Michael Kretschmer

Michael Kretschmer
MdL MdBR
Michael Kretschmer MdL MdBR
	Kretschmer in 2022
Deputy Leader of the; Christian Democratic Union
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 22 January 2022 Serving with Silvia Breher, Andreas Jung, Carsten Linnemann, Karin Prien
Leader	Friedrich Merz
Preceded by	Volker Bouffier
Minister-President of Saxony
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 13 December 2017
Deputy	Petra Köpping
Preceded by	Stanislaw Tillich
Leader of the; Christian Democratic Union of Saxony
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 9 December 2017
General Secretary	Alexander Dierks
Deputy	Barbara Klepsch; Christian Hartmann; Thomas Schmidt
Preceded by	Stanislaw Tillich
General Secretary of the; Christian Democratic Union of Saxony
	In office; 1 December 2004 – 9 December 2017
Leader	Georg Milbradt; Stanislaw Tillich
Preceded by	Hermann Winkler
Succeeded by	Alexander Dierks
Preceded by
Parliamentary constituencies
Member of the; Landtag of Saxony ; for Görlitz 2
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1 October 2019
Preceded by	Octavian Ursu
Member of the Bundestag ; for Görlitz; (Löbau-Zittau – Görlitz – Niesky; 2002–2005)
	In office; 17 October 2002 – 24 October 2017
Preceded by	Georg Janovsky
Succeeded by	Tino Chrupalla
Personal details
Born	Michael Kretschmer; 7 May 1975 (age 49); Görlitz, Bezirk Dresden, East Germany (now Germany)
Political party	Christian Democratic Union (since 1989)
Spouse	; Annett Hoffmann (m. 2020)
Children	2
Residence(s)	Dresden-Klotzsche; Waltersdorf
Alma mater	Dresden University of Applied Sciences;
Website	michaelkretschmer.de

Michael Kretschmer (born 7 May 1975) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as Minister President of Saxony since December 2017.^[1] Since 2022, he has been one of four deputy chairs of the CDU, under the leadership of chairman Friedrich Merz.^[2]