Ulf Kämpfer

Ulf Kämpfer

Ulf Kämpfer, 2013
Lord Mayor of Kiel
Assumed office
March 2014
Preceded by Peter Todeskino (Acting)
Personal details
Born (1972-06-16) 16 June 1972
Eutin, West Germany
Political party Social Democratic Party of Germany
Occupation Politician

Ulf Kämpfer (born 16 June 1972, Eutin, West Germany) is a German politician, being part of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Under administrative law, since March 2014, he has been the lord mayor of Kiel.

Life

After his graduation in Plön, Kämpfer studied jurisprudence and philosophy at the University of Göttingen and the National University of Ireland in Galway. For two years, he worked as a research assistant in the German Bundestag. After further studies at Humboldt University in Berlin and Columbia University in New York City, he graduated in 2004 with a comparative law thesis on the Self-determination of Williger's Death: Euthanasia in German and American Constitutional Law (German: Die Selbstbestimmung Sterbewilliger: Sterbehilfe im deutschen und amerikanischen Verfassungsrecht) in Berlin with a doctorate. At the same time he passed the second state examination.

From 2004 to 2008, he worked in the environmental and Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Justice of Schleswig-Holstein. In 2008, he entered the judicial service and was appointed a judge at an Amtsgericht in Kiel in 2010. Prior to his appointment as Secretary of State in the cabinet of Torsten Albig on 12 June 2012, he was the a judge at the district court Kiel and an associate to the Higher Regional Court of Schleswig.

From 2012 to 2014, Kämpfer was Secretary of State in the Ministry of Energy Transition, Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas of Schleswig-Holstein.

Following the resignation of Susanne Gaschke for the selection committee of the SPD, Greens, and the South Schleswig Voters' Association, on 20 November 2013, Kämpfer was proposed as a candidate for the office of mayor in Kiel. General meetings of the three parties agreed on 14 December 2013. At the general meeting of the SPD, he was chosen with three abstentions and no votes against. The Greens and the SSW elected him unanimously with no abstentions and votes against.[1] On March 23, 2014 he was elected with 63.1% of the vote as new mayor of Kiel.[2]

Kämpfer lives with his wife, the green Anke Erdmann, and their son in the Hassee district of Kiel.

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ Albig gratuliert Ulf Kämpfer - OB-Kandidatur, Meldung auf Kieler Nachrichten online, abgerufen am 15.
  2. ↑ OB-Wahl Kiel: Kämpfer zieht ins Rathaus ein.
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