Klaus Theo Schröder
Klaus Theo Schröder (born February 5, 1948 in Moers ; † February 12, 2012 ) was a German politician ( SPD ). From 2001 to 2009 he was State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Health .
Career
After completing his studies, Schröder initially worked for a number of years at the University of Duisburg, the Vienna University of Economics , the University of Trier , and at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research in Karlsruhe on issues relating to the use and effects of modern technologies, structural, as well as research and innovation policy.
In November 1986 he began his work in what was then the Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf. Under the ministers Hermann Heinemann and Franz Müntefering , he held various managerial functions on the topics of the labor market and structural change, children, youth, family, as well as fundamental and cross-sectional issues of social and health policy.
In December 1994 Schröder was appointed State Secretary to the Thuringian Ministry of Social Affairs and Health in Erfurt, where he was responsible, among other things, for a new hospital plan and the restructuring of the Thuringian hospital landscape.
In December 1999 he became State Secretary of the Senate Department for Labor, Social Affairs and Women of the State of Berlin. There he was responsible in particular for health policy, the stabilization of the Berlin health insurance funds and the redesign of Berlin's city hospitals.
He then worked from December 2000 as head of the Baden-Württemberg, Hesse, and North Rhine-Westphalia executive board at Rhön-Klinikum AG in Bad Neustadt an der Saale, from where he moved to the Federal Ministry of Health in January 2001 as permanent state secretary. After the federal elections in 2009 , Philipp Rösler became the new Federal Minister of Health, and the management functions were taken over by politicians from the black-yellow coalition. Schröder left office after more than eight years.
In April 2010, the shareholders of Gematik named Schröder as an arbitrator . His task was to find solutions to controversies between health insurers and doctors about the planned applications of the electronic health card, the patient's access key to the telematics infrastructure in the Federal Republic of Germany. These controversies had blocked the work of Gematik GmbH for a long time.
On January 1, 2011, Schröder was appointed the new ombudsman for the Association of Private Health Insurance (PKV). His task was to give recommendations in disputes between insured persons and insurance companies in order to reach an out-of-court settlement. At the time of his assumption of office, the association had 43 insurers and almost 9 million fully insured members.
Klaus Theo Schröder was married and has two children.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituaries in the FAZ of February 16, 2012, p. 6
- ↑ Gematik press release of April 20, 2010. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 29, 2010 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ News report on taking office as ombudsman of the PKV. Retrieved November 16, 2010 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schröder, Klaus Theo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moers |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 2012 |