Christian Carstensen

Christian Carstensen during the election campaign

Christian Carstensen (born March 11, 1973 in Hamburg ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and former member of the Bundestag.

Life and work

After graduating from secondary school in 1989, Christian Carstensen completed an apprenticeship as a banker at Dresdner Bank in Hamburg, which he finished in early 1992. He then worked in the credit department of Dresdner Bank.

At the beginning of his training on August 1, 1989, Christian Carstensen became a member of the Trade, Banks and Insurance Union (HBV; today part of ver.di ). There he got involved a. a. as a member of the nationwide collective bargaining commission for the banking industry, as a member of the federal youth board, as a delegate at federal youth conferences of the HBV and the DGB and as a youth representative at Dresdner Bank.

From 1993 to 1994 he did his civil service at the Arbeiterwohlfahrt in Hamburg and began studying economics at the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics (HWP) in the winter semester of 1994 , which he completed in 1997 with a degree in economics. In 1998 he joined the Hamburg building authorities as a personal assistant and press spokesman for Hamburg's Senator for Construction, Eugen Wagner (SPD). After the change of government in Hamburg in 2001 he became a research assistant in the Office for Transport and Roads and in 2004 took over the management of the transport affairs department at federal level. Carstensen is head of the presidential department in the authority for urban development and housing, formerly the authority for urban development and the environment .

In May 2010, as a candidate of the SPD, he lost the election for mayor of Henstedt-Ulzburg against Torsten Thormählen (independent) and on June 15, 2014 he was defeated as a top candidate of an SPD / CDU / Greens / FDP coalition in the mayoral election in Schwarzenbek against the Non-party applicant Ute Borchers-Seelig.

He is married and has two daughters.

Political party

Carstensen has been a member of the SPD since 1989. He initially got involved with the Jusos , whose district chairman in Hamburg-Nord he was from 1994 to 1996. From 2000 to 2008 and from 2012 to 2013 he was chairman of the SPD Langenhorn- Süd.

MP

Christian Carstensen was a member of the Hamburg-Nord district assembly from 2001 to 2005 . There he was mainly involved in the youth welfare committee, in the committee for health and social affairs and in the local committee (now regional committee) Langenhorn-Fuhlsbüttel. He was also a member of the aircraft noise protection commission at Hamburg Airport.

In the 2005 election , he moved to the 43.3% first votes as a directly elected representative of the constituency Hamburg-Nord in the Bundestag one.

As a member of the German Bundestag , he was a member of the Committee on Transport, Building and Urban Development and a deputy member of the Committee on Family, Seniors, Women and Youth. Christian Carstensen was aviation policy spokesman and chairman of the Hamburg regional group in the SPD parliamentary group .

In the 2009 federal election , Carstensen lost his direct mandate to Dirk Fischer from the CDU . Even his 6th place in the state list was not enough for a Bundestag mandate.

In December 2012, Carstensen was re-elected as a direct candidate in the Hamburg-Nord constituency. His competitors were the former ver.di state district manager Wolfgang Rose , who withdrew his candidacy in November 2012, and the deputy state chairwoman Inka Damerau. In the 2013 federal election , he again received fewer votes than Dirk Fischer.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Abendblatt.de: Christian Carstensen wants to become mayor
2. ↑ bergedorfer-zeitung.de: Borchers-Seelig becomes Schwarzenbeks mayor
3. ↑ taz.de: Comrades for Metin
4. ^ Abendblatt.de: SPD: Rose withdraws application for Bundestag candidacy

Web links

Commons : Christian Carstensen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Christian Carstensen on parliamentwatch.de
• Biography at the German Bundestag