Heinz-Wilhelm Brockmann
Heinz-Wilhelm Brockmann (born May 14, 1947 ) is a German politician ( CDU ).
After graduating from high school Carolinum in Osnabrück in 1966, Brockmann studied Catholic theology, philosophy, political science and history at the universities of Frankfurt , Tübingen and Münster until 1971 . He then worked as a journalist in Frankfurt and in 1976 went to civil service as a high school teacher.
In 1986 Brockmann moved to the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education as press spokesman , and from 1988 to 1991 he was President of the Lower Saxony State Institute for Teacher Training . He then worked for two years as the head of the Political Planning and Policy Issues department at the CDU party headquarters. After further activities as a department group leader in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education and Culture and President of the Lower Saxony State Examination Office for Teaching Positions, he was appointed in 2003 by the new Education Minister Bernd Busemann as the head of the department for cross-school matters, educational policy innovations and churches in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education after the CDU election victory in Lower Saxony .
In February 2009 Brockmann joined the Roland Koch government in Hesse as Secretary of State for Culture . He resigned from this office in January 2012.
The declared Catholic Brockmann was already active in church politics in the 1970s and was one of the founders of the journal Publik-Forum . In 1999 he was one of the founders of the donum vitae pregnancy counseling association . Brockmann is a member of the Catholic Council of the Diocese of Osnabrück and has been Vice-President of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) since 2001 . In 2009 he was originally the only candidate to succeed Hans Joachim Meyer as President of the ZdK. However, since the Permanent Council of German Bishops refused to give him the necessary approval, Brockmann withdrew his candidacy and no longer ran for Vice President. Alois Glück became the new ZdK President .
Brockmann was a member of the Catholic student associations AV Cheruskia Tübingen and AV Widukind Osnabrück, from which he left after 1991.
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| SURNAME | Brockmann, Heinz-Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1947 |