Celle – Uelzen

Celle – Uelzen is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the Bundestag.

It is located in eastern Lower Saxony, comprising the districts of Celle and Uelzen.

In the inaugural Bundestag election, it was Lower Saxony constituency 16 in the numbering system.

In the 1965 election, it lost the Uetze municipality while acquiring the rest of the Burgdorf district.

The constituency was first held by Lisa Korspeter [de] of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), who served from 1949 to 1957.

Margot Kalinke of the German Party (DP) won in 1957 and served a single term.

She was succeeded by Wilhelm Brese of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), who served 1961 to 1969.

Party fellow Hans Hubrig [de] served from 1969 to 1972, when the SPD won the constituency.

Olaf Sund [de] of the CDU served from then until 1998, when the SPD's Peter Struck won the constituency.