Wolfgang Böhmer

Wolfgang Böhmer
Wolfgang Böhmer
	Böhmer in 2006
Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt
	In office; 16 May 2002 – 19 April 2011
Deputy	Horst Rehberger; Jens Bullerjahn
Preceded by	Reinhard Höppner
Succeeded by	Reiner Haseloff
President of the Bundesrat
	In office; 1 November 2002 – 31 October 2003
First Vice President	Klaus Wowereit
Preceded by	Klaus Wowereit
Succeeded by	Dieter Althaus
Leader of the; Christian Democratic Union; in the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt
	In office; July 2001 – 16 May 2002
Preceded by	Christoph Bergner
Succeeded by	Jürgen Scharf
Minister-President
Saxony-Anhalt Cabinet
Minister of Labour and Social Affairs
	In office; 15 December 1993 – 21 July 1994
Minister-President	Christoph Bergner
Preceded by	Werner Schreiber
Succeeded by	Gerlinde Kuppe (Work, Social Affairs and Health)
Minister of Finance
	In office; 11 July 1991 – 15 December 1993
Minister-President	Werner Münch
Preceded by	Werner Münch
Succeeded by	Joachim Kupfer
Preceded by
Parliamentary constituencies
Member of the; Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt
	In office; 27 July 2007 – 18 April 2011
Preceded by	Dirk Schatz
Succeeded by	multi-member district
Constituency	Christian Democratic Union Party List
	In office; 1 July 2005 – 24 April 2006
Preceded by	Gerhard Ruden
Succeeded by	multi-member district
Constituency	Christian Democratic Union Party List
	In office; 25 May 1998 – 16 May 2002
Preceded by	multi-member district
Succeeded by	multi-member district
Constituency	Christian Democratic Union Party List
	In office; 28 October 1990 – 25 May 1998
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Helmut Rehhahn
Constituency	Wittenberg
Personal details
Born	Wolfgang Böhmer; 27 January 1936; Dürrhennersdorf, Saxony, Nazi Germany (now Germany)
Political party	Christian Democratic Union (1990–)
Other political; affiliations	Christian Democratic Union (East Germany) (1990)
Spouse	; Brigitte Klein (m. 2004)
Children	1
Residence	Wittenberg
Alma mater	Leipzig University (Dr. med.); Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg

Wolfgang Böhmer (born 27 January 1936) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and was the 5th Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt from May 2002 to April 2011. He served as President of the Bundesrat in 2002/03. He formerly worked as a medical doctor.

Political career

Böhmer was born in Dürrhennersdorf, Saxony, and joined the CDU of East Germany in 1990.

Böhmer publicly spoke out against Angela Merkel and instead endorsed Edmund Stoiber as the party's candidate to challenge incumbent Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in the 2002 federal elections.^[1] During his own campaign to unseat incumbent Minister-President Reinhard Höppner of Saxony-Anhalt in the state elections, he focused on economic recovery and received strong backing from Stoiber.^[2]