Dennis Buchner

Dennis Buchner (born 31 March 1977) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who was serving as President of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin from 2021 to 2023. He has been a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus since 2011.

Life and education Buchner was born in Lübeck, where he earned his Abitur form the Oberschule zum Dom. He completed civilian service at the health clinic in Bad Schwartau in 1996, and worked as a supermarket cashier before moving to Bonn in 1998 to study political science, sociology and modern history at the University of Bonn. After beginning work with the SPD in 2002, he moved to Berlin and resumed his studies part-time at the University of Potsdam. He graduated in 2005 with a degree in political science.

Political career Buchner joined the Social Democratic Party in 1998. From 2000 to 2002, he worked as a student assistant for Bernhard von Grünberg, an SPD member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. He then worked for the federal SPD executive, including as office manager for deputy chairwoman Bärbel Dieckmann. From 2009 to 2010 he was head of department for the SPD in North Rhine-Westphalia. In the 2011 Saxony-Anhalt state election, Buchner was campaign manager for the SPD. He then became office manager for SPD federal director Astrid Klug from 2011 to 2012. to 2016, he was state director of the Berlin SPD. He was elected deputy chairman of the Pankow branch of the SPD in 2014, and in 2020 became chairman. In his inaugural speech, he called for greater influence for women and youth in politics, and the lowering of the voting age from 18 to 16 years. He subsequently gave up all of his committee memberships except the Sport Committee. In 2022, he joined the Committee for Constitutional and Legal Affairs, Rules of Procedure, and Anti-Discrimination.