1. Mario Voigt was born on 8 February 1977 and is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union who has been serving as the Minister-President of Thuringia since December 2024.
18 Facts About Mario Voigt
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Mario Voigt has served as the leader of the CDU in the State Parliament of Thuringia since 2020.
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Mario Voigt has been a member of the State Parliament since 2009.
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Mario Voigt previously served as co-deputy leader of the Thuringian CDU from 2014 to 2020, and general-secretary of the party from 2010 to 2014.
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Mario Voigt then studied political science, public law and modern history at the universities of Jena and Bonn and at the University of Virginia in the United States from 1997 to 2003.
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Mario Voigt received his PhD in political science at the Chemnitz University of Technology in 2008.
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Mario Voigt received a scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
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Mario Voigt has worked for the political representative office of Siemens in Brussels, the political planning department of the CDU in Berlin, and the office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Washington.
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Mario Voigt was elected to the executive for the CDU's Saale-Holzland-Kreis district association in 2000, and became chairman in 2015.
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Mario Voigt was elected to the district council in 2000 and chaired the CDU faction there from 2009 to 2011.
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Mario Voigt was elected general-secretary of the CDU Thuringia in November 2010.
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Mario Voigt left this position in 2014 after being elected as one of three deputy leaders of the party.
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In November 2020, Mario Voigt was nominated unanimously as the CDU executive's preferred candidate to lead the party in the planned 2021 Thuringian state election, though plans for the early election were ultimately scrapped.
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Mario Voigt was nominated by his party as delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2022.
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On December 12,2024, Mario Voigt was elected Prime Minister of Thuringia.
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Mario Voigt immediately achieved an absolute majority; Left MPs probably voted for him as his coalition of CDU, BSW, and SPD does not have its own majority.
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Ahead of the Christian Democrats' leadership election in 2022, Mario Voigt publicly endorsed Friedrich Merz to succeed Armin Laschet as the party's chair.
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The investigators were examining whether Mario Voigt exerted undue influence during the 2019 European election campaign to ensure that a Jena-based company was awarded a contract by the European People's Party.