Jürgen Linden
Jürgen Linden (* 13. January 1947 in Aachen ) is a German politician of the SPD and was from 1989 to 2009 Mayor of Aachen.
Life
After graduation in 1966 at the Einhard Gymnasium in Aachen Linden studied until 1974 Law at the University of Cologne and received approval for the profession of 1,974 lawyer . In 1975 he was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD .
He has been a member of the SPD since 1970. In 1977 he was elected to the council of his hometown and was mayor of Aachen from 1984 to 1989.
After a red-green coalition came about in the local elections in 1989, Linden was elected honorary mayor on October 18, 1989 as the successor to Kurt Malangré ( CDU ). From October 12, 1995 to October 21, 2009 he held this office full-time. Linden publicly announced on April 25, 2008 that he would no longer be a candidate for the 2009 local elections. He was succeeded by Marcel Philipp (CDU).
Linden has played a decisive role in the economic structural change in the Aachen region and has promoted technology transfer and the founding of many new technology-oriented companies through the cooperation between the city of Aachen and RWTH , the Aachen University of Applied Sciences , the Chamber of Industry and Commerce and the Aachen Chamber of Crafts .
To strengthen regional cooperation, together with District Administrator Carl Meulenbergh, he founded the Aachen city region, an association of the city and district of Aachen as well as nine municipalities belonging to the district . The new construction of the RWTH campus in Aachen, the construction of the new Tivoli , the new construction of the synagogue and the renovation of the Aachen main station were all initiated by him. He suffered a political defeat in the “Bauhaus Europe” project, a planned cultural center at Katschhof , which failed on December 10, 2006 due to a referendum .
Jürgen Linden was also a member of the Presidium of the German Association of Cities and the Association of Cities in North Rhine-Westphalia for ten years, and from 2007 to June 12, 2010, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Alemannia Aachen GmbH .
Jürgen Linden has been a member of the board of directors for the award of the International Charlemagne Prize since 1989 and has been its chairman since 2010. Around the award ceremony, he initiated an extensive supporting program with open-air events, a forum and the Charlemagne Youth Prize awarded by the Charlemagne Prize Foundation. Linden is a member of the advisory board of the Aachen-Laurensberger Rennverein , member of the board of trustees of the Marienhospital in Aachen, chairman of the support association of the historical Crous collection, as well as a member of the extended board of the Ludwig-Forum for International Art.
He is married and has three children.
honors and awards
- 1995: Dr. Johann Christian Eberle Medal of the RSGV
- 1996: Honorary citizenship of the European Academy of Science and Arts , Salzburg
- 1997: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1997: Commander of the Ordre national du Mérite , France
- 1999: Orden del Mérito Civil , Kingdom of Spain
- 2002: Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau , Netherlands
- 2006: Kaven-Ring from RWTH Aachen University for services to the university
- 2007: Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit Melitensi des Souv. Order of Malta
- 2008: Equestrian Cross in Gold of the German Equestrian Association
- 2008: Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
- 2008: Honorary citizen of the city of Heerlen , Netherlands
- 2008: Grand Officier des Ordre national du Mérite , France
- 2009: Honorary citizen of the city of Aachen
- 2009: Gold Medal of Honor from the City of Maastricht
- 2009: Honorary Citizen of the City of Liège , Belgium
- 2009: Honorary member of the German-Israeli Society Aachen
- 2009: Officer of the Order of Leopold II , Belgium
- 2011: Honorary Citizen of the City of Hasselt , Belgium
- 2019: Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Web links
- Literature by and about Jürgen Linden in the catalog of the German National Library
- Crossborder Consult GmbH
- Biography on the website of the city of Aachen ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Law firm Dr. Jürgen Linden
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chronicle of the City of Aachen for the year 2007 (PDF; 2.6 MB) City of Aachen, p. 42 , accessed on February 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Maastricht honors Mayor Jürgen Linden. October 12, 2009, accessed February 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Awarded the State Order of Merit in Aachen. State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia, November 14, 2019, accessed on November 19, 2019 .
Lord Mayor: Cornelius von Guaita (1815–1820) | Mathias Solders (1820–1826) | Wilhelm Daniels (1826–1832) | Edmund Emundts (1832–1848) | Arnold Edmund Pelzer (1848-1851) | Johann Contzen (1851–1875) | Ludwig von Weise (1875–1883) | Ludwig Pelzer (1884–1896) | Philipp Veltman (1896–1916) | Wilhelm Farwick (1916–1928) | Wilhelm Rombach (1929–1933) | Quirin Jansen (1933–1944) | Franz Oppenhoff (1944–1945) | Wilhelm Rombach (1945) | Ludwig Kuhnen (1946) | Albert Maas (1946–1952) | Hermann Heusch (1952–1973) | Kurt Malangré (1973–1989) | Jürgen Linden (1989–2009) | Marcel Philipp (since 2009)
City directors: Albert Servais (1946–1954) | Anton Kurz (1954–1975) | Heiner Berger (1975-1995)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Linden, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), Lord Mayor of Aachen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aachen |