| Honorific-Suffix: | MdB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thomas Röwekamp | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Office: | Vice President of the Senate and Mayor of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1Namedata: | Henning Scherf Jens Böhrnsen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Term Start: | 25 May 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Term End: | 29 June 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor: | Peter Gloystein | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Successor: | Karoline Linnert | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Office2: | Senator for the Interior of Bremen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1Namedata2: | Henning Scherf Jens Böhrnsen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deputy3: | Ulrich Mäurer Thomas vom Bruch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Term Start2: | 4 July 2003 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Term End2: | 29 June 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor3: | Kuno Böse | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Successor3: | Willi Lemke
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| Birth Name: | Thomas Röwekamp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 18 September 1966 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Bremerhaven, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, West Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence: | Bremerhaven, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Children: | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma Mater: | University of Bremen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Thomas Röwekamp (born 18 September 1966 in Bremerhaven) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2021.[1]
From 1991 to 2021, Röwekamp was a member of the State Parliament of Bremen. From 2007 he was his parliamentary group's chairman.[2] In the government of Henning Scherf, Röwekamp was Senator and under the government of Jens Böhrnsen vice-major of Bremen.
Röwekamp served as Bremen's State Minister of the interior in the governments of successive Mayors Henning Scherf and Jens Böhrnsen from 2003 to November 2005. During his time in office, he initiated cost-saving structural changes within the Bremen Police.
In early January 2005 the 35-year-old Laye-Alama Condé from Sierra Leone vomited four cocaine globules at the police station in Bremen and drowned the forced influx of water. Röwekamp took the political responsibility for the award of emetics to suspected drug dealers. He justified the so-called Brechmitteleinsatz with the words, "heavy criminal" would have to "expect physical disadvantages."[3]
Röwekamp co-chaired the CDU's national conventions in Dresden (2006)[4] and Karlsruhe (2010).[5]
In the 2007 state elections, Röwekamp unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Jens Böhrnsen as mayor.[6]
Röwekamp was a CDU delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2009.[7]
In parliament, Röwekamp has been serving on the Defence Committee.[8]
Röwekamp and his family live in Bremerhaven.