Thomas Röwekamp

Thomas Röwekamp (born 18 September 1966 in Bremerhaven) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2021.[1]

Thomas Röwekamp
MdB
Röwekamp in 2014
Vice President of the Senate and Mayor
of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
In office
25 May 2005 – 29 June 2007
MayorHenning Scherf
Jens Böhrnsen
Preceded byPeter Gloystein
Succeeded byKaroline Linnert
Senator for the Interior of Bremen
In office
4 July 2003 – 29 June 2007
MayorHenning Scherf
Jens Böhrnsen
DeputyUlrich Mäurer
Thomas vom Bruch
Preceded byKuno Böse
Succeeded byWilli Lemke
Parliamentary constituencies
Member of the Bundestag
for Bremen
Assumed office
26 October 2021
Preceded byElisabeth Motschmann
Member of the
Bürgerschaft of Bremen
for Bremerhaven
In office
28 June 2007 – 15 October 2021
Preceded bymulti-member district
Succeeded byMelanie Morawietz
ConstituencyChristian Democratic Union List
In office
6 November 1991 – 4 July 2003
Preceded bymulti-member district
Succeeded byWolfgang Pfahl
ConstituencyChristian Democratic Union List
Personal details
Born
Thomas Röwekamp

(1966-09-18) 18 September 1966
Bremerhaven, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, West Germany (now Germany)
Political partyChristian Democratic Union (1983–)
Children3
Residence(s)Bremerhaven, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
Alma materUniversity of Bremen
Occupation
  • Politician
  • Lawyer
  • Bank Teller
WebsiteOfficial Website

From 1991 to 2021, Röwekamp was a member of the State Parliament of Bremen. From 2007 he was his parliamentary group's chairman.[2] In the government of Henning Scherf, Röwekamp was Senator and under the government of Jens Böhrnsen vice-major of Bremen.

Political career

Career in state politics

Röwekamp served as Bremen's State Minister of the interior in the governments of successive Mayors Henning Scherf and Jens Böhrnsen from 2003 to November 2005. During his time in office, he initiated cost-saving structural changes within the Bremen Police.

In early January 2005 the 35-year-old Laye-Alama Condé from Sierra Leone vomited four cocaine globules at the police station in Bremen and drowned the forced influx of water. Röwekamp took the political responsibility for the award of emetics to suspected drug dealers. He justified the so-called Brechmitteleinsatz with the words, "heavy criminal" would have to "expect physical disadvantages."[3]

Röwekamp co-chaired the CDU's national conventions in Dresden (2006)[4] and Karlsruhe (2010).[5]

In the 2007 state elections, Röwekamp unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Jens Böhrnsen as mayor.[6]

Röwekamp was a CDU delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2009.[7]

Member of the German Parliament, 2021–present

In parliament, Röwekamp has been serving on the Defence Committee.[8]

Personal life

Röwekamp and his family live in Bremerhaven.

References
  1. Lisa Urlbauer (17 October 2021), Das sind die Bundestags-Neulinge aus Bremen und umzu Weser-Kurier.
  2. "CDU-Bürgerschaftsfraktion des Landes Bremen - Thomas Röwekamp MDBB | Fraktionsvorsitzender". www.cdu-fraktion-bremen.de. Archived from the original on 22 June 2016.
  3. "taz.de". Taz.de. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
  4. Protokoll: 20. Parteitag der CDU Deutschlands, 27. – 28. November 2006, Dresden Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
  5. Protokoll: Protokoll: 23. Parteitag der CDU Deutschlands, 15. – 16. November 2010, Karlsruhe Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
  6. Judy Dempsey (11 May 2007), Social Democrats smell victory in regional elections in Bremen, Germany International Herald Tribune.
  7. Zwei für Schawan Die Tageszeitung, 10 March 2009.
  8. Thomas Röwekamp Bundestag.


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