Erwin Sellering | |
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| Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | |
| In office 6 October 2008 – 4 July 2017 | |
| President | Horst Köhler Christian Wulff Joachim Gauck Frank-Walter Steinmeier |
| Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
| Deputy | Lorenz Caffier |
| Preceded by | Harald Ringstorff |
| Succeeded by | Manuela Schwesig |
| Leader of theSocial Democratic Party inMecklenburg-Vorpommern | |
| In office 14 April 2007 – 2 July 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Till Backhaus |
| Succeeded by | Manuela Schwesig |
| Minister of Health and Social Affairs of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | |
| In office 7 November 2006 – 6 October 2008 | |
| Minister President | Harald Ringstorff |
| Preceded by | Marianne Linke |
| Succeeded by | Manuela Schwesig |
| Minister of Justice of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | |
| In office 20 September 2000 – 7 November 2006 | |
| Minister President | Harald Ringstorff |
| Preceded by | Harald Ringstorff |
| Succeeded by | Uta-Maria Kuder |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1949-10-18)18 October 1949 (age 75) Sprockhövel,West Germany |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
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Erwin Sellering (born 18 October 1949) is a German politician. He served as the 4thMinister President ofMecklenburg-Vorpommern from 2008 to 2017.
Sellering studied law and has lived inMecklenburg-Vorpommern since 1994, where he worked at the courts ofSchwerin andGreifswald.[1]
Being a member of theSocial 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.[1] In 2007, he became chairman of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's Social Democratic Party.[1] In 2008, he succeededHarald Ringstorff as Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's prime minister. He is also a member of the German-Russian Friendship Group set up by theGerman Bundesrat and theRussian Federation Council.
In the2016 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.[2]
Between October 2016 and May 2017, Sellering chaired theConference of Ministers-President. He was a SPD delegate to theFederal Convention for the purpose of electing thePresident of Germany in 2017.
On 30 May 2017 Sellering announced his resignation from all official political positions after he had been diagnosed withlymph cancer that needed immediate treatment. He proposed as his replacementManuela Schwesig.[3]
Sellering is known for taking a hard line againstneo-Nazis and for supporting families.[1]
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 fromNord Stream 2 AG, a Switzerland-based company owned byGazprom.[4]
Sellering is married, has two children[1] and currently resides inGreifswald.[1][7]
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