Carsten Sawosch

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Carsten Sawosch, 2014

Carsten Sawosch (born June 22, 1968 in Hanover ) is a German politician . From October 2017 to November 2018 he was federal chairman of the Pirate Party Germany .

Life

Sawosch was born in Hanover, after graduating from school, he also completed an apprenticeship in the hotel and restaurant trade there. In 1988 he was drafted into the German Armed Forces as part of compulsory military service . Sawosch signed up as a temporary soldier there and completed a total of 12 years, he left the Bundeswehr in December 1999 with the rank of sergeant major. Since 2000 he has been working as an IT administrator in Hanover . Sawosch is divorced and has three children.

Political party

Sawosch was a member of the Pirate Party from the end of 2011. After having been Deputy Federal Chairman since 2014, he was elected Federal Chairman of the Pirate Party at the Federal Party Congress in Regensburg in October 2017, replacing Patrick Schiffer . This had refused to run again. At the federal party congress in Düsseldorf from November 17 to November 18, 2018 , he decided not to run again for the election of federal chairman.

He resigned from the Pirate Party in early 2019. After a brief membership in the FDP in the same year, he became a member of the SPD .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Carsten Sawosch new national chairman of the Pirate Party Germany , October 21, 2017 Press release of the Pirate Party Germany
  2. a b Chief Pirate Carsten Sawosch disembarks. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
  3. dpa: Ex-Bundeschef Zawosch leaves the pirate party. Berliner Morgenpost , July 29, 2019, archived from the original on July 30, 2019 (German).;
  4. Carsten Sawosch: information. Retrieved on January 27, 2020 : "At the end of 2019 I found my new political home in the SPD, for which I am now committed accordingly."