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Christian Piwarz

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Christian Piwarz
BERJAYA
State Minister of Finance
Assumed office
19 December 2024
Minister-PresidentMichael Kretschmer
Personal details
Born (1975-07-23) 23 July 1975 (age 50)
Dresden, East Germany
(now Germany)
Alma materTU Dresden

Christian Piwarz (born 23 July 1975 in Dresden) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

Political career

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Piwarz served as state chairman of the Junge Union Sachsen und Niederschlesien.

Piwarz has served as a member of the State Parliament of Saxony since 2006 and held the position of State Minister for Culture in the Kretschmer I and Kretschmer II cabinets from 2017 to 2024.[1][2]

On December 19, 2024, Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer appointed Piwarz as State Minister of Finance in the Third Kretschmer cabinet.[3]

Other activities

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  • Pension Institution of the Federal and State Governments (VBL), Chair of the Supervisory Board (since 2025)[4]
  • KfW, Member of the Board of Supervisory Directors (since 2025)[5]
  • Leipzig Trade Fair, Ex-Officio Member of the Supervisory Board (since 2024)[6]

References

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  1. SMK, Bianca Schulz- (2017-12-18). "Christian Piwarz ist neuer sächsischer Kultusminister". SMK-Blog (in German). Retrieved 2024-12-19.
  2. "Warum Sachsen zu Schuljahresbeginn so wenige Lehrer eingestellt hat wie lange nicht". www.freiepresse.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2024-08-12. Retrieved 2024-12-19.
  3. "Kretschmer presents Saxon cabinet - four new members included". www.diesachsen.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-12-19.
  4. Pressemitteilung: Spitze des Verwaltungsrats der VBL neu besetzt – Christian Piwarz folgt auf Hartmut Vorjohann Pension Institution of the Federal and State Governments (VBL), press release of May 2025.
  5. 2024 Annual Report KfW.
  6. Supervisory Board Leipzig Trade Fair.