Jan Hofmann

Jan Hofmann

Jan Hofmann (born October 21, 1954 in East Berlin ) is a retired German political official . From 2011 to 2016 he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Culture of the State of Saxony-Anhalt .

Life and work

Hofmann first completed a technical college degree and then did basic military service in the NVA. He then studied at the Humboldt University of Berlin and graduated in 1988 with a degree in philosopher. He then worked as a research assistant at the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences in the GDR . He received a second diploma in education and received his doctorate in 1991 in the philosophy of science .

In 1989 he became a member of the first Berlin Education Council and education policy spokesman for the Central Round Table of the GDR . Then he moved to the Brandenburg administration. He became head of department and later head of the policy department in the Brandenburg Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport. In 1992 he took over the position of director of the State Education Institute in Ludwigsfelde. In 2003 he took over the management of the newly created State Institute for School and Media, and in 2007 he became the founding director of the State Institute for School and Media Berlin-Brandenburg .

Jan Hofmann is married and has three children.

politics

On April 20, 2011, Hofmann was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Culture of the State of Saxony-Anhalt , led by Stephan Dorgerloh (SPD) ( Cabinet Haseloff I ). With the end of the grand coalition, he left in 2016.

Fonts

• Content-analytical study of educational conceptual ideas that arose outside of institutionalized structures between October 1989 and March 1990 , Berlin 1990 [= Diss.]
• (Ed.): New forms of teaching and learning: Assessment of performance without grades and cross-year teaching in the Montessori Comprehensive School Potsdam , Bad Heilbrunn 2007

Web links

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