Tamara Zieschang
Tamara Zieschang, born in 1970 in Saarlouis, is a German lawyer and CDU politician.
- Born
- 1970 (56 years), Saarlouis
- Party
- Christian Democratic Union (CDU)
- Office
- Deputy member of the Bundesrat of Germany 2021–
Centre-right · Where sources place the party (Christian Democratic Union (CDU))
CDU placed centre-right by reference works; no placing of the person found
Ideology: conservatism, Christian democracy
<1%Probability · Ministerpräsident of Sachsen-Anhalt?
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She has been Interior Minister of Saxony-Anhalt since 2021, continuing in the cabinet of Minister-President Sven Schulze. She is named among the possible contenders for Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt.
Career
Zieschang studied law in Würzburg and Bonn and earned a doctorate in 2001. She worked in law firms in Berlin from 2000 to 2004 and in the legal department of the Association of German Savings Banks until 2009. She was state secretary for economics in Schleswig-Holstein from 2009 to 2012, state secretary in Saxony-Anhalt from 2012 to 2019, and state secretary in the federal transport ministry from 2019 to 2021. She has been a CDU member since 1994, has been Saxony-Anhalt's Interior Minister since 2021, and has been deputy chair of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation since December 2023.
- Deputy member of the Bundesrat of Germany 2021–
- Secretary of state from Germany 2019–2021
Positions
As Interior Minister she required naturalisation applicants to acknowledge Israel's right to exist, reportedly the first German state to do so, according to the German Wikipedia.
Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Wikipedia (German)
Photo: Steffen Prößdorf, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons (cropped)
- Tamara Zieschang <1%
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Ministerpräsident of Sachsen-Anhalt?
| Outcome | Left – Right | Age | Probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ulrich Siegmund | Far right | 35 | 79% |
| Sven Schulze | 4% | ||
| Sepp Müller | Centre-right | 37 | 3% |
| Claudia Wittig | Left | 1% | |
| Lydia Hüskens | Centre-right | 62 | 1% |
| Armin Willingmann | Centre-left | 63 | <1% |
| Eva von Angern | Left | 49 | <1% |
| Thomas Schulze | Left | <1% | |
| Susan Sziborra-Seidlitz | Centre-left | 49 | <1% |
| André Schröder | Centre-right | 57 | <1% |
| Franziska Weidinger | <1% | ||
| Tamara Zieschang | Centre-right | 56 | <1% |