Beerfeltz, Hans-Jürgen

Former Vice-President of the German Federal Agency for Civic Education

Born 8 April 1951 in Lübeck

Married, one daughter

... learned the fundamentals of development policy when working for the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, his first job after graduating from Hamburg University in sociology…

…was head of office for the then German Minister of Economics, Otto Graf Lambsdorff, and was responsible in particular for coordinating his visits to the USA, accompanying him on them and also helping to receive foreign officials visiting Germany…

…conducted visiting and training programmes as part of inter­national civic education within the remit of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, in particular in Central and South America...

…was responsible at the Federal Agency for Civic Education for, amongst other things, reconciliation with the Jewish people and, in particular, programmes for journalists visiting Israel…

…accepted, during his entire time as federal party manager of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), additional assignments, often several times a year, as a development consultant in the fields of local government, NGO professionalisation and promotion of democracy…

…undertook more than 100 international assignments for a wide variety of agencies, with the main focus on Central and South America and South-East Asia…

…was active in the academic field, focusing in particular on all issues relating to the development of values and communication, also authoring and co-authoring a variety of publications and taking on assignments as a guest lecturer in Germany and the USA…

...sat on the Executive of the Liberal International for four years and was a delegate on various European liberal bodies…

...was appointed to the Broadcasting Board of Deutsche Welle on 19 March 2010...