Karin von Welck
Karin Baroness von Welck ( born April 30, 1947 in Buir, near Cologne ) is a social anthropologist and from 2004 to 2010 Culture Senator of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (independent).
Life
After graduation in 1966 Karin Baroness von Welck holds a degree in political science, folklore, German, ancient American languages and cultures, ethnology and linguistics at the Universities of Hamburg and Cologne. In 1973 she finished her studies with a PhD. with the thesis " Studies on the so-called conservatism of the Pueblo Indians of Arizona and New Mexico ." She was then worked until 1974 as a research assistant at the Institute of Ethnology of the University of Cologne and was subsequently involved in the formation of various small ethnographic museums. In 1979 she returned as a research assistant returned to the Institute of Ethnology in Cologne, but took over in 1980 the management of the Indonesia Department at the diamond -Joest - Museum of Ethnology of Cologne, its deputy director, she was also from 1982.
In 1990, she joined then as director of the Reiss - Museum of the city of Mannheim. In 1994 she was appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Mannheim. From 1998 to 2004 she served as Secretary General of the Cultural Foundation of the countries.
Since 2007 Karin von Welck is a member of the Bureau's Board of the German Protestant Church Congress and was President of the 32nd German Protestant Church Day 2009 in Bremen. In 2008 she was honored with the Max Herrmann- price. From Welck is married.
On 17 March 2004 she was appointed as a Senator in the culture led by Ole von Beust Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (Senate von Beust II). On 7 May 2008, the new Senate of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg was confirmed (Senate von Beust III). In this context, the new Ministry of Culture, Sports and Media were combined with corresponding offices. Karin von Welck has since Senator for Culture, Media and Sport. Furthermore, she was Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Hamburg State Opera, the Deutsche Schauspielhaus and the Thalia Theatre, and various museums, such as the Kunsthalle and the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg.
On July 18, 2010, at a press conference in the City Hall First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Ole von Beust announced his own resignation and the resignation of the Senator for Culture Karin von Welck and the State Council of the Senate Chancellery Volkmar Beautifully August 25, 2010. The announcement of the resignation was independent of the parallel on the same day held a referendum on school reform in Hamburg.
Since 2012 she is the first Domherrin in the history of the United Domstifter of Merseburg and Naumburg and Zeitz Collegiate. Moreover, it is, inter alia, Board member of the German Commission for UNESCO and a board member of the German Literature Archive in Marbach.