Ashok-Alexander Sridharan
German politician, former Lord Mayor of Bonn, Germany
Ashok-Alexander Sridharan is a German politician partly of Indian ancestry who served as Mayor of Bonn from 2015 until 2020. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). He was the first mayor of Bonn to be of an immigrant background.
Early life and education
Sridharan was born in Bonn on June 15, 1965 to a diplomat from Chennai, India, who moved to West Germany in the 1950s, and a mother from Bonn. He spent his childhood and university years in Bonn, which he used to brand himself as a "Bonn lad" during his campaign. He studied at the Aloisiuskolleg, a private and Catholic high school in Bonn, before studying law at the University of Bonn.
In an interview with Deutsche Welle, Sridharen stated that his Indian roots weren't relevant to his campaign. He also stated, "I think [Indian interests] could even contribute efforts to make Bonn better-known internationally than it already is and that would do us good. We have many international companies and organizations here and I feel we have to strengthen that". Due to his ancestry, Sridharan has noted that there has been negative attention towards him through xenophobic comments.
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