Steffen Krach

Steffen Krach (born 1979 in Hannover) has been President of the Hannover Region since November 2021. He holds a degree in political science from Freie Universität Berlin and has been a member of the SPD since 1998. From 2014 to 2021 he served as State Secretary for Science in Berlin, first in the Senate Department for Education, Youth and Science and from 2016 in the Senate Chancellery. In 2026 he was the SPD’s lead candidate in the Berlin state election and is co-chair of the Berlin SPD.