Horst Metz

Horst Metz
Born(1945-07-06)6 July 1945
Groß Laasch, Mecklenburg, Allied-occupied Germany
Died15 October 2022(2022-10-15) (aged 77)
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
OccupationPolitician
Political partyCDU
ChildrenGeorg Metz

Horst Metz (6 July 1945 – 15 October 2022) was a German politician.[1]

In 2002 he was appointed Finance Minister in the Saxony regional government.[2] His resignation from ministerial office came unexpectedly in 2007, following a crisis involving a regional bank that had needed a bailout because of large-scale poorly timed investments in the US housing market.[3]

  1. ^ "Horst Metz Dr.-Ing". WirtschaftsWoche, Düsseldorf. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  2. ^ Helmut Müller-Enbergs. "Metz, Horst *6.7.1945 Minister der Finanzen des Freistaats Sachsen" (in German). Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur: Biographische Datenbanken. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  3. ^ Steffen Winter (3 September 2007). "Regent ohne Kugelfang: Der Rücktritt seines Finanzministers verschafft Ministerpräsident Milbradt nur kurz Luft. Die Landespartei denkt über Alternativen nach – eine ist Kanzleramtsminister Thomas de Maizière". Der Spiegel (online). Retrieved 24 March 2015.