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Born in 1959, married, two children
President of the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung)

educational background

1981–1989 Studied theology in Berlin and Eisenach, Vicar in Berlin and Eisenach.
1976–1979 Apprenticeship as a skilled plastics processing worker in Fürstenwalde (GDR).

professional background

1998–2000

on parental leave

1994–1998

Member of the German Bundestag (Federal Parliament)

1991–1994

Senator for young people and families in Berlin

1990–1992

Deputy state chairman of the Berlin SPD (for the whole city)

1990–1991

First acting representative of the Lord Mayor of East Berlin

1989–1990

Secretary of the SDP in Berlin (East)
Member of the East German Parliament in the GDR

1989

Founding member of the Social Democrat Party (SDP) of the GDR

memberships

since 1997

Committee member of the cultural forum of the SPD

since 1995

President of the Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk (German Child Support Organization)

2000–2002

Member of the Internationale Stadtschlosskommission (International City Mansion Commission), Berlin

1998–2000

hairman of the Stiftung Neue Kultur (New Cultural Foundation) board of trustees

1990–1991

Member of the committee of the Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), the German Federal Film Board

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