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My Take
Tiefensee interests me as a rare crossover: an electrical engineer who became a serious politician. From Gera in Thuringia, he rose through mayoral office in Leipzig to serve as Germany's federal minister for transport, building and urban development under Merkel. There is a satisfying logic to an engineer being handed the nation's infrastructure, and his Legion of Honour suggests his grounded competence was recognized beyond Germany's borders. A Capricorn who climbs through steady, practical work rather than rhetoric feels true to type. I have a soft spot for politicians who think like systems builders, treating governance less like a stage and more like a circuit diagram to get right.
Overview
Wolfgang Tiefensee (born 4 January 1955) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He was the Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Urban Development in the grand coalition cabinet led by Angela Merkel between 2005 and 2009. Since 2014, he has been the State Minister of Economy, Science and the Digital Society in the government of Thuringia's Minister-President Bodo Ramelow.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Wolfgang Tiefensee
- Name (Japanese)
- ヴォルフガング・ティーフェンゼー
- Reading
- ゔぉるふがんぐ・てぃーふぇんぜー
- Born
- January 4, 1955 (age 71)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Goat
- Origin
- Gera, Thuringia, Germany
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- politician / electrical engineer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Leipzig University
Awards & achievements
- 2003 Knight of the Legion of Honour
- 2003 Golden Hen
- Goldener Rathausmann
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.