Ottokar Iven

Ottokar Iven (born October 3, 1940 in Mettmann ) is a German politician ( CDU ). From 1994 to 1999 he was mayor of the district town of Mettmann.

Life

Iven was born in 1940 to Otto and Gertrud Iven into a social democratic family.

Iven married Antje Christiansen in 1961 and two years later joined the coal and heating oil trading company run by her parents, which he took over and expanded in 1977. In 2007 he and his wife gave up the business for reasons of age.

Political activity

Iven was involved in local politics at a young age. In 1964 he became a member of the CDU Mettmann and in 1972 moved to the city council. In 1980 he was also elected to the district council, to which he has belonged ever since.

In the 1980s he became deputy mayor, and campaigned for the sponsorship of the city of Mettmann with the 820 Bundeswehr telecommunications battalion based in Düsseldorf-Hubbelrath .

In 1994 he was elected mayor of Mettmann as the successor to his party friend Ingrid Siebeke, who was not running again . In 1999 he applied in his party to be a candidate for the then full-time mayor's office, but did not find a majority in the CDU city association. The candidate presented by the party instead of him was defeated by the non-party Bodo Nowodworski . Iven continued to be politically active and a member of the city council.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Article in the WZ of October 2, 2010
2. ↑ RP article from 2007  ( 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.  
3. ↑ "Active for 30 years in the district council: Ottokar Iven is 70" , Kreis-mettmann.de, press archive, undated.