Karl-Heinz Klinkenberg

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Karl-Heinz Klinkenberg (born April 3, 1952 in Eupen ) is a Belgian electrical engineer, entrepreneur and local politician of the Party for Freedom and Progress (PFF) in Eupen in the German-speaking community . From 2012 to 2018 he was mayor of Eupen.

biography

Karl-Heinz Klinkenberg grew up as the eldest of four children of the married couple Heinz Klinkenberg and Elisabeth Wintgens in Eupen.

He attended the Collège Patronné , the municipal technical school in Eupen Unterstadt and the State Technical Institute (sanatorium) in Eupen, where he graduated with a technical Abitur (A2). From 1971 he studied general electrical engineering with a focus on communications engineering at the FH Aachen and successfully passed his final examination on July 9, 1975. From November 3, 1975 he served as a conscript for 11 months in Ghent and in Spa with the Belgian Army . From October 1, 1976 to December 31, 1979 he worked as an engineer in Cologne , and then from January 1980 for five years in the export department of the Eupen cable plant . In January 1985 he founded Eltec AG, which specializes in the import and export of electrical cables and wires. In September 1991 he had a traffic accident that left him paraplegic .

In 2005 Klinkenberg joined the Party for Freedom and Progress (PFF). In the local elections in 2006 he moved into the city council for the PFF and became parliamentary group chairman in 2009. In the Belgian local elections in 2012, Klinkenberg ran on the list of the PFF for the mayor's office and won the election, so that on December 3, 2012 he became mayor of the city of Eupen. In June 2017, he declared that he did not want to run again.

family

Karl-Heinz Klinkenberg has been married to Ingrid Bergmans since July 30, 1977, with whom he has three grown children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Heinz Klinkenberg excludes second term of office. Belgian Broadcasting , June 28, 2017.