Political career
Local affairs
Dennis Thering has been a member of the CDU since 2001. He acts both as chairman of the CDU in Alstertal [4] and as district chairman of the CDU Wandsbek. [5] Between 2004 and 2008,he was a member of the local committee Alstertal where he was appointed deputy group leader. From 2008 to 2011,Thering was a directly elected member of the Alstertal-Walddoerfer constituency for the Wandsbek district assembly. [6] 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.
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 was reelected into 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, [7] Thering was once again appointed as the top candidate of the CDU Hamburg in the Alstertal-Walddörfer constituency. On February 23,2020,he - for the third time - was reelected as a member of the Hamburg Parliament [8]
In April 2023,the previous chairman of the CDU Hamburg Christoph Ploß stepped down and handed over the chairmanship to Thering,who was elected by the party members with 185 out of 197 votes. Eight delegates voted against him,four abstained. [9]
Political positions
Thering focuses on transport policy,internal security and economic policy. The CDU does not want to "exclude" any road users,stands firmly by the Port of Hamburg and wants to contribute more to the safety of Hamburg's citizens,he stated. Improving health care is also important to him,Thering said. [10]
He,alongside the CDU Hamburg,supported the initiative "Put an end to gender language in administration and education" in February 2023. [11]
Thering distances himself from the far right,stating in February 2023:"The AfD is an openly racist party,in part also anti-Semitic,so we clearly distance ourselves." [12]
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