Thorben Albrecht

Thorben Albrecht (2017)

Thorben Albrecht (born February 2, 1970 in Lüneburg ) was State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS) from January 2014 to March 2018 and Federal Managing Director of the SPD from April 2018 to December 2019 .

One of his most important legislative projects is the Bargaining Autonomy Strengthening Act, which introduced the statutory minimum wage in Germany. He also initiated the “Work 4.0” dialogue process. With this process, which ran until the end of 2016, the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs conducted a public dialogue about the future of the working society and the requirements for “good work” in the digital age. This provided an important impetus for a broader social debate about shaping the future of work.

During the time the government was being formed from October 2017 to March 2018, he was the only permanent state secretary to be responsible for all departments of the BMAS.

In August 2017, Thorben Albrecht was appointed to the “Global Commission on the Future of Work” set up by the International Labor Organization (ILO). A total of twenty “eminent individuals with outstanding personal achievements and vision, participating in their individual capacity” were appointed who, as part of the ILO's century initiative, deal with the questions of the ever faster changing world of work and the resulting design needs.

Thorben Albrecht is also one of 27 experts in the “Future of Work” advisory board founded by IG Metall, in which experts and decision-makers from industry, science and politics jointly advise on the design of the digitization of industrial work.

Thorben Albrecht is a member of the SPD and the ver.di union .

Life

After graduating from the Herzog-Ernst-Gymnasium in Uelzen , he began studying history , philosophy and political science at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover , which he completed in 1996 with a Magister Artium . He was the managing director of Jusos before he was office manager of the deputy SPD chairman Rudolf Scharping from 1999 to 2003 . From 2003 to the end of 2007 he worked as head of the European policy department at the federal executive board of the DGB . Subsequently, he was Andrea Nahles' office manager on the SPD party executive committee during her time as SPD vice and general secretary. From February 2011, he followed Benjamin Mikfeld as head of the department for political planning and analysis and was therefore responsible for the SPD's election program and the formulation of the coalition agreement with the CDU / CSU in the SPD's election campaign team led by Nahles for the 2013 federal election.

After Andrea Nahles had become Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs in the grand coalition, she brought him back to her close management team as State Secretary in January 2014.

Thorben Albrecht is married and has a daughter.

Web links

• Profile on bmas.de ( Memento from March 11, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
• Profile on spd.de ( Memento from November 11, 2019 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Thorben Albrecht appointed to the Global Commission on the Future of Work" press release of the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs of August 21, 2017.
2. ↑ Global Commission on the Future of Work website of the International Labor Organization (ILO).
3. ↑ Second row of the SPD stands up: Thorben Albrecht becomes State Secretary at Nahles - Handelsblatt of December 18, 2013