Marion Schick is a German manager, politician and professor. From February 2010 to May 2011 she was Minister of Education of the German state of Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...

. Before being named minister she served as president of Munich University of Applied Sciences

Munich University of Applied Sciences

The Munich University of Applied Sciences, was founded in 1971 and is the largest University of Applied Sciences in Bavaria with about 14,000 students.-Organisation:...

. Deutsche Telekom

Deutsche Telekom

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 has named her as future chairman for human resources.

From 1977 to 1981 Schick studied education with economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). From 1982 to 1983 she was a teacher trainee at a professional school and finished the state examination to become a teacher. From 1983 to 1987 she was a research assistant at Bundeswehr University Munich and there also obtained a doctorate in education (Dr. phil.).

From 1987 to 1990 she worked with human resources and management training of ADAC

ADAC

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 and Allianz

Allianz

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 and subsequently took over a position as head of marketing department at Rodenstock GmbH

Rodenstock GmbH

The Rodenstock GmbH is a renowned German manufacturer headquartered in Munich and the only brand producer of the entire spectacles product worldwide...

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In 1993 she got a management chair at Munich University of Applied Sciences. From 1999 to 2000 she served as the university's vice president and in the following year was named president and kept this position until 2008. From 2006 to 2008 She also served as head of the conference of the presidents of the Bavarian universities of applied sciences. She also was a member of the board of the Fraunhofer Society

Fraunhofer Society

The Fraunhofer Society is a German research organization with 60 institutes spread throughout Germany, each focusing on different fields of applied science . It employs around 18,000, mainly scientists and engineers, with an annual research budget of about €1.65 billion...

 and head of human resources and legal issues.

In February 2010 then conservative prime minister of Baden-Württemberg, Stefan Mappus

Stefan Mappus

Stefan Mappus is a former German politician from the Christian Democratic Union . He was Minister-President of the state of Baden-Württemberg since 2010 and chairman of the CDU Baden-Württemberg since 2009....

, named her Minister of Education. She kept this position until the elections in May 2011, won by the German Green Party and the social democrats.