| Michael Sack | |
| Office: | Leader of the Christian Democratic Union in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern |
| Term Start: | 7 August 2020 |
| Term End: | 27 September 2021 |
| Predecessor: | Vincent Kokert |
| Office1: | District administrator of Vorpommern-Greifswald |
| Term Start1: | October 2018 |
| Birth Date: | 1973 8, df=yes |
| Birth Name: | Michael Sack |
| Birth Place: | Demmin, East Germany |
| Party: | Christian Democratic Union |
| Children: | 3 |
Michael Sack (born 9 August 1973) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). From August 2020 to September 2021, he was leader of the party's Mecklenburg-Vorpommern branch.[1] Previously, he was district administrator of Vorpommern-Greifswald.[2] He was the CDU's lead candidate for the 2021 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election, and subsequently resigned as party leader.[3]
Michael Sack grew up in Groß Toitin near Jarmen. After an apprenticeship as a draftsman, he completed a degree in civil engineering. Until 2010 he worked as a vocational school teacher. He is married and has three children.
In 2010, Sack was elected mayor of Loitz and also took over the administration of the Peenetal/Loitz office. The following year, he was elected district council president of Vorpommern-Greifswald, which was newly created in the course of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania district reform in 2011. He was re-elected as mayor of Loitz with 94% of votes in the 2017 local elections.[4]
In December 2017, the CDU district association of Vorpommern-Greifswald nominated Sack as its candidate for the 2018 district election. In the election on 27 May 2018, Michael Sack received the most votes, 41.5%, ahead of the second-placed AfD candidate who won 15.7%.[5] In the runoff election on 10 June, Sack won in a landslide with 79.5%.[2] Michael Sack took up his post as district administrator in October.
On 19 June 2020, Sack announced his candidacy for the state CDU leadership.[6] At a special party congress in Güstrow on 7 August, he was elected with 94.8% of the vote. He was also chosen as the party's lead candidate for the next state election.[1] The CDU won just 13.3% of votes in the election, a decline of almost six percentage points. Sack subsequently resigned as party leader and waived his Landtag mandate.[3]