{"id":71526,"date":"2026-04-29T23:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/71526\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T23:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:54:09","slug":"finance-senator-stefan-evers-to-take-over-culture-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/71526\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Senator Stefan Evers to take over Culture office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/imago776487186-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"lazy lazy-hidden wp-image-180757\"  \/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/imago776487186-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-180757\"  \/>IMAGO \/ Funke Foto Services<\/p>\n<p>Following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-berliner.com\/english-news-berlin\/berlin-culture-senator-resigns\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">resignation of Berlin Culture Senator Sarah Wedl-Wilson<\/a> last week, the CDU district chairpersons have decided on her successor: Stefan Evers, Berlin\u2019s Finance Senator.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Evers was CDU Berlin\u2019s Secretary General from 2016 until 2023 and has been the Deputy State Chairman of Berlin since 2023. He will now be the city\u2019s Finance Senator and Culture Senator simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>The 46-year-old law graduate grew up in Paderborn and has lived in Berlin since 1999. He has represented Treptow-K\u00f6penick in the Berlin House of Representatives since 2011 and is the CDU\u2019s spokesperson for urban development policy. He was also responsible for CDU\u2019s successful 2023 repeat election campaign and is a member of the \u201cLesbians and Gays in the Union\u201d group.<\/p>\n<p>Tagesspiegel and RBB had previously reported that former Justice Senator Thomas Heilmann could become the new Culture Senator, as he had been suggested by the President of the House of Representatives. \u201cBut Heilmann wasn\u2019t really an option,\u201d a member of parliament told Berliner Zeitung, the first outlet to report on Wedl-Wilson\u2019s successor.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IMAGO \/ Funke Foto Services Following the resignation of Berlin Culture Senator Sarah Wedl-Wilson last week, the CDU&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,38893,21812,2059,190,1158],"class_list":{"0":"post-71526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-berlin-politics","10":"tag-berlin-senate","11":"tag-culture","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-politics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116490696587200400","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}