Panel 3 Speaker

Kurt Biedenkopf
is Former Prime Minister of the Free State of Saxony and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Hertie School of Governance


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1930 Born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein
  Studies of law and economics, University of
Munich and University of Frankfurt am Main
1958 Doctorate in Law
1963 Post-Doctorate Degree in Law
1964 - 1970 Full Professor, Department for Trade, Economic and Industrial Law, Ruhr University Bochum
1967 - 1969 Rector, Ruhr-Universität  Bochum
1970 Member of the Management Board, Henkel Group, Düsseldorf
1973 - 1977 Secretary General, Christian Democratic Union (CDU)
1976 Member of the German Bundestag
1980 - 1988 Member of the North Rhine-Westphalia Parliament
1990 - 2002 Minister-President of the Free State of Saxony
1990 - 2004 Member of the Parlaiment of the Free State of Saxony
  Founding President of the Dresden International University and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Hertie School of Governance.

 

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