Steffen Freiberg (born 23 September 1981) is a German politician from the

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(SPD). He has been since 2023.

Life

After graduating from high school in

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in 2000, Freiberg began studying political and administrative sciences as well as English/

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at the

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, where he graduated with a

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in 2004 and a Master of Arts in 2007. During this time, he was chairman of the ''General Student Committee'' at his university from 2002 to 2003. Freiberg is a member of the SPD. In 2006 he became a consultant for the environment, consumer protection and right-wing extremism in the SPD parliamentary group in the ''

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'', in 2007 he became a consultant for state parliament affairs in the and until 2008 he was also deputy head of the office. In 2008 he moved to the , where he became head of department for state parliament affairs. In 2011 he became head of the ministerial office of Mathias Brodkorb in the . In November 2016, Steffen Freiberg was appointed state secretary for schools and political education in the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture in the (

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV; ; ), also known by its anglicized name Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, is a state in the north-east of Germany. Of the country's sixteen states, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ranks 14th in population; it covers an are ...

) by Minister . took over this role in 2019. When the second Schwesig cabinet took office on 15 November 2021, he was temporarily retired at the age of 40. Most recently, the state of digitization in schools in the state had been heavily criticized, saying that despite the digital framework plan, it had fallen far short of its potential. The minister of education who succeeded her in November, Simone Oldenburg, also criticized the approach to introducing the new subject of

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in 2021 while still in opposition. From 10 January 2022 to 10 May 2023 he was state secretary in the . Following the resignation of Minister Britta Ernst on 17 April 2023, he was appointed of the

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in the Third Woidke cabinet on 10 May 2023 and confirmed in office in the fourth Woidke cabinet on 11 December 2024.

External links

Steffen Freiberg
auf der Website des Ministerium für Bildung, Jugend und Sport des Landes Brandenburg

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Freiberg, Steffen Living people 1981 births Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians People from Rostock Ministers of the Brandenburg State Government 21st-century German politicians German civil servants University of Rostock alumni