Wolfgang Tiefensee

Wolfgang Tiefensee
Minister of Economics, Science and Digital Society of Thuringia
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 March 2020
Minister President	Bodo Ramelow
Preceded by	Himself
In office 5 December 2014 – 5 February 2020
Minister President	Bodo Ramelow
Preceded by	Uwe Höhn
Succeeded by	Himself
Deputy Minister President of Thuringia
In office 4 March 2020 – 31 August 2021
Minister President	Bodo Ramelow
Preceded by	Heike Taubert
Succeeded by	Georg Maier
Leader of the Social Democratic Party in Thuringia
In office 11 March 2018 – 26 September 2020
Deputy	Antje Hochwind Diana Lehmann Cornelia Klisch Sven Schrade
Preceded by	Andreas Bausewein
Succeeded by	Georg Maier
Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs
In office 22 November 2005 – 27 October 2009
Chancellor	Angela Merkel
Preceded by	Manfred Stolpe
Succeeded by	Peter Ramsauer
Mayor of Leipzig
In office 1 July 1998 – 22 November 2005
Preceded by	Hinrich Lehmann-Grube
Succeeded by	Burkhard Jung
Member of the Landtag of Thuringia
In office 26 November 2019 – 4 December 2019
Succeeded by	Thomas Hartung
Constituency	Social Democratic List
Member of the Bundestag for Saxony
In office 27 October 2009 – 11 December 2014
Succeeded by	Detlef Müller
Constituency	Social Democratic List
Personal details
Born	(1955-01-04) 4 January 1955 (age 69) Gera, East Germany
Political party	SPD
Profession	Engineer
Website	wolfgang-tiefensee.de

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.