Christoph Bergner

Christoph Bergner
Christoph Bergner
	Bergner in 2014
Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt
	In office; 2 December 1993 – 22 July 1994
Deputy	Wolfgang Rauls
Preceded by	Werner Münch
Succeeded by	Reinhard Höppner
Parliamentary State Secretary; in the Ministry of the Interior
	In office; 28 October 2009 – 17 December 2013
Chancellor	Angela Merkel
Minister	Thomas de Maizière; Hans-Peter Friedrich
Preceded by	Fritz Rudolf Körper
Succeeded by	Günter Krings
Leader of the Christian Democratic Union in the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt
	In office; 21 July 1994 – July 2001
Preceded by	Jürgen Scharf
Succeeded by	Wolfgang Böhmer
	In office; November 1991 – 2 December 1993
Preceded by	Joachim Auer
Succeeded by	Jürgen Scharf
Preceded by
Parliamentary constituencies
Member of the Bundestag ; for Saxony-Anhalt
	In office; 22 October 2013 – 24 October 2017
Preceded by	Petra Sitte
Succeeded by	Christoph Bernstiel
Constituency	Halle
	In office; 17 October 2002 – 22 October 2013
Preceded by	multi-member district
Succeeded by	multi-member district
Constituency	Christian Democratic Union Party List
Member of the; Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt
	In office; 25 May 1998 – 16 May 2002
Preceded by	multi-member district
Succeeded by	multi-member district
Constituency	Christian Democratic Union Party List
	In office; 28 October 1990 – 25 May 1998
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Thomas Felke
Constituency	Halle II
Personal details
Born	Christoph Georg Bergner; 24 November 1948; Zwickau, Saxony, Soviet occupation zone (now Germany)
Political party	Christian Democratic Union (1990–)
Other political; affiliations	Christian Democratic Union (East Germany) (1971–1990)
Children	3
Residence	Halle
Alma mater	University of Jena; Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Dr. agr.)
Occupation	Politician; Assistant Professor; Cattle Breeder;

Christoph Bergner (born 24 November 1948) is a German politician and member of the conservative CDU. Bergner was the 3rd Minister President of Saxony-Anhalt from 1993 until 1994.

Life and political career

Christoph Bergner was born in Zwickau, Sachsen. After finishing his agronomy studies in 1971, he earned a doctorate and worked as a research associate at the Institut für Biochemie der Pflanzen der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR from 1974 until 1990.

Bergner was Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt from 1993 until 1994. Since 2002, he has been a member of the Bundestag; since 2005, a secretary of state in the Federal Ministry of the Interior (Germany); since 2006, he is Federal commissioner for national minorities (German: Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Aussiedlerfragen und nationale Minderheiten).

Christoph Bergner is a member of the Protestant church and has a critical estimation of Communism.^[1] He is married with three children.