Personalities - New Education Ministers in Schleswig-Holstein and Rhineland-Palatinate

Rhineland-Palatinate and Schleswig-Holstein have chosen experts for the tops of their education ministries: a teacher and a PhD teacher. Both are long-standing actors in education policy.

The CDU politician Stenke becomes new Minister of Education in Schleswig-Holstein.

Kiel (dpa/lno) – Former Mayor Beate Nielsen is moving to the Landtag for Federal Minister of Education Karin Prien (both CDU). "She is an experienced municipal politician who, through her former position as mayor, will also contribute a lot of expertise from the area of child and youth assistance to our work as the long-standing chairman of the Youth Assistance Committee of Rendsburg-Eckernförde district," said CDU Group leader Tobias Koch. From…

The 64-year-old Dorit Stenke (CDU) is moving from the second to the first row. Prime Minister Günther (CDU) has presented her as the new Minister of Education in Schleswig-Holstein today. It is not the only change in Günther's cabinet.

The State Secretary Dorit Stenke is coming up. She becomes Schleswig-Holstein's new Minister of Education. Tobias von der Heide, former Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, takes over her old post.