- Stanislaw Tillich
Stanislaw Tillich (Sorbian: "Stanisław Tilich"; b. 10 April
1959 in Neudörfel (Nowa Wjeska) nearKamenz ) is a German politician of the CDU. He is theMinister-President of the Free State of Saxony. Tillich is of Sorbian ethnicity and lives inPanschwitz-Kuckau (Pančicy-Kukow), which is some 35 kilometres north-east ofDresden nearby Kamenz.Tillich studied construction and drive techniques at the Technische Universität Dresden after finishing
Abitur at the Sorbian Gymnasium inBautzen in 1977. He graduated university with a Diplomingenieur degree in 1984. Tillich was employee of the district administration of Kamenz between 1987 and 1989. Later he became entrepreneur.Stanislaw Tillich joined the
Christian Democratic Union (East Germany) in 1987 and became member of the CDU afterGerman reunification in 1990. He was member of theVolkskammer in 1990 and was delegated as an observer of theEuropean Parliament between 1991 and 1994. He joined theEuropean People's Party and was member of the European Parliament between 1994 and 1999 where he was rapporteur of the European Union's budget.Tillich is minister in the government of Saxony since 1999. He was "State Minister for Federal and European Affairs" until 2002 when he became "State Minister and Head of the Staatskanzlei". In 2004 he became the Saxon "State Minister for Environment and Agriculture". He was Saxon "State Minister of Finance" since 2007 and is member of the
Landtag of Saxony since 2004.Tillich was proposed by
Georg Milbradt at 14 April 2008 to became his successor as the Minister-President of Saxony. TheLandtag of Saxony elected him on 27 May 2008. He is the first sorbianHead of Government in more than thousand years of sorbian-german coexistence in Saxony.External links
* [http://www.landtag.sachsen.de/SLT_ONLINE/de/infothek/volksvertretung/abgeordnete/popup_abgeordneter_fs.asp?ID=866 Landtag of Saxony: Vita of Stanislaw Tillich MdL]
* [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=a7OTk38IJDXw&refer=germany Bloomberg: German State Premier Milbradt Quits After SachsenLB]
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