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Christian Mankel, MBA, is a German association politician who, as once the youngest guild manager (health trade) in Germany, learned the micropolitically sensitive work at the interface between politics, business and administration from scratch. After six successful years at the Hessian state level, Mr. Mankel took over full-time responsibility in 2021 in the management of the German Association for the Bath Industry, whose membership structure as the leading nationwide industry association with headquarters in Essen includes over 1,000 municipal bath operators. In addition to general developments in the pool landscape, he will be able to give us an outlook on this year’s interbad trade fair in Stuttgart and talk about the significance of the Public Value Award, for which the application process began in April.

On an honorary and part-time basis, Mr. Mankel also represents the interests of the swimming pool sector in the DIN standardisation committee for water management, as a member of the administrative advisory board of the medical service and in the advisory board for health and welfare of the DGUV. From 2012 to 2020, Mr Mankel was also an honorary lecturer at Faculty 3 of the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences and taught there, among other things, in the dual Bachelor’s degree programme in Public Administration, in order to make the administrative managers of tomorrow fit for the challenges of the future, in which public services will continue to be of central importance.