Holger Stahlknecht (born 13 November 1964) is a German lawyer and politician of the CDU who was the State Minister of Internal Affairs in the government of

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Reiner Haseloff Reiner Haseloff (born 19 February 1954) is a German politician who serves as the Minister-President, Minister President of Saxony-Anhalt. On 9 October 2020, he was elected President of the Bundesrat. His one-year term started on 1 November 2020. ...

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 ...

from 2011 until 2020.

Early life and education

Stahlknecht was born in 1964 in

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and studied law at

Osnabrück University Osnabrück University (german: Universität Osnabrück) is a public research university located in the city of Osnabrück in Lower Saxony, Germany. In 2011 it was attended by 11,034 students; the staff of 1,858 consisted of 209 professors, 936 ...

and Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal.

Political career

Stahlknecht joined the CDU in 2000. After various positions in local politics, he first became a member 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 ...

in the 2002 state elections, representing the

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district. From the 2011 state elections, Stahlknecht served as State Minister of Internal Affairs in Saxony-Anhalt. As one of the state's representatives at the Bundesrat since 2011, he was a member of the Committee on Internal Affairs and of the Defence Committee. In 2018 Stahlknecht was elected chairman of the CDU in Saxony-Anhalt.

Other activities

* Mitteldeutsche Basketball Marketing GmbH, Member of the Advisory BoardAdvisory Board
Mitteldeutsche Basketball Marketing GmbH.

References

Members of the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt German prosecutors 21st-century German politicians German military personnel of the Bundeswehr 1964 births Living people {{Germany-CDU-politician-stub