Overview
- Sagurna died on February 23, 2026, according to a family statement that also asked the public to respect their privacy.
- Appointed by Kurt Biedenkopf in 1991, he became a key adviser who shaped the public image of the newly reconstituted Saxon government after reunification.
- He briefly returned to frontline office as chief of the Saxon State Chancellery in 2007 under Georg Milbradt and later served as president of Saxony’s media regulator SLM from 2013 to 2019.
- Before government service he studied communications and law and worked as a journalist and war correspondent in Afghanistan and Angola, including reporting for RIAS in Berlin.
- Minister-President Michael Kretschmer credited him with explaining policy in the early 1990s, describing his style as quiet in tone yet clear in substance.