After the resignation of the former Bremen CDU leader Carsten Meyer-Heder, the party will elect a new state chairman on Monday (6 p.m.). MP Heiko Strohmann applied for the post before the special party conference, the party announced. Further candidacies are still possible until the election.
Heiko Strohmann was born in Rostock in 1968 and grew up there. In 1989 he came to Bremen and founded a group of pretzel bakeries as an independent entrepreneur. Strohmann has been a member of the Bremen citizenship since 1999. From July 2021 to June 2023 he was chairman of the CDU parliamentary group.
His party colleague Meyer-Heder resigned as state chairman at the end of September after comments about the AfD. In a previously published video excerpt, he did not rule out collaboration with the right-wing populists at the local level. In doing so, he went against his party’s line. Meyer-Heder has been state chairman of the Bremen CDU since June 2019.
2023-11-27 02:05:42
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