Christian Tischner

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Christian Tischner (2016)

Christian K. Tischner (born 18 August 1981 in Greiz) is a German politician from the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) who has been a member of the Landtag of Thuringia since 2014. Since 2024, he has been the Thuringian Minister for Education, Science and Culture in the Voigt cabinet.

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Life and education

Tischner was born in Greiz and graduated from the vocational high school in Greiz in 1998 with a secondary school leaving certificate (Realschulabschluss ) and in 2001 with a business-oriented university entrance qualification (Abitur) in 2001. From 2001 to 2006, he studied history and political science for secondary school teaching at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. After passing his first state examination in 2006, he began his teaching traineeship at the Greiz State High School , which he completed in 2008 with his second state examination. He then worked at the same school as a history and social studies teacher until 2010.

Alongside his work as a teacher, he was a research assistant at the Chair of Political Didactics at Friedrich Schiller University Jena from 2008. In 2010, he served as the organizational head of the Chair of Political Education there for one year. From 2010 to 2012, Tischner was a doctoral scholarship recipient of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and from 2011 to 2016, he was a lecturer at the Center for Key Qualifications at the University of Passau. In 2012, he became a lecturer at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Jena, and from 2012 to 2013, he was a university lecturer at the Chair of Political Science and its Didactics at the University of Bremen. In 2013, he returned to teaching at the Adolf Reichwein Cooperative Comprehensive School in Jena.

Tischner is the author of essays and books on various political didactics and historical topics.

Christian Tischner is Protestant, married, and lives in Greiz. He has two children.

Voluntary engagement

Tischner has been the state chairman of the German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V.) in Thuringia since 2024. Since 2018, he has been chairman of the Friends of the Vogtland Philharmonie Greiz Reichenbach  [ de ] (Förderverein der Vogtlandphilharmonie Greiz-Reichenbach e.V.). He is also a board member of the Greiz District Sports Association (Kreissportbund Greiz e.V.), the Seminar for Political Education and Information (Seminar für politische Bildung und Information e.V.), the German Association for Political Education  [ de ] (Deutsche Vereinigung für politische Bildung e.V.) , the Lebenshilfe Greiz (Lebenshilfe Greiz e.V.), and the Greiz Theater Festival (Greizer Theaterherbst e.V.).

Politics

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Tischner in the Landtag (2024)

Tischner joined the CDU in 1997. In 2004, he became a member of the Greiz city council and was elected chairman of the tourism, culture, and social affairs committee; since 2014, he has been chairman of the CDU city council group. In 2009, he was also elected to the Greiz district council. Within his party, he has been a member of the CDU district executive committee in the Greiz district since 1999. He has also been honorary chairman of the district branch of the Young Union since 2009.

In the 2014 Thuringian state election, Tischner won the direct mandate for the CDU in the Greiz II constituency and was thus elected to the Thuringian Landtag for the first time. During this legislative period, he was a member and chairman of the inquiry commission on "Racism and Discrimination" (2017–2019), a member of the Inquiry Commissions  [ de ] on the "Dieter Lauinger  [ de ] Affair" (2017–2019) and the "Immelborn Files Depot" (2015–2017), as well as on the board of trustees of the Thuringian Volunteer Foundation (2014–2019), the State Sports Conference (2014–2019), and the Prison Commission (2014–2019).

In 2019 and 2024 [1] he again won the direct mandate in the Greiz II. constituency . There he is a member of the Committee on Education, Youth and Sport, the Committee on Economic Affairs, Science and Digital Society, and the Friends of Israel Association. Tischner is also the education and science policy spokesperson for his CDU parliamentary group. From 2020 to 2024, Christian Tischner was deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the state parliament.

Tischner is chairman of the board of trustees of the Thuringian State Center for Political Education. He has been a member of the Thuringian State Science Conference since 2023.

Since 2022, Tischner has been a member of the Federal Expert Commission “Ascent” for the development of the basic program of the CDU of Germany, and since 2023 chairman of the commission “Strong Children. Good Future.” [2]

On 13 December 2024, Tischner was appointed Thuringian Minister for Education, Science and Culture in the Voigt cabinet. [3]

Publications

References

  1. "Höcke scheitert im Wahlkreis: Landesliste sichert Thüringens AfD-Spitzenkandidat einen Platz im Landtag" (in German). Der Tagesspiegel. 2024-09-02. Retrieved 2024-11-28.
  2. Christian Tischner (2024-02-01). "Abschluss HLT2030Bildung". christian-tischner.de. Christian Tischner, D-07973 Greiz. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
  3. "Thuringia's Science Minister Christian Tischner at Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences - Hochschule Nordhausen". 2025-06-24. Retrieved 2025-11-01.