Press release

With the press release "Federal ministries: Hardly any East Germans in top positions", the research project "New elites - established personnel? (Dis)continuities of German ministries in system transformations" announced its conclusion on January 12, 2022. One of the many revealing results of the study shows that there are only a few top East German civil servants in the federal ministries and how drastic the imbalance has been for decades. Even under the new federal government, little has changed.

The press release received a great deal of media coverage, including reports in Der Spiegel, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk and Deutschlandfunk, as well as internationally in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

Click here to go directly to the press release. Further interesting study results are freely accessible as data reports here.