Stefan Sternberg
Stefan Sternberg is a German politician who has served as the Landrat of Ludwigslust-Parchim since 2018.
Early life
Sternberg was born on 28 April 1984 in Ludwigslust and grew up in Grabow, where he spent his childhood and attended the Fritz Reuter Realschule.'''' After school, he completed an apprenticeship.Political career
Sternberg is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany since 2012. He has been the vice-chairman of the SPD in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern since 2018 and was the vice-chairman of the SPD in Ludwigslust-Parchim between 2016 and 2020.He first started partaking in politics when he was elected as a member of the Grabow city council in 2002 through the SPD, despite not being a member. He then became a member of the district council of the newly formed Ludwigslust-Parchim in 2011.
On 24 February 2013, at the age of 29, he became the mayor of Grabow when Sternberg narrowly won against the independent candidate Matthias Wiedow who went to court over irregularities during the election. During his tenure, Sternberg conceptualized the controversial "Businesspark Eldetal" in the Grabow forest.
Endorsed by the incumbent Landrat of Ludwigslust-Parchim, Rolf Christiansen, Sternberg was elected as his successor on 27 September 2018 with 60.1% of the vote for a 7-year term. During this tenure, he was faced with the largest wildfire in Germany since the end of World War II and the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to his "good crisis management" he was chosen to be on the COVID-19 expert committee of the federal government. Sternberg was reelected in the first round of the Landrat election on 11 May 2025, winning 57.9% of the vote.