Jan Mühlstein

Jan Mühlstein ( born July 3, 1949 in Most, Czechoslovakia) is a journalist and former chairman of the Union of Progressive Jews in Germany.

Life

Jan Mühlstein grew up in a German-speaking Jewish family that traditionally represented a liberal Judaism. In 1967 he began studying physics at Charles University in Prague. After the suppression of the reform movement of the so-called Prague Spring, actively participated in the millstone, he emigrated in 1969 in the Federal Republic of Germany. From 1970 he studied physics at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich and received his PhD in 1977 in theoretical quantum optics. He then spent four years in project management Energy Research of the Research Centre Jülich. Since 1982 Millstone works as a financial journalist in Munich and is deputy Chefdakteur the energy industry trade journal Energy & Management ( E & M).

Millstone was from 1977 to 1978 member of the board of the German section of Amnesty International. He is co-founder of the liberal Jewish community, Beth Shalom in Munich, which he chaired until 2005 and again since May 2011. From 1999 to 2011 he was chairman of the Union of Progressive Jews in Germany. He was committed to a particular religious pluralism within the Jewish community. In 2012 he was honored by the Union of Progressive Jews in Germany, with Leo Hepner, the former head of the European Union for Progressive Judaism, the Israel - Jacobson Prize.

Millstone is with the doctor Verena millstone ( b. 1953 ) married the author of a biography of Albert Schweitzer's wife Helene Bresslau and also in Beth Shalom active. One of his three daughters was ordained in July 2012 in London as a rabbi.

Awards

• 2012: Journalist Award of the Association of combined heat and power