Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schroeder is head of the department “Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany – Statehood in Transition” at the University of Kassel. From 2009 to 2014, he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Women and Family of the State of Brandenburg. He has been a fellow at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) since 2016 and a member of the Council of the World of Work of the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS) since 2022