Overview

• Former Saxony-Anhalt Minister-President Wolfgang Böhmer died at age 89 over the weekend, the Staatskanzlei announced Monday.
• Böhmer led the CDU from 2002 to 2011, securing clear election victories and forming first a CDU–FDP coalition and later a CDU–SPD government.
• Leaders, including current Minister-President Reiner Haseloff and CDU state chair Sven Schulze, lauded his measured style, authenticity and role as a unifying Landesvater.
• A trained gynecologist, Böhmer entered politics after reunification, serving in the Landtag from 1990 and as finance and social minister in the early 1990s.
• His decade in office shaped Saxony-Anhalt’s economic modernization while preserving regional traditions through pragmatic centrist governance.