Ulrich Born (born 15 May 1950 in Barntrup, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German lawyer and politician, representative of the German Christian Democratic Union.
Born began studying law and political science in Marburg and Munich. From 1975 to 1978 he worked as a research assistant at the Faculty of Law and Economics, at the Philipps University of Marburg and further studied additional administrative sciences at the College of Administrative Sciences Speyer. After a legal degree in 1980, he worked as a Lecturer at the Law and Economics Faculty of the University of Bayreuth .
Later Born became a member of the National Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg. He currently resides in Pingelshagen in North Mecklenburg.
Born became a member of the CDU in 1967. [1] After the political changes in East Germany, he moved into the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania politics and was elected chairman of the Northwest District Association Mecklenburg. He is also the state chairman of the Protestant Working Group (EAK), for the CDU Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
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On 27 October 1990 he was also appointed as Minister of Justice, Federal and European Affairs in the government led by Prime Minister Alfred Gomolka of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. On 14 March 1992, however, he was dismissed by the Prime Minister from this office before Gomolka himself resigned.
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