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Biography
After his studies, Klaus Theo Schröder spent several years doing research at: the Comprehensive University of Duisburg, the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, the University of Trier and the Fraunhofer-Institut für Systemtechnik und Innovationsforschung in Karlsruhe, investigating issues relating to the use and effects of modern technologies, structural, research and innovation policies.
In November 1986, he took up a position at what was then the Ministry for Labour, Health and Social Affairs of the Land of Northrhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf. He held various executive functions with responsibilities for labour market and structural change, children, youth, family affairs as well as basic and cross-cutting issues of social and health policy under the ministers Hermann Heinmann and Franz Müntefering.
In December 1994, Mr Schröder was called to the Thuringian Ministry for Social Affairs and Health in Erfurt as the State Secretary, a function in which he was successful in elaborating, inter alia, a new hospital plan and restructuring the Thuringian hospital landscape.
On leaving that ministry in October 1999, the Social Democrat received an offer to join the Berlin Senate Administration for Labour, Social Affairs and Women as State Secretary in December 1999. Mr Schröder accepted the offer and took on responsibility in the German Capital particularly for health policy, the stabilisation of Berlin’s health insurance funds and the reorganisation of the city’s hospitals.
In December 2000 he left this position at his own request to work as a top executive at the Rhön-Klinikum AG, Bad Neustadt an der Saale, in charge of the management area Baden-Wuerttemberg, Hesse, Northrhine-Westphalia, a post which he left to join the Federal Ministry for Health and Social Security.
