Erwin Sellering
| Erwin Sellering | |
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| Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | |
| Preceded by | Harald Ringstorff |
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| Born |
October 18, 1949 Sprockhövel, West Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
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Erwin Sellering, born on 18 October 1949 in Sprockhövel near Bochum and currently residing in Greifswald, is the 4th Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern since 2008.
Sellering studied law and has lived in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern since 1994, where he worked at the courts of Schwerin and Greifswald.
Being a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, he has been working for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's government since 1998 - first as a state secretary, later as Minister for Justice, and since 2006 as Minister for Social Affairs. In 2007, he became chairman of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's Social Democratic Party. In 2008, he succeeded Harald Ringstorff as Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's prime minister. He is also a member of the German-Russian Friendship Group set up by the German Bundesrat and the Russian Federation Council.
In the 2016 state elections, Sellering and his SPD garnered a better-than-forecast 30.6 percent. He had campaigned on local issues, urging voters to focus on jobs creation in the wind turbine sector, decentralize integration of refugees and pension parity with Germany's western regions.
Since October 2016, Sellering has been chairing the Conference of Ministers-President. He was a SPD delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2017.
Sellering is known for being restrictive toward neo-Nazis and promotive toward families.
Sellering is married and has two children.
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