Gunnar Schellenberger (born 12 January 1960) is a German politician for the CDU and since 2021 president of the

Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt The Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt is the parliament of the Germany, German States of Germany, federal state Saxony-Anhalt. It convenes in Magdeburg and currently consists of 97 members of six parties. The current majority is a coalition of the Social ...

Life and politics

Schellenberger was born in 1960 in the East German city of

Karl-Marx-Stadt Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt , ) is the third-largest city in the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 28th largest city of Germany as ...

and became a teacher for

mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

and

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

. Schellenberger entered the christian democratic CDU in 1993 and became president of the state diet of

Saxony-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt (german: Sachsen-Anhalt ; nds, Sassen-Anholt) is a state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of and has a population of 2.18 million inhabitants, making it the ...

in 2021. https://www.merkur.de/deutschland/sachsen-anhalt/gunnar-schellenberger-zum-neuen-landtagspraesidenten-gewaehlt-zr-90843841.html

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schellenberger, Gunnar Living people 1960 births 21st-century German politicians 21st-century German women politicians Christian Democratic Union of Germany politicians Members of the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt People from Chemnitz