query: country_of_citizenship stefan birkner
supports: Switzerland, 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 Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland 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. Kreuzlingen is a municipality in the district of Kreuzlingen in the canton of Thurgau in north-eastern Switzerland. 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 Germany, 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 Switzerland. 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 . The Canton of Thurgau (German: , anglicized as Thurgovia) is a northeast canton of Switzerland.
candidates: germany italy liechtenstein switzerland
answer: germany