Wolfgang Tiefensee

Quick Facts

Full Name	Wolfgang Tiefensee
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jan 4, 1955(1955-01-04)
Age	69
Birthplace	Gera
Country	Germany
Horoscope	Capricorn

Wolfgang Tiefensee Biography

Wolfgang Tiefensee is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on January 4, 1955 in Gera, Germany. Wolfgang Tiefensee (born 4 January 1955 in Gera) is an German politician belonging to the Social Democratic Party (SPD). In the past, he was Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Development in the coalition cabinet headed by Angela Merkel from 2005 to 2009. In 2014, he’s served as the state minister for Economy, Science and the Digital Society within the administration that is Thuringia’s Minister of President Bodo Ramelow.

The year 2002 was the time Tiefensee made up the commission comprised of 15 members who formulated the known as Hartz reforms, which was a set of recommendations for reforming the German labor market that was part of Chancellor Gerhard Scharder’s Agenda 2010. In the following year following the federal elections of 2002 He declined Schroder’s invitation to be a part of his government.

Also during his tenure as Germany’s transport minister, Tiefensee announced the little-known architect Francesco Stella as the winner of a competition to find an architectural design for the controversial reconstruction of the Berlin Stadtschloss in 2008.

In 2012, Tiefensee succeeded Garrelt Duin as spokesperson of the SPD parliamentary group on economic affairs. In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of the Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the SPD following the 2013 federal elections, he was part of the SPD delegation in the working group on economic policy, led by Ilse Aigner and Hubertus Heil.

Tiefensee was elected as mayor in Leipzig in 1998. He was elected again by a 67.1 percent of the votes in April 2005. In 2005, he resisted any offers to join Federal government insisting that his position was in Leipzig.

Wolfgang Tiefensee Net Worth

Wolfgang Tiefensee is one of the richest Politician from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Wolfgang Tiefensee 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The engineer who originally trained as an electrical engineer Tiefensee began his political career in 1989, as part of the process of democratization in the German Democratic Republic. He joined the SPD in 1995.

Tiefensee who’s father was the conductor and musician Siegfried Tiefensee The musician and conductor is also known for his playing of the cello which he effectively incorporated to Leipzig’s Olympic bid. He is the brother of Eberhard Tiefensee (de) is also a Catholic priest who was also a professor of theology at University of Erfurt from 1997 until the year 2018.

In 2007, Tiefensee chaired talks following which EU transport ministers agreed unanimously to end talks with a private consortium contracted to develop the Galileo satellite navigation system and to spend €2.4 billion ($3.2 billion) to build it themselves instead.

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Wolfgang Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Wolfgang Tiefensee celebrates birthday on January 4 of every year.