Rolf Jähnichen [SEP] country of citizenship
Christian Democratic Union (East Germany) in 1981. (Unlike its west German counterpart, the East German CDU, as part of the country's National Front alliance was effectively controlled by the country's ruling SED party.) Between 1984 and 1989 Jähnichen was a member of the local council in his hometown of , on the edge of Leipzig. Between 1989 and 1990 he was a member of the CDU party executive.
The fall of the Berlin wall in November was the first of a series of events that by August
Rolf Jähnichen
Rolf Jähnichen (born in Helmsdorf on 11 May 1939) is a retired German politician.
Between 1994 and 1999 he was a member of the Regional Assembly in Saxony. Between 1990 and 1998 he served as Saxony's Agriculture minister, with The Environment added to his portfolio in 1998. He retired from his political career in 1999.
Life.
Jähnichen, a Roman Catholic, was born a few months before the outbreak of war in a small town in the mining region known sometimes as "Saxon