Jan Mühlstein

Jan Mühlstein was born on 3 July 1949 in Most, Czechoslovakia. He grew up in a German-speaking Jewish family, which traditionally practised Liberal Judaism. In 1967, he began studying physics at the Charles University in Prague. After the defeat of the reformation movement known as the Prague Spring, in which Mühlstein participated actively, he emigrated to West Germany in 1969. From 1970 onwards, he studied physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and completed a Ph.D. in theoretical quantum optics in 1977. During the next four years, he worked in the leadership of project energy research of the nuclear energy research facility in Jülich.Zur Person. In: Jüdische Zeitung February 2006Kurzvita auf energiemarkt-medien.de Since 1982, Mühlstein has been working as a business journalist in Munich and is deputy chief editor of a journal covering the economics of the energy market.

Between 1977 and 1978, Mühlstein was a board member of the West German section of Amnesty International.Vereinsregisterblatt Nr. 5588 des Amtsgerichts Hamburg zu amnesty international Sektion der Bundesrepublik Deutschland e.V. He is a co-founder of the Liberal Jewish Community Munich "Beth Shalom", whose chair he was until 2005.Jan Mühlstein: 10 Jahre Beth Shalom. In: Beth Shalom Rundbrief 2/2005, p. 1f He was again elected as chair of Beth Shalom in May 2011. From 1999 until 2011, he was the chair of the Union of Progressive Jews in Germany.Jan Mühlstein geht. Die liberale Dachorganisation wählt einen neuen Vorstand, Jüdische Allgemeine 7 July 2011; See also WUPJ News Issue 415 (http://www.wupj.org/Publications/Newsletter.asp?ContentID=439#SONJA {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001234334/http://www.wupj.org/Publications/Newsletter.asp?ContentID=439#SONJA |date=1 October 2011 }}) Mühlstein is particularly committed to promote religious plurality in Judaism.Axel Fritzsche: "Wir brauchen flexible Rabbiner". Interview mit Jan Mühlstein, Vorsitzender der Union Progressiver Juden. In: Jüdische Zeitung February 2006

Mühlstein is married to Dr. Verena Mühlstein (born 1953), author of a biography about Albert Schweitzer's wife, Helene Bresslau,Verena Mühlstein: Helene Schweitzer Bresslau. Ein Leben für Lambarene. München: C.H. Beck, 1998 who is also active at Beth Shalom. One of his three daughters works as a rabbi at the West London Synagogue of British Jews.{{cite web |url=http://www.lbc.ac.uk/201207031595/News/leo-baeck-college-ordains-rabbis-at-west-london-synagogue.html |title=Leo Baeck College Ordains Rabbis at West London Synagogue | News |accessdate=2012-10-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120805062844/http://www.lbc.ac.uk/201207031595/News/leo-baeck-college-ordains-rabbis-at-west-london-synagogue.html |archivedate=5 August 2012 |df=dmy-all}}

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