13 Facts About Heinz Eggert

Heinz Eggert was Saxon Minister of the Interior from 1991 to 1995 and a member of the Saxon State Parliament from 1994 to 2009.

Heinz Eggert's parsonage was a meeting point for many in the GDR who had problems with the political system.

In May 1990, Eggert became a non-party district administrator in the Zittau district.

Heinz Eggert became known nationwide through the immediate dismissal of all communist leaders in the district administration.

In October 1995, Heinz Eggert was re-elected to the CDU state executive and was again deputy state chairman of the Saxon CDU from 1997 to 2001.

From April 2005 to July 2008, Heinz Eggert headed the Enquete Commission appointed by the Saxon State Parliament on "Demographic development and its effects on the areas of life of people in the Free State of Saxony and its consequences for the political fields of action", which presented its 400-page report on 30 September 2008.

Heinz Eggert did not stand for the state elections on 30 August 2009.

Heinz Eggert rejected all accusations, requested an investigation and later filed a complaint himself, which was not pursued further by the Public prosecutor's office, since there was no justified initial suspicion.

Finally, on 10 July 1995 Heinz Eggert resigned as Minister of the Interior, resigned his party offices, but retained his mandate in the Landtag.

Heinz Eggert himself considers the accusations to be an originally personal action that was used politically.

From April 1996 to 1998, Heinz Eggert worked in the trust property company to accelerate the return of the requested property to the municipalities.

Since April 2010 Heinz Eggert has been President of the Television Academy Central Germany in Leipzig as successor to Jurgen Doetz.

Since 2009 Heinz Eggert has been working as a volunteer at the hospice in Herrnhut.