Martin Diepgen

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Martin Diepgen (born August 27, 1956 in Seligenstadt ) is a German local politician ( CDU ). Since February 2013 he has been First Mayor of Heilbronn and thus Deputy Mayor.

Life

Martin Diepgen grew up in Hanau . He has two sisters and two brothers, the former Governing Mayor of Berlin Eberhard Diepgen , who is 15 years his senior, is his half-brother.

Martin Diepgen studied Catholic theology with Ulrich Neymeyr in Mainz and Freiburg im Breisgau . From 1982 to 1991 he was a Catholic clergyman and took on various tasks in Mainz (including in Heilig Geist in Mainz-Mombach) and in the Darmstadt area . Then he resigned from the priesthood to marry his wife Lioba.

In 1992 he applied to the Federal Employment Agency and, after a one-year period of instruction, was head of the career counseling department at the Lörrach employment office until 1998 . He then moved to the state employment office in Stuttgart as a consultant , where he was responsible for career counseling and career information centers, among other things. On January 1, 2002, he took over the management of the Heilbronn employment office, which he held until the end of January 2013.

In 2008 Diepgen joined the CDU, for which he was elected to the Heilbronn municipal council in the 2009 local elections . The Heilbronn CDU nominated him at the end of 2012 as the successor to the outgoing First Mayor Margarete Heidler (née Krug); on December 20, the Heilbronn municipal council elected him to this office, for which he had to give up his own council mandate. On February 1, he took over as First Mayor of Department II of the city administration, which is mainly responsible for economic and personnel issues.

On October 24, 2013, the CDU and FDP proposed Diepgen as a candidate for the Heilbronn mayor election on March 16, 2014. Diepgen's main rival candidate was his mayoral colleague Harry Mergel , proposed by the SPD, the Greens and Free Voters , who won the election in the first round of elections.

Diepgen lives with his wife, with whom he has a son, in Heilbronn- Kirchhausen .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Iris Baars-Werner: City Views: Growing together and integrating . In: Heilbronn voice . October 4, 2008 ( from Stimme.de [accessed on September 20, 2013]).
  2. ↑ Joachim Friedl: "The feeling of being in the right place here" . In: Heilbronn voice . May 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ Iris Baars-Werner: 35 yes-votes for the new First Mayor . In: Heilbronn voice . December 21, 2012.
  4. ↑ Department II: First Mayor Martin Diepgen ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2013 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. at heilbronn.de (accessed on September 20, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.heilbronn.de
  5. ↑ Diepgen presented as an OB candidate . Stimme.de, October 24, 2013
  6. ↑ "Five candidates join" ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Heilbronn.de (accessed on March 15, 2014) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.heilbronn.de
  7. ↑ Heilbronn has elected a new mayor - the winner is Harry Mergel . swr.de, March 16, 2014

literature

  • Heiko Fritze: A theologian is the new boss in the employment office . In: Heilbronn voice . January 15, 2002.

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personal data
SURNAME Diepgen, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Seligenstadt