Education
After he finished university, he worked for the state-owned housing company Siedlungs-Aktiengesellschaft Altona (SAGA).
politician member of the German Bundestag
After he finished university, he worked for the state-owned housing company Siedlungs-Aktiengesellschaft Altona (SAGA).
Kahrs" parents are Wolfgang and Bringfriede Kahrs who were both senators in Bremen on the ticket of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. After visiting school in Bremen, Kahrs joined the Bundeswehr and became an officer Later, he began to study German jurisprudence.
Kahrs is an openly gay person.
He first worked for the Young Socialists in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (Jusos). In 1992, Kahrs had a conflict with Juso member Silke Dose in which he threatened her by calling her phone anonymously at nights.
In 1998, Kahrs was elected to the Bundestag. He is the speaker of the Seeheimer Kreis of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and represents the Hamburg Mitte constituency.
He is known for receiving large sums from the arms industry and for being the center of a political network in Hamburg politics which has allegedly used its power to hinder and promote careers in a way that many journalists have called inappropriate.
Kahrs has described Gustav Noske as one of his political role models.
He was identified by a trap installed by the police and was asked to resign from all posts by 50 members of his party but stayed on after paying a fine.
Seeheimer Kreis]
He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. During his university studies, Kahrs became a member of Wingolfs, a student fraternity, in Hamburg and was speaker of the organization from 1990 to 1992. Kahrs became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1982.