladly accepts. After all, there\u2019s a lot at stake. Not just the future of Aurich district but of the whole of Ostfriesland. Olaf Meinen sees outstanding prospects for further development. Energy transition, climate protection and sustainability are right at the top of his agenda. \u201cThese are things where our region can act as a blueprint for the whole country. After all, we offer the best prerequisites as home of the renewables.\u201d <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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As the motto for his future reflections, Meinen has appropriated a sentence spoken by Olaf Lies, Lower Saxony\u2019s Minister of Economic Affairs: \u201cIndustry follows energy\u201d. When the conditions are right, economic success will follow. Every village and every town therefore has to work on their own particular strengths. To make sure the strategy works, what matters is to get rid of the parochial mindset. \u201cNo big player will declare that they\u2019re coming to Strackholt or Marienhafe. They\u2019ll say: We\u2019re coming to Ostfriesland.\u201c That\u2019s why the tasks are being tackled together in the \u201cAlliance for Ostfriesland\u201d. <\/p>\n

In autumn 2022, when Lower Saxony\u2019s Ministry for European Affairs and Regional Development included the alliance in its \u201cFuture Regions in Lower Saxony\u201d programme, Meinen saw this as confirmation of all the work put in by his colleagues in Wittmund and Leer districts together with the town of Emden and by himself in recent years. \u201cCombining innovative ideas with existing structures while taking our shared cultural heritage into the future: this is our great chance\u201d, he declared on receiving a grant approval amounting to roughly five million Euros from EU funds. <\/p>\n

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