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01/17/2022

Press Release

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With the press release "Bundesminiterien: Kaum Ostdeutsche in Spitzenpositionen" (Federal Ministries: Almost no East-Germans in top positions), the research project "New Elites – Esta­blis­hed Personnel? (Dis-)Continuities of German Ministries in System Transformations", which has been running since 2017, announced its completion on January 12th, 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 announcement was well received by the media, including reports from Spiegel, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, Deutschlandfunk and Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

 

Here you can go directly to the press release. Here further interesting study results are freely accessible as data reports.