Petra Enders

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Petra Enders (born December 24, 1965 in Ilmenau ) is a German politician . From 2004 to 2012 she was a member of the Thuringian State Parliament . Since July 1st, 2012 she has been the district administrator of the Ilm district .

Life

Enders grew up in Großbreitenbach in Thuringia , where she also attended school and trained as an office clerk in the glass factory from 1982 to 1984 . From 1986 to 1991 she took a distance learning course at the Eisleben engineering school, which she completed as an engineering economist.

Petra Enders is Protestant, married and has one son.

Political career

In 1994 Enders was elected to the city council and in 1999 in a run-off election with 60.6% of the valid votes cast as full-time mayor of the city of Großbreitenbach. From 2004 to 2012 she was honorary mayor of the town.

In May 2004 she took part in the 12th Federal Assembly to elect a new Federal President . Since the state elections in 2004 Enders sat for the PDS (today: Die Linke ) in the Thuringian state parliament in Erfurt , where she was a member of the state parliament's committee for construction and transport. In the state elections in 2009 she won a direct mandate in the constituency of Ilm District I with a result of 40.0% of the vote - the best constituency result of all candidates of the party Die Linke . Enders is non-party, so not a member of the left.

On May 6, 2012, Petra Enders was elected district administrator of the Ilm district. It made a name for itself with its fight against an extra-high voltage line over the Thuringian Forest .

Enders was criticized in 2017 for the plans to localize bus traffic in the Ilm district in accordance with the current district council resolutions . The accusation of bias Enders' and a possible conflict of interests was rejected as unfounded by the local legal supervisory authority, the Thuringian State Administration Office (TLVWA). In the course of this, the public broadcaster MDR had to publish two counter-statements to a report dated November 2, 2017 on the municipalization of public transport in the Ilm district.

In the local elections in Thuringia in 2018 , Petra Enders was confirmed as district administrator of the Ilm district in the first ballot on April 15, 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Constituency Ilm-Kreis I: Final result for the regional returning officer
  2. Election of the district administrators and mayors of the independent cities in Thuringia 2012 - final result. District 070 Ilm-Kreis. Thuringian State Office for Statistics, accessed on October 28, 2013 .
  3. ↑ District Administrator Enders wants to continue fighting against power lines . Thuringian newspaper, July 18, 2013
  4. Johannes Pennekamp: Against the current. A power line through the Thuringian Forest encounters resistance from Petra Enders . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 12, 2013
  5. Enders sharp criticism of the district assembly of the CDU / FDP , Thüringer Allgemeine, December 12, 2017
  6. ^ Thuringian State Office for Statistics: Elections in Thuringia. Retrieved August 20, 2018 .