text: Dirk Hilbert
  
  Dirk Hilbert is a German politician serving as the current Lord Mayor of Dresden, the capital city of Saxony, since Helma Orosz's resignation in 2015.
  
  Biography 
  Hilbert studied industrial engineering at the Technical University of Dresden from 1992, and graduated in 1998 with a degree. From 1998 to 2000 he worked as a board assistant at the German Aerospace Center in Cologne, then in risk management at CargoLifter in Krausnick-Groß Wasserburg. From December 2008, he was the Deputy Mayor of Lord Mayor Helma Orosz, and took over for her duties from February 2011 to March 1, 2012 due to the Mayor's illness. He became Lord Mayor upon Orosz's resignation in 2015.
  
  References 
  
  Category:Mayors of Dresden
  Category:People from Dresden
  Category:German politicians
  Category:Saxon people
  Category:Free Democratic Party (Germany) politicians
  Category:1971 births
  Category:Living people