Hilde Scheidt

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Hilde Scheidt (2011)

Hilde Scheidt (born November 10, 1950 in Stolberg , Aachen district ) is a German local politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) and has been mayor of Aachen since 2004 .

Live and act

After Hilde Scheidt, who was employed as a medical-technical assistant at the Aachen University Hospital, joined the Bündins90 / The Greens party in 1994, she was appointed to the social committee as a competent citizen a year later. In the local elections in 1995, she succeeded in joining the Aachen City Council. Here, Hilde Scheidt initially took on the role of sociopolitical and later also that of youth policy spokeswoman for the Greens' parliamentary group. She is now a member of the party executive in the Aachen local association and is a member of the integration council of the city of Aachen.

After her recent entry into the city council in the local elections in 2004, Hilde Scheidt was elected third mayor of the city of Aachen alongside Sabine Verheyen ( CDU ) and Astrid Ströbele ( SPD ). In both 2009 and 2014 she was able to repeat her success and this time became third mayor alongside Margrethe Schmeer (CDU) and Björn Jansen (SPD).

Memberships (selection)

In addition to her party membership in the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party, Hilde Scheidt belongs

  • member of the board of the NRW City Council since 2010,
  • she is involved in the partnership between Aachen and the twin cities of Reims , Kostroma and Naumburg an der Saale ,
  • she is a member of the organization of the Aachen Peace Prize e. V. (AFP). Until 2011 she was also a member of the AFP board, but then resigned because of alleged anti-Semitic tendencies in the association.
  • Until her retirement in 2011, she was a member of the German-Israeli Society , from which she resigned in protest on the occasion of the awarding of the DIG Honorary Prize to the publicist Henryk M. Broder and his subsequent statements critical of Islam.
  • In addition, Hilde Scheidt is involved in the board of directors of the African foundation "Michel Kayoya", as a sponsor in the refugee campaign "Save me" by Amnesty International and in the Carolus Magnus eV educational organization, in the youth organization for international cooperation of the Bleiberger factory in Aachen, as a founding member in the community foundation Lebensraum Aachen and in many other institutions.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ No peace in the Aachen Peace Prize , in: Aachener Nachrichten dated August 6, 2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.aachener-zeitung.de  
  2. ↑ Mayor Scheidt leaves the German-Israeli Society , ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Aachener Nachrichten on December 20, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aachener-nachrichten.de
personal data
SURNAME Scheidt, Hilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and incumbent mayor of the city of Aachen
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Stolberg , Aachen district