Ulrich Thöne

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Ulrich Thöne (born October 1951 in Paderborn ) is a German trade unionist. From 2005 to 2013 he was Federal Chairman of the Education and Science Union (GEW).

Life

Thöne was born in Paderborn and grew up in Lichtenau (Westphalia) , where he graduated from high school in 1971 . After training as a bank clerk at Deutsche Bank , he studied economics and social sciences as well as pedagogy for teaching at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . After completing his legal clerkship in Berlin, in 1986 he took up a position as a vocational school teacher at the Upper School Health Center in Berlin-Wedding . His union career began in 1971 in the trade union for trade, banks and insurance companies (HBV), from which he switched to GEW in 1982 via ÖTV . He was chairman of the district youth committee in the German Trade Union Federation (DGB) and a member of the district executive.

From 1989 he was deputy chairman of the staff council for teachers and educators in Wedding and from 1995 deputy chairman of the staff council for vocational schools. At the same time he worked for the GEW Berlin as spokesman for the AG Education Financing and as a representative in the main committee of the GEW. From 1999 to 2005 he was chairman of the GEW Berlin. In 2005 he was elected chairman of the GEW and held this office until 2013. From 2007 he was also chairman of the international teachers' union Education International . In 2013, for reasons of age, he no longer stood for election as GEW chairman. The successor in this office was Marlis Tepe .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b "Profile" Ulrich Thöne. (No longer available online.) Gew.de , archived from the original on October 25, 2014 ; Retrieved October 25, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gew.de
  2. ↑ a b heads of the economy: Ulrich Thöne. (No longer available online.) Wirtschaftswoche , archived from the original on October 25, 2014 ; Retrieved October 25, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wiwo.de
  3. ↑ Alfons Frese: GEW gets new leadership: senior teachers wanted. Tagesspiegel , June 12, 2013, accessed October 25, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Thöne, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist
DATE OF BIRTH October 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Paderborn