Thomas Sattelberger | |
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Member of the Bundestag | |
In office 2017 –1 August 2022 | |
Succeeded by | Nils Gründer |
Personal details | |
Born | Munderkingen,West Germany (now Germany) | 5 June 1949
Political party | FDP |
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]
Born in Munderkingen,Baden-Württemberg,Sattelberger holds a degree in business administration (Duale Hochschule).
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.
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]
Sattelberger is openly gay and lives with his partner in Munich. [16]
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