Michael Sack

Michael Sack grew up in Groß Toitin near Jarmen. After an apprenticeship as a draftsman, he completed a degree in civil engineering. Until 2010 he worked as a vocational school teacher. He is married and has three children.

In 2010, Sack was elected mayor of Loitz and also took over the administration of the Peenetal/Loitz office. The following year, he was elected district council president of Vorpommern-Greifswald, which was newly created in the course of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania district reform in 2011. He was re-elected as mayor of Loitz with 94% of votes in the 2017 local elections.^[4]

In December 2017, the CDU district association of Vorpommern-Greifswald nominated Sack as its candidate for the 2018 district election. In the election on 27 May 2018, Michael Sack received the most votes, 41.5%, ahead of the second-placed AfD candidate who won 15.7%.^[5] In the runoff election on 10 June, Sack won in a landslide with 79.5%.^[2] Michael Sack took up his post as district administrator in October.

On 19 June 2020, Sack announced his candidacy for the state CDU leadership.^[6] At a special party congress in Güstrow on 7 August, he was elected with 94.8% of the vote. He was also chosen as the party's lead candidate for the next state election.^[1] The CDU won just 13.3% of votes in the election, a decline of almost six percentage points. Sack subsequently resigned as party leader and waived his Landtag mandate.^[3]