Bio: Hantke, Douglas D. (Fed Employee of Year - 1983)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
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Surnames: Hantke, Switzer

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 6/9/1983

Hantke, Douglas D. (Fed Employee of Year - 1983)

A Neillsville native has been honored as the 1983 Civil Servant of the Year from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Douglas D. Hantke, currently of Maplewood, Minnesota, is the chief of the examination division of the IRS in Minnesota.

The Civil Servant of the Year program is sponsored by the Federal Executive Board in Minnesota, made up of representatives from 49 federal agencies in the Twin Cities area.

In his position, Hantke heads up the largest of the six divisions within the IRS in Minnesota. The Examination Division has slightly over 400 employees. He has developed several organizational studies aimed at finding the best way to carry out the complex task of a balanced tax return examination program and he expanded the working relationship with the Minnesota Department of Revenue. Through his innovations both tax agencies have been able to make use of their resources.

Hantke’s supervisor, C.D. Switzer, says that Hantke has the respect and loyalty of his peers and the Examination Division managers and employees who work for him because of his even-handed and professional approach to their needs and problems. “He has one of the most difficult and demanding jobs in the IRS and he performs all his duties in an admirable manner,” Switzer said.

Handtke is a career governmental official who began his service with the IRS in 1958 as a revenue agent in Milwaukee. He held a series of increasingly responsible positions with the Internal Revenue Service in Wisconsin and in December of 1982 was selected for his current position with the IRS in Minnesota.

Hantke is the son of Hazel Hantke, 1008 Grand Ave., Neillsville. He graduated from Neillsville High School in 1950.