The American Council on Germany will host a breakfast briefing with Prof. Dr. Johannes Beermann, Former Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank and Former Minister of State for Federal and European Affairs of the Free State of Saxony on “Still Two Germanys? The East’s Economic and Political Divide”.
Prof. Dr. Johannes Beermann studied Law at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and, after passing his second state exam in 1988, joined the staff of the Federal Ministry for Youth, Family Affairs, Women and Health. After completing his PhD in law at the University of Münster in 1990, he worked at the Saxon State Ministry for Social Affairs and at the Saxon State Chancellery until 1992 and served as Head of Office for the CDU Secretary General Peter Hintze for the next three years. In 1995, Prof. Dr. Beermann became State Councilor to the Senator of Finance of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. He was then Secretary of State for Federal and European Affairs at the Hessian State Chancellery and Commissioner (Bevollmächtigter) of the State of Hessen to the Federation from 1999 to 2003 and subsequently worked in a law firm as a lawyer. Prof. Dr. Beermann was appointed Chief of the State Chancellery and Minister of State for Federal and European Affairs of the Free State of Saxony in 2008, and reappointed to these positions a year later, until 2014. From 2015 until 2022, he was a Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, responsible for the Directorates Banknotes, Controlling, Administration, Construction, and the Procurement Centre.
Prof. Dr. Beerman joined the business law firm Luther as Of Counsel in 2023. He also holds a lecturing post at the University of Applied Sciences of Mittweida after being awarded an honorary professorship in public finance and public affairs in 2020.