Stefan Schostok

Stefan Schostok ( born May 12, 1964 in Hildesheim ) is a German politician ( SPD). Since October 11, 2013 he is the mayor of Hanover. From 2010 to 2013 he was chairman of the SPD faction in the parliament of Lower Saxony.

Education and work

Stefan Schostok has lived since 1971 in Hanover, and for a time in Isernhagen. Stefan Schostok obtained in 1985 at the Kaiser -Wilhelm -Gymnasium Hanover college entrance, 1986/87, he completed his community service in Isernhagen. Following Schostok studied social and graduated in 1991 with a degree in graduate social worker from. Professionally, he was employed from 1991 to 1995 at the Education Network of Lower Saxony community colleges. From 1995 to 1996, he worked as a research assistant in the political magazine SPW. From 1996 to 1999 he was a research associate at the Foundation's work environment and the IG BCE. In the Lower Saxony Ministry of Environment, he worked as a consultant for public relations in 1999. From 2000 to October 2009 was Stefan Schostok chief operating officer of the SPD district of Hanover.

Policy

Stefan Schostok is a member of the SPD since 1983. Since 1995 he is member of the board of the SPD district of Hanover. From 1991 to 1995 he was chairman of the Young Socialists District Hanover. He is a member of the board of the SPD City Association Hanover. He made local political experience as a councilor in the municipal council Isernhagen 2001-2005 ., There he was sitting in the Economic and Financial Committee and the Environment Committee.

On 31 October 2009 he was elected to the District Party Chairman of the SPD district of Hanover. In the years 2011 and 2013, he was appointed in this position.

From 2008 to January 2013 he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament (16th legislature ) as a directly elected representative of the constituency 28 Hanover -Mitte. His political priorities in the state legislature were working in the labor market, social, economic and environmental policy. Schostok was a member of the Committee on Economic Affairs, Labour and Transport and Deputy economics spokesman of the SPD. He also worked in the research group Science and Culture in the topics of science, transfers and in cultural policy, which is in his constituency of utmost importance. He was also a spokesperson for innovation and knowledge transfer. Furthermore, there was Stefan Schostok member of the working group integration. From June 14 2010 to January 22, 2013, he was Group President of his party in the parliament of Lower Saxony.

Schostok renounced the end of 2011 for reelection to the Lower Saxony state parliament and declared his candidacy for the office of Mayor of Hanover succeeds Stephan Weil. In April 2012, he was prepared for it by his party with 96 percent approval. On June 6, 2013, the delegates of the SPD Stadtverband representatives meeting Hannover Stefan Schostok nominated with 96 percent approval rating officially as mayor candidates.

In the first round of the mayoral elections on 22 September 2013, which stood at 48.9 % of the vote, the required absolute majority against the CDU candidate Matthias Waldraff ( 33.8 %). In the runoff election on October 6, 2013 Schostok won with 66.3 % of votes. On October 11, 2013 Schostok has taken office as Mayor of Hannover, sparking the first councilor Sabine Tegtmeyer - Dette and the first Mayor Bernd Strauch at the top of the city from. The swearing in front of the City Council was held on 24 October 2013.

As mayor, he is the supreme representative and head of the city administration of Hanover.

Memberships

Stefan Schostok is a member of the 2012 Convention of the Protestant Academy Loccum since April. The Church of the Senate of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover appointed Stefan Schostok in January 2014 as a member of the 25th Synod (2014-2020 ). Since January 19, 2014 he is patron of the Market Church of Hanover and a member of the church council of the parish market. Stefan Schostok is a member of the Advisory Board of the German - Turkish Association of Lower Saxony -Bremen eV He is a member of the AWO, the SoVD, of the Mining, Chemical and Energy ( IG BCE ) and circle of friends Hanover.

Personal

Stefan Schostok is single and lives in Hanover-List.

Publications

• (Ed. with Wolfgang Jüttner, Gabriele Andretta ): Policy for the Social Democrats. Memory of Peter of Oertzen. ( = Publications of the Institute for Social History Braunschweig eV Vol. 7). Forward - book, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86602-924-8.
• (Ed. with Arno Brandt ): kurs.wechsel (at) politics -in- niedersachsen.de. The compass of labor, economy and skills in Lower Saxony. Forward - book, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-942972-12-3.