Markus Schmitz (historian)

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Markus Schmitz (2018)

Markus Schmitz (born August 3, 1973 in Münster ) is a German manager. He is the fully authorized representative and Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) in Nuremberg .

Career

Schmitz studied social sciences and history in Münster (first state examination), Oxford (Master of Studies in Modern History), Bern and Bonn. He was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation , the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service .

During his studies at Oxford, Markus Schmitz worked on the history of Irish nationalism. In 2003 Markus Schmitz received his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Bonn with a dissertation on the reorganization of bilateral relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and Switzerland after the Second World War, which he wrote at Klaus Hildebrand's chair . The work was awarded the Bruno Heck Science Prize and published by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung publishing house.

Schmitz and the historian Bernd Haunfelder had already published the reports of the Swiss Consul General Franz-Rudolf von Weiss from the period from the beginning of the war in 1939 to the election of Konrad Adenauer as first Federal Chancellor in 1949. The volume also documents the history of the “ Schweizer Spende ” aid organization using the example of the city of Cologne.

In 2002 Schmitz switched from a scientific career to consulting. At McKinsey & Company , he worked in the fields of telecommunications, human resources and the public sector.

In 2005, at the time of the so-called Hartz reforms , he went to the Federal Employment Agency as head of product and program development in unemployment insurance. From 2009 to 2014, Markus Schmitz was managing director of the headquarters of the Federal Employment Agency for product development for basic social security and was also responsible for the migration coordination office and the agency's specialist services. Major projects under his direction were the conception of working alliances "Youth and Profession" between agencies, job centers and youth welfare, the development and implementation of a consulting concept for the job centers, the development of competence diagnostic test formats by the professional psychological service, the development of largely self-financed internal counseling for the common facilities as well as the development and implementation of nationwide IT procedures for the basic security, including the development and piloting of the electronic files in SGB II, which has now been introduced nationwide in the job centers.

From January 2015 to October 2016, Schmitz headed the Bavarian regional directorate of the Federal Employment Agency as Chairman of the Management Board. During his term of office, he dealt with the refugee issue in terms of the labor market, which particularly affected the Free State of Bavaria as a border region with Austria.

Since November 2016, Schmitz has been responsible for information technology, infrastructure and digital process management at the headquarters of the Federal Agency. Markus Schmitz's portfolio also includes the IT system house, the BA service house and the federal family benefits office, and thus responsibility for over 10,000 BA employees. In 2018, for the first time, more than a million applications for unemployment benefit were submitted online.

Honorary positions

Schmitz has been a member of the jury for the Deichmann Prize for Integration since 2012 . He has also been a member of the Bavarian jury of the German History Competition for the Federal President's Prize of the Körber Foundation for many years .

Schmitz has been an honorary professor at the University of the Federal Employment Agency (HdBA) since 2014, specializing in labor market policy and labor market instruments.

Private

Markus Schmitz is married with two children and lives in Nuremberg.

Awards

In November 2018, Markus Schmitz was voted "CIO of the Year 2018" in the Public Sector category at the IT competition organized by the specialist magazines Computerwoche and CIO-Magazin. The “CIO of the Year” has been awarded by Computerwoche and CIO-Magazin since 2003. The patron is the Minister of State and Federal Government Commissioner for Digitization Dorothee Bär .

Schmitz was also the German finalist for the “European CIO of the year 2020” in the public sector category.

Since 2020 he has been a member of the "CIO of the Year" jury with other prominent representatives from science and practice.

Publications

  • Express digitization in times of Corona. In: "Trend - Magazine of the Social Market Economy" (Issue 162 "Corona Pandemic: With Courage Out of the Crisis", July 2020), pp. 24-25.
  • Digitization of administration using the example of the Federal Employment Agency. In: Digitization in Social Law (Series Volume 69, May 2020), pp. 103–116.
  • Public services in the age of digitization: More than the online access law. In: Public Governance - Journal for Public Management (guest commentary, spring 2020 edition), pp. 4–5.
  • The BA's digital agenda - How a public service provider faces digitization. In: Christian Bär, Thomas Grädler and Robert Mayer (eds.): Digitization in the field of tension between politics, economy, science and law (1st volume: Politics and Economy), Berlin 2018, pp. 409–418.
  • Basics of a consulting concept for basic security for job seekers. Nürnberg 2014 (together with Andreas Staible) (online publication ISBN 978-3-00-048978-5 ).            
  • The employee-oriented integration concept of the Federal Employment Agency (SGB II and SGB III). Nürnberg 2013 (together with Andreas Staible) (online publication ISBN 978-3-00-047644-0 ).
  • Benefits for integration into work according to SGB II. In: Carsten Kreklau and Josef Siegers (eds.): Handbuch der Aus undbildung, Cologne 2010, pp. 3–25 (together with Peter Weißler).    
  • New skills for new jobs: act now! Brussels 2010 (as co-author of an expert group of the European Commission).
  • Improve the cooperation between career counseling, basic income support and youth welfare with working alliances for youth and work. SGB ​​II Aktuell 8/2010, pp. 2–3 (together with Martin Lieneke).         
  • Reform as a driver of innovation. Business process modeling in the BA. In: Authority Spiegel (November 2006), pp. 50–51 (together with Enzio Mittag and Oliver Nandico).
  • Switzerland's humanitarian and cultural aid to Germany after the Second World War. In: Hans-Peter Schwarz et al. "Switzerland and Germany 1945–1961". Series of the quarterly books for contemporary history. Munich 2004, pp. 213-228.
  • West Germany and Switzerland after the war. The reorganization of bilateral relations 1945–1952. Zurich 2003.
  • Humanity and diplomacy. Switzerland in Cologne 1940–1949. Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2001 (together with Bernd Haunfelder).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://con.arbeitsagentur.de/prod/apok/ct/dam/download/documents/dok_ba015449.pdf
  2. ^ Markus Schmitz: West Germany and Switzerland after the war. The reorganization of bilateral relations 1945–1952. Zurich 2003
  3. ^ Markus Schmitz, Bernd Haunfelder: Humanity and Diplomacy. Switzerland in Cologne 1940–1949. Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2001.
  4. ↑ https://www.bayerische-staatszeitung.de/staatszeitung/wirtschaft/detailansicht-wirtschaft/artikel/wechsel-an-bayerns-spitze.html#topPosition
  5. ↑ https://www.arbeitsagentur.de/ueber-uns/zentrale
  6. ↑ cio.de August 2, 2016: https://www.cio.de/a/schmitz-wird-cio-der-bundesagentur-fuer-arbeit,3260476
  7. ↑ " One million barrier cracked: Online applications for unemployment benefit I", January 11, 2019: https://www.presseportal.de/pm/6776/4163290
  8. ↑ http://www.deichmann-foerderpreis.de/jury/
  9. ↑ http://www.hdba.de/hochschule/organisation/lehrende/profil-schmitz/
  10. ↑ Computerwoche, "CIO of the year 2018 - Public Sector - 1st place: CIO of the Federal Employment Agency sees 80 million customers": https://www.computerwoche.de/i/detail/artikel/3591568/1/3256570/EL_mediaN1000C/
  11. ↑ Press release from the Federal Agency of November 16, 2018: https://www.arbeitsagentur.de/presse/2018-32-cio-des-jahres-it-chef-dr-markus-schmitz-ausgemarke
  12. ↑ https://www.cio-des-jahres.de/
  13. ↑ https://ecoty.eu/markus-schmitz/
  14. ↑ CIO OF THE YEAR | The highest German IT award. Retrieved August 22, 2020 .
  15. ↑ TREND - magazine for social market economy - issue 2/2020. Retrieved August 22, 2020 (English).
  16. ↑ Rolfs, Christian, Erich-Schmidt-Verlag Berlin: Digitization in Social Law Federal Conference of the German Social Rights Association eV 10./11. October 2019 in Stuttgart. Berlin, ISBN 978-3-503-19411-7 .
  17. ↑ Public services in the age of digitization. In: Public Governance - Journal for Public Management. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmitz, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster