Dirk Hilbert is a German politician serving as the current Lord Mayor of

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...

, the capital city of

Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...

, since Helma Orosz's resignation in 2015.

Early life and career

Hilbert studied

industrial engineering Industrial engineering is an engineering profession that is concerned with the optimization of complex processes, systems, or organizations by developing, improving and implementing integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information a ...

at the

Technical University of Dresden TU Dresden (for german: Technische Universität Dresden, abbreviated as TUD and often wrongly translated as "Dresden University of Technology") is a public research university, the largest institute of higher education in the city of Dresden, th ...

from 1992, and graduated in 1998 with a degree. From 1998 to 2000 he worked as a board assistant at the

German Aerospace Center The German Aerospace Center (german: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V., abbreviated DLR, literally ''German Center for Air- and Space-flight'') is the national center for aerospace, energy and transportation research of Germany ...

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...

, then in risk management at

CargoLifter Cargolifter AG was a German company founded in 1996 to offer logistical services through point-to point transport of heavy and outsized loads. This service was based on the development of a heavy lift airship, the CL160, a vessel designed to ca ...

in Krausnick-Groß Wasserburg.

Political career

From December 2008, Hilbert served as the Deputy Mayor of Lord Mayor Helma Orosz, and took over for her duties from February 2011 to March 1, 2012 due to the Mayor's illness. He became Lord Mayor upon Orosz's resignation in 2015.

Other activities

* Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Member of the Board of Trustees * Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Member of the Board of Trustees * Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Member of the Board of TrusteesBoard of Trustees
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hilbert, Dirk Mayors of Dresden People from Saxony Free Democratic Party (Germany) politicians 1971 births Living people