Karin Wolff


Karin Wolff is a German politician and former deputy minister president of Hesse.
Wolff studied history, evangelical theology and philosophy at Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and Philipps-Universität Marburg. She finished university and worked as a teacher in Darmstadt.
In 1976 Wolff became a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union. In 1995 she became a member of parliament in Hesse and became minister in Hesse on 7 April 1999.
Wolff has written two books on children and education. She lives in Darmstadt in an openly lesbian relationship.

Works by Wolff

  • Karin Wolff : Ohne Bildung keine Zukunft: sind unsere Bildungskonzepte noch zeitgemäß? Frankfurt am Main, 2001,
  • Karin Wolff: Klasse Schule - starke Kinder. Ideen, Projekte und Perspektiven für Hessen. Wiesbaden, 2007,

    Criticism

She is a creationist. In 2006 she made the following remark in an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: