Andreas Bovenschulte

Andreas Bovenschulte (born 11 August 1965) is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as the President of the Senate and Mayor of Bremen since 2019.

Bovenschulte was born 1965 in Hildesheim and studied jurisprudence at the University of Bremen.

In the late 1980s, Bovenschulte served as the University of Bremen’s student council president.

[2] As one of the state's representatives at the Bundesrat, Bovenschulte serves on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and on the Committee on Defence.

[3] On behalf of the SPD, he coordinated the Bundesrat’s selection of new judges for the Federal Constitutional Court in 2020.