Michael Esken
Michael Esken (born July 23, 1966 in Gütersloh , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German politician and acting full-time mayor of the city of Verl in the Gütersloh district . He is a member of the CDU .
education and profession
After graduating from high school in 1986 at Verl , he served in the army in the press office of the 7th Panzer Division in the Hellweg barracks in Unna and is a reserve officer in the army. Michael Esken studied law at Bielefeld University between 1989 and 1995 before completing a legal traineeship in the district court district of Bielefeld with the second state examination in 1997 .
In addition to school, Michael Esken worked as a freelancer for the daily newspaper Die Glocke and was a group leader in the Kolping Family in Kaunitz until 1992 . In the following three years after the second state examination, Michael Esken worked as a lawyer in Verl from 1997 to 2000 before becoming the personal assistant to the mayor of Paderborn , Heinz Paus . Following this, Michael Esken was the first alderman of the city of Gronau in the Münsterland . Due to his mayor's office, Esken's admission to the bar has been suspended.
Political career
Michael Esken began his political career in 1989 when he was first elected to the council of the municipality of Verl. He remained a council member until 2002 and was re-elected once with 85% of the votes cast. Between 1994 and 2003 he was a member of the Gütersloh district council.
First term in office in Hemer
On April 10, 2003, the CDU in Hemer announced Michael Esken as its candidate for mayor. On July 13 of the same year he narrowly prevailed against the SPD opponent Bernhard Camminadi, a son of the former mayor Fredi Camminadi . The election was necessary because Esken's predecessor Heinz Öhmann took over the office of mayor in Coesfeld . On July 24, 2003 Esken was sworn in in Haus Hemer .
During his term of office the withdrawal of the Bundeswehr from Hemer and the related question of the conversion of the barracks fell . In this context, he ran the application from the city of Hemer to host the State Horticultural Show 2010 , which was successful and is being carried out by the State Horticultural Show Hemer 2010 GmbH , whose supervisory board chairman is Esken. As part of the public relations work for the state horticultural show, he regularly guided interested people around the site.
Another central measure of his tenure was the planning of a bypass road, the so-called west bypass. Esken and the CDU parliamentary group supported the construction, a citizens' initiative spoke out against it. It won a judgment before the Higher Administrative Court for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , which declared the corresponding development plan of the city of Hemer to be ineffective.
On March 1, 2009, Michael Esken appointed a freelance lawyer as an ombudswoman against corruption to strengthen the anti-corruption office in the audit office of the city of Hemer . This was preceded by an infidelity case in the social welfare office in 2004. From March to December 2004, one employee transferred social funds worth around 375,000 euros to his private account. The measures were confirmed by the fact that the public prosecutor's office in Hagen received files in the town hall on November 18, 2009 and searched the private homes of employees of the city of Hemer.
Second term in office in Hemer
On May 5, 2008, the CDU Hemer confirmed that Michael Esken will run again for the mayor's office in the 2009 local elections. Bernhard Camminadi also ran a second time for the SPD. Another contestant candidate was the UWG Hemer in the person of Martin Dodt.
In a meeting on January 23, 2009, the Hemeraner Christian Democrats elected Michael Esken with 98.2 percent of the votes cast and one vote against as the mayor candidate for the local elections in 2009. During the election campaign, the Hemeraner FDP and the Green Alternative Hemer (GAH ) for the re-election of Michael Esken. In the NRW municipal elections in 2009 , Michael Esken was elected to a second term on August 30, 2009 with 76.1 percent of the votes cast and a turnout of 48.5 percent.
At the first meeting of the Hemer City Council after the local elections in 2009, Esken was appointed as the re-elected mayor on November 3, 2009. At this meeting he was also confirmed as chairman of the supervisory board of the Landesgartenschau Hemer 2010 GmbH. I.
On November 21, 2009 Esken was elected to the federal executive committee of the local political association of the CDU and CSU of Germany (KPV).
With the establishment of the annual financial statements for 2007 and 2008, Esken pointed out that the merged Sparkasse Märkisches Sauerland Hemer-Menden closed with a minus and had become a special purpose association for which the City Council of Hemer was no longer responsible.
Because of the " negligent granting" of corporate loans, which finally drove the Sparkasse Menden into the abyss, claims for recourse in the millions against the former management board and supervisory board of Sparkasse Menden were expected. Due to an out-of-court settlement with the liability insurance, the financial dispute between the Sparkasse due to alleged misconduct against former members of the board of directors of the former Sparkasse Menden ended on October 4, 2010.
Third term in Hemer
On May 25, 2014 Michael Esken, who was unanimously nominated as a candidate by the CDU in Hemer, was re-elected mayor. He prevailed with 75.4 percent of the vote against his challengers Hans-Peter Klein (SPD) and Achim Wilke (Die Linke). Michael Esken was supported for the election by the Greens and the FDP in Hemer.
On January 21, 2015 it was announced that Esken was running for the mayoral election on September 13, 2015 in Verl .
Previous term of office in Verl
Michael Esken was elected as the new mayor of Verl on September 27, 2015, and was sworn in and sworn in to his new office in Verl on October 21, 2015, after resigning from his office as Mayor of the city of Hemer on October 20, 2015.
Voluntary and part-time engagement
Michael Esken is also a member of various supervisory and advisory boards (Stadtwerke Hemer, Mark-E , Gelsenwasser ) and chairman of the board of directors of Sparkasse Märkisches Sauerland Hemer-Menden, as Stadtsparkasse Hemer has been called after the ailing Sparkasse Menden since September 1, 2009 . He is also chairman of the supervisory board of the property and business development company for the city of Hemer mbH. He also holds a number of honorary positions, for example chairman of the working group of central youth associations and the non-profit development association of the youth press. Due to years of voluntary work, Michael Esken received the Federal Cross of Merit on September 17, 2007 , the suggestion and acceptance of which aroused recognition, but also criticism. On January 4th 2010 Esken was elected to the Advisory Board of the Marketing Club Südwestfalens. Michael Esken was elected by the CDU Local Political Association on September 9, 2010 in Werdohl as the representative of the Local Political Association. He is a board member of the Communal Political Association of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia. On September 25, 2014, Mayor Michael Esken accepted the certificate of honor from Minister of Urban Development Michael Groschek for the "fallow land" category for the conversion of the former Blücherkaserne site to the state horticultural show.
Private
Michael Esken is the son of a poultry farmer and grew up with two siblings in the Verler district of Kaunitz . During his legal clerkship in 1996, he married Maria, a doctor of dentistry. They have two daughters together.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Curriculum Vitae: Michael Esken ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2009 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.
- ^ Lawyers Gellner & Collegen: Michael Esken
- ↑ Interview of the CDU city association chairman Gerhard Webers with Michael Esken
- ↑ Guided tour of the Hemeraner citizens through the Landesgartenschau site ( memento of the original from December 7th, 2009 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.
- ^ Judgment of the Higher Administrative Court of North Rhine-Westphalia with the file number 7 D 118 / 06.NE of April 19, 2007 and Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger of June 20, 2007
- ↑ Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger and Westfälische Rundschau of March 7, 2009
- ^ Westfälische Rundschau and Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger dated September 29, 2005, judgment of the Iserlohn jury 5 Ls 500 Js 347/04 dated September 28, 2005
- ↑ IKZ Hemer: "Offices in Hemer's town hall searched"
- ↑ DerWesten.de : Unanimous vote of the Hemeraner CDU for Michael Esken
- ↑ DerWesten.de : Bernhard Camminadi (SPD) is running for mayor , from October 28, 2008
- ↑ Carmen Fürstenau: Martin Dodt is candidate for mayor of the UWG. In: The West - The portal of the WAZ media group. WAZ NewMedia GmbH & Co. KG, December 2, 2008, accessed on July 1, 2015 .
- ↑ Local news in the Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger and in the Westfälische Rundschau from January 24, 2009.
- ↑ fdp-hemer.de: Election of the mayor of the city of Hemer ( 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.
- ↑ DerWesten.de: Green Alternative Hemer recommends Michael Esken's candidacy for mayor (CDU)
- ↑ Local election result for Hemer 2009
- ^ Minutes of the meeting of the Hemer City Council on November 3, 2009
- ↑ City of Hemer: " Michael Esken was elected to the KPV Federal Board ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ", Accessed November 14, 2014
- ↑ Minutes of the council meeting of the city of Hemer on May 18, 2009
- ↑ Local news of the Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger and the Westfälische Rundschau from June 12, 2010: Negligence - liability should pay millions.
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- ↑ Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger from January 22, 2015: "Michael Esken is drawn to his hometown Verl"
- ↑ Neue Westfälische Zeitung of October 23, 2015.
- ↑ Entered in the commercial register of the Iserlohn District Court under HRB 2225
- ↑ Michael Esken website: Mayor Esken receives Federal Cross of Merit ( Memento of the original from January 22nd, 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.
- ↑ Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger of September 22, 2007: A party office decorated on a ribbon.
- ↑ Westfälische Rundschau , panorama of January 8, 2010
- ↑ www.kpv-nrw.de, accessed on October 30, 2010
- ↑ IKZ Hemer: Prize for a coherent redefinition of September 26, 2014, accessed on April 14, 2015
- ↑ Michael Esken: CV. (No longer available online.) In: www.michael-esken.de. Archived from the original on December 6, 2009 ; accessed on July 13, 2015 . 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.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Esken, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), mayor in Hemer, North Rhine-Westphalia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 23, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gutersloh |