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Key facts
- Deputy
- Thomas Röwekamp , Karoline Linnert
- Preceded by
- Henning Scherf
- Succeeded by
- Carsten Sieling
- First vice president
- Peter Müller
- Chancellor
- Angela Merkel
- Born
- ( 1949-06-12 ) 12 June 1949 (age 76) , Bremen-Gröpelingen , Bremen , West Germany
- Party
- Social Democratic Party
- Spouse
- Birgit Rüst ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2011 )
- Parent
- Gustav Böhrnsen (father)
- Alma mater
- University of Kiel , University of Hamburg
- Occupation
- Politician Judge Lawyer
- Website
- Official Bremen government website
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- Portrait Buergermeister Boehrnsen.jpg
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- Jens Böhrnsen
- date of birth
- 1949-06-12
- name in native language
- Jens Böhrnsen
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Jens Böhrnsen (born 12 June 1949) is a German politician of the SPD who served as President of the Senate and Mayor of Bremen from 2005 to 2015. From 1 November 2009 until 31 October 2010, he was President of the Bundesrat. As such, he was acting head of state of Germany from the resignation of President Horst Köhler on 31 May 2010 until the election of Christian Wulff on 30 June 2010. Böhrnsen resigned in 2015 after his party sustained losses in the state parliament election.
Böhrnsen is a lawyer by profession and served as a judge in Bremen from 1978 to 1995, when he became a full-time politician.