Throwback 2022

Stefan Schnorr (60) has been State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs and Transport since December 2021. As Head of Office, he is responsible for the Central Department as well as the Budget and Investments, Digital and Data Policy, Digital Connectivity and Aviation departments. Mr. Schnorr is a jurist who began his career as an administrative judge in Trier and then served as Head of Public Relations and Press Officer at the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Justice in Mainz from 1994 to 2001. In 2001, he moved to the Representation of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate to the Federal Government and the European Union in Berlin, where he was deputy head of the Federal Affairs Department, coordinating the Bundesrat. From 2009 to March 2010, he was head of the Representation of the State of Lower Saxony to the Federal Government in Berlin. In 2010, he moved to the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, where he headed, among other things, the subdivision for personnel and budget, from 2011 to 2014 the management department, and from 2015 to 2021 the "Digital and Innovation Policy" department.