Erich Iltgen (10 July 1940 – 9 June 2019[1]) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union.

[2] Erich Iltgen was born in Cologne during the early years of World War II.

In 1943, his parents relocated the family to Dresden, supposing that the risk from aerial bombing might be lower in Saxony.

[5] Between 1989 and 1990, Iltgen was a moderator of the roundtable of the district of Dresden, and was a member of the Coordinating Committee for the education in Saxony.

He represented constituency 42 (Dresden IV) in the First Parliament of Saxony,[6] and on 27 October 1990 was elected its president.