Anne Rodenbrock-Wesselmann

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Anne-Elisabeth Rodenbrock-Wesselmann (born 1952 ) is a German educator and local politician . She has been the mayor of Halle (Westphalia) since 2002 .

Life

Anne Rodenbrock-Wesselmann grew up in Werther . She trained as a kindergarten teacher and eventually became head of the municipal day care center in Künsebeck , a district of Halle. She interrupted her job to raise her children. After the family phase, she studied at Bielefeld University and graduated in 1997 as a qualified pedagogue. She then worked at the Christian Youth Village Association in Versmold in outpatient educational assistance .

Anne Rodenbrock-Wesselmann is married and has three children.

Local politics

Anne Rodenbrock-Wesselmann came to local politics through her parents' work. In 1994 she was elected to the city ​​council of Halle for the first time for the SPD . On July 9, 2002 she was elected mayor of Halle as a candidate of the SPD. Your opponent was Jürgen Keil ( CDU ). In 2009 she won the election clearly against the CDU opponent Fred Kupczyk. In 2007 the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia decided to merge the council and mayoral elections again in order to save money and reduce the organizational effort. In 2014, Rodenbrock-Wesselmann was one of the mayors who voluntarily shortened their term of office by one year in order to enable the joint elections in their municipality. She was re-elected for a third time on July 9, 2014. She had no opponent in this election.

As a woman with no administrative background, many were skeptical of her in 2002. Looking back, Rodenbrock-Wesselmann said in 2020 that she was not the “classic administrative woman”, but that would also have many advantages. Important topics during her term of office were the construction of the federal motorway 33 (A33) with the Halle junction, with which the federal road 68 leading through Halle could be downgraded to state road 756, the development of the intermunicipal industrial area Ravenna-Park together with the neighboring towns of Werther and Gütersloh , the Designation of new building land areas, including the Weidenkamp area, and the establishment of a comprehensive school in Halle.

For reasons of age, Anne Rodenbrock-Wesselmann will no longer stand for election in 2020. Their term of office ends on October 31, 2020.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d For the first time without an opposing candidate . In: Westfalen-Blatt . May 20, 2014.
  2. ↑ Frank Jasper: Announcement for the election date . In: New Westphalian . November 25, 2013, p. B18 .
  3. ↑ Mayoral election - European / local elections 2014 in the city of Halle (Westphalia) - overall result. In: City of Halle (Westphalia). July 9, 2014, accessed April 22, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Klaudia Genuit-Thiessen: "We really rocked a lot". In: Westfalen-Blatt. January 18, 2020, accessed on April 22, 2020 (German).
  5. ↑ "Growth not at any price". Before the local elections on Sunday: Interview with Halle's mayor Anne Rodenbrock-Wesselmann . In: Westfalen-Blatt . May 20, 2014.
  6. ^ Nicole Donath: Annual interview: Mayor Anne Rodenbrock-Wesselmann takes stock. In: Haller Kreisblatt. December 25, 2018, accessed April 23, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Ravenna-Park industrial park. In: City of Halle (Westphalia). Retrieved April 23, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Rodenbrock-Wesselmann, Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rodenbrock-Wesselmann, Anne-Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German certified pedagogue, Mayor of Halle (Westphalia)
DATE OF BIRTH 1952