Sven Schulze


Sven Schulze is a German politician who has been serving as Member of the European Parliament since 2014. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People’s Party.

Political career

In 1997, Schulze joined the CDU and the Junge Union. He studied industrial engineering at Technical University Clausthal, and then worked as a sales manager in a medium-sized engineering company in Harz. He was a member of the city council of Heteborn and in the county council of Quedlinburg.
Since 2006, Schulze has been a board member of the CDU from Saxony-Anhalt and the chairman of the Junge Union of Saxony-Anhalt. In 2011, he became chairman of the working committee for European affairs of the CDU of Saxony-Anhalt.
In 2014, Schulze was elected to the European Parliament. In Parliament, he has been serving as vice-chair of the Committee on Transport and Tourism since 2019. He was previously a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, the Delegation for Relations with the Mashreq Countries, and the Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly - Union for the Mediterranean. In addition, he serves as a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Biodiversity, Countryside, Hunting and Recreational Fisheries.