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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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