About us

City of light Jena - modern structures with supraregional charisma

The city administration of Jena. For about 110,000 citizens as well as numerous companies and institutions, we are the lighthouse that offers them orientation and rays of hope at the same time every day. This claim holds versatile tasks and widely ramified services, which we tackle together day by day. This is how we ensure the sustainable growth of our community. As a family-friendly employer - and one of the largest in the region - we also continually invest in the quality of life and work of our approximately 2,000 employees.

City of Light. For more than 150 years, this term has stood for luminous success stories involving innovative light-based technologies. Whether precision mechanics, optics or photonics - through the interlocking of teaching, research and industry, holistic solutions are created here to address important issues of the future. Many bright minds have initiated decisive changes in the fields of health, energy and communication with their flashes of inspiration, from planetarium technology to microscope construction. As you can see, where there is light, there is life - especially in Jena.

Organigram of the city administration Jena