Alan Reiher

Alan Reiher
Director-General of the Department of Works
In office
29 August 1967  30 November 1973
Secretary of the Department of Housing and Construction
In office
30 November 1973  22 December 1975
Secretary of the Department of Construction
In office
22 December 1975  20 April 1976
Personal details
Born Alan Silvius Reiher
(1927-06-13)13 June 1927
Melbourne, Victoria
Died 3 August 2003(2003-08-03) (aged 76)
Queensland
Resting place North Tamborine Cemetery, Queensland[1]
Nationality Australian
Alma mater University of Melbourne
Occupation Public servant

Alan Silvius Reiher (13 June 1927  3 August 2003) was a senior Australian public servant, best known for his time as Director-General of Works in the Australian Government bureaucracy and for heading government transport agencies in New South Wales and Victoria.

Life and career

Alan Reiher was born in Melbourne on 13 June 1927 to Silvius Thomas Reiher and Agnes Marion Reiher.[2]

Reiher commenced his Australian Public Service career in 1957 as an Engineer in the Department of Works.[2] He spent a year at the Harvard Business School soon before being appointed Director-General of the Department in 1967.[3]

In 1975 while Secretary of the Department of Housing and Construction, Reiher was appointed as a member of the Darwin Reconstruction Authority.[4]

He was appointed the Chief Commissioner of the New South Wales Public Transport Commission (PTC) in March 1976.[5] The appointment was in the last weeks of the Coalition Government in New South Wales, and the Labor Party opposed his appointment, which was for seven years.[6] In March 1980, Reiher resigned the job, having been on compulsory leave since the previous year when the New South Wales Government decided to "shake-up" the PTC.[7]

In 1980 he was appointed Chairman of the Victorian Railways Board, and in 1982 he became Director-General of Transport for Victoria.[2]

Beginning in 1986 for five years, Reiher was Victoria's Commissioner in North America.[8]

References

  1. Alan Silvius Reiher, Billion Graves, archived from the original on 26 September 2014
  2. 1 2 3 REIHER Alan Silvius, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, archived from the original on 29 October 2007
  3. Juddery, Bruce (11 November 1970). "The public servant to watch". The Canberra Times. p. 20.
  4. "Reconstruction body members named". The Canberra Times. 6 March 1975. p. 12.
  5. "Top transport post". The Canberra Times. 26 March 1976. p. 3.
  6. "Exit Mr Reiher". The Sydney Morning Herald. 8 November 1979. p. 4.
  7. "Top NSW transport man quits". The Canberra Times. 21 March 1980. p. 7.
  8. Burgess, Verona (18 October 1992). "It's thumbs down for unfortunate GMORA". The Canberra Times. p. 9.
Government offices
Preceded by
George Maunder
Director-General of the Department of Works
1967 – 1973
Succeeded by
Himself
as Secretary of the Department of Housing and Construction
Preceded by
James Nimmo
as Secretary of the Department of Housing
Secretary of the Department of Housing and Construction
1973 – 1975
Succeeded by
Himself
as Secretary of the Department of Construction
Preceded by
Himself
as Secretary of the Department of Works
Succeeded by
Bob Lansdown
as Secretary of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development
Preceded by
Himself
as Secretary of the Department of Housing and Construction
Secretary of the Department of Construction
1975 – 1976
Succeeded by
George Warwick Smith


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