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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 back to previous page |
| 1930 | Born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein |
| Studies of law and economics, University of Munich and University of Frankfurt am Main |
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| 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. |
