Thomas Röwekamp

Thomas Röwekamp (born September 18, 1966 in Bremerhaven) is a German politician (CDU). Since 2007 he is chairman of CDU-faction in Bremen Senat.[1] In the government of Henning Scherf, Röwekamp was Senator and under the government of Jens Böhrnsen vice-major of Bremen.

Thomas Röwekamp, 2014

Röwekamp is member of Bürgerschaft of Bremen since 1991. He and his family are living in Bremerhaven.

He was Senator for the interior from 2003 to November 2005 in Bremen. Röwekamp initiate cost-saving structural changes within the Bremen Police. In early January 2005 the 35-year-old Laye-Alama Condé from Sierra Leone vomited four cocaine globules at the police station in Bremen and drowned the forced influx of water. Röwekamp took the political responsibility for the award of emetics to suspected drug dealers. He justified the so-called Brechmitteleinsatz with the words, "heavy criminal" would have to "expect physical disadvantages."[2]

References
  1. https://www.cdu-fraktion-bremen.de/profil_1_profil_1_Thomas-Roewekamp-MdBB.html
  2. "taz.de". taz.de. Retrieved 2011-07-29.


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