Reiner Haseloff (born 19 February 1954 in Bülzig, Kreis Wittenberg, Bezirk Halle) is a German politician and the 6th Minister President of the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt. A scientist like Chancellor Angela Merkel, he was widely considered as one of her closest party allies, but distanced himself from her during the European migrant crisis.From 2002 to 2006, Haseloff served as State Secretary at the State Ministry for Economic Affairs and Labour under minister Horst Rehberger in the first cabinet of Minister-President Wolfgang Böhmer. In 2006, he succeeded Rehberger and became a member of Böhmer’s second cabinet. Wikipedia