Christoph Bergner
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Germany
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politician
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and member of the conservative CDU
Christian Democratic Union (Germany)
The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is regarded as on the centre-right of the German political spectrum...
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Life and political career
Christoph Bergner was born in ZwickauZwickau
Zwickau in Germany, former seat of the government of the south-western region of the Free State of Saxony, belongs to an industrial and economical core region. Nowadays it is the capital city of the district of Zwickau...
, Sachsen. After finishing his agronomy
Agronomy
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studies in 1971, he earned a doctorate and worked as a research associate at the Institut für Biochemie der Pflanzen der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR from 1974 until 1990.
Bergner was Minister-President
Minister-President
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of Saxony-Anhalt
Saxony-Anhalt
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from 1993 until 1994. Since 2002, he has been a member of the Bundestag
Bundestag
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; since 2005, a secretary of state in the Federal Ministry of the Interior (Germany)
Federal Ministry of the Interior (Germany)
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; since 2006, he is Federal commissioner for national minorities .
Christoph Bergner is a member of the Protestant church and has a critical estimation of Communism
Communism
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. He is married with three children.
See also
- Federal Ministry of the Interior (Germany)Federal Ministry of the Interior (Germany)The Federal Ministry of the Interior is a ministry of the German federal government. Its main office is in Berlin, with a secondary seat in Bonn. The current minister of the interior is Dr...
- Cabinet Merkel IICabinet Merkel IIThe Merkel Cabinet II is the current government of Germany since October 28, 2009, during the 17th legislature of the Bundestag. Led by the Christian Democrat Angela Merkel , it is supported by a coalition of the Christian Democratic Union , Christian Social Union of Bavaria and the Free...
- Framework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesFramework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesThe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities was signed on February 1995 by 22 member States of the Council of Europe ....
- European Charter for Regional or Minority LanguagesEuropean Charter for Regional or Minority LanguagesThe European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages is a European treaty adopted in 1992 under the auspices of the Council of Europe to protect and promote historical regional and minority languages in Europe...
- Volga Germans
- Russian Mennonite
- Deutsche Nationalkreis Asowo
- Deutsche Nationalkreis Halbstadt