Personnel decision - Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation: New top management
With the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), Germany's most powerful cultural institution, gets a new leadership. The SPK Foundation Board, chaired by Culture State Minister Claudia Roth (Greens), determines on this Monday about the succession at the helm of the Foundation. The incumbent President Hermann Parzinger (65) will retire from office next year due to age.
The SPK is Germany's largest and most significant cultural institution. To the state-funded foundation with around 2000 employees and staff belong, among others, the State Library Berlin and several institutions. The State Museums in Berlin with 15 collections and 4.7 million objects at 19 locations are also part of it.
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- Claudia Roth, as the Chair of the SPK Foundation Board, will make a personnel decision regarding the succession at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.
- The Federal Government of Germany will closely observe the personnel decision made by Claudia Roth and the SPK Foundation Board.
- Libraries and museums throughout Germany are eagerly waiting for the new leadership at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.
- The personnel decision made by Claudia Roth and the SPK Foundation Board will have significant implications for the cultural policy of Berlin and the Federal States.
- People who value culture in Germany are hoping that the new leadership at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will continue to promote the rich cultural heritage.
- The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, under its new leadership, will work closely with institutions like the Federal Government, museums, and libraries to preserve and promote Germany's cultural heritage.
