Christine Herntier

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Christine Herntier (born 1957 ) is a German entrepreneur and local politician. Since 2014 she has been a non-party mayor of Spremberg in the Lausitz lignite district in Brandenburg . She is the spokesperson for the Brandenburg municipalities of the Lausitzrunde and was a member of the Commission for Growth, Structural Change and Employment ("Coal Commission") set up by the German government .

biography

Herntier studied economics and mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Chemnitz from 1975 to 1979 and graduated with a degree in engineering economics . In 1993 she co-founded the textile company Spremberger Tuche GmbH and worked there as managing director until it closed in 2012.

She has been the full-time mayor of the city of Spremberg in Brandenburg since January 2014. In the election she was supported as a non-party candidate by the parties Die Linke and SPD and won the runoff election on January 26, 2014 against Hartmut Höhna (CDU) with 61.8% of the votes cast. Höhna only got 38.2% of the vote. Herntier took office on February 3, 2014. Her predecessor, Klaus-Peter Schulze (CDU), was elected to the German Bundestag on September 22, 2013 and was then temporarily represented first by the non-party Christina Schönherr and then by Frank Kulik, also non-party.

From 2018 to the end of January 2019, Herntier was a voting member of the Commission for Growth, Structural Change and Employment ("Coal Commission") set up by the German Federal Government , which developed recommendations on phasing out coal and on structural change in the regions affected by it.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Spremberger cloths are history. In: Lausitzer Rundschau, August 31, 2012; accessed on February 12, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Spremberg has a new mayor In: Märkische Allgemeine, January 26, 2020; accessed on February 12, 2020.
  3. ^ Result of the mayoral election in Spremberg , January 26, 2014; accessed on February 12, 2020.
  4. ↑ Mayor Christine Herntier is in office for the first week. In: Lausitzer Rundschau, February 5, 2014; accessed on February 12, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Herntier, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, local politician and mayor of Spremberg
DATE OF BIRTH 1957