Till Steffen

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Till Steffen

Till Steffen (born July 22, 1973 in Wiesbaden ) is a German politician from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Hamburg .

Steffen was Justice Senator of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in the Senates of Beust III , Scholz II and Tschentscher I from 2008 to 2010 and from 2015 to 2020 .

Life

Steffen studied law at the universities of Mainz , Hamburg and Aberdeen and received his doctorate in 2004 in the field of European nature conservation law. Since then he has been working as a lawyer with a focus on administrative law, first in the von Harten law firm and since 2008 as a partner in the law firm elblaw Rechtsanwälte .

He has lived in Hamburg since 1997 and has been married to Heike Opitz since 2006 , with whom he has two children.

politics

Steffen has been a member of the Greens since 1990 . Before his time in Hamburg, he worked as a city ​​councilor in Wiesbaden from 1993 to 1997 . In 1994 he co-founded the Green Youth and was a member of the first federal board. From 1999 to 2000 he was a member of the GAL Hamburg regional board . Between 2001 and 2004 he was parliamentary group leader of the GAL in the Eimsbüttel district assembly .

He has been a member of the Hamburg Parliament since March 17, 2004 . In the 18th electoral term he was a member of the Interior Committee, Legal Committee, Constitutional Committee and the Special Committee on Administrative Reform. He was also a member of the “Verfassungsschutz” control committee and the “Information Transfer” parliamentary committee of inquiry.

In the Hamburg state election in 2008 , Till Steffen ran again for Hamburg citizenship at number one on the constituency list in constituency 5 Rotherbaum-Harvestehude-Eimsbüttel-Ost . In the 19th electoral term he was one of 12 members of the GAL group . In his parliamentary group, he was also the spokesman for the areas of justice, law, districts and the protection of the constitution.

Till Steffen was appointed to the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg on May 7, 2008 under the First Mayor Ole von Beust . As a senator he was President of the judicial authority (Justice Senator) in the first black-green coalition at state level ( Senate von Beust III , from August 25, 2010 Senate Ahlhaus ). After the coalition was terminated by the GAL, the new First Mayor Christoph Ahlhaus dismissed Senator Steffen and the other GAL Senate members on November 29, 2010. His citizenship mandate was suspended until that time and was taken over by Jenny Weggen , who had to give way to him after the dissolution of the coalition.

Steffen is running again in his constituency for the early general election in February 2011 (1st and 4th place in the GAL state list). He moved back into the citizenry through the constituency as a member of the 20th electoral term .

At the beginning of June 2014, Steffen officially announced his application for the top candidate of the Greens for the 2015 general election. In the line-up of the top team of the Green Hamburg on September 27, 2014, he was defeated by 124 votes to 131 against Jens Kerstan . In the 2015 mayor election , Steffen won a direct mandate in his constituency and is therefore a member of the 21st Hamburg Citizenship from March 2015 .

As part of the coalition negotiations for the second Hamburg red-green Senate, the Greens were given the right to propose appointments to three authorities. At a state members' meeting on April 12th, Steffen was nominated for the office of Justice Senator with a strong majority. On April 15th, Steffen was elected Senator for Justice and Equality by the citizens . After the election of Peter Tschentscher as First Mayor, which had become necessary due to Olaf Scholz's move to the Federal Ministry of Finance in the Merkel IV cabinet , Steffen also became a member of the Tschentscher Senate in the same function.

In 2020 he was re-elected to the citizenship. With the election of the Tschentscher II Senate , he resigned from the office of Justice Senator. Anna Gallina succeeded him in the authority that was supplemented by consumer protection . Steffen announced that he would run for the upcoming election to the German Bundestag .

criticism

In connection with the search for the perpetrator of the terrorist attack on the Berlin Christmas market , Steffen was initially falsely accused of having delayed the public search on Facebook for fear of hateful comments by 12 hours.

The accusation of delay turned out to be unfounded, however, as the judicial authority has no competence of its own in this matter and the police could have complied with the Federal Public Prosecutor's request immediately. When it became known, Steffen gave his consent immediately.

Web links

Commons : Till Steffen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Scholz re-elected with a large majority . NDR . April 15, 2015. Archived from the original on April 17, 2015. Retrieved on April 15, 2015.
  2. ↑ website of the law firm elblaw
  3. ↑ Justice Senator Till Steffen becomes father for the second time, Abendblatt.de, January 16, 2010
  4. ↑ 10 YEARS of Gruen-Alternatives Jugendbuendnis / GRUENE JUGEND ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Steffen's application letter on the Green Hamburg homepage, accessed on August 22, 2014
  6. ↑ GRÜNEN Hamburg press release , accessed on September 29, 2014
  7. ↑ Preliminary results of the 2015 state election: Elected candidates on the website of the North Statistics Office, accessed on February 17, 2015
  8. ↑ Press release of the Greens Hamburg: “Large majority for red-green” from April 12, 2015 ( Memento of the original from April 15, 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. , accessed April 15, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hamburg.gruene.de
  9. ↑ Preliminary result of the 2020 parliamentary elections: elected members of the 22nd Hamburg parliament. Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein - Institution of Public Law - (Statistics Office North)., February 24, 2020, accessed on March 10, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Justice Senator Steffen would have liked to have stayed in office longer
  11. ^ A b Peter Ulrich Meyer: Search in Hamburg via Facebook now possible , Hamburger Abendblatt online, December 28, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Steffen, Till
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Green Alternative List), MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden