Andreas Bovenschulte

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Andreas Bovenschulte (2019)

Andreas Bovenschulte (born August 11, 1965 in Hildesheim ) is a German lawyer and politician ( SPD ). He has been Bremen's Mayor and President of the Bremen Senate since 2019 . In this function he is also a Senator for Culture and a Senator for Religious Affairs .

education and profession

Bovenschulte, who grew up in Mehle (Elze) , attended grammar school in Sarstedt until 1984 . After graduating from high school, he did his community service at Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe in Gronau / Leine in 1985/86 . This was followed by a trainee scholar at the Richmond Fellowship in London in 1986/87 . From 1987 to 1994 he studied law at the University of Bremen and graduated with the first state examination. From 1995 to 1998 he was a research assistant at the University of Bremen, where he received his PhD in 1998. jur. PhD .

Bovenschulte did his legal clerkship at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court of Bremen from 1998 to 1999 and his second state examination in 1999. From 2000 to 2004 he was legal advisor at bremen online services GmbH and from 2004 to 2007 consultant for public law, substantive legal review and data protection at the Senator for Justice in Bremen. From May 2007 to 2014 he was first councilor (deputy mayor), then from 2014 to 2019 he was full-time mayor of the community of Weyhe near Bremen.

Bovenschulte is married to the former State Councilor Ulrike Hiller (SPD), formerly a member of the Bremen Citizenship ; they have two children.

politics

Bovenschulte has been a member of the SPD since 1984. From 1984 to 1986 he held various functions with the lawyers in the Hanover district and from 1987 to 1994 with the Bremen lawyers. At the same time he was active in higher education policy at the University of Bremen , among other things as AStA chairman and in the Socialist University Association (SHB).

Since 1994 he has had various functions in the Bremen SPD , including that of chairman of the SPD local association Bremen-Altstadt . Bovenschulte received the majority of votes in the member survey for the election of state chairman and was elected state chairman at the party congress in June 2010. He succeeded Uwe Beckmeyer in this function . In October 2013 he announced his retirement from the office of state chairman in order to run as a candidate for the SPD in the mayoral election in Weyhe. On May 25, 2014 he won this against his challenger Nils Krämer.

In May 2019 he was elected to the Bremen parliament and at the end of June as the successor to Björn Tschöpe as chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. After a few weeks he gave up the office again; Mustafa Güngör was his successor . Since Mayor Carsten Sieling announced that he was not going to serve another term, Bovenschulte was elected Mayor of Bremen on August 15, 2019.

Web links

Commons : Andreas Bovenschulte  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Breda: The Prime Minister from flour. In: Website Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung. July 22, 2019, accessed August 18, 2019 .
  2. Andreas Wohltmann: Dr. Andreas Bovenschulte wins the 2014 mayoral election in Weyhe. In: CDU Weyhe website. May 25, 2014, archived from the original on May 29, 2014 ; accessed on August 18, 2019 .
  3. Andreas Bovenschulte is the new chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. In: Website of the SPD parliamentary group in the state of Bremen. June 24, 2019, accessed July 2, 2019 .