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Dennis Thering during a speech at the Hamburg Parliament

Dennis Thering (* April 5, 1984, in Hamburg) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the Hamburg Parliament. He has been a member of the Hamburg Parliament since 2011 and has headed the parliamentary opposition since the 2020 elections.

Education and professional career

Dennis Thering graduated from the Wirtschaftsgymnasium City Nord[1], a secondary school in Hamburg with a focus on economics, in 2003. After graduating, he spent one year doing community service at the Hospital zum Heiligen Geist ("Holy Spirit Hospital") in the Poppenbüttel quarter of Hamburg[1]. Thering then completed an apprenticeship as a bank clerk at the German public savings bank Hamburger Sparkasse in 2006, where he worked as a bank clerk for four years[1]. In 2010, he went back to school to study political science - he earned his BA degree in political science at the University of Hamburg in 2013. From January 2014 to March 2020, Thering was employed as an excecutive assistant at the care services provider Pflegen & Wohnen Hamburg GmbH[1].

Political commitment

Local affairs

Dennis Thering has been a member of the CDU since 2001. He acts both as chairman of the CDU in Alstertal[2] and as district chairman of the CDU Wandsbek. Between 2004 and 2008, he was a member of the local committee Alstertal, in 2005 he was appointed as deputy group leader. From 2008 to 2011, Thering was a directly elected member of the Alstertal-Walddoerfer constituency for the Wandsbek district assembly. During this time, he was the spokesperson for the Alstertal region as well as the representative of the sports department of the CDU Wandsbek parliamentary group[3].

State parliament

Thering has been both a member of the Hamburg parliament and a member of the state board of the CDU Hamburg since 2011. In the 2015 state elections, Thering returned to the state parliament via a direct mandate in the Alstertal-Walddörfer constituency. He was deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group until spring of 2020: At its constituent parliamentary group meeting on March 18, 2020, the CDU parliamentary group unanimously elected Thering as their new chairman.

In the general election on February 23, 2020[4], Thering again ran as the top candidate of the CDU Hamburg in the Alstertal-Walddörfer constituency. On February 23, 2020, he - for the third time - was elected as a member of the Hamburg Parliament[5].

Memberships and cultural involvement

Additonally to his political commitment, Thering is a member of the following political and cultural clubs and associations[1]:

Sources

  1. ^ a b c d e "Über mich | Dennis Thering".
  2. ^ "Ortsvorstand Ortsverband Alstertal – CDU-Kreisverband Wandsbek" (in German). Retrieved 2022-03-17.
  3. ^ "Über mich | Dennis Thering" (in German). Retrieved 2022-03-18.
  4. ^ "Informationen zur Wahl der 22. Hamburgischen Bürgerschaft am 23. Februar 2020 - Statistikamt Nord". www.statistik-nord.de. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
  5. ^ "Bürgerschaftswahl in Hamburg". hamburg.de (in German). Retrieved 2022-03-18.


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