Mathias Petersen

Mathias Petersen (2018)

Mathias Petersen (born August 23, 1955 in Reinbek ) is a German SPD politician . He is a member of the Hamburg Parliament .

person

Petersen studied medicine in Hamburg from 1980 to 1986 . Since 1990 he and his wife have been running a general practitioner practice in Hamburg-Altona . From 1993 to 1997 he was a member of the board of the Hamburg Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians . He has three sons.

Public mandates

In 1997 he was elected to the Hamburg parliament for the first time, to which he still belongs today. From 1997 to 2004 he was health policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group.

In the state election in February 2011, Mathias Petersen achieved the second-best result with 21,611 votes after the top candidate Olaf Scholz and was thus directly elected, despite the uncertain place 20 on the state list. In the subsequent candidacy for the presidency of the parliament in the SPD parliamentary group, he was narrowly defeated by Carola Veit with 28:32 . Instead, he became chairman of the budget committee of the Hamburg citizenship. In addition to budget and health policy, other focal points of his parliamentary work are also cultural and sports policy.

In the general election on February 15, 2015, Petersen was elected to the new parliament with 13,161 votes on the state list of the SPD Hamburg.

On February 23, 2020, Petersen was able to move into the Hamburg citizenship again .

Political party

Petersen joined the SPD in 1982. In 2001 he became chairman of the SPD district Flottbek-Othmarschen . Before the 2004 mayoral election, he lost to Thomas Mirow at a state party congress for the nomination for mayoral candidate . At the state party congress in June 2004, he was elected as the successor to Olaf Scholz as the new state chairman with around 84 percent of the vote , after he had previously won an internal member survey against Knut Fleckenstein. On May 6, 2006, Petersen was confirmed as state chairman of the Hamburg SPD with around 88%.

In 2006, the former mayor Henning Voscherau declared that he would renounce all ambitions expressed in the meantime to run again as a candidate for mayor. On January 22nd, 2007, the former President of the Hamburg Parliament, Dorothee Stapelfeldt , declared that she wanted to run for the mayoral candidacy against Petersen. This had previously received internal party criticism, after he u. a. had asked for the home addresses of sex offenders to be published.

On February 25, 2007, after a week-long election campaign, a strike vote was held by the members. The subsequent counting was stopped when it was found that 959 postal votes had disappeared from the party headquarters. With the existing ballots, Petersen had been in the lead. Nevertheless, the majority of the state executive refused to recognize this result. The ultimately unexplained disappearance of the ballot papers had consequences for the Hamburg SPD. On March 4, 2007, Mathias Petersen decided not to run again for the party chairmanship and as the top candidate for the 2008 mayor elections, but ran for fifth place on the state list.

Mathias Petersen was elected chairman of the SPD Altona on April 23, 2013 with 82.5% of the votes at the district party conference.

ancestors

Petersen comes from a Hanseatic family that has provided Hamburg's mayors and senators several times. His grandfather Rudolf Petersen was the first post-war mayor of Hamburg, his brother Carl Wilhelm Petersen was first mayor 1924–1929, 1932–1933 and second mayor 1930–1931. His great-grandfather Carl Friedrich Petersen was first mayor in 1876, 1877, 1880, 1883, 1886, 1889, 1892 and second mayor in 1879, 1882, 1885, 1888, 1891.

Petersen is also related to the Sieveking family through his grandmother Olga Petersen (1881–1965). Her father Ernst Friedrich Sieveking (1836–1909) was senator from 1877–1879 and then president of the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg , whose father Friedrich Sieveking (1798–1872) was first mayor in 1861, 1862, 1865, 1868 and second mayor in 1864 and 1867 (see Hamburg Senate 1861–1919 ).

Web links

Commons : Mathias Petersen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography with the Hamburg citizenship
• Homepage of Mathias Petersen
• Mathias Petersen on parliamentwatch.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Petersen in the Hamburger Abendblatt v. March 23, 2007 about his resignation: "I don't know where the hatred came from."
2. ↑ State list of the SPD Hamburg ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
3. ^ Welt am Sonntag, June 13, 2004
4. ↑ Hamburg mayor since 1293