Andreas Bausewein

Andreas Bausewein ( born May 5, 1973 in Erfurt ) is a German politician ( SPD) and Mayor of Erfurt.

Education and work

After leaving school at the Polytechnic High School " Johannes Gutenberg " in Erfurt Bausewein graduated from 1989 to 1993, a vocational training as an electrician. He then acquired the technical college. After the civil service at the Workers' Samaritan Federation Erfurt 1995, he was for a year employee of the SPD parliamentary group in Thuringia. From 1995 to 1999 he studied at the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt and graduated as Diplom-Sozialarbeiter/Sozialpädagoge ( FH). A postgraduate course at the Pedagogical University of Erfurt / University of Erfurt, he joined in 2002 as a graduate teacher from.

2002-2003 Bausewein worked as a social worker at Berufsfortbildungswerk in the prison Tonna. He then worked as a training coordinator at the German Trade Union Federation of Thuringia.

Political work and public offices

1990 Bausewein joined the SPD. From 1995 to 2004 he was state chairman of the Thuringian Young Socialists. Since 1994 he was a member of the board of the Thuringian SPD. From 1998 to 2008 and again since 2010 was or he is vice chairman of the state party. 2004-2006 Bausewein was a member of the Thuringian Landtag.

In May 2006, Bausewein sat at the Lord Mayor elections in the runoff was 30.9 % turnout with 60.2% of the vote against Dietrich Hagemann (CDU ) by.

When a new SPD National Executive on 7 June 2008 Bausewein was not re-elected. The main factor here was that he was in the internal party struggle between the state chairman Christoph Matschie and his predecessor Richard Dewes for the latter and its position, possibly even to form after the regional elections of 2009, a coalition with the Left Party, when the SPD should not ask the Prime Minister, Party had taken. At the state convention, 6 March 2010 Bausewein but was elected with 57 percent of votes for the second time one of the four vice-chairpersons of the provincial party bosses Matschie, where Bausewein achieved the worst result of the candidates for the deputy national chairman.

As mayor, he has used, among other things for later adopted by the City Council and controversial in the Erfurt population demolition of designated a cultural monument Nordbad - entrance building.

In the mayoral elections 22 April 2012 Bausewein was 59.2 % of the votes votes: already confirmed in the first round in his office ( turnout 43.9 %). His strongest opposition candidate, Michael Panse (CDU ), reached only 14.9%.

Family

Bausewein is married to Sysann Bausewein and has three children.