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Jens Böhrnsen
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| President of Germany | |
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Acting
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| In office 31 May 2010 – 30 June 2010 |
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| 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 – 15 July 2015 |
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| Deputy | Thomas Röwekamp Karoline Linnert |
| Preceded by | Henning Scherf |
| Succeeded by | Carsten Sieling |
| President of the Bundesrat | |
| In office 1 November 2009 – 31 October 2010 |
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| First Vice President | Peter Müller |
| Preceded by | Peter Müller |
| Succeeded by | Hannelore Kraft |
| Leader of the Social Democratic Party in the Bürgerschaft of Bremen |
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| In office July 1999 – 8 November 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Christian Weber |
| Succeeded by | Carsten Sieling |
| Member of the Bürgerschaft of Bremen for Bremen |
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| In office 8 June 1995 – 8 November 2005 |
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| Preceded by | multi-member district |
| Succeeded by | Karin Garling |
| Constituency | Social Democratic Party List |
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| Born | 12 June 1949 Bremen-Gröpelingen, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
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Birgit Rüst
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| Children | 2 |
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| Residence(s) | Bremen |
| Alma mater | University of Kiel University of Hamburg |
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Jens Böhrnsen (born 12 June 1949) is a German politician of the SPD who served as President of the Senate and Mayor of Bremen from 2005 to 2015. From 1 November 2009 until 31 October 2010 he was President of the Bundesrat. As such, he was acting head of state of Germany from the resignation of President Horst Köhler on 31 May 2010 until the election of Christian Wulff on 30 June 2010. Böhrnsen resigned in 2015 after his party sustained losses in state parliament election.
Böhrnsen is a lawyer by profession and served as a judge in Bremen from 1978 to 1995, when he became a full-time politician.
Background
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).
See also
In Spanish: Jens Böhrnsen para niños
