Wolfgang Voss

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Wolfgang Voss (born December 16, 1949 in Zierenberg / Hessen ) is a German politician ( CDU ). From December 2010 to December 2014, he was Finance Minister of the Free State of Thuringia and previously State Secretary in the Saxon State Ministry of Finance .

Life

Voss attended elementary school from 1956 to 1964 and then completed an apprenticeship as a retail salesman in Kassel by 1967 . This was followed by a year at the commercial vocational school and then until 1972 attending the commercial high school in Kassel. From 1972 he studied economics in Freiburg , from 1974 in Göttingen and graduated in 1978 with a diploma. The title of his diploma thesis is: The breakdown of expenditure in the federal budget - meaningfulness and problems - . In 1990 the doctorate to Dr. rer. pol., the dissertation has the following title: benefit spillover - effects as a problem of municipal financial equalization. A contribution to the economic rationality of balancing centrality-related financial needs .

While studying, Voss worked as a research assistant from 1977 to 1978. From 1978 to 1984 he worked as a research assistant in Göttingen. In 1985 and 1986 he worked as a scientific advisor to the CDU parliamentary group in Hamburg and from 1986 to 1989 in the same function in the CDU parliamentary group in Lower Saxony. In 1989 he moved to the Lower Saxony Ministry of Finance as head of department. From 1991 Voss worked in the Saxon Ministry of Finance, where he rose from head of department to head of the budget department. In November 2018, he was awarded an honorary professorship with a teaching position for financial policy from the Meissen University of Applied Sciences .

politics

Wolfgang Voss has been a member of the CDU since 1986. From 1994 to 1999 he was a member of the Moritzburg municipal council .

From 2000 to 2010 Voss was the successor to Karl-Heinz Carl State Secretary in the Saxon State Ministry of Finance and exercised this function under five finance ministers (most recently Georg Unland ).

On December 8, 2010, he was appointed Thuringian Minister of Finance in the Lieberknecht cabinet. Immediately before his appointment as Minister of Finance in Thuringia, he was employed for a single day as State Secretary in Thuringia in order to retain his pension entitlements as State Secretary in Saxony and Lower Saxony.

After the state elections in 2014 , a red-red-green coalition under Bodo Ramelow was formed in Thuringia, as a result of which Voss resigned from his ministerial office on December 5, 2014.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] HSF im Blick, 2018, December issue, p. 15
  2. ^ Prime Minister Lieberknecht appoints new ministers , press release from December 1, 2010
  3. ↑ State pensioner at 37: “Apart from damage, Zimmermann didn't bring us anything!” Focus Online article from July 3, 2013. Accessed on July 4, 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME Voss, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), State Minister in Thuringia
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Zierenberg