Susanne Knorre

Susanne Knorre (born June 3, 1961 in Bad Oeynhausen ) was Lower Saxony's Minister for Economics, Technology and Transport from 2000 to 2003 ( non-party ). Today she is a professor for corporate communication at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences and a management consultant in Hanover .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1980, Susanne Knorre studied political science , economics and English at the University of Hamburg and the University of Basel , which she completed in 1985 with a degree in political science. After a subsequent legal clerkship , she passed the state examination for higher general administrative service in 1988. She then worked as a policy advisor in the Ministry of Economics and Transport of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate until 1991. In 1990 she received her doctorate as Dr. rer. pole. with the work "Social self-determination and individual responsibility - Hugo Sinzheimer (1875 - 1945) - a political biography" . After the state elections in 1991 she became head of the office of the Minister for Economics and Transport, Rainer Brüderle . In 1994 she moved to Preussag AG and worked here a. a. as an authorized signatory, head of corporate communications.

From March 2003 she was managing partner of Grote & Knorre Personal- und Unternehmensberatung GmbH and from November 2003 Management Partner Public Affairs of Weber Shandwick Germany . From the beginning of 2005 to 2007 Knorre held a mandate position as Director Corporate Affairs at Japan Tobacco International in Cologne. Your management consultancy in Hanover is now called Knorre Consulting.

Knorre has been teaching at the Institute for Communication Management at the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück since 2005. In 2007 she accepted the appointment to the part-time professorship for corporate communications. Before that, she was teaching at the Master’s degree in Organization Studies at the University of Hildesheim, at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Research in Hanover and at the University of Cape Town at the Institute of Political Studies.

Knorre is a member of the German Society for Policy Advice. She is represented on the supervisory board of KSBG Kommunale Verwaltungsgesellschaft GmbH, Rütgers Germany GmbH and STEAG GmbH and has also been a member of the supervisory board of Salzgitter AG since 2019.

Public offices

On December 13, 2000, she was appointed to the state government of Lower Saxony led by Prime Minister Sigmar Gabriel as a non-party Minister for Economics, Technology and Transport . Her predecessor in this office was Peter Fischer . After the state election in 2003, she left office on March 4, 2003. Her successor was Walter Hirche , who was named Minister for Economics, Labor and Transport. In 2013 she was appointed to the Supervisory Board of Nord / LB. Since 2015 she has also been a member of the supervisory board of Deutsche Bahn AG.

Publications

• Social self-determination and individual responsibility. Hugo Sinzheimer (1875-1945). A political biography. Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-631-43436-7 (= contributions to political science , volume 45, also dissertation at the University of Hamburg 1990).

See also

• Cabinet Gabriel

Web links

• Profile at Knorre Consulting

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Supervisory Board. Retrieved November 14, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Susanne Knorre new member of the supervisory board of Nord / LB | Nds. State Chancellery. Retrieved November 14, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Committees and organs - NORD / LB. Retrieved November 14, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Susanne Knorre new member of the supervisory board of Nord / LB | Nds. State Chancellery. Retrieved November 14, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Supervisory Board of DB AG | Deutsche Bahn AG. Retrieved November 14, 2019 . 
6. ↑ New to the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bahn | knorre consulting. Accessed on November 14, 2019 (German). 
7. ↑ Michael Odenwald confirmed as chairman of the supervisory board until 2025 • DB supervisory body is becoming more female. Deutsche Bahn, March 25, 2020, accessed on March 26, 2020 .