Sebastian Gemkow

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Sebastian Gemkow (2016)

Sebastian Gemkow (born July 27, 1978 in Leipzig ) is a German lawyer and politician ( CDU ). He has been a member of the Saxon State Parliament since 2009 and Saxon State Minister for Science in the Kretschmer II cabinet since December 20, 2019 . He was previously the Saxon Minister of Justice from November 2014 until the end of 2019 .

Study and job

1997 put Gemkow a high school at the Leipzig New Nikolaischule and graduated from 1998 to 2004 at the Universities of Leipzig , Hamburg and Berlin's Humboldt University to study law . After his first state examination in 2004, he worked as a trainee lawyer in Leipzig and was able to take his second state examination in 2006. As a result, he established himself as a lawyer in Leipzig and ran a joint law firm with Denis van Ngoc until the end of 2014.

politics

Sebastian Gemkow in the Federal Council, 2019

Gemkow has been a member of the CDU since 1998. In the state elections in 2009 he was a direct candidate in the electoral district of Leipzig 2 with a share of 28.5% of the votes (the lowest percentage of first votes of all elected constituency candidates) in the Saxon state parliament. In the 5th Saxon State Parliament he was a member of the Committee for Science and University, Culture and Media, the Election Examination Committee, the Parliamentary Control Committee and the 1st Investigative Committee of the 5th Saxon State Parliament “Waste Abuse Inquiry”. In the state elections in Saxony in 2014 , Gemkow won the constituency of Leipzig 4 with a share of the vote of 24.9%, just ahead of the left candidate (23.8%).

On November 13, 2014, Gemkow was appointed by Prime Minister Stanislaw Tillich as the Saxon State Minister of Justice in the Saxon state government.

On the night of November 24, 2015, a butyric acid attack was carried out on his apartment in Leipzig, in which several cobblestones were thrown into the living room. After initially assuming a left-wing extremist background for the crime, it soon became known that the perpetrator was a criminally convicted, violent neo-Nazi who is friends with Gemkows law firm partner Denis van Ngoc through the free fight scene . The Leipzig District Court assumes an act of mistake. Presumably, the perpetrators mixed up the apartment due to mixed up doorbell signs. There was a shared apartment on the same floor, the address of which is recorded in the imprint of a clothing brand popular in the left-wing scene.

After the suicide of terror suspect Dschaber al-Bakr in October 2016 in the prison in Leipzig , which triggered nationwide reactions, Gemkow took over political responsibility for the Saxon state government. He ruled out a resignation.

In the state elections in Saxony in 2019 , he was elected constituency member in the constituency of North Saxony 2 with 34.3% of the direct votes.

Gemkow has been a member of the Kretschmer II cabinet as Saxon State Minister for Science in the State Ministry for Science, Culture and Tourism since December 20, 2019 .

On November 18, 2019, the Leipzig CDU nominated him in the Kunstkraftwerk as a candidate for the 2020 mayoral election with 99.25% of their votes. In the first ballot on February 2, 2020, he received 31.6 percent of the votes cast in front of the incumbent Burkhard Jung (29.8 percent). The second ballot, in which a simple majority is sufficient, followed on March 1, 2020. Jung won this with 49.1 percent of the vote, about 3,300 votes ahead of Gemkow, who received 47.6 percent. The third candidate, Ute Elisabeth Gabelmann, received 3.3 percent of the vote.

Further engagements

Gemkow has been President of the Parliamentary Forum for Central and Eastern Europe since 2010. V., a non-partisan association of Saxon parliamentarians and leaders from business and society, which promotes cooperation between Saxon as well as Central and Eastern European actors from politics and administration with the aim of supporting business, science, culture and social developments. On March 21, 2014, the federal government granted Gemkow the exequatur as honorary consul of the Republic of Estonia. The Honorary Consular Mission was opened in Leipzig in the presence of Taavi Rõivas , Prime Minister of the Republic of Estonia. The consular district includes the federal states of Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia . Sebastian Gemkow held the office until his appointment as Minister of State.

He was elected to the board of the German-Russian Forum eV in March 2016 and is a member of the board of trustees of forum thomanum Leipzig eV

Private

Gemkow lives in Leipzig, is married to the Estonian Nadja Jefanowa and has four children. Hans-Eberhard Gemkow (CDU), his father who died early, was mayor of the city of Leipzig until 1994. He is related to Rudolf Krause (great-uncle) and general and resistance fighter Hans Oster (great-great-uncle).

Gemkow is an Evangelical Lutheran denomination.

Web links

Commons : Sebastian Gemkow  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sebastian Gemkow - Leipzig. In: www.stayfriends.de. Retrieved October 27, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Denis van Ngoc law firm in Leipzig. In: www.kanzlei-vanngoc.de. Retrieved November 15, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Suspected Gemkow attacker is a convicted neo-Nazi. Accessed January 1, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Election to the 6th Saxon State Parliament on August 31, 2014 . Website of the City of Leipzig, accessed on January 1, 2015
  5. ↑ Press release of the Saxon State Chancellery of November 13, 2014: Tillich's new government is in place , accessed on November 13, 2014.
  6. ↑ FAS No. 34, August 27, 2017, p. 4.
  7. ↑ Michael Freitag: Gemkow Trial: Second round before the regional court - L-IZ.de. In: new.l-iz.de. September 18, 2017, accessed January 17, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Right lane - cruiser online. In: kreuzer-leipzig.de. November 29, 2018, accessed January 17, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Wrong apartment attacked - cruiser online. Accessed February 16, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Christian Fuchs, Anne Hähnig, Stefan Schirmer: Unter Stümpern . In: zeit.de . November 15, 2016, accessed November 23, 2016.
  11. ↑ Saxony's Minister of Justice rejects allegations . In: lto.de . October 13, 2016, accessed November 23, 2016.
  12. ↑ Sebastian Gemkow - an unusual appearance. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. October 14, 2016, accessed October 21, 2016 .
  13. ↑ State election Saxony 2019 results constituency North Saxony 2 . tagesschau.de. September 1, 2019, accessed September 3, 2019.
  14. ↑ Communication and Public Relations Unit: Government Members. staatsregierung.sachsen.de, accessed on December 20, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Nominated with 99.3 percent: Leipzig CDU sends Sebastian Gemkow into the race. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung. November 18, 2019, accessed November 19, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Result of the 2nd ballot. Retrieved March 2, 2020 .
  17. ^ Schaar, Sebastian .: Saxon parliamentarians support the European unification process. Parliamentary forum for Central and Eastern Europe founded, in: Landtagskurier. Free State of Saxony. Edited by Saxon State Parliament 7 (2010), p. 16; Ders .: "Setting the course for Europe". Parliamentary forum organizes an exchange of parliamentarians between Saxony and Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Saxon state parliament, in: Landtagskurier. Free State of Saxony. Edited by Saxon State Parliament 3 (2012), p. 16.
  18. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2015 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundesanzeiger.de
  19. ^ Opening of the Estonian Honorary Consulate in Leipzig. Free State of Saxony, June 19, 2014, archived from the original on October 14, 2016 ; accessed on October 15, 2016 .
  20. ↑ Estonia opens first honorary consulate in East Germany in Leipzig. In: LVZ.de. June 19, 2014, accessed October 15, 2016 .
  21. ↑ http://www.Deutsch-Russisches-Forum.de , accessed on March 3, 2017.
  22. ↑ Trustees , www.forum-thomanum.de, accessed on 14 November 2016th
  23. ↑ "Calm Before the Storm": That was the mood in the polling stations. Retrieved February 4, 2020 .
  24. ↑ Sebastian Gemkow. In: bundesrat.de. Retrieved April 26, 2018 .
  25. ↑ Christine Keilholz: I don't have to have a bang. In: Lausitzer Rundschau. December 6, 2014, accessed October 15, 2016 .
  26. ↑ Cornelius Pollmer: Sebastian Gemkow - an unusual appearance. In: SZ.de. October 14, 2016, accessed October 15, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Gemkow, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL, Saxon Minister of Justice
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig