Jan Nuck

Jan Nuck ( Upper Sorbian Jan Nuk ; born June 13, 1947 in Caßlau , municipality Doberschütz ) is a Sorbian politician. From 2000 to 2011 he was chairman of the Sorbian umbrella organization Domowina .

Jan Nuck attended the Sorbian schools in Ralbitz and Panschwitz and then learned to be an electrician at the Lübbenau power plant . From 1967 he worked as a skilled worker in the Wetro refractory plant and at the same time as a member of the Nowa Doba editorial team . From 1969 Nuck was an employee of the Domowina publishing house. In 1989/90, Nuck was involved, among others, in the Sorbian People's Assembly , which advocated a thorough restructuring and democratization of the Sorbian institutions.

In 2000 he was elected honorary chairman of Domowina. During his term of office, u. a. the dispute over the closure of the Sorbian middle school in Crostwitz , the negotiations over a new financing agreement for the Sorbian people as well as the disputes over the structural reforms in the Sorbian institutional landscape proposed in the so-called “Vogt-report”. In 2009, for various reasons, Nuck refused to stand for the election of the chairman, but ran again when there were no other candidates. His term of office was extended to 2011, on condition that the office be remunerated from then on in order to facilitate candidate identification. The 27-year-old David Statnik was elected as his successor at the Annual General Meeting on March 26, 2011 .

Jan Nuck is married and has four children. He runs a beverage trade.

Web links

• Jan Nuck's biography on domowina.sorben.com