Thomas Röwekamp

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-suffix = MdB

| name = Thomas Röwekamp

| image = 2014-07-16 - Röwekamp, Thomas MdBB - 4173.jpg

| caption = Röwekamp in 2014

| office = Vice President of the Senate and Mayor
of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen

| 1blankname = {{nowrap|Mayor}}

| 1namedata = Henning Scherf
Jens Böhrnsen

| term_start = 25 May 2005

| term_end = 29 June 2007

| predecessor = Peter Gloystein

| successor = Karoline Linnert

| office2 = Senator for the Interior of Bremen

| 1blankname2 = {{nowrap|Mayor}}

| 1namedata2 = Henning Scherf
Jens Böhrnsen

| deputy3 = Ulrich Mäurer
Thomas vom Bruch

| term_start2 = 4 July 2003

| term_end2 = 29 June 2007

| predecessor3 = Kuno Böse

| successor3 = Willi Lemke

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| office4 = Member of the Bundestag
for Bremen

| term_start4 = 26 October 2021

| term_end4 =

| successor4 =

|predecessor4 = Elisabeth Motschmann

| office5 = Member of the
Bürgerschaft of Bremen
for Bremerhaven

| term_start5 = 28 June 2007

| term_end5 = 15 October 2021

| successor5 = Melanie Morawietz

|predecessor5 = multi-member district

|constituency5 = Christian Democratic Union List

| term_start6 = 6 November 1991

| term_end6 = 4 July 2003

| successor6 = Wolfgang Pfahl

|predecessor6 = multi-member district

|constituency6 = Christian Democratic Union List{{Collapsed infobox section end}}}}

| birth_name = Thomas Röwekamp

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|09|18|df=y}}

| birth_place = Bremerhaven, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, West Germany

| death_date =

| death_place =

| residence = Bremerhaven, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen

| children = 3

| party = Christian Democratic Union {{small|(1983–)}}

| spouse =

| alma_mater = University of Bremen

| profession =

| occupation = {{hlist|Politician|Lawyer|Bank Teller}}

| religion =

| website = {{URL|https://thomasroewekamp.de/|Official Website}}

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Thomas Röwekamp (born 18 September 1966 in Bremerhaven) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2021.Lisa Urlbauer (17 October 2021), [https://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/politik/die-neuen-abgeordenten-im-bundestag-aus-bremen-und-umzu-doc7i0daoajy1difc09ij4 Das sind die Bundestags-Neulinge aus Bremen und umzu] Weser-Kurier.

From 1991 to 2021, Röwekamp was a member of the State Parliament of Bremen. From 2007 he was his parliamentary group's chairman.{{cite web |url=https://www.cdu-fraktion-bremen.de/profil_1_profil_1_Thomas-Roewekamp-MdBB.html |title=CDU-Bürgerschaftsfraktion des Landes Bremen - Thomas Röwekamp MDBB | Fraktionsvorsitzender |website=www.cdu-fraktion-bremen.de |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160622093949/http://cdu-fraktion-bremen.de/profil_1_profil_1_Thomas-Roewekamp-MdBB.html |archive-date=22 June 2016}} In the government of Henning Scherf, Röwekamp was Senator and under the government of Jens Böhrnsen vice-major of Bremen.

Political career

=Career in state politics=

Röwekamp served as Bremen's State Minister of the interior in the governments of successive Mayors Henning Scherf and Jens Böhrnsen from 2003 to November 2005. During his time in office, he initiated 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."{{cite web|title=taz.de|periodical=Taz.de|publisher=|url=http://www.taz.de/1/archiv/?id=archivseite&dig=2005/11/25/a0068|url-status=|format=|access-date=29 July 2011|archive-url=|archive-date=|last=|date=|year=|language=|pages=|quote=}}

Röwekamp co-chaired the CDU's national conventions in Dresden (2006)[https://www.kas.de/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=f627199d-1a54-e856-8af0-cf5628438541&groupId=252038 Protokoll: 20. Parteitag der CDU Deutschlands, 27. – 28. November 2006, Dresden] Konrad Adenauer Foundation. and Karlsruhe (2010).[https://www.kas.de/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=09629588-3aba-870d-c538-24131d21378d&groupId=252038 Protokoll: Protokoll: 23. Parteitag der CDU Deutschlands, 15. – 16. November 2010, Karlsruhe] Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

In the 2007 state elections, Röwekamp unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Jens Böhrnsen as mayor.Judy Dempsey (11 May 2007), [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/world/europe/11iht-germany.4.5671243.html Social Democrats smell victory in regional elections in Bremen, Germany] International Herald Tribune.

Röwekamp was a CDU delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2009.[https://taz.de/!707084/ Zwei für Schawan] Die Tageszeitung, 10 March 2009.

=Member of the German Parliament, 2021–present=

In parliament, Röwekamp has been serving on the Defence Committee,[https://www.bundestag.de/abgeordnete/biografien/R/roewekamp_thomas-860556 Thomas Röwekamp] Bundestag. which he has been chairing since 2025.Eckart Lohse and Mona Jaeger (16 May 2025), [https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/armin-laschet-soll-den-auswaertigen-ausschuss-fuehren-110480575.html Armin Laschet soll den Auswärtigen Ausschuss führen] Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Personal life

Röwekamp and his family live in Bremerhaven.

References

Category:1966 births

Category:Living people

Category:Politicians from Bremen (city)

Category:Members of the Bürgerschaft of Bremen

Category:Members of the Bundestag 2021–2025

Category:Members of the Bundestag 2025–2029