Bavarian Minister of Education Anna Stolz, a member of the Free Voters and newly appointed chair of the Federal Conference of Education Ministers, rejected proposals to abolish the federal system of civil service employment for teachers.
Stolz told the POLITICO news portal that as Bavarian education minister she is firmly committed to the civil service status of teachers. “Civil service is a core building block for quality, stability and the attractiveness of the profession” she said. She described it as the state’s pledge to reliability and responsibility for comprehensive teaching coverage “in both urban and rural areas”.
The minister assured that teachers in Bavaria can count on stable conditions. “This is why, in a national comparison, we also perform very well with fully qualified teachers who deliver excellent work every day” Stolz added. She said this is essential for good teaching quality. At the same time she stressed that the design of employment relationships is the responsibility of the individual states.
On Thursday, Saxony’s Minister of Education Conrad Clemens (CDU) called in the Bild newspaper for a “German pact against teacher civil service”. The CDU’s middle‑class association MIT, according to the Bild, proposes in a motion for the federal party conference that new civil service appointments be excluded from areas not clearly defined as sovereign.
