19 Facts About Stanislaw Tillich

Stanislaw Tillich served as the 3rd Minister President of Saxony from 2008 to 2017.

Stanislaw Tillich graduated from university with a Diplomingenieur degree in 1984.

Stanislaw Tillich was an employee of the district administration of Kamenz between 1987 and 1989.

Stanislaw Tillich joined the Christian Democratic Union in 1987 and became a member of the CDU after German reunification in 1990.

Stanislaw Tillich was a member of the Volkskammer in 1990.

Stanislaw Tillich was delegated as an observer of the European Parliament between 1991 and 1994.

Stanislaw Tillich joined the European People's Party and was a member of the European Parliament between 1994 and 1999 where he was the Parliament's rapporteur on the 1998 EU budget.

Stanislaw Tillich was a minister in the government of Saxony from 1999.

Stanislaw Tillich was State Minister for Federal and European Affairs until 2002 when he became State Minister and head of the Staatskanzlei.

Stanislaw Tillich was proposed by Georg Milbradt on 14 April 2008 to become his successor as the Minister-President of Saxony.

Stanislaw Tillich is the first Sorbian head of government in more than thousand years of Sorbian-German coexistence in Saxony.

Together with Gunther Oettinger, Dieter Althaus, Maria Bohmer, Peter Hintze, Martina Krogmann and Peter Muller, Stanislaw Tillich co-chaired the CDU's 2008 national convention in Stuttgart.

From 2010, Stanislaw Tillich was a member of the Christian Democratic Union's 20-strong executive board.

Stanislaw Tillich participated in the exploratory talks between the CDU, CSU and SPD parties to form a coalition government under Merkel following the 2013 federal elections.

In 2017, Stanislaw Tillich said that the "People want Germany to stay Germany,".

From 2018 until 2019, Stanislaw Tillich co-chaired the German government's so-called coal commission, which was tasked to develop a masterplan before the end of the year on how to phase-out coal and create a new economic perspective for the country's coal-mining regions.

Stanislaw Tillich was nominated by his party as delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2022.

Besides his native language Upper Sorbian, Stanislaw Tillich speaks fluent German, Czech and Polish.

Stanislaw Tillich's father was a forced laborer from Poland who settled in Lusatia after World War II and married a Sorbian woman.