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Curriculum vitae

1960 born in Mayen/Eifel
1980-1986 Studied political science at the Universities of Marburg, Vienna, Tübingen and Frankfurt
1986 Graduated from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main
1987-1991 Research assistant at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt
1991

Doctorate at the Justus-Liebig University Giessen: (Summa cum laude). Topic of the doctorate: Catholicism and unified trade unionism. The dispute over the DGB and the decline of social Catholicism in the Federal Republic until 1960 (Series: Politik- und Gesellschaftsgeschichte, Vol. 30), Bonn 1992
1991-1997 Consultant to the Executive Board of IG Metall in Frankfurt/Main; Department for Fundamental Issues
1997-2000 Consultant for industrial relations at the executive board of IG Metall; responsible for fundamental issues of collective bargaining policy, contacts with parliament and political parties
1999 Guest researcher at the Berlin Science Center in the Department: Institutions and Social Change
2000-2003 Head of Department for European Wage Coordination at the Executive Board of IG Metall
2000 Habilitation at the Department of Social Sciences at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt; topic of the habilitation thesis: The German model put to the test. On the development of industrial relations in East Germany. (Opladen 2000: Westdeutscher Verlag)
since 2001 Private lecturer at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt
2001 Substitute professor at the TU Darmstadt (summer semester)
2003-2006 Head of the Social Policy Department at the Executive Board of IG Metall
2005 Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Visiting Fellow
since May 2006 Professorship at the University of Kassel: Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany - Statehood in Transition
2009-2014State Secretary in the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Women and Family of the State of Brandenburg

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