Thomas Sattelberger
Sattelberger in February 2020
Member of the Bundestag
In office
2017 – 1 August 2022
Succeeded byNils Gründer
Personal details
Born (1949-06-05) 5 June 1949 (age 74)
Munderkingen, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political partyFDP

Thomas Sattelberger (born 5 June 1949) is a German manager and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria from 2017 to 2022.[1][2]

In addition to his parliamentary work, Sattelberger served as Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Education and Research from December 2021 to May 2022. In this capacity, he was also the Commissioner for Translational Research.[3]

He resigned from office in 2022 due to health and personal reasons.[4]

Early life and education

Born in Munderkingen, Baden-Württemberg, Sattelberger holds a degree in business administration (Duale Hochschule).

Management career

From 1975 Sattelberger worked in the Central Education Directorate of Daimler-Benz in Stuttgart. In 1982 he moved to the MTU subsidiary, where his responsibilities included executive development, until he returned to the parent company in 1988 to become Head of Education & Management Development at the DASA in 1989. In 1994, he moved to Deutsche Lufthansa in Frankfurt as Head of Group Executives and Personnel Development, where he founded the Lufthansa School of Business, the first corporate university in Germany. In 2003 he joined Continental in Hanover as Executive Vice President Human Resources and Labor Director and in 2007 he held the same position at Deutsche Telekom in Bonn, where he remained until 2012.

Political career

Sattelberger became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election. From 2018 until 2021, he was a member of the Committee for Education, Research and Technology Assessment and the Committee for Labour and Social Affairs.[5] He also served as his parliamentary group's spokesman for innovation, education and research.[6]

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the FDP following the 2021 German elections, Sattelberger was part of his party's delegation in the working group on innovation and research, co-chaired by Thomas Losse-Müller, Katharina Fegebank and Lydia Hüskens.[7] Following the establishment of the new government, Sattelberger was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Education and Research.[8] His main working topics were diversity, technological strategy, STEM education and digitization.[9]

Other activities

Personal life

Sattelberger is openly gay and lives with his partner in Munich.[16]

References

  1. ^ "Thomas Sattelberger | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  2. ^ Heiner Effern (24 May 2022), FDP-Politiker Thomas Sattelberger: Der leise Rückzug des Poltergeists Süddeutsche Zeitung
  3. ^ Tobias Peter (28 January 2022), Sattelberger wird neuer Beauftragter für Transfer und Ausgründungen aus der Wissenschaft RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland.
  4. ^ "Sattelberger bittet um seine Entlassung als Parlamentarischer Staatssekretär im BMBF – BMBF". Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung – BMBF (in German). Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  5. ^ "Update – Thomas Sattelberger lässt nicht locker: Antrag zum Thema Rechtssicherheit heute im Bundestag". VGSD Selbstständig vereint. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  6. ^ "Fachpolitische Sprecher". Fraktion der Freien Demokraten im Deutschen Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  7. ^ Britt-Marie Lakämper (21 October 2021), SPD, Grüne, FDP: Diese Politiker verhandeln die Ampel-Koalition Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.
  8. ^ "Political Staff and Organization – BMBF". Federal Ministry of Education and Research – BMBF. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  9. ^ Anonym. "Federal Ministry of Education: Ex-Telekom board member Thomas Sattelberger becomes State Secretary". newsrnd.com. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  10. ^ Supervisory Board Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (SPRIN-D).
  11. ^ Board of Trustees Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy.
  12. ^ Board of TrusteesDeutsches Museum.
  13. ^ Advisory Board Institut for Employability (IBE), Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences.
  14. ^ Board of Trustees Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation.
  15. ^ Board of Trustees AFS Intercultural Programs – Germany.
  16. ^ Queer.de: Coming-Out beim Charity-Dinner

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