Annette Jäger
Annette Jäger (born July 7, 1937 in Essen-Schonnebeck ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 1989 to 1999 she was Lord Mayor of the City of Essen .
Life
Annette Jäger was born in the youth hall in Schonnebeck , where her father was the caretaker. She is the youngest of three sisters. She spent her childhood in downtown Essen . Here she went to the Luisenschule on Bismarckplatz and graduated from secondary school in 1954. She then began training at the Essen city administration. In 1972 she moved to the Essen municipal utilities as a commercial clerk , which at the time was still a municipal office, and stayed there until 1997. Here she was the shop steward for the severely disabled for almost twenty years.
In 1960 she married the social democrat Karl-Konrad Jäger. He died in 1998.
In 1966 she joined the SPD in Essen-Heisingen . In 1969 she became secretary in the local association. From 1972 Annette Jäger was deputy chairwoman of the local association and in 1976 took over the chairmanship of the Heisinger SPD. She still holds this office today; thus she is Essen's longest-serving local association chairwoman. In 1984 she was elected to the city council of Essen and served as the city's mayor from October 1989 to September 1999. Her successor on October 1, 1999 was Wolfgang Reiniger . After the local elections in 1999, she remained a member of the council and was elected mayor by the council. Annette Jäger was also chairwoman of the supervisory board of Messe Essen GmbH until 1999 and chairwoman of the supervisory board of the Margarethe Krupp Foundation for Housing Welfare from 1995 to 1999 . She was also chairman of the board of directors of Sparkasse Essen .
Annette Jäger shows her social commitment as an honorary member of the child protection association and as an active member of the workers' welfare organization . In addition, since 2002 she has been the patron of cancer counseling at the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband .
Honors
- February 2003 Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- March 2011 Ring of Honor of the City of Essen
- December 2012 Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Individual evidence
- ^ WAZ media group: Annette Jägers career; March 22, 2011 , last viewed on March 23, 2011
- ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
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| SURNAME | Hunter, Annette |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), Lord Mayor of Essen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Essen-Schonnebeck |