Beate Stoffers

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Beate Stoffers (born March 11, 1968 in Jena ) is a German political scientist and education politician ( SPD ). In April 2019, the Berlin Senator for Education Sandra Scheeres (SPD) appointed Stoffers as the successor to her State Secretary Mark Rackles .

Life

Stoffers and her family fled the GDR to West Berlin at the age of one . She attended elementary school on Rüdesheimer Platz and the Walther-Rathenau-Gymnasium in Berlin-Grunewald , which she graduated from high school in 1987 . She then studied political science at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University until 1992 .

After completing her studies, she began to work in various Berlin Senate administrations, including for the Interior (1993–1998) and three years (1998–2000) in the Senate Administration for Urban Development under Peter Strieder (SPD). She then worked for ten years in the field of press and public relations in the private sector, including at the Berlin company Wall .

In 2010, Stoffers switched back to politics in the Senate Department for Education under Jürgen Zöllner . She continued to work as press spokesperson after Sandra Scheeres was appointed Senator for Education. Media reports that Stoffers is now considered a close confidante of Scheeres.

In April 2019, the Senator for Education Scheeres appointed Beate Stoffers State Secretary; she had previously been Scheeres' spokeswoman for many years. Stoffers succeeded Mark Rackles , who was put into temporary retirement. The main focus of her work will be the construction and renovation of school buildings in Berlin, which will be carried out in cooperation with the state's own housing association Howoge . Furthermore, the quality management of the Berlin schools should be in focus.

Aside from her professional career, Stoffers wrote the book “Superlehrer + Superschule = supergeil” together with the former headmaster Dirk Stötzer, in which both of them advertise the teaching profession.

Stoffers has three children.

Works

  • with Dirk Stötzer: Super teacher + super school = super cool. The best job in the world . Goldmann publishing house. ISBN 3442175429

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Sylvia Vogt: Beate Stoffers, loyal and sometimes harsh. In: Der Tagesspiegel. April 9, 2019, accessed April 11, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Beate Stoffers. Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family, April 10, 2019, accessed on April 12, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Ulrich Kraetzer: Beate Stoffers is the new State Secretary for Education. In: Berliner Morgenpost. April 9, 2019, accessed on April 12, 2019 (German).
  4. ^ Scheeres spokeswoman Stoffers becomes the new state secretary for education. In: rbb24.de. Retrieved April 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Stoffers, Beate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist, press spokesperson and politician (SPD), State Secretary in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena