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The Marstall building, seat of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture in Schwerin

Ministry of Education, Science and Culture

The ministry is responsible for the state’s educational institutions – from all its kindergartens and schools to further training programmes for its teachers. University and research policy is the second focus of the ministry’s activities. The third focal point is promoting the state’s culture in all of its diversity. The division also includes the State Centre for Political Education and the office of the State Commissioner for the Files of the State Security Service of the Former GDR. The State Minister for Education, Science and Culture is Henry Tesch.

Henry Tesch

Henry Tesch - Minister for Education, Science and Culture

Personal information

4 November 1962: Born in Schwerin, married, two children

Political career

2009: President of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany (KMK)

2009: Third direct election as Mayor of the Municipality of Roggentin (following elections in 2004 and 1999)

Since 7 November 2006: Minister for Education, Science and Culture for the Federal State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

1999: First deputy director of the Mirow Amt (municipal confederation) until the fusion of the Mirow and Wesenberg Amts into the Mecklenburgische Kleinseenplatte Amt on 1 July 2004; since then member of the Amt committee of the Mecklenburgische Kleinseenplatte

1994: Elected as representative of the Municipality of Roggentin
Career

15 October 2007: Awarded the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit by His Majesty King Harald V of Norway

Since 2007: Board member of the Norwegian-German Willy Brandt Foundation and in the Association for the Promotion of the Norwegian-German Willy Brandt Foundation

Since 2002: School director at the Gymnasium Carolinum Neustrelitz

Summer 2002: Participant in the Advanced Boeing Educators to Space Camp programme in Huntsville, Alabama, and in Florida at the Kennedy Space Center (Cape Canaveral)

Summer 2001: Participant in the Boeing Educators to Space Camp programme in Huntsville, Alabama, and Houston, Texas

Since 2001: Head of the www.medienzentrum24.de project

1998–2002: Deputy school headmaster at the Gymnasium Carolinum Neustrelitz

1990–2006: Teacher of German and history in Neustrelitz, initially at a school of general education and then – from the school year 1990/91 onwards – at the Gymnasium Carolinum Neustrelitz
School and university

1985–1990: Studied German and history in Leipzig

1982–1985: Military service

1979–1982: Abitur (secondary school diploma) and vocational training in Malchin

1979: Graduated from the polytechnical secondary school of Neubrandenburg

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