Peter Paul Ahrens

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Ahrens 2016 at the opening of the bridge festival in Letmathe

Peter Paul Ahrens (born March 26, 1950 in Recklinghausen ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and from 2009 to September 2019 mayor of the city of Iserlohn in the Sauerland .

Life

After graduating from high school, Ahrens studied spatial planning , which he completed as a graduate engineer. He then worked as a university assistant and was awarded a Dr. rer. pole. PhD. At the University of Dortmund and the Administration and Business Academy food he taught the subject Economics . He then entered the service of the city of Wuppertal . There he devoted himself as a department head and official head of urban development , statistics and budget consolidation . Ahrens switched to the Ministry for Nature and Environment of the State of Schleswig-Holstein , where he was head of the ministerial office and liaison officer for the Federal Council and the Landtag .

Ahrens has been employed by the city of Iserlohn since 1993. He was initially treasurer and from 2001 building department. In 2004 he became the first deputy permanent representative of Klaus Müller , whose successor as mayor he was elected in 2009. In 2015 he was re-elected as mayor in the second ballot.

Peter Paul Ahrens has been a member of the SPD since 1978. He is married and has a son.

Peter Paul Ahrens resigned as mayor on September 30, 2019 due to a high severance payment for a municipal employee, which was heavily criticized in public ("severance payment affair"). In December 2019, the Hagen public prosecutor brought charges against Ahrens at the Hagen district court for a particularly serious case of infidelity to the detriment of the city of Iserlohn.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Westfälischer Anzeiger dated May 8, 2019: Iserlohn's “severance payment affair” now culminates in the resignation of Mayor Ahrens. Accessed on September 1, 2019.
  2. ↑ Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger and newspaper of September 30, 2019
  3. ↑ Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger and newspaper from December 7, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Ahrens, Peter Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Recklinghausen