Sebastian Steineke

{{short description|German politician}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Sebastian Steineke

| office = Member of the Bundestag for Prignitz – Ostprignitz-Ruppin – Havelland I

| image = Steineke, Sebastian-9012.jpg

| caption = Steineke in 2014

| term_start = 2013

| term_end = 2021

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1973|6|19}}

| birth_place = Hamburg, West Germany
{{small|(now Germany)}}

| party = CDU

| nationality = German

| children =

| alma_mater = University of Hamburg

| occupation = Lawyer

| successor = Wiebke Papenbrock

| predecessor = Dagmar Ziegler

}}

Sebastian Steineke (born 19 June 1973) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Brandenburg from 2013 to 2021.

Political career

Steineke first became a member of the Bundestag after the 2013 German federal election, representing the Prignitz – Ostprignitz-Ruppin – Havelland I district.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cducsu.de/abgeordnete/sebastian-steineke|title=Sebastian Steineke|website=CDU/CSU-Fraktion|access-date=2020-03-22}} In parliament, he served on the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bundestag.de/en/committees/a06|title=German Bundestag - Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection|website=German Bundestag|language=en|access-date=2020-03-22}}

For the 2021 national elections, Steineke endorsed Markus Söder as the Christian Democrats' joint candidate to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel.Veit Medick (March 29, 2021), [https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/erste-cdu-abgeordnete-fuer-soeder-als-kanzlerkandidat-a-36160f3e-d7ec-40d0-af81-e6e643ed283a Krise der Union: Erste CDU-Abgeordnete für Söder als Kanzlerkandidat] Der Spiegel.

He lost his seat in the 2021 German federal election.{{Cite web|title=Auszug aus dem Bundestag: Wie geht es weiter für Sebastian Steineke?|url=https://www.maz-online.de/Lokales/Ostprignitz-Ruppin/Neuruppin/Auszug-aus-dem-Bundestag-Wie-geht-es-weiter-fuer-Sebastian-Steineke|access-date=2021-10-21|website=MAZ - Märkische Allgemeine|date=11 October 2021 |language=de}}

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