Jens Böhrnsen

Böhrnsen ( born June 12, 1949 in Bremen ) is a German politician ( SPD). Since 2005 he has been President of the Senate and Mayor of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen Senator for Church Affairs. From 2005 to 2007 he was also a Senator for Justice and Constitutional Affairs, since 2007 he has senator for culture.

Life

Böhrnsen was born in the district of Bremen Gröpelingen. Father Gustav Böhrnsen - persecuted by the Nazis KPD member - was more than two decades Chairman of the United AG Weser shipyard as well as for a legislative period SPD parliamentary leader in the citizenry.

He joined with 18 years in the SPD. 1968 Böhrnsen participated in the demonstrations against the tram prices. After graduation in 1968 at the Gymnasium at Waller Ring in Walle district Böhrnsen studied from 1968 to 1973 Law at the University of Kiel. 1973 he passed the first state examination in law in Schleswig -Holstein from 1977 he made his second state exam in Hamburg and then was Assessor in the Bremen administration. He was judge in 1978 - 1980 at the Administrative Court of Bremen and from 1991 to 1995 Chairman of Judges.

Since June 8, 1995, he sits for the SPD faction in Parliament of Bremen and in 1999 Chairman of the Group.

In a survey of members of the Bremen SPD, he was nominated to succeed Henning Scherf as President of the Senate and Mayor of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (72% or 1,924 votes for Böhrnsen, 27% ​​or 721 votes for Willi Lemke ) on 15 October 2005.

Mayor of Bremen

On 8 November 2005 Böhrnsen was elected by 62 votes to the president of the Senate and Mayor of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen.

In the 2007 election campaign, the SPD involved with Böhrnsen and the other SPD candidate not on the non- commercial project kandidatenwatch.de on the grounds that there the candidate of the right-wing parties were not excluded. The FDP criticized as " embarrassing " and " incomprehensible".

In the state election on 13 May 2007, the SPD won 36.8 % of the vote under Böhrnsen. The SPD lost so although significantly compared to 2003, but was also due to the heavy losses of the CDU clearly the strongest party and went a coalition with the Greens one. On 29 June 2007 Böhrnsen was confirmed by 47 votes as President of the Senate and Mayor in office.

From 1 November 2009 to 31 October 2010 as scheduled Böhrnsen was President of the Bundesrat. Following the resignation of Horst Köhler by the Office of the Federal President on 31 May 2010 Böhrnsen took over temporarily the duties, and powers of the President. He perceive to hold office until a new President this feature. On 30 June 2010, the Federal Assembly met and elected Christian Wulff to the next President. Until the assumption of office of Federal President Christian Wulff starting with acceptance of the election Böhrnsen assumed the duties of head of state of the Federal Republic of Germany true representative. On 1 November 2010 the North Rhine-Westphalian Minister President Hannelore took over power, the Office of the Federal President, Böhrnsen to 31 October 2011 was the first Vice President of the Bundesrat.

In the council election 22 May 2011 Böhrnsen received at the people choice due to the new electoral system 143 807 votes and was by far of all the candidates closest to the front. June 30, 2011 Böhrnsen was confirmed by the Bremen Parliament in his office as mayor. He received 57 of 83 votes, with one abstention.

Memberships

Böhrnsen is a member of the SPD since 1967. He is a member of Verdi, the Workers' Welfare and the German -Israeli Society. He is also a member of the Evangelical Church in Bremen in Bremen.

Private

Böhrnsen is the father of two sons from his first marriage. His second wife Luise morning Thal died on 7 March 2007 at the age of 58 years surprising about the consequences of a cerebral hemorrhage. Since December 2011 Böhrnsen is married to the head teacher Birgit setup.