Sebastian Gemkow

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Sebastian Gemkow (2016)

Sebastian Gemkow (born 27 July 1978) is a German lawyer and politician of

the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as State Minister of
Science (since 2019)[1] and as State Minister of Justice (2014–2019) in the
governments of successive Minister-Presidents Stanislaw Tillich (2014–2018)
and Michael Kretschmer (since 2017). Since 2009, he has been a member of
the Landtag of the Free State of Saxony, the state's parliament.

Contents

 1Early life and career

 2Political career
 3Other activities
 4Personal life
 5References
 6External links

Early life and career[edit]

From 1998 to 2004, Gemkow studied law at the University of Leipzig, the University
of Hamburg und the Humboldt University of Berlin. After he had successfully passed
his first government licensing examination in 2004, he worked in Leipzig and also
passed the second government licensing examination in 2006. After that, he settled
as a lawyer in Leipzig. Until 2014, he also served as honorary consul of Estonia.

Political career[edit]
Gemkow has been a member of the Christian Democratic Union since 1998.
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Since the 2009 state elections, Gemkow has been a member of the Saxon State
Parliament. In the Parliament, he first served as a member of the Committee on
Science, Education, Culture and Media.
As one of the state’s representatives at the Bundesrat, Gemkow is a member of the
Committee on Legal Affairs. He is also a member of the German-Russian Friendship
Group set up by the Bundesrat and the Russian Federation Council.
Gemkow was Saxon Minister of Justice from November 2014 to December 2019. He
has been Saxony's Minister of Science since December 2019
In Leipzig’s 2020 local elections, Gemkow won the first round of voting against
incumbent mayor Burkhard Jung; however, he eventually lost in the runoff vote.[2]

Other activities[edit]
Since 2010 Gemkow has been the president of the Parliamentary Forum Mittel- und
Osteuropa, which is a cross-party organization of the Saxon Parliament's members
and responsible representatives of business and society. The goal of the
organization is to promote the cooperation between political and administrative actors
from Saxony and the Central and Eastern European countries in order to support
economic, cultural and social development.
Additional positions include:

 Deutsches Museum, Member of the Board of Trustees[3]

 Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Member of the Board of Trustees[4]
 Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Member of the Board of Trustees[5]
 Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Member of the Board of
Trustees[6]
 Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Member of the Board of
Trustees[7]

Personal life[edit]
Gemkow is Evangelical Lutheran, married and has three children.

References[edit]
1. ^ Michael Deutschmann (December 20, 2019), Das sind die Minister: BILD erklärt Sachsens
schwarz-grün-rotes Kabinett BILD.
2. ^ Wahl hauchdünn gewonnen Burkhard Jung bleibt Leipzigs Oberbürgermeister, BILD, March 1,
2020.
3. ^ Board of TrusteesDeutsches Museum.
4. ^ Board of Trustees Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids.
5. ^ Board of Trustees Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences.
6. ^ Board of Trustees Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics.
7. ^ Board of Trustees Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems.

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