Jens Böhrnsen
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Acting head of state of Germany According to Article 57 of the Basic Law |
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In office 31 May 2010 – 30 June 2010 |
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| Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
| Preceded by | Horst Köhler |
| Succeeded by | Christian Wulff |
| President of the Senate and Mayor of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen | |
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In office 8 November 2005 – 17 July 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Henning Scherf |
| Succeeded by | Carsten Sieling |
| President of the German Bundesrat | |
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In office 1 November 2009 – 31 October 2010 |
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Horst Köhler Himself (acting) Christian Wulff |
| Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
| Preceded by | Peter Müller |
| Succeeded by | Hannelore Kraft |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
12 June 1949 Bremen, Germany |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
| Alma mater |
University of Kiel University of Hamburg |
Jens Böhrnsen (born 12 June 1949) is a German politician of the SPD. From 2005 to 2015, he has served as the President of the Senate and Mayor of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, that is, the head of government of the city-state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. From 1 November 2009 until 31 October 2010 he was President of the Bundesrat and ex officio deputy to the President of Germany. Because of that he was acting head of state of Germany after the resignation of President Horst Köhler on 31 May 2010 and before the election of Christian Wulff as Köhler's successor on 30 June 2010. After voting for the SPD losses of more than five percentage points in the state election on May 10, 2015 Böhrnsen declared the next day that he would retire as head of government. His successor in the office of the Bremen government was Carsten Sieling, who was officially nominated on 18 May 2015 by the Bremen SPD.
He is a lawyer by profession and served as a judge in Bremen from 1978 to 1995, when he became a full-time politician.
Böhrnsen was born on 12 June 1949 in Gröpelingen, then a workers' district of Bremen, to parents active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and labor unions. His father, Gustav Böhrnsen, a communist turned social democrat, was also an SPD politician and served as chairman of the SPD group in the Parliament of Bremen 1968-1971. Jens Böhrnsen joined the SPD in 1967. At the University of Kiel, he studied law, and concluded his studies with the first Staatsexamen in 1973, and the second Staatsexamen in 1977 at the University of Hamburg. He worked as an assessor in Bremen's administration, thereafter as a judge for 17 years, before he was elected to the Parliament of Bremen (Bürgerschaft).
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