Jürgen Scharf

Jürgen Scharf (born Salzwedel 15 September 1952) is a German regional politician (CDU). From April 2002 till 2011 he was the leader of the CDU group in the Saxony-Anhalt Regional Assembly.

Life Jürgen Scharf was born in Salzwedel approximately three years after the birth of the German Democratic Republic. Salzwedel was a small town known for its "Tree ring Cake" located on the eastern side of the border dividing West from East Germany. A few months before his birth the East German government blocked the frontier, and the ensuing three decades saw the construction of an increasingly sophisticated barrier created to protect the German Democratic Republic from western military aggression and/or from the flight of its own working age population. Scharf successfully concluded his schooling in 1971 and went on to study Mathematics at the "Otto-von-Guericke" Technical University in Magdeburg, emerging with a degree in 1975. In 1976 he joined the Christian Democratic Union (CDU / Christlich-Demokratische Union Deutschlands), Between 1990 and 1993 and again from 1994 till 2002 he was the CDU group's Assembly Geschäftsfuehrer (literally "parliamentary business leader"), also serving as his party's regional finance spokesman, while between 1993 and 1994 he served as the party's deputy leader there.