Peter Tschentscher (born 20 January 1966) is a German politician of the
Social Democratic Party
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(SPD). Since 28 March 2018 he has been the First Mayor of
Hamburg
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. As First Mayor, he is head of the
Senate Tschentscher. Since 2008 he has been a member of the
Hamburg Parliament
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. From 2011 until 2018 he served as State Minister of Finance in the
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and
second governments of
Olaf Scholz
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.
Early life and education
Tschentscher graduated from high school in
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in 1985. He later studied medicine and
molecular biology
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at the
University of Hamburg
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, where he received his
Doctor of Medicine
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degree in 1995. From 1994 until 2008 he practised as a
physician
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at the
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
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.
Political career
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Tschentscher joined the
Social Democratic Party
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in 1989. He was first elected to the
Hamburgische Bürgerschaft in the
2008 state elections. From 2008 until 2011 he served on the Budget Committee. In addition, he led a parliamentary inquiry into
cost overrun
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s in the construction of the
Elbphilharmonie
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The new glassy con ...
from 2010.
Finance Senator, 2011–2018
During his tenure as State Minister of Finance Tschentscher oversaw the privatization of the publicly owned shipping finance provider
HSH Nordbank.
From 2015 on, Tschentscher was one of the state's representatives at the
Bundesrat, where he served as deputy chairman of the finance committee.
First mayor of Hamburg, 2018–present
In March 2018 Tschentscher succeeded
Olaf Scholz
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, who left state politics to become Federal Minister of Finance and Vice Chancellor of Germany in the
fourth coalition government
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of
Chancellor
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Angela Merkel
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.
At the time of his nomination, Tschentscher was seen as a surprising choice by many, as he has not appeared much in the public during his term as Senator of Finance.
Andreas Dressel, SPD parliamentary group leader in Hamburg, had been considered by many as obvious successor of Scholz,
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Der Spiegel but declined for personal reasons.
As one of the state's representatives at the
Bundesrat, Tschentscher is a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and on the Committee on European Affairs. He is also a member of the German-Polish Friendship Group set up in cooperation with the
Senate of Poland
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. During his first year as mayor, he served as
Commissioner of the Federal Republic of Germany for Cultural Affairs under the Treaty on Franco-German Cooperation.
In the negotiations to form a so-called
traffic light coalition
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of the SPD, the
Green Party
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and the
Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the
2021 federal elections, Tschentscher was part of his party's delegation in the working group on economic affairs, co-chaired by
Carsten Schneider,
Cem Özdemir
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and
Michael Theurer
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.
Tschentscher was nominated by his party as delegate to the
Federal Convention
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for the purpose of electing the
President of Germany
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in
2022
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.
Other activities
Corporate boards
*
HafenCity Hamburg GmbH, ex officio chairman of the supervisory board (since 2018)
Non-profit organizations
* Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Member of the Political Advisory Board (since 2020)
*
Stability Council, ex officio member
* Haus Rissen, Member of the Board of Trustees
*
Deutsches Museum
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, Member of the Board of Trustees
Board of Trustees
eutsches Museum.
References
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Living people
1966 births
Chemical pathologists
Mayors of Hamburg
Senators of Hamburg
Members of the Hamburg Parliament
Presidents of the German Bundesrat
Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians
Politicians from Bremen