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Klaus-Dieter Lehmann

German librarian (born 1940)

Klaus-Dieter Lehmann (pronounced [klaʊs ˈdiːtɐ ˈleːman]; born 29 February 1940) is a German librarian and has been president of the Goethe-Institut (2008-2020).²

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Born Feb 29, 1940.¹

Companies

Goethe-InstitutPresident¹³
Goethe-InstitutChair 2008 to 2020¹³

Career

Occupation: academic librarian, cultural manager, librarian, non-fiction writer.⁵

2008 to 2020Chair, Goethe-Institut⁴
Date not recordedWorked at German National Library³
Date not recordedPresident, Goethe-Institut³

Born in 1940 in Breslau, Lehmann studied physics and mathematics and passed his state examination in library science.

In 1988 Lehmann became director of the Deutsche Bibliothek, Frankfurt, the national library of West Germany. Following German reunification he merged the library with its East German counterpart in Leipzig; since 2006, the institution has been known as the German National Library. From 1998 to 2008 he served as president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.

Corporate boards

Deutsche Bank, member of the advisory board (since 2006)

Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, member of the supervisory board

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Personal life

BornFeb 29, 1940, Wrocław^{6 7}
CitizenshipGermany⁸

Awards

2015Order of the Rising Sun^{9 12}
2011Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany^{9 11}
2008Kulturgroschen^{9 10}
2006Order of Merit of Berlin⁹

Sources

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WikidataKlaus-Dieter Lehmann on Wikidata
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WikidataKlaus-Dieter Lehmann: Worked at German National Library, on Wikidata
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WikidataKlaus-Dieter Lehmann: Chair, Goethe-Institut, on Wikidata
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WikidataKlaus-Dieter Lehmann: occupation, on Wikidata
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WikidataKlaus-Dieter Lehmann: place of birth, on Wikidata
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WikidataKlaus-Dieter Lehmann: citizenship, on Wikidata
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WikidataGoethe-Institut, President
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Wikimedia CommonsKlaus-Dieter Lehmann photo by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, CC BY-SA 2.0