Stanislaw Tillich is a German Christian Democratic Union politician who is the 3rd Minister-President of Saxony since 2008.
Education
Born in Neudörfel (Sorbian: Nowa Wjeska) near Kamenz (Sorbian: Kamjenc), Tillich studied construction and drive techniques at the Dresden University of Technology after finishing his Abitur at the Sorbian Gymnasium in Bautzen in 1977. He graduated from university with a Diplomingenieur degree in 1984.
Career
He is the 70th President of the Bundesrat since 1 November 2015. Tillich is of Sorbian ethnicity and lives in Panschwitz-Kuckau (Pančicy-Kukow), which is some 35 kilometres north-east of Dresden near Kamenz. Tillich was an employee of the district administration of Kamenz between 1987 and 1989.
Later he became an entrepreneur.
Tillich has been a 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. Minister-President of Saxony, 2008-present
Tillich was proposed by Georg Milbradt on 14 April 2008 to became his successor as the Minister-President of Saxony.
The Landtag of Saxony elected him on 28 May 2008.
He is the first Sorbian head of government in more than thousand years of Sorbian-German coexistence in Saxony. By 2012, opinion polls put the backing of Tillich’s Christian Democratic Union at 44 percent, at the time the highest level of support in any of the 16 German federal states. This made commentators describe him as “Germany’s second most-powerful politician from the formerly Communist East“ after Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Ahead of the elections, he had soon put an end to speculation that he might team up with the newly founded AfD, which the Christian Democratic Union instead attempted to demonize as a fringe movement that flirts with the far right.
ZDF, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors
Endowment for Culture of the Free State of Saxony (KdFS), Ex-Officio Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Development and Peace Foundation (SEF), Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Rotary International, Member.
Politics
Tillich participated in the exploratory talks between the Christian Democratic Union, Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union) and Social Democratic Party of Germany parties to form a coalition government under Merkel following the 2013 federal elections.
Membership
Stanislaw Tillich joined the Christian Democratic Union (East Germany) in 1987 and became a member of the Christian Democratic Union after German reunification in 1990. He was a member of the Volkskammer in 1990 and was delegated as an observer of the European Parliament between 1991 and 1994. He joined the European People"s Party and was a member of the European Parliament between 1994 and 1999 where he was the Parliament’s rapporteur on the 1998 European Union budget.
He became State Minister of Finance in 2007 and has been a member of the Landtag of Saxony since 2004.
Since 2010, Tillich has been a member of the Christian Democratic Union’s 20-strong executive board. Committee for the preparation of the Reformation anniversary 2017, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Trustees
Leipzig 2015 – 1000th Anniversary, Member of the Board of Trustees
Frauenkirche Dresden Foundation, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Trustees
Deutsches Museum, Member of the Board of Trustees
German Children and Youth Foundation (DKJS), Member of the Board of Trustees.