Carsten Ovens

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Carsten Ovens (born July 22, 1981 in Hanover ) is a German politician ( CDU ). From 2015 to 2020 he was a member of the Hamburg Parliament .

Life

Ovens grew up in Braunschweig . There he passed the Abitur at the Raabeschule grammar school in 2001 and did his community service with the joint welfare associations . In 2002 he began studying business administration at the University of Hamburg . Here he was, among other things, a co-founder of the Alumni Universität Hamburg association. After studying for a year at Macquarie University in Sydney , Ovens graduated in 2008 with a degree in business administration and a Master of International Business. In addition to his studies, Ovens worked for several years as a student employee of the CDU parliamentary group and part-time as a research assistant at the German Bundestag.

Ovens then worked for SAP in business development . In 2012 he moved to the Young Business Foundation as Secretary General . From 2011 he worked as a university lecturer, from 2015 he researched as a research associate on “political communication in digital social networks” at the University of Hamburg. Since March 2019 he has been managing director of the German branch of the pro-Israel organization European Leadership Network (ELNET) .

During his studies, Ovens was involved, among other things, in the student initiative “Marketing between theory and practice”. Today he is also a member of the Europa Union , was a board member of the Young Economic Council Hamburg, a member of the board of the Lokstedt community center and a member of the board of the Hoheluft-Großlokstedt community association. Ovens has been a member of the Hamburger Wingolf since 2004 and of the Münster Wingolf since 2007. Ovens has been an ambassador for the 'German-Israeli Startup Exchange Program' since 2016.

politics

Ovens joined the Junge Union and the CDU in 2003 . From 2010 to 2019 he was deputy chairman of the CDU Lokstedt / Niendorf / Schnelsen . From 2011 to 2017 he was state chairman of the Junge Union Hamburg. Under his chairmanship, the Hamburg regional association was named the most successful regional association of the Junge Union in Germany in 2012 and 2013. From 2011 to 2018 he was a member of the state executive committee of the CDU Hamburg . In 2012 Ovens was elected CDU delegate to the Congress of the European People's Party (EPP). In 2018 Ovens founded the “Friends of Israel in the Union”, which he leads together with the state parliament member Ellen Demuth . He has also been a member of the federal executive board of the cnetz since 2018 .

From 2008 to 2015 Ovens was a member of the Eimsbüttel district assembly . There he represented his parliamentary group, among other things, as an economic policy spokesman and press spokesman. He was also the deputy chairman of the university committee and a member of the Lokstedt regional committee.

In the 2011 state elections , Ovens ran as the top candidate of the Junge Union in 18th place on the CDU state list; he narrowly missed entry into the citizenry. In the 2015 general election , Ovens won a direct mandate in the constituency of Lokstedt-Niendorf-Schnelsen . He was a member of the parliamentary group's executive committee and represented the CDU parliamentary group as a specialist for science and the digital economy. He was particularly committed to the startup location Hamburg.

In June 2019 Ovens resigned from his position as deputy local chairman in Lokstedt / Niendorf / Schnelsen and announced that he would not be a candidate in the mayor election on February 23, 2020 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alumni-International: Meeting in Los Angeles - Alumni UHH. (No longer available online.) In: www.alumni-uhh.de. Archived from the original on April 7, 2016 ; Retrieved April 7, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.alumni-uhh.de
  2. ^ Profile of Carsten Ovens on XING
  3. ↑ Young Business Foundation
  4. ↑ Carsten Ovens Appointed as New Executive Director of ELNET-Germany. In: ELNET. March 21, 2019, Retrieved March 27, 2019 (American English).
  5. ↑ Nathan GuttmanJune 12, 2008: New European pro-Israel Group Aims for Low Profile. Retrieved March 27, 2019 (American English).
  6. ↑ Carsten Ovens . In: GISEP . September 29, 2016 ( gisep.co [accessed September 27, 2018]).
  7. ↑ welt.de: "We emphasize the performance concept" (Interview, October 12, 2012)
  8. ↑ Hamburg CDU man founds Israel Circle of Friends on September 11, 2018
  9. ↑ Final result of the state election on February 15, 2015 hamburg.de. Retrieved March 7, 2015.
  10. ^ Economy in Hamburg. In: Carsten Ovens MdHB. Retrieved September 27, 2018 .
  11. ↑ FAZ.net February 22, 2020: Into politics and out again
  12. ↑ see also Abendblatt.de May 31, 2019: CDU throws well-known digital politicians from the citizenship list
personal data
SURNAME Ovens, Carsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover