Michael Klein (Science Manager)

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Michael B. Klein (born April 14, 1965 in Krefeld ) is a German historian and science manager and teaches the history of technology and innovation policy as an adjunct professor at the Technical University of Berlin . He is the chairman of the DAM - German Marine Research Alliance

Life

Michael Klein passed his Abitur in 1984 at the Thomaeum grammar school in Kempen on the Lower Rhine. After his military service, he studied modern and contemporary history , political science and communication science at the University of Bamberg , the University of East Anglia / Norwich , the Université de Bourgogne / Dijon and the University of Erlangen .

He then did his doctorate with a scholarship from the Hanns Seidel Foundation under Michael Stürmer at the University of Erlangen on The Institute for International Politics and Economics of the GDR in its founding phase from 1971 to 1974 .

After teaching at the University of Bamberg, he became office manager of the CDU member of the Bundestag Rudolf Braun in 1996 and later of State Secretary Klaus-Jürgen Hedrich in the German Bundestag .

Michael Bruno Klein lives in Kempen on the Lower Rhine and in Berlin and has three children.

Science management

In 1999, Klein switched to science management, to the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Science Association ( Leibniz Association ) based in Bonn, which later appointed him as managing director and, from 2006, as its first general secretary. Together with the Presidents Frank Pobell , Hans Olaf Henkel and Ernst Theodor Rietschel, he built the Leibniz Association into one of the four major German non-university science organizations and made particular contributions to the development of the Leibniz Association's evaluation and competition process.

From 2010 to 2017, Klein headed the business of “ acatech - German Academy of Science and Engineering ” as Secretary General and full-time director .

Corporate experience

In 2017 and 2018 Michael Bruno Klein worked for Robert Bosch GmbH and headed the central department "External Affairs, Government and Political Relations"; he left the company for personal reasons

Klein is currently a member of the Advisory Board of Exentis Group AG / Stetten near Zurich and the IoTONE Group / Shanghai and is a member of the BAUHAUS 21 board of the IMS - Institute for Membrane and Shell Technologies eV, Dessau.

Michael Bruno Klein is also the managing partner of KOMIT-Beratung GbR

Academic career

In 2005, Klein completed his habilitation at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich with Michael Wolffsohn and Hagen Schulze ( DHI London ) on the subject of "Between Reich and Region: Identity Structures in the German Empire (1871-1918)" and was appointed private lecturer, initially at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich, 2007 at the University of Bonn . Michael Klein has been an adjunct professor at the Technical University of Berlin since 2013 (department of technical, scientific and social history).

Bodies

Michael Klein was a member of numerous scientific and science policy committees, such as the Standing Committee of the Leopoldina (2012–2017), the Digital Value Creation Advisory Board of the Saxon State Minister for Economics, Labor and Transport (2015–2017), and the Bavarian “Digital Bavaria” advisory board State government (2016–2017), in the Senate of the AiF - Working Group of Industrial Research Institutions (2016–2018), in the international Advisory Board of the "Munich Center for Technology in Society" at the Technical University of Munich (2014–2017).

He is currently a member of the board of trustees of the ZWM - Center for Science Management Speyer (since 2005) and of the supervisory board of the German Primate Center , Göttingen.

Volunteering

Michael Bruno Klein is active on the board of the Franco-German Cultural Foundation. In addition, he is President of the CV Academy, the educational organization of the Cartell Association of Catholic German Student Associations (CV) and liaison professor of the Hanns Seidel Foundation for the universities of Berlin.

Works

  • The GDR Institute for International Politics and Economy in its founding phase from 1971 to 1974 . Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-49342-7 .
  • Between Empire and Region: Identity Structures in the German Empire (1871-1918) . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08807-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. German Marine Research Alliance - We strengthen the sustainable use of the oceans and seas. Retrieved on August 20, 2019 (German).
  2. Dissertation at google books
  3. Prof. Dr. Michael Klein. Retrieved August 20, 2019 .
  4. Advisory Board - exentis-group.com. Retrieved August 20, 2019 .
  5. www.ims-institute.org + Board BAUHAUS 21. Accessed on August 20, 2019 .
  6. Home - Committee advice. Retrieved August 20, 2019 .