Jan Erik Bohling

Jan Erik Bohling (born June 9, 1963 in Bremerhaven ) is a German former mayor . From 2001 to 2006 he was full-time mayor of the Lower Saxon community Am Dobrock and from 2006 to 2014 mayor of the district town of Meppen . Bohling has been an elected city councilor in Salzgitter and department head for business, culture and digital affairs since 2019 .

Life and work

Jan Erik Bohling attended a primary school in Bremerhaven and graduated from the Bremerhaven Lloyd-Gymnasium in 1984. After that, he did his military service in the Air Force , first in the Air Force Training Regiment of the air base Goslar , then in Cuxhaven from. He studied political science at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . He graduated with an MA in 1994 . His master's thesis entitled “The election of the Federal President. Constitutional policy and the experiences of the first new elections ”was published as an e-book by Diplomica Verlag .

From 1995 to 2000 he was a specialist consultant for the Society for Health and Research in Frankfurt am Main , a leading association of research-based pharmaceutical manufacturers and a lobby group that advocates biotechnical research. During this time he was also a consultant for public relations in questions of biomedicine at the Max Planck Society in Göttingen . Subsequently, he was the office manager of Kassel's Lord Mayor Georg Lewandowski .

Jan Erik Bohling was the managing director of EBS Alumni , an association by and for alumni of the EBS University of Economics and Law , the EBS Foundation and EBS GmbH in Wiesbaden . From 2018 to 2019 he worked as a consultant for INIT AG for digital communication at their Hamburg and Bremen locations. In addition to his job in local government, he has been managing director of the Salzgitter GmbH Economic and Innovation Promotion since 2020.

Public offices

Jan Erik Bohling was mayor of the Am Dobrock municipality from 2001 to 2006. He won the mayoral election with 56.4 percent of the votes cast. On 14 September 2006 Bohling was charged with 54.11 percent of the votes cast in the first ballot as a candidate of the CDU elected for an eight-year term as full-time mayor of the city Meppen. He was in office from November 1, 2006 to October 31, 2014. Bohling lost the mayoral election in 2014. His successor in Meppen was the non-party Helmut Knurbein . Jan Erik Bohling has been a city councilor in Salzgitter since 2019. There he is the department head for business and digital.

During his tenure as Mayor Meppens, he was a member of the Presidium of the Lower Saxony Association of Cities and the Committee for Law, Personnel and Organization of the German Association of Towns and Municipalities . His deputy there was the then Ronnenberg Mayor Wolfgang Walther ( SPD ).

In addition, Bohling was a member of the board of trustees of the Ludmillenstift foundation, a non-profit organization of the Ludmillenstift hospital in Meppen, and a member of the supervisory board and the shareholders' meeting of the Emsland euro port . He was also chairman of the association for the preservation and restoration of the grammar school church in Meppen and the residence of the Windthorst grammar school in Meppen .

Web links

Commons : Jan Erik Bohling - Collection of Images

Jan Erik Bohling on the website of the city of Meppen ( Memento from February 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).

Individual evidence

↑ Salzgitters Council elects Dr. Dirk Härdrich and Jan Erik Bohling as department heads. Hallowochenende.de, June 13, 2019, accessed on January 19, 2020 .
↑ ISBN 978-3-8428-1283-3 .
↑ CDU proposes two applicants to members . Article from November 16, 2005 from the Meppener Tagespost
^ Science and terrorism in Europe . Editorial in Nature Neuroscience , 2/1999 (English)
↑ Quirin Schiermeier, Alison Abbott: Animal labs fearful over acivists' plan to name names . Nature # 410, issue 6831, p. 6 (English)
^ Roland Weiterer: Hello Salzgitter, newspaper . Ed .: Madsack Group. Salzgitter, Peine, Braunschweig April 18, 2020, p. 1 .
↑ Jan Erik Bohling is Salzgitters' double business promoter. In: Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung . June 11, 2020, accessed August 18, 2020 (restricted access).
^ Result of the Meppen mayoral election 2006 on ftp.meppen.de
^ Result of the mayoral election 2014 on the website of the city of Meppen
↑ Michael Kothe: Council elects department heads and has all school buildings checked . In: Salzgitter-Zeitung , May 29, 2019.
↑ The Committee for Law, Personnel and Organization at the German Association of Towns and Municipalities on dstgb.de as of December 2012 (no longer online).

personal data
SURNAME	Bohling, Jan Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Mayor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 9, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bremerhaven

[1] Salzgitters Council elects Dr. Dirk Härdrich and Jan Erik Bohling as department heads. Hallowochenende.de, June 13, 2019, accessed on January 19, 2020 .

[2] ISBN 978-3-8428-1283-3 .

[3] CDU proposes two applicants to members . Article from November 16, 2005 from the Meppener Tagespost

[4] Science and terrorism in Europe . Editorial in Nature Neuroscience , 2/1999 (English)

[5] Quirin Schiermeier, Alison Abbott: Animal labs fearful over acivists' plan to name names . Nature # 410, issue 6831, p. 6 (English)

[6] Roland Weiterer: Hello Salzgitter, newspaper . Ed .: Madsack Group. Salzgitter, Peine, Braunschweig April 18, 2020, p. 1 .

[7] Jan Erik Bohling is Salzgitters' double business promoter. In: Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung . June 11, 2020, accessed August 18, 2020 (restricted access).

[8] Result of the Meppen mayoral election 2006 on ftp.meppen.de

[9] Result of the mayoral election 2014 on the website of the city of Meppen

[10] Michael Kothe: Council elects department heads and has all school buildings checked . In: Salzgitter-Zeitung , May 29, 2019.

[11] The Committee for Law, Personnel and Organization at the German Association of Towns and Municipalities on dstgb.de as of December 2012 (no longer online).