Some of you might ask how and why I am politically motivated.

It all began with the so called elections. I was always amazed of, be it communal, state or federal elections. I was amazed by either the results or the whitewash talk of the results by each of the particular political opponents. At some point I became curious to know what lay behind the election process.

I was glad when the CDU won an election. This was partly because of Helmut Kohl, which was my role model, and partly due to reunification in Germany. It was and still is self-evident or taken for granted for a lot of people.

Thus in 1996 I joined the Youth Union (Junge Union) and have since held numerous political positions in the Pupils Union (Schüler Union), Youth Union and CDU.

In 1997 I was elected as the state vice-chairman of the Pupils Union and represented it as a chairman from 1998- to 2000.

In addition, from 1999 until 2005 I was a committee member in the Youth Union Saxony and Lower Silesia (Niederschlesien) and in 2005 was voted as the state vice-chairman of the Youth Union Saxony and Lower Silesia (re-elected in 2007). Following 12 years of vice-chairman and chairman membership in the Youth Union in Saxony I retired from the panel in April 2009.

Besides the work in youth organizations, I also joined the CDU in 1997 and was from 2001 until 2004 part of the local city council advisory board (Ortsbeirat) in Dresden – Neustadt.

In 2004 I succeeded in joining the Dresden city council (Stadtrat). I was part of the city development & construction panel, allotment garden panel, the committee for city hospitals and preschool facilities and the youth welfare services panel, which I am still part of today. Furthermore I was also a member of the board of directors for Technischen Werke Dresden (TWD).

In fall 2008, the CDU members in the electoral district 45 –Dresden 3 nominated me as the running candidate for the state elections in Saxony on August 30^th 2009, together with a nomination for the top candidate for the city council election May 7^th 2009 in the electoral district 3 – Dresden Neustadt.

June 7^th 2009 the citizens in electoral district 45 in Dresden 3 (Neustadt) re-elected me in the Dresden city council. I was able to double the votes casted for me since 2004. For that I would personally like to thank my constituents and their trust in me and the CDU in the Neustadt. On September 2^nd 2009 I left the Dresden city council in order to thoroughly focus my attention and time on my work at the Landtag and my electoral district.

Following a harsh but interesting election campaign in July and August 2009, I was elected by the citizens of the electoral district 45 in Altstadt, Neustadt, Johannstadt and Friedrichstadt as a representative in the Saxon state parliament.