Stanislaw Tillich
Stanislaw Tillich Rudi (Sorbian Stanisław Tilich; born April 10, 1959 in Neudörfel at Kamenz ) is a German politician ( CDU) Sorbian nationality. Since May 2008 he has been Minister of the Free State of Saxony.
Life
Stanislaw Tillich comes from a Sorbian family. Although his father Rudi Tillich (1929-2007) was himself a Protestant, he raised his son according to the Catholic faith of his mother to a religious traditions of his homeland affiliated practicing Catholics. His father was a member of the local leadership of the SED Panschwitz -Kuckau and was the umbrella organization of Sorbian societies and associations, the Domowina active. After his schooling and graduation at the Sorbian secondary school in 1977 in Bautzen Tillich made from November 1977 to April 1979 his national service with the border troops of the GDR. Subsequently, he studied from 1979 to 1984 at the Technical University of Dresden and graduated as an engineer for construction and transmission technology. In 1984 he started as a design engineer in an electronics company Kamenz. From 1 October 1987 to 24 May 1989, he was an employee of the District Council Kamenz, from May 1989 Deputy Chairman of the Council and in charge of trade and supply. From 1989 to 1995 he was an independent medium-sized business owners.
Stanislaw Tillich lives in Panschwitz -Kuckau, is married and has two children.
Political career
1987 Tillich joined by its own account on his own initiative in the CDU in the German Democratic Republic, which has mitgestützt as a block party the power apparatus of the SED. The CDU in the GDR was considered to be the "lesser evil " compared to the SED. In Potsdam -Babelsberg he had on a course at the Academy of Law and Political Science from January 2 to March 10, 1989 - one of the most " talent hotbeds " of the SED - participated. In retrospect, however, Tillich described this course as " one of the many ML- courses " who had " personally do not inwardly convinced " him. Tillich admitted two contacts with the state security after he had previously denied any contact.
From 1989 he was a member of the District Executive, 1990 member of the all-German CDU. On March 18, 1990, he was deputy of the first freely elected People's Chamber. In folk chamber Tillich took care of the needs of ethnic minorities such as the Sorbs and to SED victims. After its dissolution in the wake of German reunification he worked until 1994 as an observer in the European Parliament. In 4th European Parliament (1994-1999 ), he was elected member for Germany and served as vice chairman of the Budget Committee and the General Rapporteur for the budget of the European Union. From 1992 to 1999 he was a member of the EPP Board.
1999 he was appointed by the then Prime Minister of Saxony Kurt Biedenkopf into his cabinet, where he was State Minister for Federal and European Affairs until 2002.
In the cabinet of the 2002 elected as Prime Minister Georg Milbradt Tillich first worked until 2004 as Minister of State and Head of the State and since 2004 as the Saxon State Minister for Environment and Agriculture. During this period he was in particular responsible for the expansion of the flood protection of the Elbe flood in August 2002.
In the Saxon parliament, he represents the constituency since 2004 Kamenz 2
In 2007 he was the Saxon State Minister of Finance and successor, who resigned because of the crisis of the Saxon Bank Horst Metz and led the negotiations for the ailing Sachsen LB on the side of Milbradt. Sachsen LB was sold in December 2007, bypassing the country's parliament to the Baden -Württemberg LBBW Landesbank. This process was explained by the Saxon Constitutional Court in August 2009 to be unconstitutional. Instead of a participation of the Parliament in the form of a resolution is, according to the court, a supplementary budget was necessary.
On 14 April 2008 Georg Milbradt hit him in his resignation as a result of the affair of the state bank as the successor to the Office of the Prime Minister and the provincial party leadership before.
On 24 May 2008, he was elected by the state convention as Chairman of the CDU -Saxon, on May 28, he was elected as Prime Minister of the Free State of Saxony and the swearing in of his cabinet. On 30 June 2008 he invited for a private audience with Pope Benedict XVI. for 2009, officially to visit in the eastern part of Germany.
In November 2008, allegations against Tillich have been made to have his biography and in particular embellished his role in the state apparatus of the GDR. The Saxon State had then rejected the publication of information on the CV Tillich to the mirror.
In the state election on 30 August 2009, the CDU gained 40.2 percent of the vote under Tillich's leadership. Since the FDP came to 10 percent of the vote, Tillich was able to form a CDU - FDP coalition and was re-elected on 29 September 2009 as Prime Minister.
As before, against the then North Rhine-Westphalian Minister President Jürgen Rüttgers came in February 2010 also against Stanislaw Tillich allegations and criticism because of the promise of talks with him as CDU state chairman for payment of donations to the CDU. In Saxony, the so-called sponsorship scandal relates particularly to a CDU meeting in Dresden, which will be held under the title of think tank Saxony, and various sponsorship levels with appropriate consideration to purchase (stands, talks, mentioning in speeches ) in the company. Opposition politicians have accused this practice venality of political offices.
Under the government Tillich extensive cuts in social spending in the amount of 25 million euros have been decided, the cuts in youth development, volunteering and voluntary social year concern, which led to protests and counter-demonstrations. Saxony, however, has - in addition to Bavaria - the lowest per capita debt of all states. In Education Monitor inventory Ranking 2011 Saxony is under Tillich on the first place.
After the announcement Roland Koch on 26 May 2010 not to run again for the office of Deputy National Chairman of the CDU, Stanislaw Tillich came as his successor this week. He was elected in November 2010 in the Bureau of the federal CDU. On December 4, 2012 Tillich was re-elected to the presidency of the CDU.
For the 2014 state election he may run again as a top candidate and was elected on January 18, 2014 this post.
Others
Tillich speaks Upper Sorbian and German, English, French, Czech and Polish. In addition, he still speaks some Russian and Italian.
Honors
- 2008: Order of Merit of the Free State of Saxony