Stefan Ludwig

Stefan Ludwig (2016)

Stefan Ludwig (born April 26, 1967 in Königs Wusterhausen ) is a German politician ( Die Linke ). From 1990 to 2002 and from 2009 to 2016 he was a member of the State Parliament of Brandenburg and from 2016 to 2019 Minister of Justice and for Europe and Consumer Protection of the State of Brandenburg .

Life and work

Ludwig began studying commercial law in 1985 at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg , which he completed in 1989 as a lawyer . He then worked at the Central Office for Radio and Television Technology in Berlin-Adlershof , which was taken over by the German Federal Post Office after reunification as the center for radio services . There he was also the ombudsman in the German postal union ver.di since 2001 .

Ludwig is married and has four children.

Political party

Ludwig joined the PDS in 1998 . From 1999 to 2003 and again from 2005 to 2007 he was deputy chairman of the PDS regional association Brandenburg . From February 2011 to January 25, 2014 Ludwig was then state chairman of the party Die Linke in Brandenburg.

MP

As a non-party , Ludwig was elected to the Brandenburg state parliament on the list of the PDS in 1990, to which he belonged until 2002. He moved into parliament via the state list , where he was a member of the legal committee. From 1994 to 1999 he was also a member of the Presidium of the State Parliament.

In the state elections in Brandenburg in 2009 , Ludwig once again made it into the Brandenburg state parliament via the state list. During this legislative period, he was deputy parliamentary group chairman and spokesman for local politics and local finances in the SPD parliamentary group. In addition, he headed the Enquete Commission for local and state administration - citizen-oriented, effective and future-proof - Brandenburg 2020 (EK 5/2) of the Brandenburg state parliament, which presented its final report in October 2013 and recommended a comprehensive administrative structural reform for Brandenburg.

In the state elections in Brandenburg in 2014 , he ran unsuccessfully in the state constituency of Dahme-Spreewald II / Oder-Spree I , but returned to the state parliament via the state list. He was then the specialist spokesman for his parliamentary group for budget and finance, local politics and BER Airport. He stepped down from office on June 5, 2016.

Ludwig has been a member of the Königs Wusterhausen city council and the Dahme-Spreewald district council since 2014 .

Public offices

In 1997 Ludwig was put up by the PDS as a candidate for the office of the district administrator of the district of Dahme-Spreewald, but could not prevail against the incumbent Martin Wille (SPD).

Ludwig was the full-time mayor of the city of Königs Wusterhausen from 2002 to 2009. In 2009 he announced that he did not want to run for mayor's office again.

In 2010 the Left put Ludwig up as candidate for mayor for Frankfurt (Oder) . In the first ballot, however, the non-party candidate Martin Wilke, supported by an alliance of the SPD, CDU and FDP, was able to prevail with 59.45% of the vote. Ludwig achieved 26.93% of the votes cast.

Following the resignation of Helmuth Markov , Ludwig was appointed Minister- President Dietmar Woidke as Minister of Justice and for Europe and Consumer Protection of the State of Brandenburg on April 28, 2016 . On November 20, 2019, he left the state government in the course of the formation of the third Woidke cabinet .

Web links

Commons : Stefan Ludwig - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Website by Stefan Ludwig
Biography on the website of the Ministry of Justice and for Europe and Consumer Protection
Biography page for the 7th electoral term in the Brandenburg state parliament

Individual evidence

↑ Final report of the study commission "Local and state administration - citizen-oriented, effective and future-proof - Brandenburg 2020 PDF (parldok.brandenburg.de)
^ Krino Müller: PDS sets up Stefan Ludwig . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 18, 1997
↑ Heinz Kannenberg: Leftists want to provide the mayor . In: Märkische Oderzeitung , October 24, 2010
^ Jeanette Bederke: Non-party wins in Frankfurt (Oder) . ( Memento from March 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung , March 15, 2010
↑ New state government constituted under the leadership of Prime Minister Woidke. Press release. The State Chancellery of Brandenburg, November 20, 2019, accessed on December 18, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Ludwig, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (Die Linke), MdL, Brandenburg Minister
DATE OF BIRTH	April 26, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH	King Wusterhausen

[1] Final report of the study commission "Local and state administration - citizen-oriented, effective and future-proof - Brandenburg 2020 PDF (parldok.brandenburg.de)

[2] Krino Müller: PDS sets up Stefan Ludwig . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 18, 1997

[3] Heinz Kannenberg: Leftists want to provide the mayor . In: Märkische Oderzeitung , October 24, 2010

[4] Jeanette Bederke: Non-party wins in Frankfurt (Oder) . ( Memento from March 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung , March 15, 2010

[5] New state government constituted under the leadership of Prime Minister Woidke. Press release. The State Chancellery of Brandenburg, November 20, 2019, accessed on December 18, 2019 .