Thomas Deufel

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Thomas Deufel (born March 1, 1954 in Abensberg ) is a German scientist and political official . From 1996 to 2009 he was professor and institute director at Jena University Hospital , from 2009 to 2014 State Secretary in the Thuringian Ministry of Education, Science and Culture and from 2014 to 2016 State Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Science, Further Education and Culture of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate .

Life and work

Deufel grew up in Munich and attended the Wittelsbacher Gymnasium there from 1964 to 1971 . He then studied chemistry and medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU) until 1980 , completed his medical studies with the state examination and received his license to practice medicine. In 1981 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD, in 1993 the habilitation to Dr. med. habil. in clinical chemistry and pathobiochemistry.

From 1980 to 1983 and from 1985 to 1988 Deufel worked as an assistant doctor at the Munich-Schwabing Municipal Hospital . In the meantime he spent as a DAAD scholarship holder at the Hagedorn Forskningslaboratorium of Novo Nordisk Stiftelse in Gentofte (Denmark). From 1989 to 1991 he worked in the clinical chemistry and biochemistry department of Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital of Munich University Hospital , then he moved to a C3 professor of Clinical Chemistry / metabolic analysis at the Center for Pediatrics at the Hospital of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . From 1996 Deufel held the C4 professorship for clinical chemistry and laboratory diagnostics at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and institute director at the university clinic there ; he has been on leave since his appointment as State Secretary in 2009, he is there when he left for Rhineland-Palatinate in November 2014 eliminated.

Deufel was chairman of the Ernst Abbe Foundation in Jena from 2014 to 2020 . In this function he is also a member of the board of trustees of the German Optical Museum Foundation . Since April 2018 he has been a member of the University Council of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna.

Deufel has been living in a civil partnership since 2001 and has been married since 2018. He lives in Berlin and Athens.

politics

The SPD is one of Deufel since 1,973th From 2005 to 2014 he was a member of the city council of Jena , where he was deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group.

Under the Minister of Science Christoph Matschie (SPD), Deufel moved to the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture in Thuringia as State Secretary on November 5, 2009 . As the successor to Walter Bauer-Wabnegg, he was responsible for the departments of universities , research and scientific infrastructure as well as culture and art and church affairs . On November 12, 2014, he moved to the Ministry of Education, Science, Further Education and Culture in Rhineland-Palatinate as State Secretary with responsibility for the "Science" and "Further Education" departments and was also its head of office until his temporary retirement on May 18, 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foundation. Retrieved September 13, 2018 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Deufel, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scientist and politician (SPD), university professor in Münster and Jena, state secretary in Thuringia and Rhineland-Palatinate
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Abensberg