Christian Juckenack

Christian Juckenack in July 2006 at the Thuringian State Office for Agriculture in Dornburg / Saale

Christian C. Juckenack (born January 24, 1959 in Iserlohn / Westphalia ) is a German political official . From 2004 to 2009 he was State Secretary in Thuringia , from 2004 to 2007 in the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Conservation and the Environment and from 2007 to 2009 in the Ministry of Economy, Technology and Labor.

Life

After graduating from high school in Kaiserslautern in 1978, Juckenack studied geology and paleontology at the Georg-August University of Göttingen and the Philipps University of Marburg until 1985 and graduated with a diploma. He then became a research assistant and assistant at the University of Göttingen, where he received his doctorate in 1990. rer. nat.

From 1991 to 1994 Juckenack worked as a project manager, expert and later assistant to the management at a private environmental institute in Cologne , then he opened his own environmental consulting office in Trier . During this time he also held teaching positions at the University of Trier and at the Trier University of Applied Sciences. From 1997 he taught and researched at the Institute for Hydraulic Engineering at the University of Stuttgart and the local test facility for groundwater and contaminated site remediation (VEGAS). Juckenack has been professor for land recycling at the Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences since 2000, succeeding the founding rector, Professor Dr. Gisela Rauschhofer and was Rector there from 2001 to 2004 (successor: Jörg Wagner ) before he was appointed State Secretary shortly after the start of his second term as Rector in 2004 and switched to politics.

After the end of his term of office as State Secretary (see below), Juckenack has been back in active university service at the Erfurt University of Applied Sciences since 2010 . Until the end of 2012, he also represented the Vice-President's Office for Excellence and Quality and was head of the university center of the same name. The professorship of Juckenack, Environment, Energy, Resources, serves interdisciplinary several faculties and courses such as urban and spatial planning, traffic and transport, economics and social science. In addition, there are teaching assignments at the Bauhaus University Weimar and the University of Jena. Juckenack's scientific work focuses on questions relating to environmental and land management in the context of structural change in cities, regions and countries. This includes the overarching reference to global processes: population explosion, migration, climate change and the energy transition. Lecture tours, particularly on the topics of international environmental and energy policy, recently took Juckenack to South Korea, Uzbekistan and Cambodia, among others.

Juckenack is married and has three children.

State Secretary

In 2004, at the beginning of the 4th legislative period in the Free State of Thuringia , Juckenack was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Conservation and the Environment by the then Prime Minister Dieter Althaus. In 2007 he moved to the Thuringian Ministry of Economics, Technology and Labor. After the state elections in Thuringia in 2009 and the inauguration of the new state government under Christine Lieberknecht , Jochen Staschewski was appointed as the new state secretary for economics on November 4, 2009, Juckenack left office. From 2010 to 2015 he was a member of the CDU Federal Committee on Climate, Energy and Environment. From 2010 to 2015 Juckenack headed the CDU regional committee for economics and work in Thuringia. Juckenack has been chairman of the state committee for the digital agenda since 2015.

Web links

Commons : Christian Juckenack  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Christian Juckenack in the catalog of the German National Library
• Christian Juckenack's curriculum vitae at the Thuringian Ministry of Economics, Technology and Labor ( memento from July 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive )