Bremen CDU elects new state chair
Following the resignation of former Bremen CDU leader Carsten Meyer-Heder, the party will elect a new state chairman on Monday (18:00). MP Heiko Strohmann had applied for the post before the special party conference, as the party announced. Further candidacies are still possible until the election.
Heiko Strohmann was born in Rostock in 1968 and grew up there. He came to Bremen in 1989 and founded a network of pretzel bakeries as an independent entrepreneur. Strohmann has been a member of the Bremen Parliament since 1999. He was Chairman of the CDU parliamentary group from July 2021 to June 2023.
His party colleague Meyer-Heder resigned as state chairman at the end of September after making comments about the AfD. In a previously published video clip, he had not ruled out working with the right-wing populists at municipal level. He thus went against the line of his party. Meyer-Heder had been state chairman of Bremen's CDU since June 2019.
The upcoming elections for the new Bremen CDU state chair on Monday evening will likely lead to a shift in party dynamics, given the personal details of candidate Heiko Strohmann who has experience in entrepreneurship and politics. Strohmann's departure from the AfD-related comments made by his predecessor, Meyer-Heder, has demonstrated a clear distinction between their political stances at elections.
Source: www.dpa.com
