Career
Between 1990 and 2008 he represented the constituency of Aschaffenburg-West in the Landtag of Bavaria. After leaving school in 1958, Christ trained first as a machine fitter, then in industrial sales, eventually becoming a company secretary in 1969. He was self-employed between 1983 and his election to the Landtag of Bavaria in 1990.
From 1979 he was the Deputy Leader of the Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union) group on the City council and was Press Spokesman from 1979 to 1990.
From 1990 he represented the constituency of Unterfranken (later Aschaffenburg West) in the Landtag of Bavaria, serving on the Committee for Commerce and Transport. He did not stand for re-election in 2008.
