Christoph Bergner

{{Short description|German politician (born 1948)}}

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|name = Christoph Bergner

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|caption = Bergner in 2014

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|office = Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt

|term_start = 2 December 1993

|term_end = 22 July 1994

|deputy = Wolfgang Rauls

|predecessor = Werner Münch

|successor = Reinhard Höppner

|office1 = Parliamentary State Secretary
in the Ministry of the Interior

| chancellor1 = Angela Merkel

| minister1 = Thomas de Maizière
Hans-Peter Friedrich

|term_start1 = 28 October 2009

|term_end1 = 17 December 2013

|predecessor1 = Fritz Rudolf Körper

|successor1 = Günter Krings

| office2 = Leader of the Christian Democratic Union in the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt

| term_start2 = 21 July 1994

| term_end2 = July 2001

| predecessor2 = Jürgen Scharf

| successor2 = Wolfgang Böhmer

| term_start3 = November 1991

| term_end3 = 2 December 1993

| predecessor3 = Joachim Auer

| successor3 = Jürgen Scharf

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| office4 = Member of the Bundestag
for Saxony-Anhalt

| term_start4 = 22 October 2013

| term_end4 = 24 October 2017

| successor4 = Christoph Bernstiel

| predecessor4 = Petra Sitte

| constituency4 = Halle

| term_start5 = 17 October 2002

| term_end5 = 22 October 2013

| successor5 = multi-member district

| predecessor5 = multi-member district

| constituency5 = Christian Democratic Union Party List

| office6 = Member of the
Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt

| term_start6 = 25 May 1998

| term_end6 = 16 May 2002

| successor6 = multi-member district

| predecessor6 = multi-member district

| constituency6 = Christian Democratic Union Party List

| term_start7 = 28 October 1990

| term_end7 = 25 May 1998

| successor7 = Thomas Felke

| predecessor7 = Constituency established

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|birth_date = {{Birth date|1948|11|24|df=yes}}

| birth_name = Christoph Georg Bergner

|birth_place = Zwickau, Saxony, Soviet occupation zone {{small|(now Germany)}}

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|children = 3

| party = Christian Democratic Union {{small|(1990–)}}

| otherparty = Christian Democratic Union (East Germany) {{small|(1971–1990)}}

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| residence = Halle

| alma_mater = University of Jena
Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Dr. agr.)

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Christoph Bergner (born 24 November 1948) is a German politician and member of the conservative CDU. Bergner was the 3rd Minister President of Saxony-Anhalt from 1993 until 1994.

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 ({{langx|de|Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Aussiedlerfragen und nationale Minderheiten}}).

Christoph Bergner is a member of the Protestant church and has a critical estimation of Communism.{{cite web |url=http://www.das-parlament.de/2011/04/Innenpolitik/33173996.html |title=Das Parlament, Nr. 4 2011, 24.1.2011 - »Eine blutige Geschichte« |access-date=2011-01-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110202065302/http://www.das-parlament.de/2011/04/Innenpolitik/33173996.html |archive-date=2011-02-02 }} He is married with three children.

See also

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