Permanent Secretary Arne Herz

16/06/2025 – present

Permanent Secretary for Mobility and Transport Berlin

01/04/2022 – present

• also lecturer in module E-Government between Modernising Administration and Citizen Proximity, Master’s program Law for Public Administration

11/2017 – 06/2025

• District Councillor and Head of the Department for Social and Citizen Services, 12/2021 – 06/2025
• Deputy District Mayor and District Councillor, 04/2019 – 12/2021
• District Councillor and Head of the Department for Citizen Services and Economic, Regulatory and Public Order Affairs, 11/2017 – 12/2021

10/2016 – 11/2016

• Director of “Commissioner for Central Governance and Coordination of the Roll-Out of the Berlin E-Government Act (EGovG Bln) for the Department and for the Senate Department for the Interior and Sport”

12/2011 – 10/2016

• Personal Assistant and Head of the Office of the Permanent Secretary

12/2011 – 02/2015

Bar exam, Berlin Bar Association (not practising pursuant to S. 47(1) BRAO (German Federal Code for Lawyers)

11/2007 – 11/2009

Junior Lawyer at the Berlin State Court, with stages at the Regional Court Berlin, Berlin Public Prosecutor’s Office, Berlin Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Law Offices of Bartsch & Bongard, Berlin, elective stage: Deutscher Anwaltverein e.V. (German Association of Lawyers), representing a CEO

08/2010

Improved grade in second state bar exam

11/2009

Second state bar exam

09/2005 – 08/2007

Master’s in Business Economics for Lawyers, Kiel University of Applied Sciences

02/2005

First state bar exam, majoring in Commercial and Corporate Law

04/1998 – 01/2005

Studies in Legal Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin

1995 – present

Member of CDU