Jens Goebel

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Jens Goebel (born January 11, 1952 in Jena ) is a German mathematician and politician ( DSU / CDU ). From 2004 to 2008 he was Minister of Culture of the Free State of Thuringia .

Career

From 1970 to 1975 Goebel studied mathematics in Lublin, Poland, and then worked as a research assistant at the TH Ilmenau (until 1990). In 1981 he received his doctorate as Dr. rer. nat. From 1991 to 1999 he was a professor at the Schmalkalden University of Applied Sciences . Since 1993 he has been its rector. After leaving politics, he returned to the FH Schmalkalden and has been a lecturer in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering since then.

politics

DSU

Jens Goebel has been politically active since the fall of the Berlin Wall . Initially he was a member of the DSU and was a member of its federal executive committee from 1990 to 1994. In addition, from March 1990 to 1992, Jens Goebel was the full-time managing director of the DSU regional association of Thuringia and as a close employee of the then DSU regional chairman, the people 's chamber and short-term member of the Bundestag as well as expellees politician Paul Latussek (later vice-president of the Bund der Vertrieben (BdV)) and the economic politician and entrepreneur Armin K. Haas (formerly representative of the Hanns Seidel Foundation in Washington, DC , USA ), who was sent from Munich by the CSU to the DSU Thuringia, worked in the DSU regional office in Thuringia in Erfurt . In the Political-Advisory Committee for the Education of the State of Thuringia, the forerunner of the Thuringian State Parliament in the turning phase between March 1990 and reunification , Jens Goebel represented the DSU alongside his superior Paul Latussek and advocated the adoption of conservative CSU positions in the draft constitution the Land (later Free State) Thuringia.

CDU

Goebel has been a member of the CDU since 1998 and represented the constituency of Schmalkalden-Meiningen II as a directly elected member of the Thuringian state parliament from 1999 to 2009 . In the state elections in 2009 he lost his direct mandate to Manfred Hellmann (Die Linke) , while the CDU was clearly ahead in the second vote . On the CDU state list, 20th place was not enough for Goebel for re-election.

Public offices

On July 8, 2004, Goebel became the new Thuringian Minister of Culture. In this role he was responsible for cuts in public funding for culture in Thuringia, which particularly affected the theaters . For this he had to accept considerable criticism from some representatives of the public.

As part of a cabinet reshuffle that was announced on April 23, 2008, Goebel resigned from the cabinet. Peter Krause was planned as Goebel's successor , but after ongoing discussions about his person he announced his resignation from the ministerial office a few days before the planned assumption of office. The new minister of education was finally Bernward Müller , who was sworn in on May 8, 2008.

Web links

Commons : Jens Goebel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Constituency results at the regional returning officer
2. ↑ Althaus announces cabinet reshuffle ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , thueringen.de, April 23, 2008. 
3. ^ Althaus exchanges six ministers , Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, April 23, 2008.
4. ↑ Krause renounces the office of Minister of Education , faz.net, May 5, 2008.