Department Head Iris Bothe
Everyone has a right to education - from the very beginning 
of life. We consistently implement this credo in Wolfsburg and invest almost every second euro of the municipal budget in lifelong education, even in economically difficult years: We continue to build new daycare centers, invest in early language education and continuously train our educational specialists, because the amount of knowledge and skills that children can acquire through play in their first years of life is huge - and is a decisive factor in their later success at school.
We are building, renovating or extending schools and investing in extracurricular learning spaces and non-formal education in order to offer our schoolchildren the best possible conditions for a successful (school) education. All elementary school in Wolfsburg are all-day schools with excellent afternoon programs - no other city in Lower Saxony offers such an all-day program. In terms of secondary schools, we offer all types of school: with a choice between Hauptschule, Realschule and Oberschule, Gymnasium and integrated comprehensive schools and individual support geared towards the talents of children and young people, we enable the best possible equality of opportunity and participation.
Adult and senior citizens' education, which is supported by many different institutions, offers numerous suitable opportunities for an individual expansion of knowledge, because in Wolfsburg you are never too old for a good question and can maintain your curiosity in many different ways.
Yours, Iris Bothe
City Councillor for Youth, Education, Integration and Social Affairs
Career and responsibilities
since 04/2012
Head of Department for Youth, Schools and Integration and Information Technology at the City of Wolfsburg
06/2009-03/2012
Head of School Division
09/2007-05/2009
Youth Division, Head of Day Care and Maintenance Department
01/1999-08/2007
Youth Division, City Youth Welfare Officer
05/1998-12/1998
Youth Welfare Office, Certified Social Pedagogue Youth Protection/Children and Youth Cultural Work
11/1995-05/1998
Youth Welfare Office, Head of "Uncle Max" Youth Center
07/1995-11/1995
Youth welfare office, certified social pedagogue at the youth center "Onkel Max
10/1993-07/1995
Youth welfare office of the city of Wolfsburg, certified social pedagogue at the youth center Forsthaus Fallersleben
10/1992-09/1993
Volkswagen AG, graduate social pedagogue at the Personnel Development Department, Planning and Coordination of Training and Further Education, Employment Areas at the City of Wolfsburg
10/1992
State recognition as a social pedagogue
10/1991-09/1992
Professional internship at Volkswagen AG's Human Resources Development, Planning and Coordination of Training and Further Education Department
1988-09/1991
Studies of Social Pedagogy, University of Applied Sciences Braunschweig/Wolfenbüttel, Degree: Diplom-Sozialpädagogin (Diploma in Social Pedagogy)
1987
High school diploma, Gymnasium an der Max-Planck-Strasse in Delmenhorst
Business areas and units
The following divisions and departments of the City of Wolfsburg are part of my board area as Education Director:
Municipal committees and bodies
Subsidiaries and shareholdings
Wolfsburg Schulverpflegungsgesellschaft mbH
Wolfsburger Schulverpflegungsgesellschaft mbH (Woschu GmbH) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the City of Wolfsburg and is assigned to Board Division II. The company provides services relating to catering, kitchen management and food distribution at Wolfsburg schools that participate in the Wolfsburg catering concept and is a reliable partner in Wolfsburg's educational landscape.
Contact
City of Wolfsburg
Department II
Mrs. Bothe
City Councillor
Porschestraße 49
38440 Wolfsburg
Telephone: 05361 28-2229
E-mail: sekretariat.bothe@stadt.wolfsburg.de