Sebastian Ehlers (politician)

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Sebastian Ehlers, 2019

Sebastian Ehlers (born July 3, 1982 in Schwerin ) is a German political scientist and politician ( CDU ).

Life

After graduating from the Goethe-Gymnasium Schwerin in 2002 , Ehlers did military service in the German Armed Forces in Demen and Schwerin until 2003 . He then began studying political science , modern history and public law at the University of Rostock , which he completed in 2009 with a Magister Artium . From 2009 to 2012 he was employed as a research assistant in the office of the Bundestag member Dietrich Monstadt . From 2012 to 2016 he worked for the parliamentary group of the CDU in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, initially as a speaker for the study commission "Getting older in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania", then as press spokesman.

Ehlers joined the Junge Union in 1997 and the CDU in 1998. From 2000 to 2007 he was district chairman of the JU Schwerin and from 2007 to 2008 regional chairman of the JU Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In 2001 he was elected to the district board of the CDU Schwerin, and in 2007 to the state board of the CDU Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . He has been a member of the Schwerin city council since 2004 and was chairman of the CDU parliamentary group from 2009 to 2019. After the local elections in 2019 , Ehlers was elected as the new city president by the city council.

In the state elections in September 2016 , he ran as a direct candidate for the CDU in constituency 8 (Schwerin I) . One of his opponents was the incumbent Prime Minister Erwin Sellering . Ehlers achieved a share of 15.5% of the first votes and entered the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania via the state list of his party .

Sebastian Ehlers is married and has three children. Ehlers is the son of the former member of the German Bundestag Wolfgang Ehlers .

Web links

Commons : Sebastian Ehlers  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Final report of the study commission "Getting older in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Drs. 6/5610, p. 11. Retrieved on November 10, 2016 .
  2. ↑ cf. Press release of the CDU parliamentary group from September 27, 2016. Retrieved November 10, 2016 .
  3. ↑ City Council 2019-2024 - State Capital Schwerin. Retrieved July 10, 2019 .
  4. ^ Schwerin I (WK 8). Tagesschau.de , September 2016, accessed on September 9, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Ehlers, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin