Christoph Bergner

Christoph Bergner, 2014

Christoph Bergner (born 24 November 1948 in Zwickau) is a German politician and member of the conservative CDU.

Life and political career

Christoph Bergner was born in Zwickau, Sachsen. After finishing his agronomy 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 of Saxony-Anhalt from 1993 until 1994. Since 2002, he has been a member of the Bundestag; since 2005, a secretary of state in the Federal Ministry of the Interior (Germany); since 2006, he is Federal commissioner for national minorities (German: Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Aussiedlerfragen und nationale Minderheiten).

Christoph Bergner is a member of the Protestant church and has a critical estimation of Communism.^[1] He is married with three children.

See also

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• Federal Ministry of the Interior (Germany)
• Cabinet Merkel II
• Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
• European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
• Volga Germans
• Russian Mennonite
• Deutsche Nationalkreis Asowo
• Deutsche Nationalkreis Halbstadt

References

External links

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• Official website (CDU)
• Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag) - biography
• Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) - biography

Ministers-President of Saxony-Anhalt Soviet administration / DDR (1945-1990) Erhard Hübener Werner Bruschke state abolished 1952-1990 Federal Republic of Germany (since 1990) Gerd Gies Werner Münch Christoph Bergner Reinhard Höppner Wolfgang Böhmer Reiner Haseloff