Wolfgang Tiefensee
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| Member of the Bundestag | |
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In office 2009 – 2014 |
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Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs Germany
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In office 22 November 2005 – 27 October 2009 |
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| Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
| Preceded by | Manfred Stolpe |
| Succeeded by | Peter Ramsauer |
| Mayor of Leipzig | |
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In office 1 July 1998 – 22 November 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Hinrich Lehmann-Grube |
| Succeeded by | Burkhard Jung |
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4 January 1955 Gera, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | SPD |
| Profession | Engineer |
| Website | wolfgang-tiefensee.de |
Wolfgang Tiefensee (born 4 January 1955 in Gera) is a German SPD politician. He was the Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Urban Development in the grand coalition cabinet led by Angela Merkel between 2005 and 2009. Since 2014, he has been the State Minister of Economy, Science and the Digital Society in the government of Thuringia's Minister-President Bodo Ramelow
Originally an electrical engineer, Tiefensee turned to politics in 1989, during the democratization process of the German Democratic Republic.
Tiefensee was elected mayor of Leipzig in 1998, and was re-elected with 67.1% of the vote in April 2005. Before 2005, he declined offers of a position in the federal government, stating his place was in Leipzig.
As mayor, he put great effort into Leipzig's bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games. While Leipzig unexpectedly won the campaign to tender the German bid, the middle-sized city did not get past the first round of the international competition, which was in fact won by London.
In 2002, Tiefensee was part of the 15-member commission that developed the so-called Hartz reforms, a set of recommendations to reform the German labour market as part of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder’s Agenda 2010. Later that year, following the 2002 federal elections, he declined Schröder’s offer to join his government.
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