Overview
- At a ceremony in Erfurt, Thuringia’s Landtag president Thadäus König called for a more active defense of liberal democracy against threats from inside and outside the country.
- The first freely elected Thuringian Landtag convened on October 25, 1990 in Weimar, and official records cite about 700 members, roughly 930 plenary sessions, nearly 1,100 laws passed, and around 450 reprimands through September 2025.
- Saxony’s Landtag first met on October 27, 1990 in Dresden’s Dreikönigskirche, where a turbulent inaugural session produced a provisional rulebook, elected Erich Iltgen as president, and confirmed Kurt Biedenkopf as minister-president after a CDU absolute majority.
- Saxony’s parliament has since been reduced from 160 to 120 seats, and CDU deputy Marko Schiemann is reported as the only member to have served continuously since 1990.
- The Saxon anniversary is being marked with the photo exhibition '35 Momente aus 35 Jahren' at the Landtag’s citizens’ foyer, offering a public retrospective of key moments.