Erwin Sellering
German politician (born 1949)
Erwin Sellering (born 18 October 1949) is a German politician. He served as the 4th Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern from 2008 to 2017.2
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Born Oct 18, 1949.1
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Early life and education
- Date not recordedHeidelberg University3
- Date not recordedRuhr University Bochum3
- Date not recordedUniversity of Münster3
Sellering studied law and has lived in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern since 1994, where he worked at the courts of Schwerin and Greifswald.
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Career
Occupation: jurist, politician, judge.13 14
- 2016 to 2019Member of the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern4 9
- 2016 to 2017Chair, Conference of Ministers-President12
- 2011 to 2016Member of the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern4 8
- 2008 to 2017Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern4 7
- 2007 to 2017Party leader, SPD Mecklenburg-Vorpommern4 5
- 2007 to 2017Chair, SPD Mecklenburg-Vorpommern11
- 2006 to 2011Member of the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern4 6
- 2002 to 2016Member of the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern4 5
- 2000 to 2006Chair, Ministry of Justice Mecklenburg-Vorpommern10
- Date not recordedJustice minister4
Personal life
Sellering is married, has two children and currently resides in Greifswald.
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Politics
Political career
Being a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, he has held various positions in the government of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 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, decentralized integration of refugees and pension parity with Germany's western regions.
Between October 2016 and May 2017, Sellering chaired 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.
On 30 May 2017 Sellering announced his resignation from all official political positions after he had been diagnosed with lymph cancer that needed immediate treatment. He proposed as his replacement Manuela Schwesig.
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Political positions
Sellering is known for taking a hard line against neo-Nazis and for supporting families.
Life after politics
From 2021 to 2022, Selling served as chairman of the Stiftung Klima- und Umweltschutz MV (Climate and Environment Protection Foundation), an entity set up by the government of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in January 2021 and endowed with 20 million euros from Nord Stream 2 AG, a Switzerland-based company owned by Gazprom.
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- 1WikidataErwin Sellering on Wikidata
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- 22Wikimedia CommonsErwin Sellering photo by Agnes Rogowski, CC BY 3.0