Metropolis Conference 2014 - Talking with Walter Kindermann

Walter Kindermann is Hessian ministry for social Affairs and Integration.

He is doctor in psychology. From 1974 to 1978 he
was Senator for justice, Berlin, creating and leading a therapycentre
for drug addicts in the prison of Berlin-Tegel. From 1979 to 1983 he was head of youth research department at the Technische Universität, Berlin.
From 1983 to 1988 he lead an NGO including 30 institutions (residential therapy, counselling institutions, a school for addicts,
… ) and 250 members of staff in Frankfurt am Main (www. drogenberatung-jj.de). Between 1989 and 2009 he worked for the
Hessian Ministry of Social Affairs, where he was respectively responsible for health-politics and then Head of Department for
Integration Policies Social Affairs, Labour Market Policies. Since
2009 he is Director-General for Integration at the Ministry of Justice,
Integration and Europe of the State of Hessen.