Dr. Rainer Sontowski – Korndörffer Kommunikationsberatung

Dr Rainer
Sontowski

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  • More than 35 years in various political and administrative positions in Germany at both the federal and the state level
  • Former State Secretary (since April 2018)
  • State Secretary at Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (2014 – 2017) and at Germany’s Federal Foreign Office (2017 – 2018), while also being Head of the Vice-Chancellor’s Office; Member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bahn (2014)
  • Office Manager for SPD party chair Sigmar Gabriel at the SPD party headquarters (2009 – 2013)
  • Head of the Central and General Policies Department of Germany’s Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (2005 – 2009)
  • Head of the Press and Public Relations Department at the Press and Information Office of the German Federal Government (2003-2005)
  • Secretary to the SPD parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament (2003)
  • Head of the Lower Saxony State Representation Office in Berlin (2002 – 2003)
  • Office Manager for SPD party chair Gerhard Schröder at the SPD party headquarters (1999 – 2002)
  • Head of the Political Planning Section of the Federal Chancellery (1999)
  • Advisor and Section Head at the Minister for Education and Culture’s office (1994 – 1998); Head of Parliamentary and Cabinet Affairs, Strategic Planning and General Coordination in Lower Saxony’s Ministry for Education and Culture (1998 – 1999)
  • Research assistant to member of the German parliament Karl-Hermann Haack (1987 – 1990);
    Advisor to the SPD parliamentary group in the German parliament (1990), and to the SPD parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament (1990 – 1994)
  • Master’s studies of politics and history at the University of Hanover (1981 – 1987), doctorate in 1989
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