Withdrawal from politics: Bremen’s interior senator Ulrich Mäurer stops at the end of the year

Bremen’s interior senator Ulrich Mäurer (SPD) wants to hand over his office to a successor at the end of the year. This was said by his spokesman on DPA demand. First the “Weser Kurier” had reported about it.

In a letter to the state board and the Bremen SPD parliamentary group, Mäurer explained his decision. “I turned 74 this summer. At some point you also have to make room for your successor,” it says. The dpa is available. The handover must be organized carefully, according to the interior senator. “In addition, the new time until the next election must have enough time in spring 2027 in order to set their own accents and in turn gain trust among the Bremeners.”

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Mäurer is currently and chairman of the Interior Ministers’ Conference until the end of the year. “This task again requires my full commitment,” he wrote. With five legislative periods of three Senate presidents, he is now the oldest interior senator in Bremen.

The SPD politician is the veteran in the Bremen Senate. The lawyer has been a senator for the inside and sport since 2008, at that time he took over the office of Willi Lemke (SPD). Even before his name to the interior senator last year, there were persistent rumors that the office would only take over for half a legislative period. The state election in Bremen is in the spring of 2027.

Mäurer was born in July 1951 in the Rhineland-Palatinate city of Höhr-Grenzhausen north of Koblenz. He studied law in Marburg and Bremen and finally worked in the Bremen administration. In August 1988 he took over the department management in the Senator for Justice and Constitution’s Senator, later he became a state council and in 2008 himself a senator. Mäurer is married and has two children.