Newly-appointed state official assumes role as state commissioner - The administration in Land makes fresh appointments
The Thuringia state government has announced new appointments for commissioners in the areas of equality, migration, digitalization, and combating antisemitism. The appointments were made by the cabinet of Thuringia's Minister President Mario Voigt.
Nadja Sthamer, a former federal MP from the Social Democratic Party (SPD), will take on the role of equality commissioner of the state. Sthamer served as a federal MP from 2021 to 2025 but did not make it back into parliament in this year's election.
Dorothea Storch, a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has been appointed as the new migration commissioner of the state. Storch is a jurist and a CDU municipal politician, who previously served as the mayor of Dornburg-Camburg in the Saale-Holzland district. She lost the mayoral election in 2024 to an independent challenger named Jens Tischendorf.
The new antisemitism commissioner is Michael Panse, a CDU municipal politician and member of the Erfurt city council. Panse previously worked at the state center for political education and is a board member of the German-Israeli Society and the association for the preservation of the old and small synagogue in Erfurt.
Milen Starke, who comes from the software company Q-Soft, has been appointed as the CIO and CDO of the state, making him the IT commissioner of the state.
It is worth noting that Mirjam Kruppa, who came into office under the Red-Red-Green coalition on a Green ticket, was the previous migration commissioner of the state. Her successor, Sthorch, will take over the role.
The CDU also appointed new commissioners for equality, digitalization, but their identities are not specified in the article.
Mario Voigt leads Thuringia's only black-yellow-red coalition of CDU, BSW, and SPD. The appointments of the new commissioners are expected to strengthen the government's efforts in these areas.
The appointments of Nadja Sthamer, a former SPD federal MP, as equality commissioner, Dorothea Storch, a CDU jurist and municipal politician, as migration commissioner, and Michael Panse, a CDU municipal politician and member of the Erfurt city council, as antisemitism commissioner by the cabinet of Thuringia's Minister President Mario Voigt have been announced.These appointments lie within the context of policy-and-legislation, politics, and general news, as they involve the strengthening of the government's efforts in the areas of equality, migration, and combating antisemitism. The identities of the new commissioners for digitalization and equality under the CDU are yet to be specified.
