Ulf Kämpfer

Ulf Kämpfer (born 16 June 1972, Eutin, West Germany) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who has been serving as the lord mayor of Kiel since March 2014.

Ulf Kämpfer
Ulf Kämpfer, 2013
Lord Mayor of Kiel
Assumed office
March 2014
Preceded byPeter Todeskino (Acting)
Personal details
Born (1972-06-16) 16 June 1972
Eutin, West Germany
Political partySocial Democratic Party of Germany
OccupationPolitician

Education and early career

After his graduation in Plön, Kämpfer studied jurisprudence and philosophy at the University of Göttingen and the National University of Ireland in Galway. For two years, he worked as a research assistant in the German Bundestag. After further studies at Humboldt University in Berlin and Columbia University in New York City, he graduated with a doctorate in 2004 with his comparative law thesis Self-determination people wishing to die: Euthanasia in German and American Constitutional Law (German: Die Selbstbestimmung Sterbewilliger: Sterbehilfe im deutschen und amerikanischen Verfassungsrecht) in Berlin. At the same time, he passed the second state examination.

From 2004 to 2008, Kämpfer worked in the state ministries for environmental issues, agriculture and justice of Schleswig-Holstein. In 2008, he entered the judicial service and was appointed a judge of an Amtsgericht in Kiel in 2010. Prior to his appointment as Secretary of State in the cabinet of Minister-President Torsten Albig on 12 June 2012, he was also an associate to the Higher Regional Court of Schleswig.

Political career

From 2012 to 2014, Kämpfer served as State Secretary in the State Ministry of Energy Transition, Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas of Schleswig-Holstein, under the leadership of minister Robert Habeck.

Following the resignation of Susanne Gaschke for the selection committee of the SPD, Greens, and the South Schleswig Voters' Association, on 20 November 2013, Kämpfer was proposed as a candidate for the office of mayor in Kiel. General meetings of the three parties agreed on 14 December 2013. At the general meeting of the SPD, he was chosen with three abstentions and no votes against. The Greens and the SSW elected him unanimously with no abstentions and votes against.[1] On March 23, 2014 he was elected with 63.1% of the vote as new mayor of Kiel.[2]

Other activities
  • Förde Sparkasse, Ex-Officio Chairman of the Supervisory Board
  • Kiel Week, Ex-Officio Chairman of the Supervisory Board
  • MVV Energie, Member of the Advisory Board
  • Stadtwerke Kiel, Member of the Advisory Board

Personal life

Kämpfer lives with his wife, Green politician Anke Erdmann, and their son in the Hassee district of Kiel.

Further reading
  • Die Selbstbestimmung Sterbewilliger. Sterbehilfe im deutschen und amerikanischen Verfassungsrecht (= Schriften zum internationalen Recht. Bd. 154). Duncker und Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11772-7 (zugl.: Dissertation, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin 2004).
gollark: It was more elegance™ to just make it able to do tail-call optimization.
gollark: I actually stole this particular quicksort from a r/haskell post talking about it.
gollark: ```lisp (let (partition_rec xs pred acc) (cond ((= xs '()) acc) (true (partition_rec (tail xs) pred (cond ((pred (head xs)) (list (cons (head xs) (head acc)) (snd acc))) (true (list (head acc) (cons (head xs) (snd acc)))) ))) )) (let (qsort xs cont) (cond ((= xs '()) (cont '())) (true (do (let h (head xs)) (let t (tail xs)) (let part_result (partition_rec t (lambda (x) (< x h)) '(() ()))) (qsort (head part_result) (lambda (ls) (qsort (snd part_result) (lambda (rs) (cont (+ ls (list h) rs)))))) )) ))```These all have to be done tail recursively or it could overflow.
gollark: Continuation passing style quicksort in a hilariously slow interpreter.
gollark: It manages *1* second, which is great.

References
  1. Albig gratuliert Ulf Kämpfer - OB-Kandidatur, Meldung auf Kieler Nachrichten online, abgerufen am 15.
  2. OB-Wahl Kiel: Kämpfer zieht ins Rathaus ein.
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