Stanislaw Tillich

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Stanislaw Tillich (2013)

Stanislaw Rudi Tillich ˈstanɪslaf ˈtɪlɪç ( Sorbian Stanisław Tilich ? / I ; born April 10, 1959 in Neudörfel near Kamenz ) is a German politician ( CDU ) of Sorbian nationality . From May 28, 2008 to December 12, 2017, he was the third Prime Minister of the Free State of Saxony after the fall of the Wall and from May 24, 2008 to December 9, 2017, he was also Chairman of the Saxon CDU . On October 18, 2017, he announced his retirement from the post of Prime Minister in December 2017. He was the 70th President of the Federal Council from November 1, 2015 to October 31, 2016 . Since September 2019 he has been chairman of the supervisory board of the lignite company MIBRAG . Audio file / audio sample

Life

Stanislaw Tillich comes from a Sorbian family. His father Rudi Tillich (1929–2007) was Protestant , his mother is Catholic . Tillich himself was brought up to be a practicing Catholic linked to the religious traditions of his homeland. His father was a member of the SED local leadership of Panschwitz-Kuckau and a full-time functionary of Domowina , the umbrella organization of Sorbian clubs and associations. After his school education and the Abitur at the Sorbian High School in Bautzen in 1977 Stanislaw Tillich did his basic military service with the border troops of the GDR from November 1977 to April 1979 . He then studied from 1979 to 1984 at the Technical University of Dresden and graduated with a degree in design and transmission technology. In 1984 he started as a designer in an electronics company in Kamenz . From October 1, 1987 to May 24, 1989, Tillich was an employee of the council of the Kamenz district . In May 1989 he became vice chairman of the council and was responsible for trade and supply. From 1989 to 1995 Tillich worked as an independent medium-sized entrepreneur.

Stanislaw Tillich is married and has a daughter and a son. He initially lived in a single-family house in Panschwitz-Kuckau and has lived in a penthouse on the Weißen Hirsch in Dresden since April 2015 .

Political career

Eastern CDU

In 1987 Tillich, according to his own statements, joined the Eastern CDU of his own accord , which, as a bloc party , supported the SED 's monopoly of power . In Potsdam-Babelsberg , from January 2 to March 10, 1989, he took part in a course at the Academy for Political Science and Law - one of the SED's most important “ cadre schools ”. In retrospect, however, Tillich described this course as “one of the many ML courses ” that “personally did not convince him internally”. In a questionnaire from 1999 about his past in the GDR, Tillich denied contacts with the State Security . In November 2008, accusations were raised against him of having beautified his biography and especially his role in the GDR state apparatus. Tillich admitted two interviews by Stasi employees, which were carried out because of a damaged seal on the door of a company IT room and when clarifying supply bottlenecks. According to the Birthler authority , there was no evidence of a collaboration between Tillich and the Stasi in this context. A publication of the questionnaire from 1999, which had previously been rejected by the Saxon State Chancellery, was only approved by Tillich in 2009. From 1989 Tillich belonged to the district executive committee of his party.

CDU

Stanislaw Tillich with Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl in Strasbourg (1994)

In 1990 Tillich became a member of the all-German CDU and on March 18, 1990 elected a member of the first freely elected People's Chamber . There Tillich took care of the concerns of the Sorbs and SED victims. After the dissolution of the People's Chamber in the course of German reunification, he worked as an observer in the European Parliament until 1994 . He was a member of the 4th European Parliament (1994–1999) as an elected Member of Parliament for Germany and was Deputy Chairman of the Budget Committee and General Reporter for the budget of the European Union . From 1992 to 1999 he was a member of the EPP board.

Since 2004 he has sat in the Saxon state parliament and represented the constituency of Bautzen 3 .

After Roland Koch's announcement on May 26, 2010 that he would not run again for the office of deputy federal chairman of the CDU, Stanislaw Tillich came into discussion as his successor. He was elected to the presidium of the federal CDU in November 2010. On December 4, 2012, Tillich was re-elected to the CDU Presidium.

Minister in Saxony

In 1999 the then Prime Minister of Saxony Kurt Biedenkopf appointed him to his cabinet , where he was Minister of State for Federal and European Affairs until 2002.

In the cabinet of Georg Milbradt , who was elected Prime Minister in 2002 , Tillich initially worked as Minister of State and Head of the State Chancellery until 2004 and since 2004 as Saxon State Minister for Environment and Agriculture . During this time he was particularly responsible for the expansion of the flood protection of the Elbe after the flood in August 2002 .

In 2007 he became Saxon State Minister of Finance and successor to Horst Metz, who resigned due to the crisis at the Saxon Landesbank . Tillich led the negotiations for the ailing Sachsen LB at the side of Prime Minister Milbradt. Sachsen LB was sold to Baden-Württembergische Landesbank LBBW in December 2007 bypassing the state parliament , a process that was declared unconstitutional by the Saxon constitutional court in August 2009. Instead of the participation of the state parliament in the form of a motion for a resolution, according to the court, a supplementary budget would have been necessary.

Saxon Prime Minister

On April 14, 2008, Georg Milbradt proposed him in his declaration of resignation as a result of the Landesbank affair as the successor to the office of Prime Minister and the state party chairmanship.

Stanislaw Tillich at the 23rd state party conference of the CDU Saxony in Leipzig (2009)

On May 24, 2008, he was elected chairman of the Saxon CDU by the state party congress, followed by the election of Prime Minister of the Free State of Saxony and the swearing-in of his cabinet on May 28 . On June 30, 2008, after a private audience, he invited Pope Benedict XVI. officially invites you to visit eastern Germany in 2009.

In the state elections on August 30, 2009 , the CDU under Tillich's leadership received 40.2 percent of the vote. Since the FDP got 10 percent of the vote, Tillich was able to form a CDU-FDP coalition and was re-elected as Prime Minister on September 29, 2009.

Stanislaw Tillich (2017)

As Prime Minister, Tillich was again the top candidate of his party in the state elections on August 31, 2014 . The CDU received 39.4 percent of the vote. The coalition partner in Tillich's cabinet , the Saxon FDP , missed re-entry into the Saxon state parliament with 3.8 percent of the vote. After a coalition with the AfD had been excluded and the Saxon Greens refused to enter into coalition negotiations with the CDU, a coalition government with the SPD was formed and Tillich was re-elected as Prime Minister on November 12, 2014.

On October 18, 2017, Tillich announced that he would give his office in December 2017 "into younger hands"; he proposed Michael Kretschmer as his successor . His term of office ended on December 12, 2017. In April 2018, he announced that he would retire from active politics on October 31, 2018 and resign from his state parliament mandate.

Career after politics

Tillich was one of four chairmen of the so-called coal commission set up by the German federal government on June 6, 2018 , which presented its final report in January 2019.

Since June 2019 Tillich is a consultant for the Russian cargo airline Volga-Dnepr operates that for several large-capacity transport aircraft Antonov AN-124 , mainly for the Bundeswehr and the NATO are in use, the Leipzig / Halle Airport as a permanent start - and uses a landing area with its own maintenance hangar .

In September 2019, Tillich was elected chairman of the supervisory board of the Mitteldeutsche Braunkohlengesellschaft (MIBRAG), which mines around 18 million tons of brown coal annually .

Controversy

As before against the then North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Jürgen Rüttgers , accusations were made against Tillich in February 2010 in connection with commitments for meetings with the payment of donations to the CDU. This so-called sponsoring affair primarily concerned a CDU event in Dresden, which is being held under the title Think Tank Saxony . There, companies received appropriate consideration at various levels of sponsorship (stands, discussions, mention in speeches). Opposition politicians criticized this practice as being commercially viable by politicians.

In 2010, under the Tillich government, cuts in the social sector totaling 25 million euros were resolved to avoid new debts. Funding for youth work was reduced by a third, which led to protests and counter-demonstrations. In 2011, Saxony had the lowest per capita debt of all federal states and took first place in the Bildungsmonitor inventory ranking.

After an interview on the subject of Pegida and immigration on January 25, 2015 with Welt am Sonntag , Tillich's statement “ Islam does not belong to Saxony” was criticized.

After the CDU in Saxony received fewer second votes than the AfD in the 2017 federal election , Tillich called for his party's course to be corrected and thus sparked outrage. The former Saxon Prime Minister Kurt Biedenkopf and his wife Ingrid also massively criticized Tillich in an interview with Die Zeit , which Jan Emendörfer , editor-in-chief of the Leipziger Volkszeitung , described as "thoroughly vain and complacent".

Others

Stanislaw Tillich at the 30th state party conference of the CDU Saxony in Neukieritzsch (2015)

In addition to his mother tongue Upper Sorbian and German , Tillich also speaks fluent Polish and can communicate in English , French and Czech . He also speaks some Russian and Italian . Since 2001 he has been a member of the Rotary Club "Dresden Blaues Wunder".

Honors

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Stanislaw Tillich  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Saxony: Tillich resigns as Prime Minister. In: spiegel.de. Retrieved October 18, 2017 .
  2. ↑ https://www.mibrag.de/de-de/presse/news/2019/aufsichtsrat - accessed on September 24, 2019
  3. ↑ The Sorbe . taz.de. May 27, 2008. Retrieved September 20, 2014.
  4. ↑ Tillich confirms Stasi contacts on duty . The world. November 23, 2008. Retrieved September 20, 2014.
  5. ^ Financial Times Deutschland: Profile: Stanislaw Tillich . ( Memento of May 31, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) April 14, 2008.
  6. ↑ Stanislaw Tillich's curriculum vitae. In: sachsen.de. Retrieved June 3, 2015 .
  7. ^ Prime Minister Tillich: The cadre in the east niche . Frankfurter Rundschau. November 24, 2008. Retrieved September 23, 2014.
  8. ^ Henry Berndt: Tillich buys a penthouse in Dresden. In: SZ-Online.de . April 4, 2015, accessed January 9, 2016 .
  9. ^ GDR past: Tillich admits seminar in Kaderschmiede . Mirror online. November 24, 2008. Retrieved September 23, 2014.
  10. ↑ a b Tillich publishes controversial questionnaire . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. July 6, 2009. Retrieved September 23, 2014.
  11. ↑ Saxony's CDU is involved in the recorder debate . Saxon newspaper. November 25, 2008. Archived from the original on September 3, 2014. Retrieved October 15, 2014.
  12. ↑ Stanislaw Tillich's GDR biography: bit by bit, memory comes back . Mirror online. November 25, 2008. Retrieved October 15, 2014.
  13. ^ GDR CV brings Stanislaw Tillich into trouble . Rheinische Post. November 30, 2008. Retrieved October 15, 2014.
  14. ↑ Saxony's head of government Tillich has to admit Stasi contacts. That puts a strain on the coalition in the country: recorders and shawms . Berlin newspaper. November 24, 2008. Retrieved September 23, 2014.
  15. ^ Christian Democrats and the GDR: CDU Prime Minister Tillich in need of explanation . Mirror online. November 29, 2008. Retrieved October 15, 2014.
  16. ↑ Prime Minister Tillich publishes Stasi questionnaire . Time online. July 6, 2009. Retrieved September 23, 2014.
  17. ↑ Phillipp Gessler: The Sorbe . taz.de. May 27, 2008. Retrieved September 23, 2014.
  18. ↑ a b A Sorbe for Saxony . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. April 15, 2008. Retrieved September 27, 2014.
  19. ^ A b Stanislaw Tillich - the new finance minister . Saxon newspaper. September 25, 2007. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved September 27, 2014.
  20. ^ Votes for Tillich to play a stronger role in the CDU , accessed on May 26, 2010
  21. ^ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Stanislaw Tillich elected to the Presidium of the Federal CDU.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.sachsen-cdu-politik.de
  22. ↑ Restrained, confident, loyal . Southgerman newspaper. May 17, 2010. Retrieved October 1, 2014.
  23. ^ "Sounding slap in the face" . Southgerman newspaper. May 17, 2010. Retrieved October 1, 2014.
  24. ↑ Resignation in Saxony: Milbradt falls over the Landesbank affair - finance minister is successor . Mirror online. April 14, 2008. Retrieved October 1, 2014.
  25. ^ Tillich elected the new CDU chairman in Saxony . Reuters. May 24, 2008. Retrieved October 1, 2014.
  26. ^ Milbradt successor: Tillich elected head of the Saxon government . Mirror online. May 27, 2008. Retrieved October 15, 2014.
  27. ^ Vatican: Invitation from Saxony . Vatican Radio. June 30, 2008. Archived from the original on October 21, 2014. Retrieved October 15, 2014.
  28. ↑ State election 2014 . State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony. August 31, 2014. Retrieved October 16, 2014.
  29. ↑ CDU wins election, FDP is out, NPD narrowly fails . Time online. August 31, 2014. Retrieved October 16, 2014.
  30. ^ State elections in Saxony: Tillich does not want a coalition with AfD . Frankfurter Rundschau. August 31, 2014. Retrieved October 16, 2014.
  31. ↑ Saxon Greens lose their figurehead . star. September 20, 2014. Retrieved October 16, 2014.
  32. ^ Coalition agreement signed: SPD provides three ministers in Saxony . Mirror online. November 10, 2014. Retrieved November 13, 2014.
  33. ^ Tillich re-elected as Prime Minister . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. November 12, 2014. Retrieved November 13, 2014.
  34. ↑ Saxony's Prime Minister Tillich resigns
  35. ↑ Ex-Prime Minister Tillich withdraws from politics , Freie Presse, accessed on April 26, 2018.
  36. ↑ Tillich becomes chairman of the supervisory board at Mibrag - and also advises Volga-Dnepr - accessed on September 27, 2019
  37. ↑ Tillich becomes chairman of the supervisory board of mining company Mibrag . In: n-tv.de , September 24, 2019. Retrieved September 24, 2019.
  38. ↑ Saxony's Prime Minister Tillich can be marketed . Time online. February 27, 2010. Retrieved October 16, 2014.
  39. ↑ Tillich and the rubble of the Acropolis . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. May 27, 2010. Retrieved October 16, 2014.
  40. ↑ Federal states ranking: Bremen is Germany's biggest debtor . Mirror online. March 10, 2011. Retrieved October 16, 2014.
  41. ↑ Saxony has the best education system . New Social Market Economy Initiative. August 15, 2011. Retrieved October 16, 2014.
  42. ↑ Islam in Saxony: Politicians distance themselves from Tillich's statement . Mirror online. January 25, 2015. Accessed February 16, 2015.
  43. ↑ “Don't just go the middle way.” DLF - Interview of the week of October 1, 2017; Criticism and leaving the party. Outrage after Tillich's announcement ( memento from October 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) @ mdr.de, accessed October 1, 2017
  44. ↑ "Kurt, that wouldn't have happened to you!" ZEIT No. 41/2017, accessed October 7, 2017
  45. ^ Biedenkopf gave Tillich the rest , Leipziger Volkszeitung from October 19, 2017.
  46. ^ Philipp Gessler: Tillich is Milbradt successor - state politician of the world. In: Taz.de , May 26, 2008.
  47. ↑ Saxon Landtag elects Tillich . star. May 28, 2008. Retrieved September 27, 2014.
  48. ^ Club and membership directory of Rotarians in the Federal Republic of Germany 2002/2003
  49. ↑ Decoration of honor of the state of Lower Austria for high-ranking politicians from Bulgaria and Saxony ( memento from April 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on the Lower Austria portal from April 13, 2017, accessed on April 13, 2017
  50. ↑ Awarding of the medal to the Prime Minister on bundespraesident.de, December 13, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Tillich, Stanislav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tillich, Stanislaw Rudi (full name); Tilich, Stanislaw
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdV, MdL, MdEP
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Neudörfel near Kamenz