Stanislaw Tillich

Stanislaw Tillich


Minister President of Saxony
Incumbent
Assumed office 28 May 2008
Preceded by	Georg Milbradt
President of the Bundesrat
In office 1 November 2015 – 31 October 2016
Preceded by	Volker Bouffier
Succeeded by	Malu Dreyer
Member of the European Parliament for Germany
In office 1994 – 1999
Personal details
Born	(1959-04-10) 10 April 1959 (age 57) Neudörfel (Nowa Wjeska), German Democratic Republic
Citizenship	German
Political party	German: Christian Democratic Union European: European People's Party
Alma mater	Dresden University of Technology
Profession	Engineer Politician
Religion	Roman Catholicism
Website	www.stanislaw-tillich.de

Stanislaw Tillich (German pronunciation: [ˈstanɪslaf ˈtɪlɪç]; Upper Sorbian: Stanisław Tilich; born 10 April 1959) is a German CDU politician who is Minister President of Saxony since 2008. He was the President of the Bundesrat from 1 November 2015 until 31 October 2016. Tillich is of Sorbian ethnicity and lives in Panschwitz-Kuckau (Pančicy-Kukow), which is some 35 kilometres north-east of Dresden near Kamenz.

Born in Neudörfel (Sorbian: Nowa Wjeska) near Kamenz (Sorbian: Kamjenc), Tillich studied construction and drive techniques at the Dresden University of Technology after finishing his Abitur at the Sorbian Gymnasium in Bautzen in 1977. He graduated from university with a Diplomingenieur degree in 1984. Tillich was an employee of the district administration of Kamenz between 1987 and 1989. Later he became an entrepreneur.

Stanislaw Tillich joined the Christian Democratic Union (East Germany) in 1987 and became a member of the CDU after German reunification in 1990. He was a member of the Volkskammer in 1990 and was delegated as an observer of the European Parliament between 1991 and 1994. He 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.