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Torsten Albig (born 25 May 1963 in Bremen) is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany. From 2012 until 2017 he served as the 13th Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein.
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- Torsten albig spd kritisiert verscharfung des asylrechts unser boot ist noch lange nicht voll
- German state governor visits Jerusalem
- Early life and education
- Lord Mayor of Kiel 2009 2012
- Minister President of Schleswig Holstein 2012 2017
- Other activities
- Personal life
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German state governor visits Jerusalem
Early life and education
Albig grew up in Ostholstein and Bielefeld. After graduating from high school in 1982, he first studied history and social sciences at the University of Bielefeld but later changed to law.
Lord Mayor of Kiel, 2009-2012
From 2009 to 2012 Albig was the Lord Mayor of Kiel, the state capital of Schleswig-Holstein.
Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein, 2012-2017
Torsten Albig was appointed candidate for Minister-President, representing his party, the SPD, in 2011 after a member's decision. At the election in 2012, SPD achieved 30.4% of the votes, not enough to beat the ruling CDU that got 30.8% of the popular vote. SPD and CDU achieved 22 seats each, and the election result made it possible for Albig to form a coalition government with the participation of the Green Party and the SSW, which is a regional party representing the Danish and Frisian minorities. The three parties have a narrow majority in the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein with 35 of 69 seats. At the appointment in parliament though, he got 37 of 69 possible votes. The new-formed government of Schleswig-Holstein consisting of SPD, The Green Party and the SSW has never been seen before in German history.
Albig succeeded Peter Harry Carstensen in the position as Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein. He served as an SPD delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2012 and 2017.
In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the SPD following the 2013 federal elections, Albig was part of the SPD delegation in the working group on transport, building and infrastructure, led by Peter Ramsauer and Florian Pronold.
In 2015, Albig – alongside First Mayor of Hamburg Olaf Scholz – negotiated a restructuring deal with the European Commission that allowed the German regional lender HSH Nordbank to offload 6.2 billion euros in troubled assets – mainly non-performing ship loans – onto its government majority owners and avoid being shut down, saving around 2,500 jobs.
Other activities
Personal life
Albig is married and has two children.