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Sabine Kunst
Sabine Kunst Ministerin Brandenburg.jpg
President of Humboldt University
Assumed office
19 January 2016
Personal details
Born (1954-12-30) 30 December 1954 (age 66)
Wesselburen, Germany
Children3
OccupationAcademic

Sabine Kunst (born 30 December 1954) is a German engineer, academic and politician who served as president of Humboldt University since 2016. [1] [2] [3] In 2021, she announced her resignation over the reform of the Berlin university law. [4]

Since 2014, she has been a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). [5]

Education

Political career

From 2010 to 2011, Kunst served as president of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD); she was the first woman to hold that office. [6] She unsuccessfully applied for the position as president of the University of Leipzig in 2010; instead, the position went to Beate Schücking. [7]

From 2011 to 2016, Kunst served as State Minister of Science, Research and Culture in the government of Brandenburg, in the governments of successive Ministers-President Matthias Platzeck and Dietmar Woidke. [8]

Other activities

Recognition

Personal life

Kunst is married and has three children. The family has been living in Werder, Havel since 2007. [29] Her sister is Kirsten Fehrs.

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References

  1. ↑ "Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. Sabine Kunst Präsidentin der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Sabine Kunst Foto: Matthias Heyde Anschrift". Humboldt University . Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  2. ↑ "Sabine Kunst". forschung-und-lehre. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  3. ↑ "Sabine Kunst is the new HU president". Humboldt University . Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  4. ↑ "Präsidentin der Humboldt-Universität tritt zurück". Berliner Zeitung . 26 October 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  5. ↑ Jan Kixmüller (18 January 2016), Weggang von Ministerin Sabine Kunst: Unterschätzt und beharrlich Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten .
  6. ↑ Jan-Martin Wiarda (8 July 2010), Neue DAAD-Präsidentin: Lächelnde Strategin Die Zeit .
  7. ↑ Jan Kixmüller (17 November 2010), Sabine Kunst bleibt Präsidentin der Universität Potsdam Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten .
  8. ↑ Jan Kixmüller (18 January 2016), Weggang von Ministerin Sabine Kunst: Unterschätzt und beharrlich Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten .
  9. ↑ Supervisory Board Berlin Institute of Health (BIH).
  10. ↑ Board of Trustees Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin.
  11. ↑ Council Foundation for the Humboldt Forum in the Berlin Palace.
  12. ↑ Advisory Board Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research (IAP).
  13. ↑ Board of Trustees German Institute for Economic Research (DIW).
  14. ↑ Board German-Polish Science Foundation (DPWS).
  15. ↑ Board of Trustees Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History.
  16. ↑ Board of Trustees Leo Baeck Foundation.
  17. ↑ Supervisory Board Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC).
  18. ↑ Senate, as of December 2020 Max Planck Society.
  19. ↑ Board of Trustees Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics.
  20. ↑ Board of Trustees Natural History Museum, Berlin.
  21. ↑ Board of Trustees Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).
  22. ↑ Board of Trustees Stiftung St. Matthäus, Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia.
  23. ↑ Board of Trustees Stephanus-Stiftung.
  24. ↑ Board of Trustees University of Lübeck.
  25. ↑ Board of Trustees Urania Berlin.
  26. ↑ Board of Trustees Weizenbaum Institute.
  27. ↑ Board of Trustees Berlin Social Science Center (WZB).
  28. ↑ Gudrun Mallwitz (16 November 2013), In Potsdam wird erstmals jüdische Theologie unterrichtet Berliner Morgenpost .
  29. ↑ Berliner Staatssekretär mit Stasi-Vergangenheit: Das Dilemma der HU-Präsidentin im Fall Holm, Der Tagesspiegel , 12 January 2017.
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