Erik Bettermann

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Erik Bettermann (born May 8, 1944 in Lindenthal (Leipzig) ) was State Councilor ( SPD ) in Bremen and from 2001 to 2013 director of Deutsche Welle .

biography

After graduating from high school in Cologne, Bettermann studied philosophy , pedagogy and social pedagogy at the University of Cologne and Bonn . He also attended the Administration and Business Academy in Cologne.

He worked as a freelancer for Cologne daily newspapers and a Protestant church newspaper. After working in the German Federal Youth Council and in the international youth exchange from 1982, he was a consultant in the Federal Ministry for Youth, Family and Health , then head of the office of a Vice President of the German Bundestag. From 1985 to 1989 he worked as a department head on the SPD party executive, from 1989 to 1991 as deputy federal manager.

From 1992 to 2001 he was State Councilor of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, of which from 1995 to 2001 he was the representative of the State of Bremen at the federal level and for Europe and development cooperation. From October 2001 to September 30, 2013, he was director of Deutsche Welle. Peter Limbourg was elected as his successor .

Further memberships

Bettermann is a board member of the Association Against Forgetting - For Democracy , member of the board of trustees of the Heinz Kühn Foundation , President of the Gustav Stresemann Institute in Bonn. He is Vice President of the Society for Supranational Cooperation (GÜZ), which works primarily for better Franco-German relations and publishes the publication Documents-Documents . He is a member of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . In 2014 he was appointed chairman of the board of trustees of Deutsche Welthungerhilfe . From 2008 to 2014 Bettermann was a member of the German-American RIAS BERLIN Commission.

Honors

  • Wartburg College in Iowa / USA awarded him the Honorary Doctor of Laws and Literature in 2012 .
  • Commander of the Christian (ecumenical) Order of Lazarus (2017)

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Foreign Office. Biography: E. Bettermann (PDF; 32 kB)
  2. ^ WDR television ( Memento from January 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Bettermann, Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director of Deutsche Welle
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Lindenthal (Leipzig)