Anke Riefers

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Anke Riefers (* 1940 in Hanerau-Hademarschen ) is a former German politician ( SPD ) and was mayor of Sankt Augustin in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia from 1994 to 1999, with a short break in 1995 .

Life

Riefers grew up in Büsum , where she also graduated from high school. She then studied in Kiel and Berlin and worked as a teacher from 1964 to 1971. She has two children and four grandchildren and lives in the Sankt Augustinian district of Hangelar .

politics

Anke Riefers occurred 1971 the SPD and was from 1972 to 1974 member of the City Council in Erlangen . From 1979 to 1984 she was active as a knowledgeable citizen in Sankt Augustin and at the same time she was also the SPD parliamentary leader, then a councilor for 15 years. From 1985 to 1991 she acted as parliamentary group leader of the SPD and from 1989 she was vice mayor.

After the local elections on October 16, 1994 , she was elected with the votes of the SPD and the Greens in the council to succeed Wilfried Wessel as the first female mayor of the city of Sankt Augustin. Due to irregularities in local elections in more than half of the electoral districts, the city council declared the election invalid on February 1, 1995, so that it was dissolved on March 1 and Riefers, who had been elected by the council, also lost her office. On a provisional basis, the SPD member of the state parliament Hans Jaax from Troisdorf took over the tasks of councilor and mayor. In the new election, which took place parallel to the state election on May 14, 1995 , the coalition defended its majority and Riefers was re-elected mayor. In the course of the abolition of the municipal dual leadership in North Rhine-Westphalia, she was elected first full-time mayor in 1996. In the first direct mayoral election in 1999 , she lost to her challenger Klaus Schumacher from the CDU .

Since it was founded in 1995, Riefers has been chairwoman of the circle of friends with the twin city Mewasseret Zion in Israel . As mayor she has 1,999 to sponsor the Siegauen tunnel of ICE - high-speed line Cologne-Rhine / Main taken.

Starting in 2001, the Bonn public prosecutor's office began investigating the suspicion of accepting benefits in the course of the so-called Hellweg affair against Riefers, but the proceedings were discontinued in February 2003 against payment of a premium because she had not personally enriched herself.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Achim Hermes: A city without advice . In: The time . March 24, 1995, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed March 29, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Dominik Pieper: Repetition of the local elections 20 years ago - When a Troisdorf ruled in Sankt Augustin . In: General-Anzeiger Bonn . Bonner newspaper printing and publishing house H. Neusser GmbH, Bonn March 31, 2015 ( general-anzeiger-bonn.de [accessed on March 29, 2019]).
  3. ^ Anke Riefers' apartment searched. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . September 11, 2002, accessed on March 29, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ Hellweg Affair: Anke Riefers feels relieved. In: General-Anzeiger Bonn. June 11, 2001. Retrieved March 29, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Rita Klein: Bonn public prosecutor's office closes files of the Hellweg donation affair. In: General-Anzeiger Bonn. February 19, 2003, accessed March 29, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Riefers, Anke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD) and mayor
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanerau-Hademarschen