The Landtag of Saxony,also known in English as the Saxon State Parliament,is the legislature of the Free State of Saxony,one of Germany's sixteen states. It is responsible for legislation,control of the government,and electing some state officials. The Landtag has existed in various forms since 1831,but the current body was established during German reunification in 1990. The Landtag is directly elected and has a term of five years.
Stanislaw Rudi Tillich is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as the 3rd Minister President of Saxony from 2008 to 2017. From 1 November 2015 until 31 October 2016,he was President of the Bundesrat and ex officio deputy to the President of Germany. Tillich is of Sorbian ethnicity and lives in Panschwitz-Kuckau (Pančicy-Kukow),which is 35 kilometres north-east of Dresden near Kamenz.
Henning Otte is a German politician and member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU).
Hermann Julian Winkler is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany from 2009 until 2019. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union,part of the European People's Party. From 2004 to 2007 he was Cabinet Minister and Head of the State Chancellery of Saxony.
Erich Matthias Rößler is a German politician,member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Since 1990,he has been a member of the Saxon Landtag. From 1994 to 2004 he served as minister of culture,later as minister of science and art in the government of Saxony. Since 2009 he has been "Landtagspräsident",the speaker of the Saxon parliament.
Jan Löffler is a German politician (CDU). Since 2009 he is a member of the Saxon Landtag. Currently he is the vice chairman and treasurer of the CDU-faction in the Saxon Landtag.
Sebastian Gemkow is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as State Minister of Science and as State Minister of Justice (2014–2019) in the governments of successive Minister-Presidents Stanislaw Tillich (2014–2018) and Michael Kretschmer. Since 2009,he has been a member of the Landtag of the Free State of Saxony,the state's parliament.
Marco Wanderwitz is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). From 2018 until 2021,he served as Parliamentary State Secretary in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Alexander Gerd Krauß is a German politician who served as a member of the German Bundestag from 2017 to 2021. From 2004 until 2017 he was a member of the Landtag of the Free State of Saxony.
Michael Kretschmer is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as Minister President of Saxony since December 2017. Since 2022,he has been one of four deputy chairs of the CDU,under the leadership of chairman Friedrich Merz.
Manfred Behrens is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a Member of the German Bundestag for Saxony-Anhalt from 2009 until 2021.
Armin Schuster is a German politician. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU),Schuster has been serving as State Minister of Internal Affairs in the government of Minister-President Michael Kretschmer since 2022.
Heinz Eggert is a German theologian and politician (CDU). He was Saxon Minister of the Interior from 1991 to 1995 and a member of the Saxon State Parliament from 1994 to 2009.
Martin Dulig is a German politician for the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Until 20 December 2019,he was the Saxon State Minister of Labor and Traffic and Deputy Minister President of Saxony in the governments of Stanislaw Tillich III and Michael Kretschmer. On 20 December 2019,Michael Kretschmer appointed a new cabinet,with Dulig continuing his role as State Minister for Economy,which he has held since 13 November 2014,in the governments of Stanislaw Tillich III and Michael Kretschmer and he was appointed Second Deputy Minister of Saxony.
The 2019 Saxony state election was held on 1 September 2019 to elect the members of the 7th Landtag of Saxony. The outgoing government was a grand coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD) led by Minister-President Michael Kretschmer.
The Second Kretschmer cabinet is the current state government of Saxony,sworn in on 20 December 2019 after Michael Kretschmer was elected as Minister-President of Saxony by the members of the Landtag of Saxony. It is the 10th Cabinet of Saxony.
The 2024 Saxony state election was held on 1 September 2024 to elect members to the 8th Landtag of Saxony. It was held on the same day as the 2024 Thuringian state election. Going into the election,the state government was led by Michael Kretschmer of the CDU as Minister-President,in a coalition with the Greens and the SPD.
Susanne Schaper is a German politician from Die Linke. She is an elected member of the Landtag of Saxony.
Steffen Grosse is a German politician from the state of Saxony. Previously representing the Christian Democratic Union and Free Voters,he has been leader of Bündnis Deutschland since 2022.
The politics of the German state of Saxony take place within a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic,where the Federal Government of Germany exercises sovereign rights with certain powers reserved to the states of Germany including Saxony-Anhalt. The three main parties are the centre-right Christian Democratic Union,the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD),and the populist left-wing Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW).
