Jan Mühlstein

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Jan Mühlstein (born July 3, 1949 in Most , Czechoslovakia ) is a German journalist and association functionary of organizations of Reform Judaism . From 1999 to 2011 he was chairman of the Union of Progressive Jews in Germany .

Life

Mühlstein grew up in a German-speaking Jewish family that traditionally represented liberal Judaism . In 1967 he began studying physics at Charles University in Prague . After the crackdown on the reform movement called the Prague Spring , in which Mühlstein actively participated, he emigrated to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1969. From 1970 he studied physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and received his doctorate in theoretical quantum optics in 1977 . He then worked for four years in the energy research project management at the Jülich nuclear research facility . From 1982 until he retired in June 2016, Mühlstein worked as a business journalist in Munich and was deputy editor-in-chief of the energy industry journal Energie & Management (E&M).

From 1977 to 1978, Mühlstein was a member of the board of directors of the German section of Amnesty International . He is co-founder of the liberal Jewish community Beth Shalom in Munich, of which he was chairman from 1995 to 2005 and from May 2011 to March 2019. Since May 2020 he has been chairman of the board of the Beth Shalom Synagogue Foundation. From 1999 to 2011 he was chairman of the Union of Progressive Jews in Germany. He particularly advocated religious plurality within the Jewish community.

Mühlstein is married to the doctor Verena Mühlstein (* 1953), author of a biography about Albert Schweitzer's wife Helene Bresslau and also active in Beth Shalom. One of his three daughters was ordained a rabbi in London in July 2012.

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b About the person. ( Memento from March 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) In: Jüdische Zeitung February 2006.
  2. ↑ Brief vita ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on energiemarkt-medien.de.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.energiemarkt-medien.de
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated May 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.energiemarkt-medien.de
  4. ↑ Association register sheet no. 5588 of the Hamburg District Court on Amnesty International Section of the Federal Republic of Germany eV
  5. ↑ s. a. Jan Mühlstein: 10 years Beth Shalom. In: Beth Shalom Rundbrief 2/2005, p. 1f.
  6. ↑ Jan Mühlstein leaves. The liberal umbrella organization elects a new board, Jüdische Allgemeine on July 7, 2011
  7. ↑ Axel Fritzsche: "We need flexible rabbis". Interview with Jan Mühlstein, chairman of the Union of Progressive Jews. ( Memento from March 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) In: Jüdische Zeitung February 2006.
  8. ↑ Verena Mühlstein: Helene Schweitzer Bresslau. A life for Lambarene. Munich: CH Beck, 1998.
  9. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from August 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ B.KWK Journalist Prize awarded for the first time. (Press release) Dr. Jan Mühlstein was honored for his contribution to the role of combined heat and power in the German energy transition. (No longer available online.) Federal Association of Combined Heat and Power, October 17, 2012, archived from the original on November 18, 2012 ; Retrieved October 17, 2012 .
  11. ↑ http://www.liberale-juden.de/veranstaltungen-und-literature/jacobson-preis/
  12. ↑ http://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/article/view/id/19839
  13. ↑ "A great honor" - Jan Mühlstein from Graefelfinger receives the Federal Cross of Merit , Süddeutsche Zeitung of November 7, 2017
  14. ↑ Award of the Bavarian Constitutional Medal 2017 , press release of the Bavarian State Parliament of November 21, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Millstone, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business journalist, chairman of the Union of Progressive Jews in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Most , Czechoslovakia