Christoph Bergner
{{Short description|German politician (born 1948)}}
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|name = Christoph Bergner
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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
| constituency7 = Halle II{{Collapsed infobox section end}}}}
|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.)
| occupation = {{hlist|Politician|Assistant Professor|Cattle Breeder}}
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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
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Christoph Bergner}}
- [http://www.bergner.de/ Official website (CDU)]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20101125023320/http://www.bundestag.de/bundestag/abgeordnete17/biografien/B/bergner_christoph.html Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag) - biography]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110726172731/http://www.bmi.bund.de/cln_095/SharedDocs/Personen/DE/Mitarbeiter/Minister_Staatssekretaere_Beauftagte/pstbergner.html?nn=109672 Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) - biography]
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| years = 1993–1994
| before = Werner Münch
| after = Reinhard Höppner
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