Cornelia Quennet-Thielen

Cornelia Quennet-Thielen (born January 19, 1957 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German lawyer and was State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research from November 2008 to July 2018 .

education and profession

After High School Quennet-Thielen studied law in Freiburg and Trier , here she was a scholarship holder of the study donation of the German people . After passing the second state examination in law, she worked as a judge in Rhineland-Palatinate from 1985 and in the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety from 1987 . Here she was u. a. Personal advisor to Klaus Töpfer , Head of Division for International Cooperation and Head of Department for Policy Issues. From 2004 Quennet-Thielen held the post of head of department in the office of the Federal President and since 2006 has also been the deputy head of the office. With effect from November 2008, Federal Minister Annette Schavan appointed her State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Education and Research to succeed her husband Michael Thielen . Her successor in the Federal President's office was Rüdiger Hütte after a vacancy of several months . At the request of Education Minister Anja Karliczek , the Federal President put her into temporary retirement with effect from July 31, 2018.

Private

Cornelia Quennet-Thielen was baptized and married as a Roman Catholic.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Secretary replaces her husband. At: Focus Online , July 15, 2008
2. ^ Anja Kühne, Tilmann Warnecke: Federal Minister of Education Karliczek dismisses her head of office. In: Der Tagesspiegel . July 20, 2018, accessed July 30, 2018 .