country_of_citizenship stefan birkner
Stefan Birkner ( born 12 April 1973 in Münsterlingen ) is a German politician for the Free Democratic Party . He was elected to the Lower Saxon Landtag in 2008 . However , in February 2008 he left the Landtag to become a state secretary for the State Minister of the Environment in the second cabinet Wulff , Hans - Heinrich Sander . He was replaced by Christian Grascha . Since January 2012 he ist Minister for Environment , Energy and Climate Protection . Kreuzlingen is a municipality in the district of Kreuzlingen in the canton of Thurgau in north - eastern ___MASK49___ . It is the seat of the district and is the second largest city of the canton , after Frauenfeld , with a population of about 20 , 800 . Together with the adjoining city of Konstanz just across the border in ___MASK96___ , Kreuzlingen is part of the largest conurbation on Lake Constance with a population of almost 120 , 000 . Münsterlingen is a municipality in the district of Kreuzlingen in the canton of Thurgau in ___MASK49___ . ___MASK49___ , officially the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic in Europe . It consists of 26 cantons , and the city of Bern is the seat of the federal authorities . The country is situated in Western - Central Europe , and is bordered by ___MASK15___ to the south , ___MASK71___ to the west , ___MASK96___ to the north , and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east . ___MASK49___ is a landlocked country geographically divided between the Alps , the Swiss Plateau and the Jura , spanning an area of . While the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory , the Swiss population of approximately eight million people is concentrated mostly on the plateau , where the largest cities are to be found : among them are the two global cities and economic centres Zürich and Geneva . The Canton of Thurgau ( German : , anglicized as Thurgovia ) is a northeast canton of ___MASK49___ .