Mathias Brodkorb

There he passed his Abitur in 1996 and, after completing his community service, studied philosophy and ancient Greek at the University of Rostock from 1997 onwards.

From 1994 to 1997 Brodkorb was a member of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) and was involved in the sub-group "Communist Platform".

Brodkorb became Minister for Education, Science and Culture of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2011 and later Chairman of the SPD parliamentary group of Landtag.

[2] In a guest article in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung in 2019, Brodkorb called for East German society to be more open to immigration in view of the shortage of skilled workers in the new federal states.

[6] In the magazine Cicero, for which he regularly writes commentaries, he called for the reintroduction of compulsory military service (Wehrpflicht")in Germany after the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.