Education
Born and raised in East Germany, Ulbig finished training as an electronics technician and worked in that field until 1990.
Born and raised in East Germany, Ulbig finished training as an electronics technician and worked in that field until 1990.
He worked in Pirna, became its mayor in 2001, and has been Minister of Interior of the German federal state of Saxony since 2009. After German reunification, he joined the Christian Democratic Union and was hired as the personal assistant of the mayor of Pirna, in the region of Saxon Switzerland. He studied in Dresden and Zittau for a Bachelor of Business Administration.
On 1 August 2001, Ulbig was elected mayor of Pirna.
The initiatives helped to restore tourism. On 8 June 2008, Ulbig was reelected mayor of Pirna.Only 4 months later he was appointed Minister of the Interior of Saxony.
After a number of incidents to counter the rise of Neo-Nazism Ulbig became the honorary patron of the Pirnaer Initiative against extremism and for civil courage.
Since January 2005 Ulbig has also been a member of the anti-nuclear weapons movement Mayors for Peace
In the Saxony state election, 2014, Ulbig was elected a member of the Landtag of Saxony, and in November 2014, he was nominated as a candidate in the election for Dresden"s mayorship in June 2015.