Vita
Dr. Prof. habil Thomas Klie
PhD, lawyer, professor for gerontology at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences (Germany) and the University of Klagenfurt (Austria).
His main topics in the research work in the Social Research Institute Freiburg (AGP) are demographic and social changes in the modern society, elder abuse and social planning for the elderly on the municipality level.
He was a member of the National Commission for issuing the 7th Report about the State of Elderly People in Germany and the chairman of the Second Engagement Report Commission of the Federal Government on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.
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Academic background
1988 Doctorate in law at the University of Hamburg (with Prof. Dr. Hoffmann-Riem)
1988 - 2021 Professor at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Freiburg
2010 Habilitation (venia docendi in gerontology) at the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt / Vienna Graz; Faculty for Interdisciplinary Research and Continuing Education
Professional career
1974 High school diploma (Abitur) at Johanneum Hamburg
1976 - 1981 Studies of protestant Theology, Sociology and Law at the University of Hamburg
1978 - 1981 Research assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Werner Thieme, University of Hamburg
1981 First state law examination at the University of Hamburg
1981 - 1988 Lecturer at the Berufsfortbildungswerk des DGB in Hamburg
1982 - 1987 Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Hamburg with stations in Frankfurt and Darmstadt
1985 - 1986 Research assistant at the University of Economics and Politics, Hamburg
1983 - 1990 Executive member of the board of HAFA e.V. (institute for further education), Hamburg / Kassel
1984 - 1985 Freelancer at the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, Hamburg
1987 second state examination in law
1987 - 1988 Freelancer at the German Association for Public and Private Welfare, Frankfurt
1988 Doctorate in law at the University of Hamburg (with Prof. Dr. Hoffmann-Riem)
1988 - 2021 Professor at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences, Freiburg
In a secondary office: Data Protection Officer of the Protestant Church in Baden from 1992 - 2013, 2015 - 2020 Data Protection Officer of Diakonisches Werk Baden
Since 1999 lawyer in Freiburg, Munich and Berlin
2010 Habilitation (venia docendi in gerontology) at the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt / Vienna Graz; Faculty for Interdisciplinary Research and Continuing Education
Private lecturer at the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt, IFF Vienna
2010 to 2021 Visiting Professor at UNAM Windhoek, Namibia
Since 2021 Visiting Professor at the University of Graz
2018 - 2021 Research Officer at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Freiburg