Hamburg Citizenship election: All top candidates at a glance

The 59-year-old Tschentscher goes into the race as an incumbent. He has been the first mayor of the Hanseatic city since 2018. At that time he succeeded his party friend Olaf Scholz, who moved to Berlin as Federal Minister of Finance. Before that, Tschenscher was Hamburg’s finance senator for about seven years.

Born in Bremen, the type of politics is similar to Scholz, acts more as a deliberate analyst without a penchant for dazzling appearances. Tschentscher used to work as a senior doctor in a managerial function at the University Hospital Eppendorf, is married and has a son.

Fegebank has been a senator of the science and second mayor for around ten years, i.e. vice -leader. The 48-year-old is the third time as a top candidate in a choice of citizens. She wants to make the Greens the strongest strength and become the first head of government of Hamburg, which, according to surveys, should not succeed.

Fegebank comes from the Schleswig-Holstein area of ​​Hamburg. Before moving to the Senate, she was head of state of the Hamburg Greens for seven years. She is the mother of twins and lives with her partner.

The 40-year-old Thering has been the new CDU hopeful in the Hanseatic city for several years, which fell to a record low five years ago in the election of the citizens and then made a new start. Born in Hamburg, the CDU leader of the CDU was elected in the state parliament in 2020, and since 2023 he has also been running the party’s national association.

Thering is a trained bank clerk and joined the CDU during school. In his youth he was part of the youngsters of the Hamburg football club HSV, but had to give up his dream of a professional career because of a knee injury. He is married and has a daughter.

The 36-year-old Özdemir has been the co-chair of the left faction in the citizens and among other things women’s political spokeswoman. After 2022, she competed for the second time as the top candidate of her party.

Özdemir claimed to shape her Kurdish roots and their family background as a guest worker from modest conditions. She was born in Hamburg, is married and has a son.

The 66-year-old Nockemann has been a leading head of the AfD in the Hanseatic city for years, which for the first time came to the citizens in 2015. He has been running the state association since 2017, and the citizens’ parliamentary group since 2018. Nockemann comes from North Rhine-Westphalia, is a full lawyer and worked as an administrative officer in managerial functions.

In the right -wing populist spectrum of Hamburg politics, Nockemann has been involved for a long time. He was already one of the leading representatives of the party of Ronald Schill under the rule of law and served in 2003 and 2004 for a few months as an interior senator. After an excursion to the Center Party, he went to the AfD in 2013 and founded their national association.

Blume has been a deputy state chair of the Hamburg FDP since 2021 and is the first candidate for her party for the first time. The 61-year-old is an actress and screenwriter, and she found her way into politics through local and district policy. She has headed the FDP parliamentary group at the Altona district assembly for many years. She lives with her husband in the Groß-Flottbek district in the west of Hamburg and has three daughters.

The 70-year-old Brack is the top candidate and one of two state chairman of the recently founded BSW association in Hamburg. He is a medical doctor and as a psychiatrist, according to media reports, he has so far had no political experience and has not been in any party before. Foundation and listing of the BSW in Hamburg ran chaotic in December because of internal quarrels, critics of the party leadership founded their own association without further ado.

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