Ernst Bürger has headed the new "Digital Administration; Control OZG" department at the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Homeland Affairs since June 2020. Prior to that, he has already driven forward the digitization and modernization of the administration with verve in other functions, most recently as sub-department head "Administrative Digitization and Administrative Organization; Control/Coordination OZG; GS IT Planning Council".
After studying law and working as a lawyer and tutor in Münster, Ernst Bürger joined the BMI in 1998 in the Department for Foreigners' Law, where he played a key role in the 2001 Immigration Act. From 2001 to 2005, he was office manager for State Secretaries Zypries and Dr. Wewer and then took over as head of the "Information Society and E-Government" policy unit in the IT staff. From 2008, he was responsible for the labor and collective bargaining law unit. Ernst Bürger is an honorary judge at the Federal Labor Court.