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Light-touch sheriff

By Paul Hockenos   -  27.01.2011 / 05:13 CET
Thomas de Maizière, Germany's interior minister, can be relied on to keep his calm.

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Curriculum Vitae

1971: Joins the Christian Democratic Union

1974-79: Student of law and history at the universities of Münster and Freiburg

1983-84: Member of staff to mayors of West Berlin, Richard von Weizsäcker and Eberhard Diepgen

1986: Gains doctorate in law, University of Münster

1985-89: Head of the policy division, Berlin Senate Chancellery

1990: Aide to the prime minister of the last GDR government; member of the delegation negotiating the Unification Treaty

1990-94: State secretary, ministry of culture, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

1994-98: Head of the state chancellery, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

1999: Minister of state and head of the state chancellery, Saxony

2001-02: Minister of state for finance, Saxony

2002-04: Minister of state for justice, Saxony

2004-05: Minister of state for the interior, Saxony

2005-09: Head of the federal chancellery and federal minister for special tasks

2009-: Federal minister of the interior

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