Mike Schubert

Mike Schubert (born 3 February 1973) is a German political scientist and local politician (SPD). He has been Lord Mayor of the Brandenburg state capital Potsdam since 28 November 2018.

Early life Schubert was born in 1973 as the third child of canoeist Manfred Schubert and his wife in Schwedt, Frankfurt district, GDR. His parents were both competitive athletes and had jobs in the city. When Schubert's father moved to Potsdam in 1975 to help set up the ASK Vorwärts canoeing center, the family left Schwedt in August of the same year.

After a failed attempt to become self-employed as a retail salesman,

From October 2004 to October 2009, he led the parliamentary office of Klara Geywitz, a member of the Brandenburg state parliament, and the then Minister President Matthias Platzeck. In the resulting run-off election on 14 October, he won with 55.3 percent of the votes cast against Martina Trauth (Die Linke).