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Haseloff Dismisses Saxony-Anhalt Education Minister and Taps School Principal

The change in the education ministry resolves a long-running factional dispute, with the CDU set to decide its 2026 election leader by mid-August.

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Overview

  • Minister President Reiner Haseloff removed Eva Feußner from the education ministry on June 29 after weeks of conflict with the CDU Landtag faction over unilateral policy moves.
  • Jan Riedel, 43, the current principal of Lyonel-Feininger-Gymnasium in Halle, is expected to be sworn in as the new education minister in early July.
  • Eva Feußner, who rose from state education secretary in 2018 to minister in 2021, will retain her seat in the Landtag in Magdeburg.
  • The CDU must fill its parliamentary manager role following Markus Kurze’s mid-June resignation over misconduct allegations.
  • Party executives have until mid-August to choose whether Haseloff or economics minister Sven Schulze will lead the CDU campaign for the September 2026 state election.