Stefan Evers (10 October 1979) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as State Minister (Senator) of Finance in the government of Governing Mayor Kai Wegner since 2023.[1] He has been a member of the Berlin House of Representatives since September 2011. During this time, he served as the managing director of the CDU parliamentary group from 2018 to 2023. Additionally, from December 2016 to September 2023, he held the role of Secretary General of the CDU Berlin. As of September 2023, he has assumed the position of Deputy State Chairman of Berlin.
Evers grew up in Paderborn and has been living in Berlin since 1999. He studied law at the University of Potsdam. During his studies, he worked as an assistant to the members of the German Bundestag, Friedhelm Ost and Werner Kuhn. After passing his state examination, he became the managing director of a strategy and communication consultancy.[2] Evers is gay.[3]
In the 2011 state elections, Evers was first elected for the CDU (Christian Democratic Union) to the Berlin House of Representatives and served there until 2018, initially as the deputy leader of his party's parliamentary group.
Following the lost House of Representatives election in 2016, Evers was elected as the Secretary General of the CDU Berlin on the recommendation of chairwoman Monika Grütters. He retained this position after Kai Wegner was elected to succeed Grütters as chairman in 2018.
From 2018 to 2023, Evers served as the parliamentary manager of the CDU's group in the State Parliament. Additionally, he was the group's spokesperson for urban development policies from 2011 to 2023 and served as chairman in the investigative committees 'BER I' (2012 to 2016) and 'DIESE eG' (2021). Most recently, Evers was directly elected to the Berlin House of Representatives in the Treptow-Köpenick 3 constituency (Altglienicke-Adlershof) during the Berlin repeat election on February 12, 2023.[4]
Until 2021, Evers co-chaired the CDU's national working group on 'Equivalent Living Conditions in Urban and Rural Areas', alongside Christina Schulze Föcking.[5]
Most recently, in June 2021, Evers was confirmed as Secretary General with a record result of 92.5 percent.[6] In this capacity, he was also responsible for the highly regarded campaign of the Berlin CDU for the Berlin repeat election in 2023, an outcome that was described by the media as a 'landslide victory' and awarded the 'Politikaward' as the 'Best Election Campaign of the Year.' At the state party conference in September 2023, he resigned from the position of Secretary General and was elected as the deputy chairman of the CDU Berlin by a large majority.[7]
Since April 27, 2023, Evers has been the mayor of the city of Berlin and the senator for finance in the Wegner senate. As one of the state’s representatives at the Bundesrat since 2023, he has been serving on the Finance Committee.[8]