Political Career
Milbradt has been a member of the CDU since 1973. He was head of the finance department of the city of Münster 1983-1990 and then Minister of Finance of Saxony from 1990 - January 2001, but was dismissed from office by the then minister-president Kurt Biedenkopf because Milbradt had started a debate about Biedenkopf's succession. However, on 18 April 2002, he was elected minister-president of Saxony despite Biedenkopf's explicit opposition. Milbradt first governed with an absolute CDU majority, but is in a coalition with the SPD since the state elections of 19 September 2004, in which the CDU lost a large amount of votes.
Milbradt has been member of the state board of the CDU since 1991 and became deputy chairman of the state CDU in 1999 and chairman in 2001. Since 1994, he has been a member of the Saxony state parliament and since 2002 has been the minister-president of Saxony. However, in April 2008 Milbradt announced that he will resign from the office by the end of May and that Stanislaw Tillich shall succeed him. He has been under pressure for months because of his involvement in the liquidity crisis of the government's Sachsen LB bank. Milbradt has also been criticized for private loans from the bank during his time as Minister of Finance in Saxony.
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