Angelika Mielke-Westerlage

Angelika Mielke-Westerlage (born September 13, 1954 in Lank-Latum ) is a German politician ( CDU ). She has been the full-time mayor of the Lower Rhine city ​​of Meerbusch since June 2014 .

Life

Angelika Mielke was born in 1954 in Lank-Latum, which has been part of the newly founded city of Meerbusch since 1970. After training to be a graduate in administration , Mielke continued to work in the Meerbusch city administration. From 2007 she was the city's first alderman . In this role she was, for example, head of the department for culture and youth, before that she was head of the Central Services department.

Angelika Mielke-Westerlage is married and has two children. Her husband, Heinrich Westerlage, heads the legal department of the city of Meerbusch.

Mayor's office

After the Mayor of Meerbusch, Dieter Spindler , who had been in office since 1999, no longer ran for the mayoral election in 2014, Angelika Mielke-Westerlage was nominated as a candidate by the Meerbusch CDU in January 2014. Your candidacy was supported by the Greens and the Center Party . She won the election in the first ballot with 58.22 percent of the valid votes and a turnout of 55.94 percent. She was sworn in as mayor on June 26, 2014 and has been in office ever since.

She is a deputy member of the main committee of the German Association of Towns and Municipalities , as deputy to the mayor of Rheinbach Stefan Raetz .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Röse: AMW - Meerbusch's most powerful woman. Rheinische Post , May 27, 2014.
2. ↑ CDU: 93 percent for Mielke-Westerlage. Rheinische Post, January 17, 2014.
3. ↑ Election result of the mayoral election 2014 in Meerbusch ( Memento from February 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Meerbusch: Today Mielke-Westerlage is sworn in as mayor. Rheinische Post (RP Online), June 26, 2014, accessed on July 1, 2014 . 
5. ^ The main committee of the German Association of Towns and Municipalities . Retrieved April 3, 2020