Thomas Sattelberger 2022

Dr. h.c. Thomas Sattelberger was a member of the German Bundestag from October 2017 to August 2022 and Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Education and Research from December 2021 to June 2022. Between 2017 and 2021, he was spokesperson for innovation, education and research for his FDP parliamentary group

Before that, Sattelberger, who was born on 5 June 1949, was for many years a member of the executive board of German DAX companies. From 2007 to 2012, he worked for Deutsche Telekom as Chief Human Resources Officer and Labour Director, and from 2003 to 2007 for the automotive supplier Continental
From 1994 Sattelberger was at Lufthansa, from 1999 to 2003 as an operational airline board member
Between 1975 and 1994, he worked in a wide variety of management roles and business areas for what is now the Daimler Group

The graduate in business administration (Duale Hochschule) holds a Dr. rer. pol. h.c. from the University of Siegen and is a Fellow of the renowned International Academy of Management (IAOM).

Together with the then Acatech President Prof. Dr. Henning Kagermann, Sattelberger founded the National MINT Forum and was its honorary spokesman for many years until his election to the German Bundestag. Before that, Sattelberger founded the National Initiative "MINT Zukunft" in 2008, of which he was chairman until 2021. As a BDA/BDI representative, he was a member of the Accreditation Council of the Foundation for the Accreditation of Study Programmes in Germany for many years.

Until his election to the Bundestag, Thomas Sattelberger was Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Deutschlandstipendium and a member of the Advisory Board for Internal Leadership of the German Armed Forces. Until his appointment as Parliamentary State Secretary, he was Chairman of the Advisory Board of the University Alliance for SMEs.

Sattelberger has received various awards, including for the book he co-edited, "Das demokratische Unternehmen. Neue Arbeits- und Führungskulturen im Zeitalter digitaler Wirtschaft" (Management Book of the Year 2015). A Handelsblatt jury named Sattelberger "Reformer of the Year" in 2010. The Bonn Media Club awarded him the coveted Bröckemännche Prize in 2012 for "non-conformist licking against the sting".