Michael Sack

Michael Sack (born 9 August 1973) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). From August 2020 to September 2021, he was leader of the party's Mecklenburg-Vorpommern branch.[1] Previously, he was district administrator of Vorpommern-Greifswald.[2] He was the CDU's lead candidate for the 2021 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election, and subsequently resigned as party leader.[3]

Michael Sack
Sack in 2021
Leader of the Christian Democratic Union in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
In office
7 August 2020 – 27 September 2021
Preceded byVincent Kokert
Succeeded byEckhardt Rehberg (acting)
District administrator of Vorpommern-Greifswald
Assumed office
October 2018
Personal details
Born
Michael Sack

(1973-08-09) 9 August 1973
Demmin, East Germany
Political partyChristian Democratic Union
Children3

Personal life

Michael Sack grew up in Groß Toitin near Jarmen. After an apprenticeship as a draftsman, he completed a degree in civil engineering. Until 2010 he worked as a vocational school teacher. He is married and has three children.

Political career

In 2010, Sack was elected mayor of Loitz and also took over the administration of the Peenetal/Loitz office. The following year, he was elected district council president of Vorpommern-Greifswald, which was newly created in the course of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania district reform in 2011. He was re-elected as mayor of Loitz with 94% of votes in the 2017 local elections.[4]

In December 2017, the CDU district association of Vorpommern-Greifswald nominated Sack as its candidate for the 2018 district election. In the election on 27 May 2018, Michael Sack received the most votes, 41.5%, ahead of the second-placed AfD candidate who won 15.7%.[5] In the runoff election on 10 June, Sack won in a landslide with 79.5%.[2] Michael Sack took up his post as district administrator in October.

On 19 June 2020, Sack announced his candidacy for the state CDU leadership.[6] At a special party congress in Güstrow on 7 August, he was elected with 94.8% of the vote. He was also chosen as the party's lead candidate for the next state election.[1] The CDU won just 13.3% of votes in the election, a decline of almost six percentage points. Sack subsequently resigned as party leader and waived his Landtag mandate.[3]

References
  1. "Michael Sack is the new CDU state chief". FAZ.net. 7 August 2020.
  2. "Runoff election for the district council in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald on June 10, 2018" (PDF). Vorpommern-Greifswald Government.
  3. "After resignations at the CDU - ex-party leader Rehberg takes over". Norddeutscher Rundfunk (in German). 28 September 2021.
  4. "Michael Sack (CDU) remains mayor in Loitz". Ostsee Zeitung. 10 April 2017.
  5. "District election in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district on 27 May 2018" (PDF). Vorpommern-Greifswald Government.
  6. "Amthor is not running for CDU state chairmanship". Tagesschau.de. 19 June 2020.
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