Andreas Bovenschulte | |
Office: | President of the Senate and Mayor of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen |
Deputy: | Maike Schaefer |
Term Start: | 15 August 2019 |
Predecessor: | Carsten Sieling |
Office1: | Leader of the Social Democratic Party in the Bürgerschaft of Bremen |
Deputy1: | Petra Krümpfer |
Term Start1: | 7 June 2019 |
Term End1: | 15 August 2019 |
Predecessor1: | Björn Tschöpe |
Successor1: | Mustufa Güngör |
Office2: | Mayor of Weyhe |
Deputy2: | Ina Pundsack-Bleith |
Term Start2: | 25 May 2014 |
Term End2: | 3 July 2019 |
Predecessor2: | Frank Lemmermann |
Successor2: | Frank Siedel |
Office3: | Leader of the Social Democratic Party of Bremen |
Deputy3: | Sarah Ryglewski Elias Tsartilidis |
Term Start3: | 5 June 2010 |
Term End3: | 31 December 2013 |
Predecessor3: | Uwe Beckmeyer |
Successor3: | Dieter Reinken |
Office6: | Member of the Bürgerschaft of Bremen for Bremen |
Term Start6: | 8 June 2019 |
Term End6: | 15 August 2019 |
Predecessor6: | multi-member district |
Birth Date: | 11 August 1965 |
Alma Mater: | University of Bremen |
Andreas Bovenschulte (born 11 August 1965) is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as the President of the Senate and Mayor of Bremen since 2019.
Bovenschulte was born 1965 in Hildesheim and studied jurisprudence at the University of Bremen.
See also: First Bovenschulte senate and Second Bovenschulte senate. In the late 1980s, Bovenschulte served as the University of Bremen’s student council president.[1]
From 2010 to 2013 Bovenschulte was chairman of the SPD in Bremen and since August 2019 he is ruling mayor of Bremen.[2]
As one of the state's representatives at the Bundesrat, Bovenschulte serves on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and on the Committee on Defence.[3] On behalf of the SPD, he coordinated the Bundesrat’s selection of new judges for the Federal Constitutional Court in 2020.[4]