13 Facts About Reiner Haseloff

Reiner Erich Haseloff was born on 19 February 1954 and is a German politician who serves as the Minister President of Saxony-Anhalt.

Reiner Haseloff joined the then bloc party CDU of the GDR in 1976.

Reiner Haseloff has been a member of the state executive of the CDU Saxony-Anhalt since 1990 and was deputy district administrator of the Wittenberg district from 1990 to 1992.

From 2004 to 2012, Haseloff was deputy state chairman of the CDU.

From 2002 to 2006, Reiner Haseloff served as State Secretary at the State Ministry for Economic Affairs and Labour under minister Horst Rehberger in the first cabinet of Minister President Wolfgang Bohmer.

When Bohmer announced his resignation ahead of the 2011 state elections, Reiner Haseloff was the candidate of the CDU.

Reiner Haseloff had already gained national attention by proposing that unemployed people who had no job prospects work for the public interest, a plan that since then has been adopted in a number of federal states.

From 2014 and 2016, Reiner Haseloff was one of the members of Germany's temporary National Commission on the Disposal of Radioactive Waste.

Reiner Haseloff said, the chancellor "elaborately fought for a European solution" in the refugee crisis, but this was "out of sight".

On 25 April 2016, Reiner Haseloff was re-elected in parliament as minister president of the state during a second ballot, where he managed to gain one vote more than the coalition majority.

Reiner Haseloff served as a CDU delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2009,2010,2012,2017 and 2022.

Since 2022, Reiner Haseloff has been chairing an internal CDU working group in charge of drafting recommendation on reforming Germany's public broadcasting.

Ahead of the 2021 national elections, Reiner Haseloff endorsed Markus Soder as the Christian Democrats' joint candidate to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel.